IBM's Rocha says NICA is a multipurpose, scalable, enterprise-wide solution due to it's underlying architecture, relational databases (DB2 and Oracle) and hardware platforms (RS/6000 and Sun). "NICA can deal with data from across the enterprise—from editorial to prepress to advertising to Web publishing," says Rocha. "It supports any file type needed, allowing publishers to centralize data into one system rather than many, so it eliminates a need for complex system integration." He notes that NICA is used as a production system and an archive. "By customer request, we've integrated NICA with various editorial and prepress systems at each installation," says Rocha. "And NICA's TCP/IP-based clients deliver the right amount of features for users of varying levels, both on the intranet and Internet."