Artemis is the brand name of a family of software based project planning and management tools.
Artemis originated as the Artemis Project Management System developed by Metier Management Systems in 1978, a sister product to Apollo, Metier's first PERT network scheduling system launched in 1977. Apollo and Artemis were the first large-scale project management systems available on mini-computers (as opposed to mainframes) and the world's first commercially successful relational database system.
Metier was founded in 1976 by Richard Evans, Robin Lodge, Roy W. Brown and James Miller who programmed the original single-user version of the software in a Suffolk attic in Debach. He went on to write the multi-user version of the software with Richard Nobbs and Alan Playford.
Artemis combined project planning and scheduling with cost control and resource management. The first products were sold as turn-key systems: both hardware (the Hewlett Packard 21 series) and software built into a desk. In the early 1980s Metier launched a software-only version of Artemis for IBM mainframes.
Artemis later evolved into three major product lines to support project planning and scheduling, earned value management (project performance measurement), portfolio management, resource management, and time reporting—Artemis 9000, Artemis Views and Artemis 7.
Artemis 9000 was originally a mainframe only product working on IBM or compatible hardware running MVS or VM. It was broadly similar to the previous mini computer based products known as Artemis 5000 and Artemis 6000. This language structure was known as A1. Today, Artemis 9000 runs on both Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/390 operating systems. The porting to the server environment was made possible by IBM's release of a PL1 compiler originally for their OS/2 operating system. This meant that the same source code could be recompiled on a PC running OS/2. Sales of the Artemis 9000 on OS/2 LAN began soon after the compiler was released, although sales were slow. When a compiler of Windows NT arrived, sales of 9000 in the server environment took off. One of its key features was that the data structures on mainframe were the same as those on the NT platform which meant migration between platforms was simple and reliable. It was possible for a user to go home on a Friday having used a mainframe version and log on to a LAN version a Monday without noticing the difference. Additional functionality was introduced which meant that both NT and mainframe versions of the product could act as web servers communicating with web based user interfaces. Artemis 9000 is still in use in 2013. Artemis 9000 page on AISC website