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Entertainment Partners EP Logo EvolutionIn the late 1970s, Robert Draney and Jack Peterson founded the Independent Information Services Corporation, or IIS. From a cramped office on Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood, their pioneer team of five introduced the first time-share accounting and payroll system to the industry, Screen Production Management System (SPMS), in 1978.
The early 1980s found IIS designing, manufacturing, and distributing the MINI, the first portable integrated hardware/software computer system (which in retrospect was actually quite large). IIS also developed the "Cost Report," which became an industry standard. Following this, IIS entered the employer payroll services business and changed its name to Draney Information Services Corporation, aka DISC. A DISC office opened in New York, and the company designed, developed, and delivered its first residual system, integrated fully with the DISC Corporate Production System. By the mid-1980s, the Micro-DISC Accounting System, PC-based and single-user, was introduced.
In the late 1980s, DISC purchased Richmar Casting, which provided background actors to the entertainment industry, and opened an office in Orlando, Florida. In 1990, the Vista accounting system was introduced and soon became another industry standard—the first multi-tasking, multi-user system for the Windows environment.
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