About Questor ARGUS

Our vision is aligned with the needs of our customers

Our information management tools are used by a wide variety of organizations with collections of artifacts and objects. These organizations include museums, archives, universities, historical societies, government organizations, and corporations. No matter what kind of collection you maintain, we can enable you to easily and efficiently catalog artifacts, objects, documents and records. We give you the tools to manage critical functions that include acquiring, exhibiting, lending, borrowing, insuring, appraising, and conserving your collection. Questor offers the full range of collection automation services, including data conversion and image integration, along with our commitment to unrivalled user training and support.

Questor Systems was founded in 1986, and since then we have automated more than 400 collections worldwide. Our software development strategy remains tightly aligned with the needs of our customers, and indeed our earliest clients have remained ARGUS users, even as we have grown and extended our reach. It is our goal to deliver cutting edge technology and tools to people who manage collections of artifacts and objects, whether they are registrars, archivists, private collectors, curators, historical preservation officers, or natural science researchers.

Our ARGUS software empowers you to do much more than record the details of object records and track the process of accessioning, cataloging, and exhibiting. We are also uniquely qualified to help you manage archaeological sites and conservation facilities, to capture images, and to track the use of your intellectual property. We can help you leverage the power of the Internet to enable Web access to your resources, giving you access to a much larger audience for your collection than ever before. Our Questor team possesses significant expertise in collection management practices, as well as skills and experience in application development. This powerful combination - along with twenty-four years of developing best practices based on our automation of more than 400 collections - allows us to deliver the training and support you need to get the best out of our applications suite.

We understand that systems must do more than store information and help you to manage administrative tasks. Organizations require integrated data and information management processes so that collection information can be used strategically. We’ll help you turn information into knowledge that can be shared, not only internally, but externally with researchers, students, and the public at large, securing your involvement in communities of practice and fostering a culture of collaboration.