Throughout the civil war, a variety of files and documentation stored within the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) were lost and/or destroyed. In its effort to control the status of various commercial and noncommercial entities, the MOJ required a Commercial Register (CR) that housed all data and transaction histories related to such firms. In November 1997, OMSAR signed a contract with a joint venture of a Consultant company, for the design and planning of the future information system at the commercial register.

In January 2000, a Lebanese company won the bid for the Development and the Implementation of the Analysis and Design study. In April 2000, another Lebanese company won the bid that complements the implementation of the CR by supplying the hardware and all data communication equipment needed to get the system working. All this has been also accompanied by extensive training for all concerned in running the system and using it.

Automating this register comes in a time of particular importance when expectations are rising for many Lebanese and foreign companies to settle in Lebanon and participate in the reconstruction, thereby enriching the economic activity. Hence the growing need for fast and accurate company information that interests entrepreneurs and managers as well as public and private entities such as the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economy & Trade, the Ministry of Industry, the Chamber of Commerce, the Central Bank, etc.