Concordancing is a way of handling a collection of texts in order to process it in linguistic terms. The progress of corpus studies shed light on the formation of electronic (computerised) text analysis and along with it: on concordancing. The growing need for new tools and devices didn’t have to wait for long, the quick spread and development of computer systems and networks made it possible even for an everyday user to reach larger corpora with the help of a single personal computer or laptop. This opened a new chapter in the study of computational linguistics. Today, there is a huge number of concordancers on the market with a spectrum of functions (besides basic functions), but there is a developing need to enhance the functionality of these programmes (in textual, statistic and design terms), mainly because of the continuously growing use of concordances in classrooms. There are a lot of different functions with which a simple concordancer can be upgraded. Some of them can be easily implemented, the rest needs some professional insight not only in programming, but in linguistic terms as well. This is the reason why we started to create Niobe Concordancer, the follower and hopefully a would-be successor of Sisyphus Concordancer. This concordancer will confidently be able to show the way of prospective plans of expanding the functionality of concordancer applications.