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Ex Libris Moving Forward

Ex Libris Moving Forward. ENUG 2010 | William Paterson University Greg Gosselin – Regional Account Manager. Current State of Affairs. 4,700 customers. 88 million dollar revenue. 77 countries. 41 national libraries. 475 employees. Aleph. Primo. SFX. 718. 2,301. 1,885. 213.

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Ex Libris Moving Forward

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  1. Ex Libris Moving Forward ENUG 2010 | William Paterson University Greg Gosselin – Regional Account Manager

  2. Current State of Affairs

  3. 4,700 customers 88 million dollar revenue 77 countries 41 national libraries 475 employees

  4. Aleph Primo SFX 718 2,301 1,885 213 Rosetta Verde 7 432 1,249 1 118 834 1,368 216 590 bX 1,134 177 688 67 Voyager MetaLib DigiTool 1,547 Our Customers: Worldwide and in North America

  5. According to the 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities Shanghai Jiao Tong University 10/10 23/25 43/50 62/75 78/100

  6. Matti Shem Tov President & CEO Yohanan SpruchChief Technology Officer Oren Beit-ArieChief StrategyOfficer Carl GrantChief Librarian Moshe EisenbergChief Financial Officer Nancy DushkinCorporate VP Discovery & Delivery Solutions Bar VeinsteinCorporate VP Resource Management Solutions Anat KuperCorporate VP Global Support Mark TriestPresident, Ex LibrisNorth America Marc DaubachCorporate VP, GM Europe Oded ScharfsteinVP Asia Pacific

  7. The highlights of the past 12 months • The development of the Unified Resource Management (URM) system is progressing as planned • bX, the first and only article recommender service, gains momentum • Primo Central Index released • Number of Primo customers increased significantly • Many new sites in Asia Pacific • Ex Libris distributors in Denmark and Sweden became part of Ex Libris Group

  8. Our Roadmap

  9. Building Next Generation Library Services: The Ex Libris Strategic Framework Unified Resource Discovery and Delivery Data Services Decoupled Front-end Single entry point for discovery and delivery Value added data used by applications or provided as a service i.e. CKB, MMS, Primo Central Index Unified Resource Management All back-office functions for the management of print, electronic and digital materials

  10. Primo is moving fast… • Version 3.0 released in May 2010, featuring: • New user interface • OPAC functionality in the Primo UI • Seamless integration with Primo Central Index • Smooth transition path • The Primo Central Index service released in June 2010 • With the recent award by the Finnish libraries, there are 718 Primo customers, worldwide!

  11. Primo Central Index • A recent addition to the Primo environment • Centralized Primo index, hosted by Ex Libris in a cloud computing environment • Includes global and regional scholarly data from primary and secondary publishers and aggregators • Indexes primarily articles, but also e-books and other scholarly materials • Available to all Primo and MetaLib customers

  12. Primo Central Index • Recent agreements signed: Wiley, Springer, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), Lexis Nexis, AAAS (Science), and more • Pilot with Elsevier to start soon • Large number of open access repositories being loaded (e.g., Hathi Trust and arXiv) • Currently, nearing 250 million records of which over 65% are journal articles

  13. Building Next Generation Library Services: The Ex Libris Strategic Framework Unified Resource Discovery and Delivery Data Services Decoupled Front-end Single entry point for discovery and delivery Value added data used by applications or provided as a service i.e. CKB, MMS, Primo Central Index Unified Resource Management All back-office functions for the management of print, electronic and digital materials

  14. Focus on your library, not on IT • URM is a cloud platform designed from the ground up to enable next-generation library services • URM facilitates unified management of all resource types and drives collaboration and sharing across institutions

  15. Unlocking the value of the library Optimization Library optimization: Networked library system • Optimize user experience • Access from anywhere • On-demand fulfillment • Optimize services &workflows • Unified resource management • Collaboration across the board • Value-added services • Optimize libraryresources & data • Shared resources • Enriched content • Intelligence & analytics • Optimize infrastructure • Network-level architecture • Software as a Service (SaaS) • Open interfaces & open data Library automation: Integrated library system Automation

  16. Development driven by collaborative partnerships Development partners (4 institutions) Regional collaborative partnerships (4-6 institutions in Australia/New Zealand ) Small-library advisory group (10 institutions) Customer focus group (80 institutions worldwide)

  17. URM development timetable—on track! Conceptual design with development partners completed (June 2010) Five partner releases planned from June 2010 to October 2011 First partner release delivered (June 2010) Testing through October 2010, including data conversion from Aleph and Voyager Next partner release—November 2010 General release planned for 2012

  18. Version 3.0 June 10 Primo Central Jun 10 In pipeline: versions 3.1/4.0 (Q2/Q3 2011) Version 20.2 Aug 10 In pipeline: versions 21 (Q4 2011), 22 Version 7.2.3 Oct 10 In pipeline: versions 8.0 (June 2011), 9 Version 4.4 released 11 Oct 10 (“Primo Central release”) In pipeline: MetaLib ‘Next Gen’ Version 4.0 July 10 In pipeline: 4.1 (Q4 2010), 4.2 Version for non-SFX sites (e.g., SerSol) Jun 10 Version 3.2 Nov 08, SP 28 Jun 10 In pipeline: 3.3 (Nov 2011), URM Digital Ongoing service packs (next SP Dec 2011) In pipeline: URM Electronic Version 2 released May 10 In pipeline: 2.1, 2.2, 3.0

  19. Carmit Marcus Mike Dicus Jørgen Madsen Gilad Gal Christine Stohn Nettie Lagace Nettie Lagace Yuval Richler Ido Peled

  20. New Initiatives

  21. New Ways of Reaching You Enriching

  22. Ex Libris Learning Center • Launched in January 2010 • The place for customers to fulfill all of their training needs • Provides access to recorded (flash) lessons, course agendas, and course history information • Delivers instructor-led training (Initial, Ongoing, How to…, What’s New?, General) • Includes 130 courses with over 250 lessons and growing • Already used by 100 institutions from 28 countries

  23. http://screenr.com/diW

  24. ~170 code contributions [August 2010] • Major redesign, based on your input, to enhance usability • Code contributions are open to all!

  25. Competition took place from November to March • Panel of judges: • Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt University • Sebastian Hammer, Index Data • Andrew MacFarlane, City University, London • Yohanan Spruch, Ex Libris • 45 new code contributions submitted • See http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/ELympics

  26. First Prize ($5,000):Maccabee Levine, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, for Related Items Bookshelf—Virtual shelf browse for Tomcat WebVoyage Second Prize ($4,000): Kai Jauslin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), for Primo CMS SOLR Websearch adaptor Third Prize ($3,000): Ere Maijala, National Library of Finland, for Tomcat WebVoyage Enhancer

  27. Special Award ($5,000) David Walker, California State University A true supporter of collaboration and the driving force behind the initiation, design, development, and support of the Xerxes interface application.

  28. Next meetings:Jerusalem, November 3-4, 2010 Chicago, March 2011 III IV February 2010, NA headquarters, Chicago 13 developers 12 institutions 5 countries November 2009, headquarters, Jerusalem 12 developers 12 institutions 9 countries Developer Meets Developer

  29. Strategically Committed • Extensively invest in research and development; always one step ahead • Focus on the academic, national, and research library markets • Provide a comprehensive product suite • Develop all our products with our customers • Embrace openness as a mindset and as a technological paradigm

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