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Our Vision:
Provide solutions that enable libraries globally
to deliver managed information and enhanced
services in a digital world.
The world of information is rapidly changing to one characterized by digital content. This will not replace your current model of your library with written books, serials and other publications. But you will need to be able to adapt to an integrated environment that gives your users the best of both worlds, depending on their individual needs. Dynix's vision is to move you into that world at the right time, the right pace, with the right features, functions and benefits. No matter where your users are located in the world.
Dynix wants to move your library into a new world of library automation. One that enables you to provide quantum jumps in new levels of user services. One that creates a new model for workflow computing, that will dramatically improve your staff efficiencies. We also want to facilitate seamless integration and e-commerce with your book jobbers and other vendors with whom you need to integrate.
Dynix has created a new architecture – called Horizon Open Technology. The goal of Horizon Open Technology is to build a library information management platform that will support your needs today, tomorrow and into the future of the digital, global world. There are eight fundamental areas of Horizon Open Technology that we will cover.
- Horizon Open Technology will be built on open systems. This gives us great leverage to build better products fast, making Horizon easily expandable. Dynix also plans to provide open APIs to make it easy to expand Horizon.
- Our multi-tier architecture will make our platform more reliable and scalable. It will also make Horizon database independent, so you can choose which database best fits your needs, such as Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server.
- The company will continue working on Horizon staff enhancements, to improve workflows, simplify the staff user interface, add key features, including server based processes and batch functions, as well as enabling easier upgrades. Our goal is to provide better support for both technical and user services today and into the future.
- There is a major effort towards enhancing Horizon Information Portal to add new user services, better searching, support for wireless devices, enhanced personalization and SDI.
- Horizon will be adding both user and vendor e-commerce support. Your users will be able to pay for fines, use of library services, having books shipped to their homes and other potential value-added services. Dynix also will be working with key book and serials jobbers to automate collection development, purchase order creation, payment, and other services to enhance your technical service team's efficiencies.
- Over the next five years, nearly all libraries will belong to a consortium. Dynix is building an architecture to support any type of consortium, with union catalog enhancements along with our interlibrary loan facilities.
- And Dynix will always be industry standards focused to provide greater interoperability, as well as leverage the work of standards bodies to be more effective in providing solutions.
- Because Dynix is a global organization, and many parts of the world are becoming multi-cultural, Horizon is moving to be 100% Unicode compliant to make it easy to provide multi-lingual support.
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