1. Ex Libris’ Vision towards Unified Resource Management
Discovery Delivery
Resource Management
Data Services
Ex Libris’ Vision towards Unified Resource Management
Alan Oliver, Business Development Director Europe
7ª Jornada de Expania, Santiago de Compostela, 27th May 2010

2. Stakeholders in the game
End User
researcher
student
Service provider
Library
Library
Service provider
Service provider
digital
electronic
print
World of resources
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3. Technological drivers for change
More and more user demands in the internet age
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4. The world gets … more digital !
Digital TV
Digital Video
Digital Audio
Digital Photo
Digital eBook
Digital Article
Digital Movies
Digital Learning
Digital Research
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5. Technological drivers for change
More and more user demands in the internet age
Digital form of information gets dominant
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6. … more interconnected !
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7. Technological drivers for change
More and more user demands in the internet age
Digital form of information gets dominant
Online provision of information gets dominant
more and more dynamic online services (web pages, blogs, Wikis, databases)
instead of static documents (books, articles)
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8. … more mobile !
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9. Technological drivers for change
More and more user demands in the internet age
Digital form of information gets dominant
Online provision of information gets dominant
more and more dynamic online services (web pages, blogs, Wikis, databases)
instead of static documents (books, articles)
Mobile Access technology everywhere, wireless
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10. …more service-oriented !
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11. Technological drivers for change
More and more user demands in the internet age
Digital form of information gets dominant
Online provision of information gets dominant
more and more dynamic online services (web pages, blogs, Wikis, databases)
instead of static documents (books, articles)
Mobile Access technology everywhere, wireless
Web Services & Open Data allow SOA approach
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12. Business drivers for change
Less and less public money
For Libraries, this leads to:
Optimized workflows (people costs)
Optimized infrastructure (tools costs)
Optimized collection development (acq. costs)
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13. General strategy for libraries
More co-operation
Focus on core competency
Define the role of the library within the institution
Create leading projects
Outsource routine tasks
IT infrastructure
Mash-up own and external services
Centralize commodity services
Regional were necessary (e.g. ILL)
Global were possible (e.g. metadata management?)
 This is an evolution…
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14. Product history of Ex Libris?
1980
1990
2000
2010
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15. Product - Characteristics
digital
electronic
print
1980
1990
2000
2010
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16. Product – Characteristics
Anticipation of the Next Generation
de-coupled unified front-end
1980
1990
2000
2010
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17. Re-inventing the company
Product – New strategy !
Re-inventing the company
1980
1990
2000
2010
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18. Product – New strategy front-end back-office data services -KB
Single entry point for
discovery and delivery of all material types
back-office
management of
all library materials
data services
Value added data provided as a service
-KB
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19. Product – New strategy front-end For all resource types back-office
Single entry point for
discovery and delivery of all material types
For all resource types
back-office
management of
all library materials
data services
Value added data provided as a service
-KB
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20. Product – Unified Resource Framework
URD2
Unified Resource
Discovery & Delivery
URM
Unified Resource Management DS
Data Services
-KB
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21. Product – Roadmap Overview
2009
2010
2011
2012
URD2
Unified Resource
Discovery & Delivery
URM
Unified Resource Management DS
Data Services
-KB
URM
Primo Central
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22. Unified Resource Management
What is URM?
URD2
Unified Resource
Discovery & Delivery
URM
Unified Resource Management DS
Data Services
URM
-KB
Primo Central
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23. Unified Resource Management
What is URM?
URM
Unified Resource Management
URM
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24. Unified Resource Management
What is URM?
Everything a library will need to manage all their resources
- in the Internet age most cost effectively!
URM
Unified Resource Management
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25. What is URM‘s basic technology?
Most cost effective technology
in the Internet age!
Cloud Computing
Network Level
URM
Unified Resource Management
“Web-scale”
Software-as-a-Service
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26. Cloud Computing‘s value proposition
Most cost effective technology
in the Internet age!
Before The Cloud
70%
URM
Unified Resource Management
Infrastructure
30%
Initiative
Amazon.com:
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27. Most cost effective technology
URM is deployed as SaaS!
Most cost effective technology
in the Internet age!
Benefits to libraries:
Lowers Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Allows technical staff to work on new projects within core competency
URM
Unified Resource Management
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28. Global Ex Libris clouds
mirror
mirror
Ex Libris stewarded cloud
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29. Regional customer clouds
Ex Libris stewarded cloud
Customer stewarded cloud
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30. Rosetta live in New Zealand 2008
URM timeline
Rosetta live in New Zealand
URM Development Partnerships started 2009
Main customer requirements ready 2010
Various test systems (for partners) 2011
First live systems expected late
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