Axiell UK, formerly known as DS, provides library software solutions to one third of local authorities in the UK, while over 350 customers use Calm, the system of choice for Archives, Museums and Records Offices. The company is a leading business solutions supplier to libraries, archives, museums and records centres. Under the name of DS, the business served UK local government for over 30 years.
Axiell UK offers its customers both software and hardware and a full range of implementation, and facilities management and integration services and the company continues to be a pioneer in software development for libraries.
Axiell are a reseller of Insight Media's iCAM Systems
Insight Media are an Axiell Approved Partner
Civica is a market leader in software-based solutions that help organisations to improve service delivery and efficiency, with particular expertise in local government, social housing, enforcement, education and regulated markets. Blending consulting, software and managed services, the group supplies more than 1,700 customers in the UK, Australia, Singapore and the USA, including 90 per cent of the UK’s local authorities.
As one of the foremost international library suppliers, Civica Library and Learning has a 25-year pedigree in the sector across all library types including public, corporate and academic libraries. Civica’s Library and Learning division now has 19 Spydus customers in the UK, 17 of which are live library management systems. Spydus is a leading international library automation solution providing total information management in a single product, spanning all library types including academic, public, government and corporate libraries. In addition to managing bibliographic data, the system caters for multimedia collections, community information and historical archives. It is used at 1,500 libraries around the world, including as part of a national managed libraries service delivered to more than 350 primary, secondary and junior college schools in Singapore.
Spydus is a functionally rich, web-centric application, automating the full range of library functions The cornerstone is its indexing and retrieval engine, optimised for delivering high performance data merge and join operations.
Information about Spydus is available on the Civica website
Civica are a reseller of Insight Media's iCAM Systems
SirsiDynix is the global leader in strategic technology solutions for libraries - vital institutions whose primary mission is to make sense of the vast world of information for people and communities. This is an exciting role as libraries assist people in discovering and using knowledge, resources and other valuable content for their education, jobs and entertainment. In concert with key industry partners, SirsiDynix supports this strategic role for libraries by offering a comprehensive integrated suite of technology solutions for improving the internal productivity of libraries and enhancing their capabilities for meeting the needs of people and communities. SirsiDynix has approximately 4,000 library and consortia clients, serving more than 300 million people through more than 20,000 library outlets in the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. More information is available at www.sirsidynix.com.
Insight Media are a SirsiDynix Certification Partner
Talis is an established provider of library and information management software to public and academic libraries and has a long history as a technology innovator, a pioneer for open standards, and as a partner for its customers.
Working closely with world standards bodies such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, and NISO, ongoing research activities include Web Services, Services Oriented Architectures, RDF based metadata and RSS.
Talis has recently announced a new Talis Library Platform which is an open, extensible, semantic web based software platform which will be the foundation upon which next generation applications will be developed.
Insight Media are a Talis Addition Partner