With the start of a new year just a few weeks away, we wanted to share some announcements and ideas with you. We have a new CEO - big news, after 16 years under Phil Green's able leadership.

And 2007 is just around the corner. We look forward to helping you make it the best year ever - for your organization and also for your own career.

Happy holidays from all of us here at Inmagic!

Company News:

Inmagic appoints Paul J. Puzzanghera as CEO

Inmagic has named Paul J. Puzzanghera as President and Chief Executive Officer. Paul also has joined Inmagic's board of directors.

Paul is familiar to many of you, having served as Inmagic's Vice President of Professional Services and a member of our senior management team since coming to the company in 2003. Phillip L. Green, who had been Inmagic's President and CEO since 1990 and took Inmagic's products from DOS to Windows and ultimately the Web, has been named Vice Chairman. Phil remains in a full-time operational role at Inmagic, as does Karen Brothers, who co-founded Inmagic with Betty Eddison in 1983.

In talking about his new role, Paul notes that "For more than two decades, Inmagic has been a pioneer helping organizations tap the value of their unstructured information assets. Our technology combines easy-to-use search and reporting functionality for end users with the information structuring, metadata management and presentation tools demanded by information professionals. We are well-positioned to continue delivering innovative software and services that enable organizations to manage their critical information assets. I'm honored and excited to lead those efforts to the next level."

Prior to joining Inmagic, Paul founded and was President and CEO of Legacy Technology, an information technology services firm specializing in the implementation of data warehousing and decision support solutions. In 1999 Legacy merged with AnswerThink Consulting Group (NASDAQ: ANSR). Paul holds an AB in Economics from Harvard College and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Inmagic® Genie and Inmagic® Presto - new 2007 configurations will meet a broader set of needs

Our two newer products both have been well-received by current and new customers in a wide range of industries and organization sizes.

Inmagic® Genie (introduced in 2004) is a Web-based integrated library solution optimized to manage diverse traditional and non-traditional library materials. It's ideally suited for multi-site libraries that wish to maintain a single catalog covering those multiple libraries, yet works equally well for single-site libraries. If your organization needs serials management, circulation management and other library workflow capabilities: consider Genie.
Read more about Genie

Inmagic® Presto (introduced in 2005) enables information-intensive organizations that don't need comprehensive library workflow capabilities to consolidate information silos by actively managing their research and information assets. Its browsable directories and advanced meta-tagging and search capabilities facilitate both search and categorization/browsing for disparate internal and external content. If your organization has high-value, dynamic content that needs to be centrally managed and made available to a wide audience 24/7: consider Presto.
Read more about Presto

Need BOTH? Some organizations do - and only Inmagic provides a comprehensive, fully-featured ILS (Genie) along with an application to manage your organization's entire range of knowledge assets (Presto). Both Genie and Presto are highly configurable to meet your specific needs, yet require little or no IT support. And both can be delivered as hosted applications - meaning that you need virtually no in-house infrastructure and support to step up to the most technically advanced set of capabilities on the market.

We've found that for some organizations even a subset of Genie or Presto functionality would provide a valuable step forward from the older software that they're currently using. As a result, our 2007 evolution of Genie and Presto will include offering configurations that meet a broader range of needs and budgets.

If you're an Inmagic maintenance customer, we'll be contacting you during 2007 in order to ensure that we have current information on your organization and its needs, and explain some new product options and offers specifically for our customers.

Licensed, hosted - the choice remains yours

A growing number of customers and prospects have been interested in using Inmagic on a hosted basis, whether to more aggressively manage their annual costs or as part of broader corporate mandates to trim in-house IT infrastructure and simplify IT operations.

Hosting is available for Presto, Genie, TextWorks and WebPublisher PRO. If you'd like to explore hosting of a current or contemplated Inmagic application, contact Inmagic directly or ask your local Inmagic Partner.

DB/TextWorks v10 and WebPublisher PRO v10 - coming in late December 2006

Inmagic will release v10 of DB/TextWorks and WebPublisher PRO in late December 2006. Based on customer input, v10 includes a significant set of new features and functionality to help you to better use your Inmagic technology.

New DB/TextWorks v10 features include:

• Ability to see paths of the EXE and INI files without opening a textbase
• Toolbar button for Browse files
• Support for putting a PDF file name into an image field when extracting text on import

New WebPublisher PRO v10 features include:

• Alternate search syntax
• Ability to provide RSS publishing
• InmagicBrowse enhancements
• Support for multiple folders for images on the Web

Features new to both DB/TextWorks v10 and WebPublisher PRO v10 include:

• List of public elements provided to textbase information listing
• An Inmagic digital signature for increased security
• Valid digital signatures

Inmagic customers on maintenance automatically receive DB/Textworks v10 and/or WebPublisher PRO v10 as part of their annual maintenance contract, and thus can take advantage of these enhanced features and functionality at no additional cost.

Remember, if you own both DB/TextWorks and WebPublisher PRO, you need to keep both products on the same version. These products are designed to work together and therefore these products have interdependencies. Please upgrade both DB/TextWorks and WebPublisher PRO to ensure that they continue to work correctly.

If you have questions regarding DB/TextWorks and WebPublisher PRO v10, contact Inmagic directly or ask your local Inmagic Partner.

Content Server v10 - coming in February 2007

Inmagic will release v10 of Content Server in February 2007. Check the next issue of @Inmagic for details.

Inmagic products will support Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system

All Inmagic products are being tested in preparation for supporting Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system.

Inmagic® Genie v3.0 released in October

In October Inmagic released v3.0 of its Web-based integrated library system. Introduced in mid-2004, Inmagic® Genie is the fastest-growing ILS in the special library market. Customers are drawn to Genie's flexibility and configurability. Because of its underlying data model, a Genie ILS can conform to each library's unique information, needs and workflow - library staff and end users don't have to conform to Genie.

Genie is designed to meet the changing needs of today's information center. It provides effective access and management for both traditional and non-traditional library materials. It offers unparalleled flexibility for searching, reporting and configuring in order to meet the specific needs of each library, yet requires minimal IT support. We built Genie as an open system, with an XML API and the ability to export data at any time in a variety of formats, including MARC and XML.

Genie enables information professionals to meet their organizations' growing needs by offering both end user and back office functions 24/7 directly from the Web. We designed Genie from the ground up as a Web product, rather than by porting earlier technology to the Web. It is a streamlined product, with an interface focused on core library functionality.

Since those increasing needs often must be met with existing or even reduced resources, this latest version of Genie introduces several features that allow information professionals to operate more efficiently and thus have more time to leverage their professional information management expertise:

1. Genie v3.0 provides a librarian's "dashboard" that delivers an up-to-date view of critical library items such as overdue loans, overdue serial issues, routed serials and active reserves. This dashboard not only helps the librarian to immediately grasp the status of key items within the library, but also enables the librarian to directly act on those items, thus increasing the efficiency with which the library is managed. The dashboard is fully configurable to meet each library's particular needs.
2. Genie v3.0 includes "My OPAC" functionality that enables end users to be more self-sufficient. End users can log into the OPAC to view their open loans, overdues, reserves, routed serials and borrower information, instead of calling or emailing information professionals with these straightforward questions.
3. Genie v3.0 simplifies MARC record acquisition by providing direct integration with BookWhere so that the library staff can more easily find, download and import MARC cataloging records from BookWhere into a Genie catalog.

In addition, Genie v3.0 provides the following enhancements:

• Full configurability for any Edit screen
• Ability to easily duplicate records
• Improved performance
• Firefox support for OPAC searching
• Ability to upload and route image of Serials issue Table of Contents

Genie is built by librarians for librarians. It capitalizes on our twenty years of experience in serving the special library community and helping organizations to actively manage their research assets.

To ensure our customers' success, we provide comprehensive implementation services through our Professional Services Group.

Genie customers on maintenance automatically receive Genie v3.0 as part of their annual maintenance contract, and thus can take advantage of these enhanced features and functionality at no additional cost.

Read more about Genie

Read Genie customer success stories

Register for a Genie webinar

If you have questions regarding Genie, contact Inmagic directly or ask your local Inmagic Partner.

New Inmagic® Genie customer success stories

Inmagic is committed to innovation and the advancement of Web-based research asset management. We use various communications formats to help current and potential members of the Inmagic community learn more about how to select and implement a research asset management system that best meets their needs.

Detailed Customer Success Stories are one of our most popular communications formats. There is no better way to visualize a solution to your own organization's challenges than to read about how someone else solved a similar problem.

We recently published two new Inmagic® Genie customer success stories:

Women's Health Victoria:
Web-based health advocacy and information for women
Women's Health Victoria (WHV) is an independent women's health promotion organization run by women for women across the state of Victoria, Australia. Using a social model of health from a feminist perspective, WHV works to raise awareness of gender issues in health and to promote the development of gendered health policy at the governmental level. Implemented by Maxus Australia, Genie and Genie Express have helped to make it easy for users of the Clearinghouse to find the very latest content relating to crucial health issues.

California Child Welfare Resource Library:
Library delivers on its mission by making its holdings widely accessible via the Web
The California Child Welfare Resource Library was founded in 1995 by the California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC), part of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley. The Library's mission is to provide up-to-date educational materials for knowledge and skill-building to the state's schools of social work, the county public child welfare agencies, and the regional training academies and centers, in order to promote best practices and advocate for families and children who use the child welfare system. To make its holdings easily accessible throughout the state, the Library's staff relies on Genie.

Read new Genie customer success stories

Get insights about research asset management from IDC analysts Sue Feldman and Melissa Webster

Learn more about how research asset management can help you to make sense of a complex information environment.  Download an IDC report in which Sue Feldman and Melissa Webster examine the needs of information-intensive organizations and assess how research asset management can help.  Their comments on Inmagic® Presto may help you to determine if it's a possible solution to your organization's needs.

Download IDC paper: "Inmagic: Tools to Make Sense of Complex Information Environments"

Learn about best practices in research asset management

More than ever... your organization's success depends on quickly finding and acting on various kinds of research assets: the high-value internal and external information that professionals at all levels use to gain insights, plan, and execute.

However, based on Inmagic's conversations with hundreds of organizations in a variety of industries, the management of internal and external research assets remains challenging for most organizations — including sizable organizations with otherwise sophisticated capabilities.

How do the "best practice" organizations manage their research assets?

How can your information center be an invaluable resource across the organization (and beyond, if you serve external audiences as well)?

Through our work with numerous organizations, we've identified best practices for research asset management — a critical competency in today's information-driven economy where nearly everyone is a "researcher" in some way.  As an information professional, you need to not only find information on behalf of end users but also make their own research efforts more productive.  For over two decades Inmagic has provided the tools and applications that enable information professionals to build information repositories and make their organizations' research assets easily accessible by end users.

Join us to hear about seven best practices in research asset management. We'll also discuss return on investment (ROI): how those best practices organizations (and especially those who lead them) gauge the impact of effective research asset management. 

Register for a webinar about better research asset management

Tight on time, or want to share the concepts with colleagues?
Download an Inmagic-produced white paper covering the same topics

Inmagic® Genie Webinars

If you're considering a new integrated library system (ILS), get a quick introduction toInmagic® Genie via a webinar.  The webinar highlights many Genie features including Cataloging, OPAC, Serials Management, Circulation, Orders and ILL.

Genie is a Web-based application designed to meet the needs of the expanding corporate information center where the focus is on managing and providing effective access to internal content.  Learn how Genie allows information professionals, library staff and information users access to the information center from their desktops.

With Genie, library staff can use the Web-based cataloging and circulation capabilities to add new materials to the library catalog; edit existing materials; and perform check-in, checkout, and borrower maintenance — all directly from their Web browsers.  Genie offers end users a rich and robust search and retrieval environment, making self-service in the virtual library a reality.

Because Genie uses .NET technology and Web services, it can be integrated within your organization's overall IT architecture.  Genie creates a framework to expand the reach of your library to encompass the growing volume of content resources that must be managed.

Register here for upcoming Genie webinars

October 24, 2006: Version 3.0 of Inmagic's Web-based Genie ILS Further Improves Librarian Efficiency

September 12, 2006: Inmagic Appoints Paul J. Puzzanghera as CEO

We always appreciate a chance to talk with our customers and other members of the Inmagic community, and enjoyed conversations with many of you at Internet Librarian 2006 in October. As you look ahead to 2007, plan to stop by the Inmagic booth at any of the events listed below. Get a look at our newest products, hear the latest about any of our products, or just say hello.

Computers in Libraries
April 16 - 18, 2007
Arlington, VA

SLA Annual Conference
June 3 - 6, 2007
Denver, CO

AALL Annual Meeting & Conference
July 14 - 17, 2007
New Orleans, LA

Internet Librarian
Fall, 2007
Monterey, CA