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Edison Venture Fund recently announced a $5 million investment in Inmagic, Inc. This investment will be used by Inmagic to expand product development, marketing and global sales and support. To our customers this will directly correlate to an enhanced customer service experience and more frequent and more robust releases of all of our core technology platforms.
As the leader in Specialized Corporate libraries and Research Asset Management for more than twenty years, this funding will enable Inmagic to continue helping organizations tap the value of their information assets through industry leading products such as DB/TextWorks and Inmagic® Genie for special libraries, and Inmagic® Presto for enterprise research asset management.
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"As we approach the end of the year and look ahead to the future, I want to take this opportunity to thank you on behalf of our entire company and our network of partners around the globe for your business and support. Many of you have been customers for many years and we hope all of you will continue using our products for years to come..."
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Product News:
The upcoming release of DB/TextWorks and WebPublisher PRO, version 11, is an important release for customers preparing to migrate to the Microsoft® Vista operating system, and will include numerous new features for improved ease of use and overall user experience.
Inmagic plans to release v11 of DB/TextWorks in early 2008. The release of WebPublisher PRO v11 is planned for Q1 2008, after Microsoft releases Windows 2008 Server, to ensure compatibility with Windows 2008 Server.
DB/TextWorks v11 is designed to be used right away, and will not depend on upgrading WebPublisher PRO at the same time.
Inmagic DB/TextWorks and/or WebPublisher PRO customers on Maintenance automatically receive the new version of their product as part of their annual Maintenance contract, and thus can take advantage of these enhanced features and functionality at no additional cost.
If you have questions regarding DB/TextWorks and WebPublisher PRO v11, contact Inmagic directly or ask your local Inmagic Partner.
Read about the many useful new features in DB/TextWorks v11 and WebPublisher PRO v11
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Inmagic® Presto v2.1:
Research asset management for complex information environments
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Inmagic® Genie v3.0:
Integrated library system with advanced Web-based workflow
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Don't forget to renew your Maintenance agreement in 2007 to receive any available product upgrades. To renew, please contact Matti Score, Maintenance Administrator, at 800-229-8398 or 781-938-4444 Ext. 226, or email maintenance@inmagic.com. You can also request a quote online.
Industry Trends:
As industry trends evolve, so do the terms and acronyms that accompany them. As Inmagic strives to lead the industry in helping organizations manage their research information assets, we thought you might like some clarification of the terms currently being used to describe different content management styles and solutions.
Research Asset Management
RAM combines straightforward search and reporting functionality for end users with sophisticated information structuring, metadata management and presentation tools. RAM focuses on several areas, including:
- Publishing finished content
- Inmagic improves access to information by providing three ways to find information: Search, Browsable Directories, and Alerts).
- Consolidating information and reducing information silos
- Inmagic manages heterogeneous information in a robust manner. Each type of content (documents, images, URLs, news, etc.), can have its own metatagging scheme and each can be formatted differently (images can be thumbnailed, news can be treated as an RSS feed, etc.)
- Providing a central mechanism to find internal and external resources
- A search using Inmagic can include internally managed information as well as external subscription databases (Nexis, etc.) or deep Web information (Pubmed, etc.)
Enterprise Content Management
ECM systems focus on building a Web site (a static set of HTML pages), while providing a workflow approval mechanism for the pages prior to being publishing. ECM systems tend to be large scale repositories of many types of content held across the entirety of an organization. As well as digital media, nearly all material (including operational documents and files) may be included in the scope of an ECM implementation.
Document Management
DM systems focus on capturing documents and ensuring that they cannot be lost, while providing a revision management workflow during document creation. DM systems generally include a database system to organize stored documents and a search mechanism to quickly find specific documents.
Digital Asset Management
DAM systems focus on providing robust image management and handling. It is a collective term applied to the process of storing, cataloging, searching and delivering computer files (“digital assets”). These may take the form of video, audio, images, print marketing collateral, office documents, fonts or 3D models.
Tips & Tricks:
From the Knowledgebase:
Genie Foundation (Single-User version) is a cost-effective implementation of the Genie product that allows one professional (Admin, Cataloger or Staff) user and an unlimited number of OPAC (Public) users to access the software.
In Genie Foundation, if a user logs in with a professional user name and password to access My Genie, they count as the only allowed professional user. To get the most use out of your professional login (Admin, Cataloger or Staff), library personnel should be given two logins:
- one with the public role for use as a patron and for My Genie
- one with an Admin, Cataloger or Staff role for use as the designated library professional.
They can then log in as a patron when they wish to review their personal profiles using My Genie.
For example, if a part time student works in the library as a staff member during the day, but at night wishes to access My Genie as a student, then the student should have two logins — one for when they are a student, and one for when they are working in the library.
Featured Customers:
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. and Inmagic have collaborated to produce a new Webinar, designed to address the information resource challenges specific to law libraries. Learn how Fulbright & Jaworski, one of the largest U.S. law firms with more than 1,000 attorneys and 50 integrated practice areas, is using Inmagic to automate its library services and provide 24/7 access to library information across practice areas. Live online presentation will be held on January 10th at 1:00 p.m EST.
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From Maxus Australia: The Melbourne Inmagic User Group met on November 19th at the offices of SBS in Federation Square. In addition, about 40 Inmagic users attended the Museum User Group meeting in Melbourne on November 28th and enjoyed a very interesting visit to the Police Museum at the World Trade Centre, Flinders Street.
Also this fall, Johan van Wyk of Mindex Systems organized an Inmagic User Group meeting in Kenya. Best wishes to our customers in East Africa; we hope this will be a successful group. Mindex is now organizing the next user group meeting in Johannesburg for February '08.
Education:
Inmagic® Genie webinars
 If you're considering a new integrated library system (ILS), get a quick introduction to Inmagic® 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
Inmagic® Presto webinars
 Inmagic® Presto is a Web-based enterprise application for accessing, sharing and managing research information assets.
Come learn more about this powerful research asset management tool. The session will cover many features of Inmagic Presto, including: browsing collections, searching across multiple content types, setting up alerts, and handling RSS feeds. Like Inmagic Genie, Presto has been designed to provide an easy and intuitive administrator interface.
Whether you're part of a pharmaceutical company disseminating information from R&D to medical affairs, building a product development archive to support research, creating a photo and image archive, or creating a collection of articles from external news feeds, Presto allows you to easily create and maintain collections of information assets while enabling your end users to efficiently research and share those assets. Content can be aggregated from disparate internal and external sources and deployed in intranet, extranet or Web environments.
Register here for upcoming Presto Webinars
Inmagic product training
Without leaving your office, you can benefit from the expertise of Inmagic trainers who will cover important concepts and tips to help you get the most out of your Inmagic products.
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| Inmagic Online Training Schedule |
TextWorks Level 1
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February 15
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TextWorks Level 2
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WebPublisher PRO
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February 22
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Inmagic® Genie
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January 11
February 8
March 7
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Inmagic® Genie Express
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January 10
February 7
March 6
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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
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