Overview
Discover Encore
Encore offers a suite of applications and web services that delivers a universe of information in ways that are intuitive, relevant, and, perhaps most important, familiar to today’s internet users. Through a single search box, Encore connects users to all the trusted resources the library collects or selects. Plus, Encore gives users ways to connect with each other and participate in your library’s information landscape.
How? Encore elegantly presents all manner of discovery tools, including faceted search results, Tag Cloud, Did You Mean…?, Popular Choices, Recently Added suggestions, and RightResult™ relevance ranking. It integrates federated search, as well as enriched content—like first chapters—and harvested data, and facilitates community participation with user tagging and community reviews.
And unlike traditional search systems, Encore gives you the ability to implement complete applications or leverage a powerful API that liberates data to support in-house application development—or both. That’s the Encore advantage.
Strength in Numbers
Encore represents the largest active partnership between a library technology company and libraries to create the next-gen library interface. With dozens of active partners in North America, Asia, and Europe, the Encore initiative is unrivaled, demonstrating a broad dedication to a fresh and exciting solution to discovery and delivery of library materials. Strength in numbers gives Encore the most relevant and cutting-edge features of any next-generation interface. What’s more, Innovative’s iterative development processes rolls out new features at a rapid-fire pace. In fact, Encore libraries have enjoyed three full releases in the past three years.
Powered and Backed by Innovative
Innovative products are some of the most trusted in the library-technology marketplace. Why? Because they’re built to meet specific challenges and are backed by a stable and independent company that is wholly committed to your success. We spend time building Encore and making sure it delivers for you, not pleasing a corporate parent or looking for short-term returns. Not only that, Innovative has extended its tradition of service excellence with the Encore “Pit Crew”—a dedicated team of product experts focused on your success from installation forward.
Works with Your ILS
When you select Encore, you benefit from a next-generation discovery tool without having to change your integrated library system (ILS). Virtually overnight, you can transform the user experience while retaining your current technology platform. Same data, different front-end, real results! If your library uses Innovative’s Millennium ILS, Encore leverages real-time, smart connections to library system data and the power of modules such as Electronic Resource Management.
Plug and Play
The Encore discovery services platform is truly plug and play. In most cases, Encore is up and running in a matter of hours. The Encore “Pit Crew” even comes to your library for a launch event that includes a staff training. Before you know it, you are launched! And they will be there, day after day, to support the software and help you build on your Encore implementation whenever you’re ready! You don’t need specialized technical resources to deliver the library of the future, today.
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