February 11, 2008
Westlake, OH Westlake Porter Public Library is the latest library system to migrate to the EnvisionWare Suite from a competitive solution, joining over 1,000 libraries that have migrated to EnvisionWare PC Management from legacy systems.
Debbie Bruno, Regional Manager of EnvisionWare, offered these comments, “We have enjoyed working with the staff of the library as they planned their purchase and migration. The library was concerned about a rapid deployment and a smooth migration. Our field engineers have developed tools that make migration easy, having moved hundreds of sites from the competitive system to EnvisionWare. We were successful in planning, configuring, and installing the system in just thirty days. That’s part of our commitment to painless migration which is an essential cornerstone of our service offering.”
The Library offered these comments to a potential new user moving from the same competitive product, “We just completed our conversion to Envisionware and I can say it went exceptionally well. In fact, it was far easier …than the original … installation. The technician was able to export and import the … printing database so that no patron would lose money from their "printing account." The two systems do have some differences at the patron user interface level but Envisionware works so much smoother than our … system ever did that the adjustment has gone very well.”
Westlake Porter Public Library is located in the city of Westlake which is in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The circulation is approximately 1 million items and the service area population is 36,750. Approximately 70% of EnvisionWare’s customers are single building libraries. The design of PC Reservation® is well suited to libraries of all sizes. It connects directly to the ILS for validation. Westlake is a SirsiDynix Unicorn customer. EnvisionWare’s software uses all of the enhanced SIP2 fields to make patron access rules and to control filtering for many libraries.
EnvisionWare is the world’s largest supplier of end-to-end self-service solutions. Celebrating the tenth anniversary of EnvisionWare’s LPT:One™ print cost management solution, EnvisionWare continues to set the bar for innovation and ease of use in self-service for libraries. All EnvisionWare solutions are designed and priced to fit the needs of every size and type of library. Today, more public libraries use EnvisionWare PC Management products than any other solution.
Keywords: PC Management, Print Management; PC Reservation; Public Library; Conversion to EnvisionWare; Former Comprise SAM; SirsiDynix Unicorn
Comprise and SAM are trademarks of Comprise Technologies, Inc. Unicorn is a trademark of SirsiDynix; PC Reservation is a registered trademark of EnvisionWare, Inc.; EnvisionWare and LPT:One are trademarks of EnvisionWare, Inc.
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