Innovative Interfaces Inc. (often referred to as III or “Triple I”) is
an ILS vendor based in Emeryville, California.
Founded in 1978, III has a long, established reputation as a library
software vendor. Its Millennium product
(think Voyager competitor) is used by thousands of libraries. Some of the Alabama users include Athens
State and Samford. In Tennessee, for
example, there are many Innovative customers including Memphis, MTSU, ETSU,
etc.
Sierra: Sierra is III’s most recent ILS iteration. At its core is the functionality of the
Millennium system; however, Sierra is more than an ILS it is a comprehensive
Services Platform. Sierra current and
future features include an open database,
analytics, APIs, etc. UNA
WebPAC Pro: III’s OPAC…think UNACAT.
Encore: III’s
discovery platform. This platform allows
for the discovery of materials traditionally found in WebPAC Pro as well as
harvested digital content, etc.
Encore ES: III’s newest partnership, Encore ES, delivers the
Encore discovery platform with EBSCO Discovery (EDS) content. As UNA is already an EDS customer, we will
adopt this version of Encore.
Hosted: UNA’s Sierra implementation is hosted at III’s
server farm in Oakland, Ca. The great
news here is that UNA does not have to maintain the hardware (servers)
associated with Sierra. Hosted offers
redundancy and disaster recovery and it is all managed by III.
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