“It's great to be able to customize the Polaris checkout screen with patron data elements of our choice. It maximizes the efficiency of the checkout process. And with 15 agencies circulating over 7.1 million items per year, it matters.”
- Eva Calcagno, Manager, Washington County Cooperative Library Services, Oregon
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Polaris Library Systems Announces New Team Members (July 10, 2008)
Polaris Announces Polaris Fusion ™ (June 24, 2008)
Polaris Library Systems Extends Partnership with EnvisionWare (June 3, 2008)
The Regional Automation Consortium (TRAC) Selects Polaris ILS (May 13, 2008)
Polaris Library Systems Partners with ChiliFresh.com (May 6, 2008)
Polaris Library Systems Announces New Team Members in Research & Development and Customer Service (April 29, 2008)
Ouachita Parish Public Library Selects Polaris ILS (February 26, 2008)
Polaris Library Systems Announces New Team Members (February 5, 2008)
Dallas Public Library Selects Polaris ILS (January 8, 2008)
Westmoreland County Federated Library System Selects Polaris ILS (December 19, 2007)
Phoenix Public Library System Selects Polaris ILS (November 28, 2007)
Integrated Technology Group Forms Strategic Alliance With Polaris Library Systems (October 24, 2007)
Polaris Library Systems Announces URL Detective (September 4, 2007)
Polaris Library Systems and ALA Partner on Capitol Hill (June 21, 2007)
Polaris Library Systems Reports Continued Growth (June 19, 2007)
Polaris Library Systems Announces ILS Version 3.3 (May 21, 2007)
Polaris Library Systems Launches SimplyReports, Web-based Report Writer (May 2, 2007)
Polaris Library Systems Announces Strong Close in Fourth Quarter (January 11, 2007)
Polaris Library Systems Announces Banner Year for ILS Sales (January 19, 2007)
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Syracuse, NY, May 2, 2007 – Polaris Library Systems, a leading provider of library automation technology, announced today the general release of SimplyReports, a new web-based ad hoc reporting tool for the Polaris Integrated Library System. Using the interactive forms in SimplyReports, you can create over 150,000 custom reports in the Polaris ILS without knowledge of SQL, relational databases, or the structure of the Polaris ILS database. Our customers expressed a need to develop complex reports for year-end reporting and data analysis, without relying on extensive training or knowledge of Microsoft SQL. SimplyReports meets this challenge by providing customers of all skill levels, from casual users to advanced IT professionals, the ability to access and analyze their Polaris data. It's a user-friendly complement to our suite of reporting options and we're excited to offer this to our customers," said Jim Mieczkowski, chief information officer at Polaris. With SimplyReports, the end user selects the specific data elements from drop-down menu combinations, and the software walks the user through the rest. Available data elements include information from patron records, items, holds, bibliographic records, and serials holdings. The user selects from an extensive set of filters and reporting rules to further refine the report. SimplyReports also includes the ability to execute or schedule saved reports individually and in groups, the ability to publish reports to the toolbar within the Polaris staff client, as well as the option to administer security at the system, branch and data levels. SimplyReports utilizes AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technology, and leverages .Net 2.x web services to extend a single installation across multiple instances of Microsoft SQL servers. This program complies with the W3C DOM making it compatible with Internet Explorer (5 or later), Netscape (6 or later) and Mozilla FireFox. ### About Polaris Library Systems From its beginnings thirty years ago, Polaris Library Systems has served libraries with time-saving technology, from its first circulation system in the mid-1970s through its third-generation Polaris Integrated Library System. In addition to its library automation systems, Polaris Library Systems offers workflow analysis, database enhancement, wireless access and network services to libraries. For more information about Polaris Library Systems, visit http://www.polarislibrary.com/. |