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Companies around the world choose Soutron solutions to manage their library resource and information assets on the web.
Before you find out what Soutron can do for your organisation, you might want to find out more about how Soutron has helped clients like you to gain strategic advantage in their field.
EUROCONTROL
Product: SoutronGLOBAL
EUROCONTROL's mission is to harmonise and integrate air navigation services across Europe's 38 member states. Based in Brussels, with offices in Luxembourg, Netherlands, France and Germany, the organisation strives to create a safe and uniform Air Traffic Management (ATM) system for civil and military users.
Five libraries, in difference countries, each had its own particular procedures and materials, with some common ways of indexing materials and some quite unique to each library.
If EUROCONTROL had any concerns about Soutron’s brand new SoutronGLOBAL system, these were swept away by the Soutron team’s experience and the depth of knowledge. Soutron knew just how to preserve the strengths and eliminate the weaknesses of each library in one single, integrated solution, giving EUROCONTROL the ability to share accurate and timely information across country boundaries.
Read the full case study here or visit the Eurocontrol website at www.eurocontrol.int
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK)
Product: SoutronGLOBAL
Represented in more than 30 countries, CILT is the professional body dedicated to representing everyone in the logistics and transport industries helping members to realise their career ambitions by supporting continuous professional development.
Central to this support is The Knowledge Centre, Europe’s largest logistics and transport library, accessible in person or online, with remote access to full text articles from more than 4,000 trade journals, 600 abstracted journals, 1,100 country economic reports, 10,000 company profiles and 1,600 reports from Datamonitor.
10 national councils share data across country boundaries with similar professional organisations around the world, so housekeeping systems for cataloguing and processing materials must be extremely efficient.
Read the full case study here.
The Random House Publishing Group - BARD solution
Products: TextWorks and WebPublisher Pro
The Random House Publishing Group is one of the world's largest book publishing groups. The group’s global Library Archive System consists of bibliographic records for all of the publishing companies administered by the Random House Library: Random House, Transworld, Andersen Press, Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, Egmont Books Ltd and Methuen Publishing.
The solution developed by Soutron, offers ultra fast, highly flexible and accurate search and retrieval facilities and allows users access irrespective of geographical location, via a web browser, over the internet, intranet or an extranet.
The system holds all archive and library information, allows fast and complex searching as well as flexible reporting, reduces the duplication of data entry, streamlines the cataloguing workflow, makes the collection available to other users and importantly is easily supportable by the IT Department.
Read the full case study here.
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust
Product: Inmagic® DB/Text® Library Suite
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust realises that informed staff deliver improved patient care, whether they are clinical or non-clinical and the Warner Information Resource Centre helps staff to achieve their professional goals by providing the best health information provision possible, within a set budget.
The centre had been using Inmagic software for many years, but conversion to a newer library management system, Inmagic® DB/Text® Library Suite, meant that it could increase accessibility of its collection to end users and enhance services.
Soutron’s solution supports traditional back-office needs of Warner IRC, including cataloguing, loans, serials, borrowers, inter-library loans as well as providing a rich and robust retrieval environment for its end users. Non-traditional functions allow the centre to manage electronic documents and make remote collections available online to users.
Read the full case study here
The Foundling Museum
Product: TextWorks
The Foundling Museum tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain's original home for abandoned children and London's first ever public art gallery.
In 2005 Soutron was selected to supply a library system to provide cataloguing facilities for the extensive historical collection of materials that have been placed in the care of the Museum.
Read the full case study here.
Ricardo Plc
Products: TextWorks and WebPublisher Pro
With 80 years in the business, Ricardo plc is one of the world's foremost authorities on powertrains.
Ricardo's Powerlink database holds more than 200,000 articles, legislation, and engine specifications dating as far back as the early 20th century, making it the foremost repository of information of this type in the world.
Built with TextWorks and WebPublisher Pro, the Powerlink database is growing rapidly by approximately 800 new publications per month, providing its information to numerous sites worldwide.
Read the full case study here
AstraZeneca
Products: TextWorks and WebPublisher Pro
AstraZeneca's medical information department receives and responds to hundreds of enquiries from researchers, doctors and hospitals seeking vital facts on their products every week.
AstraZeneca required powerful information retrieval, database management and, critically, the ability to make free copies of their databases on CD-ROM.
DB/TextWorks met these requirements and offered the Medical Information Officers an easy and flexible information management solution.
Read the full case study here
Essex Police
Product: TextWorks
Essex Police deals with large volumes of documentation including legislation and research papers. DB/TextWorks allows home office circulars, force policy, correspondence and other information to be stored and retrieved efficiently in the simplest and most cost-effective way.
With document scanning and increased control, this solution has reduced the amount of paper being filed and improved efficiency in providing users with relevant and current documents.
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Women Like Us
Product: SoutronSOLO
Women Like Us is a successful social enterprise that helps employers find experienced, part-time staff and helps women to find flexible work.
When rapid early expansion threatened to overwhelm the fledgling business, improved access to streamlined information with excellent search capabilities and uncomplicated system management became essential.
Without any need for input from internal IT staff or hardware investment, SoutronSOLO met the goals, budget restrictions and timescales of the project.
Data is now structured with easy data entry and validation and control over terminology, and information is available 24x7 from any location via a web-browser.
Soutron MD, Graham Beastall is delighted with this project that "...demonstrates how library science can be applied to solve business problems in a cost-effective, scalable manner, without protracted implementation times."
Read the full case study here
Many more of our clients have told us that they would be happy to talk to you about their Soutron experience, to help you decide whether a Soutron solution is right for you.
So, if you’d like to talk to someone in your own field, or with similar challenges, contact us and, once we have a better understanding of the solution you need, we’ll do our best to put you in touch.
