<p><strong>Talis and Medialab Solutions announce a platform partnership<br>
</strong><em>Birmingham, 13th October 2006</em> </p>
<p>Talis and Medialab Solutions, creators of the AquaBrowser
application, are delighted to announce a new platform partnership
agreement.</p>
<p>Both Talis and Medialab have been driving technical and
business innovation to help libraries expose their data silos, to easily
integrate disparate systems and deliver next generation solutions that are
rich, engaging, participative and economically attractive. Talis is
developing an open software platform and Medialab has introduced
AquaBrowser Online which is one of the first ‘software as a
service’ applications to be available to the global library market.
The agreement enables Medialab to take advantage of the platform’s
APIs to enable any library that contributes its catalogue to the Talis
Platform to take advantage of the AquaBrowser Online service. </p>
<p>As well as Medialab becoming a Talis Platform partner, the
two companies will collaborate on new features that will enable easier and
seamless integration with leading ILS applications, enhanced search and
indexing technologies, and data visualisation. </p>
<p>Dave Errington, Talis CEO commented, “I am delighted to
be working with the AquaBrowser team who share our culture of business and
technology innovation. We are both pursuing a more visionary, inclusive,
and longer term strategy designed to lower the cost and technical barriers
to innovation, offering radical new solutions to all libraries and indeed
software vendors in the library automation world."</p>
<p>Medialab CEO Bastiaan Zwaan commented, “Through our
partnership we enable any library with a catalogue supported by the Talis
Platform to sign up for the AquaBrowser Online catalogue search service.
We stand behind the philosophy of the Talis Platform concept and
that is why it is one of the first ILS platforms we already support at the
launch of AquaBrowser Online.” </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0;">For additional information about
this partnership or to find out how to get involved contact <a
href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]</a> or engage in
this <a href="http://www.talis.com/tdn/forum/93">discussion forum</a>. </p>
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