IS Oxford will be releasing their next generation of the Heritage software in 2011, probably in summer. It will replace both Heritage and Heritage Online and be a single version of the system. It can be accessed remotely from anywhere by any workstation that has a good internet connection. The functionality and user-interface will be unchanged but reports and batch processes will fun faster as all data retrieval and the majority of processing will happen on the server (rather than being subject to the client-server network bandwidth restrictions. An improved job scheduler will allow for the running of reports as a background process rather than one that ties up a workstation. The new model will allow IS Oxford to offer a “hosted” implementation to libraries.
This could help with the slowness issues experienced particularly at MW. It sounds like an exciting development and one, perhaps, where we are among the early uptake. I will be keeping abreast of developments and announcements regarding the new system.
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