Dynamic, faceted and fully customizable.

At SirsiDynix, we believe that when a library user enters a search term – even one that’s misspelled or unclear – he should never get a blank screen in response. The SirsiDynix Enterprise discovery portal utilizes trigrams and “fuzzy logic” technology to make this a reality. With fuzzy logic, a “Did you mean…” index pops up to correct misspellings or typos, and at the same time yields results for related terms. In addition, auto-complete features generate results for partial-term queries. These capabilities, among others, ensure that Enterprise bypasses human error to create a pattern of successful searches. No matter what a user searches, they will get results. Every time.

Discover in style
The sleek interface includes collapsible and expandable menus for easy visual navigation, drag-and-drop account management and stylish cover-flow browsing.

High-accuracy results
Refine search by availability, publication date, author and more. You can even deselect items to narrow the results further and eliminate results that are NOT of interest.

As the most powerful discovery platform of its kind, Enterprise 4.1 offers high-accuracy search and discovery as well as a multitude of other capabilities, including:
Ability to search more than physical materials. Library users get search results beyond just physical materials in your catalog. Allow your users to find websites, PDFs, subscription content and catalogs.

Configurable, individual user profiles. Library staff can configure page appearances, offer or limit specific resources or databases, and customize other user experience options based on the library user’s demographic profile. Each profile can support multiple languages, a unique look-and-feel, patron-selectable or administrator-enforced search limits, and can be reached through a unique URL configured by the library.

Simplified end-user interface, including drag-and-drop account management, stylish cover-flow browsing, multi-select capabilities for placing multiple holds at once or adding a group of items to a list, and much more. Additionally, collapsible and expandable menus, multiple viewing options and enhanced social media integration enable a streamlined and intuitive yet robust user experience.

Virtual "rooms" for showcasing library resources. Create “rooms” based on content categories and themes for specific audiences based on their profile, and guide user discovery with high-quality content that supplements the room's theme. For universities, this means rooms for individual colleges that query specific databases unique to the academic discipline. Schools can create age-based rooms that offer guided searching appropriate for the age of the user. Public libraries can create rooms for for specific patrons groups, such as Spanish-speaking patrons, or pages for individual library branches. For special libraries, it’s the ability to limit or offer information and resources depending on one’s department or role.

Make your library a community online through social media support, or incorporate a third-party application to allow users to rate content or submit their own book reviews. Enterprise integrates with Syndetics ICE™ (Indexed Content Enrichment) from Bowker®, the leading source for bibliographic information. ICE™ content such as reviews, cover images, tables of content, awards data, fiction profiles, excerpts, summaries and author notes can be indexed and accessed through Enterprise searches, driving more search results and improved relevancy rankings.

Seamless user experience
No need to confuse users navigating from account to catalog. Enterprise makes the experience seamless, from search to hold to account management.

I want it all!
Select multiple items at once to save to a list, put on hold or share with a friend right from the results page. Social media integration makes sharing easy and puts the library in the limelight.

Too many search results? Enterprise 4.1 enables precise search refinement through faceted search. Users can narrow search results by a particular facet of information such as author, format, publication date, availability or holding library. Users can even deselect options within facets they don't want to appear in search results. Discovery aids display information about the search results in categories, such as location, format, author, subject and language. Users can easily narrow results using options in the result set, taking the guesswork out of refining search results and eliminating dead-ends.

Fuzzy logic provides relevant, powerful search results, even for unclear, incomplete or misspelled queries. Libraries can configure levels of relevancy with fuzzy matching. Dynamic search suggestions are retrieved based on past successful searches for the same keywords.

Federated searching allows users to search library databases and catalogs using Z39.50 and 360 Search. Users enjoy the comprehensive nature of harvested searching, which retrieves results based on the most relevant content, regardless of information type — library catalog, websites, PDFs, external databases and more. Relevancy rankings for content expedite the review process.

URL-based searching enhances the user experience by allowing them to duplicate results. Users can save URLs of searches to review results later. Enterprise also offers RSS feeds, so users can stay up on new library offerings relevant to topics they have interest in.

Multilingual support allows users to change languages on the fly and to display search results using Roman and non-Roman character sets.

Make Enterprise completely your own. A what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor makes administering Enterprise content uncomplicated. The editor can format data and allows you to change fonts, colors, images, external links and more. Enterprise also accepts direct HTML input. Images or other files are easily stored on the server through the administration interface.

Gain more control over content in the display window with the bibliographic detail display feature. With Enterprise, you can tailor this information to better match the user’s needs.

Enterprise is developed to be mobile friendly, so no matter what mobile browser is accessing your library’s website, the site will scale to allow friendly viewing and use.

Contact your SirsiDynix representative for a demo of the new SirsiDynix Enterprise 4.1 - now with advanced search options, a sleek new interface and much more!.