Major Features and Benefits

• Quality, stability, and performance immediately available to provide libraries and consortia with a reliable technology foundation

• Proven, scalable, and extensible service-oriented (SOA) architecture that permits Rome to serve the diverse needs of all types and sizes of libraries and to evolve with changing market needs

• Software-as-a-service delivery options (software hosting, upgrades, back-ups, etc.) that ensure least total cost of ownership of technology solutions for libraries facing constrained budgets, limited technical staff, and other challenges

• Built on standard relational database management technology, providing industry-standard data storage, Unicode compliance, advanced reporting and business intelligence capabilities, and more

• Digital asset management solutions for organizing, managing, and presenting digital objects that are increasingly important parts of libraries’ collections

• Electronic resources management solutions for effectively managing the entire lifecycle of the licensed digital content

• Content-building solutions for creating virtual "rooms" of content that meet the needs of targeted information consumer audiences