1. Benefits of going the Presto Route Bella Odendaal
Inmagic Presto
Benefits of going the Presto Route
Bella Odendaal

2. Introduction
Mindex Systems – South African Dealer for Inmagic and Presto.
Lucidia – Inmagic – Developers of Presto
Products:
Inmagic & Webpublisher: Back-end for Presto.
Presto – Social Records Management platform
Mindex Systems
Installation
Training
Consultation.

3. Benefits of Presto
Presto can assist to develop a full text electronic database with the purpose to:
increase the access to documents like ITA’s, submissions, transcripts of public hearing, licenses etc.
improve services to expand and enhance access to the institution’s resources;
By making links available to scanned documents, it will reduce the handling and use of fragile or heavily used original material and create a” back up” copy
By using PRESTO to publish the collection on the internet in a user friendly way, it will help to develop collaborative resources.
The ability to use the full PRESTO to do federated searches, will mean that other collections can be included in the search engine. This will make sharing and the creation of virtual collections a reality.

4. Other features :
Robust homepage offers many features making your homepage inviting to users.
Easy to add or edit collections or categories.
Ability to rate and tag records.
Ability to items including the attached documents.

5. Manage diverse types of content with its own unique tagging structure:
-Documents (PDF’s, Word, Excel)
- Articles
- Images
- Videos
- Newswires
- URLs
- Social
Or you can add your own

6. Search page: Presto

7. Examples of PRESTO homepages

8. University of Texas Transportation Library:   (GAS)​
Association of College and University Housing Officers (ACUHO):  College)
City of Edmonton:  Town)
Food Marketing Institute:  (Search Gluten)
More Complex Implementations:
USAID   China, this is a MOBIL EXAMPLE)

9. Print , Email or Download

11. Social : Tagging and rating

12. Easy to add Categories

13. Easy to move and copy items to Categories

14. Demo http://prestodemo07.inmagic.com/Presto/home/home.aspx
Login:  admin/Salesdemo
Search term:  “fuel cell”

15. What are the other benefits:
Users will be more willing to search themselves rather than relying on the library staff to search for them.
Reports can be downloaded and ed easily.
The homepage environment can be used to give updates on what is happening and get important messages to the users.
Knowledge can be shared easily and value added to the current information.
The rating and tagging of records will guide users to the more relevant and useful information.

16. Full PRESTO: Optional Components:
PRES-DBTW-SHRPT (enables connection to SharePoint)
PRES-DBTW-API (enables integration to external applications including external authentication systems)
PRES-DBTW-FEDSRCH (integrated search of external content providers)
PRES-DBTW-BLGFRM (enables use of blogs and forums option)
PRES-DBTW-AD (enables active directory integration)
PRES-DBTW-RPTS (enables use of Presto reports)

17. Blogs

18. SharePoint connection

19. Costs
Presto Base system can be bought to start with and then selected modules can be added.
If a library already has a Webpublisher, it will only mean upgrading to PRESTO. This will be a very cost effective solution.
Full quotations can only be given after discussing the clients specific needs.
A basic initial quote will be given as a starting point for discussions.