Swets puts revolutionary decision support service into Beta Testing phase

PRESS RELEASE


24 February 2009
Lisse, The Netherlands


Swets puts revolutionary decision support service into Beta Testing phase

Following an enthusiastic reception at a pre-launch event at ALA Midwinter, Swets is delighted to announce that SwetsWise Selection Support has entered into its Beta Testing phase.

SwetsWise Selection Support offers the most powerful decision support service available by combining the customer’s usage statistics with their subscription holdings and pricing information. This results in a fully integrated price-per-use overview for collection analysis, with the flexibility to include additional customer-specific data, making SwetsWise Selection Support the most comprehensive solution of its kind.

“In the current economic climate, getting value for money is paramount in everybody’s minds. SwetsWise Selection Support contains an intelligent combination of price and usage information that will revolutionize the way libraries view and report on the true value of their collection,” said Debbie Dore, Chief Commercial Officer at Swets. “The objective data included in Selection Support provides librarians with a reliable basis from which to make sound, informed purchase decisions. This will ensure available budget is spent in the most appropriate manner.”

SwetsWise Selection Support utilizes the powerful and award-winning technology behind the ScholarlyStats platform to collect usage statistics and integrates this data with the extensive subscription details and price information stored in SwetsWise Subscriptions. Reporting is available at account and consortium levels, as well as customized reporting. Holdings and price information will be automatically maintained and updated by SwetsWise, including any new subscriptions. Customer-specific fields may be added, along with free text and file uploads, offering a high level of flexibility. These reports will help customers to fully analyze their entire subscription spend and make better informed decisions.


About Swets
Swets is the world's leading subscription services company. We build on more than 100 years of experience to maximize the return on investments in time and money for clients and publishers in today's complex information marketplace. With clients in over 160 countries and more than twenty offices around the world, Swets is a true “long tail” powerhouse that provides the most comprehensive and sophisticated e-commerce platform currently available in its field.

Swets has been included in E-Content Magazine's “100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry” for the past six years, and is consistently featured in FEM Business' annual “Top 500 Companies in The Netherlands” list. We are the only subscription services company that is ISO 9001:2000 certified on a global basis for 10 years running--a testament to our stringent operation and client service procedures.

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