Cognos – A long-standing Silver OEM Partner, Endeavor established a new relationship with Cognos in 2005 with the goal of adding advanced business intelligence features to its library management product suite in order to easily create, execute, and deliver reports.

Beginning with an integration between Cognos ReportNet, the company’s Web-based enterprise query and reporting solution, and Endeavor’s enterprise resource management solution, Meridian, the relationship has since expanded to other Endeavor offerings.  Today, Endeavor’s Analyzer add-on module leverages Cognos’ business intelligence capabilities to deliver a Web-based reporting system, enabling institutions to make data-driven decisions regarding their library collections.  

Endeavor will continue to leverage Cognos ReportNet in order to further simplify back-office processes for librarians, thus allowing them to focus on delivering optimal front-office service to patrons.

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Jiangsu Huiwen Software Co. – Endeavor announced its strategic partnership with Jiangsu Huiwen, the leading library system provider in China, during ALA Midwinter in January 2006.  With the goal of promoting Endeavor’s digital library products in China, the partnership includes joint marketing, sales and product development efforts on behalf of both organizations.

Under the terms of the agreement, Endeavor is providing marketing and sales support and training to Huiwen, as well as access to the English-language versions of both Discovery: Finder and Discovery: Resolver, the company’s federated search and link resolving products, respectively.  Huiwen is collaborating with Endeavor to define and develop Chinese language interfaces for these offerings.  Likewise, Huiwen is delivering local support and system localization for customers in China, and leading product trials at key institutions within China. 

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Sun Microsystems, Inc. – Sun has been Endeavor's primary development partner since the company’s inception in 1994.  Upwards of 90 percent of all installations of Endeavor’s Voyager ILS are powered by Sun systems.  Sun had authorized Endeavor as a U.S. proprietary reseller and campus representative, and in 2005 Endeavor joined the Sun Partner Advantage Program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).

2005 also marked the formation of a unique partnership between the two companies, focused on creating a next-generation platform of global digital repositories and preservation technologies to protect critical educational, cultural, and historical information.  The partnership is further strengthened by the involvement of Endeavor’s parent company, Elsevier, as its heritage in managing large scale content repositories will enable libraries, universities and museums to more easily and securely convert, store, manage, and distribute their informational assets.

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library management solutions to academic, research, corporate, and government institutions.
Both Talis and Endeavor are dedicated to supporting access, interoperability, and standards-based integration where appropriate, for the benefit of the wider communities served. Talis Connexions also provides the foundation for managing specific technology initiatives, such as interfacing Talis Alto, the company's integrated library management system, with Endeavor Meridian, as well as fostering interconnectivity between Endeavor's Voyager ILS and Talis' reading list solution, Talis List.

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TDNet Ltd. – Endeavor established a technology partnership with TDNet, a leading provider of e-resource management solutions, in 2005, applying TDNet technology to Endeavor’s Holdings Management product.  In 2006, Endeavor expanded this partnership agreement, focusing on integrating elements of TDNet technologies into a new suite of tools known as Endeavor Discovery, a family of utilities that enable users to easily manage, search, retrieve, view and access library resources.

Today, the Discovery layer consists of:

Discovery: Finder, Endeavor’s federated search offering, which enables patrons to abstract, categorize, and analyze retrieved items in a customized manner.

Discovery: Resolver, Endeavor’s link resolving solution, which provides accurate, context-sensitive links from OpenURL and non-Open URL enabled sources to full text sources.

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Oracle - Endeavor is a value-added reseller for Oracle, as several offerings within the Endeavor product suite are built on Oracle's relational database.  The flexibility of both Endeavor’s Voyager ILS and Meridian ERM offerings are due in part to the Oracle relational database structure, which provides complete integration of functionality and increased capabilities for the combination of functions throughout the library. 

Endeavor fully supports the Oracle database and the associated application code, providing first-tier customer service.  This level of synergistic support is unique in the library software industry.  The goal of this relationship, which began shortly after Endeavor's incorporation in 1994, is to maintain a superior data storage mechanism that is safe, secure, reliable, efficient, and accessible, and one that functions in full compliance with both existing and emerging industry standards.