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Database Technology | In House Server | Hosting/SaaS | Java, JavaScript, HTML Use
Proven Technology Expertise
A state-of-the-art engineering firm founded in 1986, CyberTools has
expert staff with the in-depth knowledge to answer your questions quickly and completely. Our background in mission-critical development promotes
high performance, reliable software, and plays a vital role in minimizing costs. Instead of using our time to fix programming code, we implement new
ideas for our users.
CyberTools employs the finest object technology that allows us to build and enhance robust applications quickly.
Database Technology
Configure Any Size System with the Latest Post-Relational Database Technology!
CyberTools employs commercial post-relational database technology that ensures high performance even on modest servers.
We use the same database technology as the world's largest client server network at Harvard University teaching hospitals.
This technology is Caché from InterSystems Corporation.
InterSystems, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of the top five database suppliers in the world.
Caché is a highly scalable, powerful scripting language with an integrated database that uniquely combines object and relational technologies.
It addresses the needs of library, health care, banking, and all applications that rely on fast processing of complex data types and large amounts of
text-based data. Lightning speed and massive scalability make Caché a perfect match for library systems.
In fact, Caché is so reliable it is the leading database in the health care industry: more hospitals worldwide run mission-critical applications
built in Caché than any other database system.
CyberTools for Libraries comes to you loaded with powerful reports, and supports SQL and ODBC so you can also design your own searches and reports
with popular off-the-shelf database tools such as Crystal Reports.
Thanks to Caché, CyberTools for Libraries can manage millions of titles and thousands of simultaneous users.
Hosting/SaaS - Software as a Service
What is Hosting/SaaS/Software as a Service?
With SaaS, software solutions are delivered to you over the Web from a central location, an increasingly popular and cost-effective way for organizations
to achieve their technology. With this delivery model a library does not need to purchase, install, maintain, secure, and update its own computer servers.
This is done for the library by CyberTools for an all-inclusive, modest fee. The library simply accesses all library software over the Web, for both OPAC
and library staff functions. Library staff do not need to be in the library to access their administrative functions, a great convenience!
Hosting lets librarians focus on running their library and serving patrons.
For more information on comparing Hosting/SaaS to the more traditional method of running on your own in-house server, visit
Access Options.
Workstations. Workstation and Browser Requirements are the
same whether the library is running via its own server or hosting. CyberTools client-server applications are delivered identically across a range
of workstations, resulting in consistent, comprehensive search results. Plus, our server-centric design means you'll never need to install an update
on a workstation, since the server delivers updates for you automatically. All workstations should have at least a SVGA display.
• Minimum Microsoft Client Workstation (Staff or Patron): Of course, more memory and a faster CPU are always better.
| Desktop OS | Minimum CPU Speed MHz | Minimum Memory MB |
| Windows 98 | 166 |
32 |
| Windows ME | 166 |
64 |
| Windows NT | 166 |
48 |
| Windows 2K or XP | 200 |
128 |
| Windows Vista | 800 |
512 |
• Minimum Apple Mac Workstation (Staff or Patron):
any that runs Mac OS 9 - or better; 800x600 resolution.
• Browsers
Microsoft Workstations:
Firefox 2, IE 5 - or better.
Mac Workstations: Firefox 2, Safari 3, IE 4, or Netscape 4.5 - or better.
Internet Connection Required
Any connection as long as your access to the Internet is generally good.
Secure Database
Your database is your valuable property: it is shadowed in real-time to a hot spare server, password protected, and shared only with your authorized users.
You may always update or copy your data at any time. Daily backups are performed for you in not just one but five ways.
In addition, CyberTools host servers are protected from unauthorized intrusions by five layers of security. We have redundant hardware in all cases, all running with the best UPS technology, and we have redundant co-located servers offsite to ensure your operations.
With CyberTools, your server technology is in professional hands.
The CyberTools OPAC is HTML and JavaScript, for consistent system performance, so your patrons do not need to have Java enabled on their workstations. Note that JavaScript and Java are not the same, and have little to do with each other. The OPAC does not request any "permissions".
CyberTools requires Java for the administrative library functions. We refer to these as the Staff User functions: Cataloging, Circulation, Serials Management, and the System Properties. Java is required with either delivery model.
You can use either (1) Java in a browser, in which case you are asked to grant permission for our Java activities, and this should be a one-time, yearly event, or (2) a local CyberTools-designed Java application that can run on your desktop as an icon. This latter method is popular with our libraries.
How does CyberTools use Java?
1. Platform Portability for Workstations of Different Types. CyberTools can run the same client code on Windows, MAC OS, Linux, and other client platforms. This means that new software is developed faster, assuring its quality and consistency across platforms is simpler, and maintaining your system is easier.
2. Full Client/Server Application Interaction. For example, Java enables CyberTools to dynamically validate a subject heading in the catalog against a second indicator that specifies the thesaurus.
3. Dynamic Printing. Java enables great spine label printing!
4. Sending Files (Without FTP) to the Server. For example, Java is used to download MARC bibs to your workstation from NLM LocatorPlus, LC, Marcive , or EndNote. Java helps import your NLM Docline SERHOLD data into CyberTools Serials Management.
5. Receiving Files From the Server. Java helps generate reports directly to your workstation that you may want to edit or use with Microsoft Excel or Access.
Today's top Web tools (Bea, Oracle, IBM, and more) and CyberTools use the Java platform to deliver world-class technology to their users.
Java and all Java-based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.