FOLIO

Index Data: Leaders, Architects, Developers and FOLIO Service Providers

Index Data has been the lead architect and developer for FOLIO, and now we offer a complete set of services that enable any library to leverage FOLIO’s innovative open source library platform. Whether you are just looking for an affordable next-generation library management solution, or you are looking to leverage FOLIO’s unique architecture to solve new problems, we can help!

FOLIO: the modern, open source, community owned library services platform

Born in 2016 as a collaboration between Index Data, EBSCO and OLE, from the start it was designed to encourage innovation and to serve the entire spectrum of current and future needs of libraries. FOLIO is the modern, open source, powerful, extensible community based Library Services Platform.

See FOLIO in action

ERM: Create a License

Acquisitions: The Orders App

Circulation: Check Out an Item

A quick review of all apps

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Our Services:

FOLIO Complete SaaS: Perhaps the most prevalent misconception about open source software is that you need a team of developers and experts to operate it. With FOLIO, you can choose between different service providers for the same software. Index Data provides robust, highly available and scalable hosting that runs your instance of FOLIO and includes VuFind as your patron interface. Our team provides 24×7 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) support that you can rely on.
FOLIO Implementation Services: We provide a range of services that can be customized to help your institution implement FOLIO. We can augment your staff, or we can offload tasks like data migration or software setup where it isn’t in your strategic interest to build and maintain expertise. Our goal is to work with your staff to form a highly capable and effective team that will get you up and running smoothly. We want to leave you free to own the tasks that you feel have lasting value to your organization, so we can offload as much or as little as makes sense to you.
FOLIO Software Support: If you choose to run FOLIO in your own environment we can provide your Software Support. Our support staff will work with your team as well as our developers and devops engineers to triage problems, create fixes and/or patches when needed, and provide support for workarounds if necessary. Any bugs we fix or improvements we make to the FOLIO codebase will always be contributed back to the community’s project. In this way your usage of Index Data to support your FOLIO deployment also helps the entire FOLIO community.
FOLIO Custom Development: As the lead architects and developers behind the FOLIO core platform, Index Data is uniquely qualified to provide customer development services. So whether you need a new module or App, or have an existing one customized, or create a custom integration required by your institution, we can help. The code we create will be easily deployable in your FOLIO environment and will follow the standards and practices of the FOLIO community.

FOLIO is:

Open Source: Provided under an Apache 2 license to ensure maximum community participation, adoption and contribution.
Modern: Cloud-based, multi-tenant, services-oriented, built around an open knowledge base, linked data orientation, supports the management of electronic and print resources
Powerful: Created to manage the full spectrum library workflows from the most basic through the most complex
Flexible: The platform may be configured in many ways and hosted by any of several service providers (including Index Data), by consortia offices, or operated by libraries in locally available infrastructure or the cloud
Extensible: Anyone can build on, or extend, the platform into other areas such as research administration, closer integration with campus ERP, business intelligence, resource sharing, etc.
Community-based: A unique collaboration of the community at large, major libraries such as the University of Chicago, Duke University, Texas A&M, Cornell University, Lehigh University, the Gemeinsamer Biblioteksverbund Verbundzentral (GBV), and vendors such as Index Data, ByWater Solutions and EBSCO Information Services.

Index Data and FOLIO: Hosting, Consulting, and Custom Development

Index Data: Leaders, Architects, Developers and FOLIO Service Providers

FOLIO: the modern, open source, community owned library services platform

See FOLIO in action

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FOLIO is:

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Additional Resources

FOLIO Website

FOLIO Community

FOLIO Developers

FOLIO Source Code