Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (abbreviated III and called "Innovative" or "Triple I" in the industry) is a

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company specializing in integrated systems for

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. Their key products include Sierra, Polaris, Millennium, and Virtua, with customers in 66 countries. Innovative was acquired by

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company) in January 2020. On December 1, 2021,

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completed their acquisition of ProQuest and, by extension, Innovative. The company's software is used by various types of libraries including

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, and special libraries as well as

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. In September 2014 Sierra was installed at 1494 libraries (with 3435 facilities), Polaris at 1339 (with 2808 facilities), Millennium at 1316 (with 2640 facilities), and Virtua at 224 (with 490 facilities). Founded in 1978 by

Jerry Kline Jerry Kline is the founder and former chairman of Innovative Interfaces and SkyRiver Technology Solutions, both based in Emeryville, California, USA. Personal life Kline was born in 1951 in Los Angeles, California. He received a B.S. degree in ...

and Steve Silberstein in Berkeley, California, the initial product was a system to interface

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data with a library's cataloging system. Huntsman Gay Global Capital and JMI Equity invested in the company in 2012, the same year Kim Massana, formerly president of

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Elite, was appointed CEO. The equity firms purchased the company outright the next year. The company also made several acquisitions within the next two years: SkyRiver Technology Solutions (which maintains partnerships with 3M,

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, OverDrive, Inc., and Bibliotheca), Polaris Library Systems, and VTLS Inc. Bert Winemiller took over as CEO for a brief period in 2015 before the company named James Tallman as their new CEO in January 2016. During May 2019, Shaheen Javadizadeh was appointed CEO, and Jim Tallman was appointed to the role of Executive Chairman. In December 2019, Innovative was acquired by

. When acquired by ProQuest/Ex Libris, Yariv Kursh was named General Manager.

Vega Platform

In April 2019, Innovative launched a new platform Inspire. The first product on this platform was Discovery. It was architected on a cloud-based platform.

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records are converted to the

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model which are made searchable in a proprietary Context Engine. Search results were then shown in a Context Wheel that represents the relationships between resources, people, and concepts. Later the platform was renamed to Vega and made publicly available in December 2020.

Innovative Users Group

Formed in 1991 as an independent organization, the Innovative Users Group serves the libraries that use the company's software. The Innovative Users Group organizes an annual conference, organizes ballots for user-submitted enhancements, and maintains the IUG Clearinghouse for users to share tutorials, scripts, guides, and other resources created to better use the software.

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External links

Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Home PageHome Page of the Innovative Users Group, an independent organization of users of the Innovative softwareList of current Encore libraries“Automation Marketplace 2013: The Rush to Innovate.” Library Journal.
Retrieved September 18, 2014.
“Automation Marketplace 2012: Agents of Change.” Library Journal.
Retrieved September 18, 2014.

Retrieved September 21, 2011.

Retrieved September 21, 2011. Library automation Library-related organizations Software companies established in 1978 Companies based in Emeryville, California 1978 establishments in California