SirsiDynix has announced a new ILS platform, Rome, coming later this year that they say will blend the best qualities of Sirsi’s Unicorn product and Dynix’s Horizon product.

Here’s how they describe Rome in the press release:

It offers integrated technology building blocks for today’s libraries and consortia, including cost-saving software-as-a-service (SaaS) hosted options, state-of-the-art portal and search solutions, new and easy-to-manage Web-based library staff software, electronic content management and presentation solutions, the broadest suite of library management and productivity solutions – and more.

Talin Bingham, SirsiDynix chief technology officer, said:

These new capabilities – such as expanded record ownership capabilities and hierarchical structures for consortia, additional international features and record manipulation functions that enable batch changes to records – will be incrementally incorporated into the Rome platform. Capitalizing on the power, breadth and versatility of the Unicorn and Horizon product families, plus new solutions that we will develop down the road, Rome will provide our customers with an impressive collection of features and capabilities built on a stable, scalable and full-featured platform. This will make Rome a firm technology foundation for the future – both for us as a company and, especially, for our customers.”

Although future upgrades for Unicorn and Horizon will not be available, the products will continue to be supported, and the company will “work with customers to plan optimal upgrade paths to Rome.”

Read the entire press release at: http://www.sirsidynix.com/Newsevents/Releases/2007/20070313_technology_platform.pdf