PTFS Europe Limited
| File:PTFS Europe logo.png | |
| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Open-source software |
| Founded 📆 | November 2, 2007 in London, UK |
| Founders 👔 | Jonathan Field Managing Director Nick Dimant Chairman Ian Bays |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Products 📟 | Koha FOLIO Request Tracker |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 17 (2020) |
| 🌐 Website | www |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
PTFS Europe is a company specialising in the delivery and support of open source library management systems in the UK and the rest of Europe.
PTFS Europe provides a wide range of products and services for the library market. These include the open source library management system Koha, the FOLIO library services platform, Request Tracker for enquiry management, Coral for electronic resource management, Metabase business analytics and the Knowvation digital repository. An ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials company, PTFS Europe provides the full range of services needed to implement, host, and support these products.
History[edit]
PTFS Europe was formed in the UK in 2006[1] by three former directors of SirsiDynix to be the European distributor for the software products of PTFS Inc. based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. These products included the ArchivalWare digital archiving solution which has since developed into Knowvation - a web-based, file type agnostic, full-text search and retrieval content management system. PTFS Europe continues to promote and support these systems. Shortly after its formation, PTFS Europe started also to promote the community version of the Koha open source library management system. PTFS Europe then went on to promote and support a further range of supplementary open source products centred around Koha.
PTFS Europe from 2013-2017 developed the Rebus:list reading list management system which was used by 20 universities and higher education institutions in the UK. Rebus:list was sold to the Copyright Licensing Agency and Kortext in 2017 to free up PTFS Europe resources to focus on the core product of Koha.[2]. Shortly after the acquisition of Rebus:list the product was renamed and relaunched as KeyLinks [3].
Koha[edit]
Koha has become the world’s most widely used open source library management system and is now in use in over 35,000 libraries worldwide backed up by over 50 support companies worldwide [4]. Together with other leading Koha support companies, ByWater Solutions in the USA and BibLibre in France, PTFS Europe has long been funding development resources in support of the Koha community worldwide.
PTFS Europe’s first Koha installation was in 2009. The customer base has now grown to include libraries from all sectors, including universities, public libraries, government departments and agencies, parliamentary libraries, NHS and medical, museums and conservatoires, legal and special libraries [5]. PTFS Europe was one of the first companies to have a library management system approved on the UK Government G-Cloud. PTFS Europe is now supporting over 150 Koha systems primarily in the UK but also throughout Europe. Koha from PTFS Europe is now available on other framework agreements such as from APUC (Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges), the procurement centre of expertise for all of Scotland universities and colleges and ESPO.
Koha Community Involvement[edit]
PTFS Europe plays an active role in the Koha community including contributing significant amount of code and other services such as Release Management, Release Maintenance, Quality Assurance, Bug fixes and Documentation. In 2019/20 PTFS Europe staff performed the Release Management role for the 19.11 and 20.05 releases for the Koha community worldwide [6]. Specific key items of functionality added to Koha by the PTFS Europe team include:
- Interlibrary Loans
- Cash management
- Electronic data interchange (EDI)
- Housebound module
- Stock rotation
- Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP) Fee Paid Message
- Partial Payments
- Hourly Loans
- MARC21 Analytics improvements
- Shibboleth Single Sign-on architecture Authentication
In all, as at May 2020 PTFS Europe staff have contributed 1644 commits which makes up 4% of the total Koha codebase [7]. The majority of PTFS Europe staff have contributed to the community in some manner over the years.
FOLIO[edit]
From January 2020, PTFS Europe has also been promoting and supporting FOLIO in addition to Koha. Originally instigated and supported by EBSCO, the FOLIO Library Services Platform (LSP) is a collaboration of libraries, developers and vendors building an open source library services platform. It supports traditional resource management functionality and can be extended into other institutional areas. FOLIO is attracting interest from universities in the UK and worldwide. The FOLIO community is organised under the Open Library Foundation and supported in the UK by bodies such as Jisc [8]. In January 2020 EBSCO and PTFS Europe announced their partnership to support libraries adopting FOLIO in the United Kingdom and providing hosting and local support services [9]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "PTFS EUROPE LIMITED - Filing history (free information from Companies House)". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-12-11.
- ↑ CLA, KORTEXT AND PTFS EUROPE AGREE DEAL TO TRANSFORM READING LIST & COURSE MATERIALS MARKET https://www.cla.co.uk/news-cla-kortext-ptfs-reading-list-deal
- ↑ INTRODUCING KEYLINKS: THE NEW READING LIST PLATFORM https://cla.co.uk/news-introducing-KeyLinks
- ↑ "Support Companies by Continent – Official Website of Koha Library Software". koha-community.org.
- ↑ "Customers".
- ↑ "Roles for 20.05 - Koha Wiki". wiki.koha-community.org.
- ↑ "GitStats - koha". git.koha-community.org.
- ↑ "FOLIO Community Expands with the Addition of Jisc".
- ↑ "EBSCO Information Services and PTFS Europe Partner to Support Libraries Looking to Adopt FOLIO - News | EBSCO". EBSCO Information Services, Inc. | www.ebsco.com.
External links[edit]
This article "PTFS Europe" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:PTFS Europe. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
