WebFeat Unveils SMART Usage Tracker™ version 2.0

Next generation database usage tracking and statistical reporting system offers enterprise/multi-library tracking, Excel export, and new graphical reports.

Old Brookville, NY, January. 14 , 2008—WebFeat®, the world’s leading federated search engine, unveiled version 2.0 of its SMART Usage Tracker™ at the 2008 ALA Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia, PA. SMART version 2.0 builds on WebFeat’s highly popular SMART version 1.0, offering enterprise/multi-library/branch reports, an XLS export feature, new graphical reports, all managed through a sophisticated new report generation console. SMART 2.0 enables libraries to instantly generate a wealth of reports to track usage for any database integrated into their WebFeat federated search solution.

Key among SMART’s new features is its enterprise reporting functionality. Multi-library or multi-branch library systems may generate entire suites of reports for a single library, a group of libraries, or the entire enterprise. Usage reports can also distinguish between walk-up users and remote users. SMART 2 reports and graphs can be easily exported into Excel for additional analysis. All SMART 2 reports are configured using a sophisticated new report generation console, enabling administrators to set report parameters and output choices from a variety of options.

In addition, SMART version 2.0 builds on SMART version 1.0’s delivers a host of new features and reporting capabilities, including:

• Track number of search requests, full record/full text requests and next set requests by aggregate or individual database
• Log native search response time and number of database “turnaways” (users denied access due to native database concurrent user limits)
• Track search terms
• Track key fields from citations selected by users: ISSN, title, author, and database

SMART Usage Tracker 2.0 enables libraries to find out instantly how databases are used by their library patrons. SMART tracks statistics on any database integrated with the library’s WebFeat system—including subscription databases, catalogs, free databases, proprietary databases, Z39.50, and more.

By tracking standardized traffic through the WebFeat engine, SMART instantly normalizes usage statistics, eliminating the need to translate disparate native vendor report metrics. SMART gives libraries a true "apples-to-apples" view of their database usage, enabling administrators to easily compare which resources are used, and which are not.

“The industry’s best federated search usage tracker is now even better,” commented WebFeat President Todd Miller, “with SMART 2.0, the WebFeat product family now offers the industry’s only one-stop solution for search, usage tracking, authentication, and administration.”

About WebFeat
WebFeat® (U.S. patent #6,807,539, German patent # DE20121706U, Australian patent #WO0182117, Chinese patent #01811840.2) is the developer of the WebFeat and WebFeat Express™ Search Solutions, used by over 16,500 leading public, academic, government and Global 1000 libraries and information centers—including over a third of the largest 100 U.S. public libraries, 17 statewide library systems, and 2 out of every 10 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions.

WebFeat offers next-generation federated search and e-resource management tools to meet the needs of any library. Products include: the WebFeat Express federated search solution, WebFeat Enterprise Edition for multi-library networks, WebFeat Custom API and SMART™, WebFeat’s usage tracker. WebFeat Menu Manager™ and WebFeat Proxy™ provide tools for access and management of e-resource collections. WebFeat has earned industry recognition from leading organizations such as Library Journal and the Gartner Group. Learn more about WebFeat at www.webfeat.org.