Jobs: Senior Sales, CMS Software, North America January 20, 2017 by Super User Got this note from an industry contact whose CMS software firm is looking around for a senior sales person. The company has a presence in both Europe and North America, and this gig is based in North America. A well-established software company, with international presence, is looking for a dynamic person with an aptitude for sales. …
STRATACACHE Acquires Another Rival CMS Firm, Real Digital Media January 9, 2017 by Super User Chris Riegel is continuing to buy up competitors in the digital signage software space, with news bright and early this morning that his Dayton, OH-based company STRATACACHE has acquired Sarasota, FL-based Real Digital Media. Both are content management software firms with similar products – though Stratacache has a much bigger headcount and sells much more …
NCR Sales Rep Probably Dancing After Bagging Bojangles Rollout December 20, 2016 by Super User The big POS company NCR, which now calls itself a leader in omni-channel solutions, has bagged a deal to provide the digital signage solution for the Southern US-centric fast food chain Bojangles. The chain will use NCR Vitalcast at its company-owned stores, which makes up more than 40% of the total stores in the roughly 700-unit Bojangles …
France’s Videospot Adds WordPress Digital Signage Plugin December 16, 2016 by Super User A French software firm, Videospot, has added to the still short list of companies that have developed WordPress plugins to make digital signage run on the hugely popular website and blogging content management platform. “The idea,” says Videospot’s Pierre Arlaud, “is that you can create a page or a mini site under WordPress. You may …
10 Questions To Ask When Buying Digital Signage Software December 8, 2016 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix So, your organization is considering a digital signage system, and you’ve been tasked with gathering info. Where to start? It’s a massive market and getting bigger all the time. Just typing in the term “digital signage” into Google results in 14 million results, and there are an awful lot of …
Projects: UK Butcher Orders Up Menu Boards November 30, 2016 by Super User Digital menu boards are now very common in the quick service restaurant sector, but far less so at the many other kinds of order counters out there – like at butcher shops. Tariq Halal Meats is one of the larger Halal meat specialists in the UK and Europe, and has started converting its signs behind the counter …
Home Of Montreal Canadiens Expands To 100s Of Digital Signs Around Venue November 29, 2016 by Super User Here’s a look inside one of pro hockey’s most famed venues, the Bell Centre in Montreal – home to the Montreal Canadiens. The club now has 100s of digital screens around the venue, all running off Navori Labs QL Professional digital signage engine. The network runs messaging and targeted advertising across concourse displays, concession menu boards, and …
What If You Could Pair A Media Player Browser With Smart Lights? November 22, 2016 by Super User Via Engadget … Philips has marketed ambient halo lighting around some of its TVs and displays for a few years how, with little LED lights in the back or around the edges doing things like picking up the dominant color on the screen and creating a halo around and behind. Kinda cool, but I don’t think …
Skykit Releases Free Planning Guide For Digital Signage Projects November 21, 2016 by Super User Minneapolis-based software firm Agosto, a big Google Apps partner, branched into the digital signage market a couple of years ago through an in-house spinoff called Skykit – a CMS built around Chrome. The company has been an aggressive marketer lately, and recently came out with something I’ve not really seen before – a free and …
Sysview Must Have Liked Signagelive’s Website So Much The Company Just Went Ahead And Used It November 20, 2016 by Super User A mostly incomprehensible press release from a Chinese hardware and software company out of Shenzhen, called Sysview, sent me clicking through to the company website on the weekend, to try to figure out what they were going on about. I got off that original goal pretty quickly, though, as I starting clicking around and thinking, “Hmmm …
