Gilbarco Veeder-Root and Scala announced today a strategic partnership to integrate the Scala digital signage solution with Gilbarco’s new FlexPay™ CRIND™ payment module

Greensboro, NC/Exton, PA (PRWEB) September 15, 2008 — Gilbarco Veeder-Root and Scala announced today a strategic partnership to integrate the Scala digital signage solution with Gilbarco’s new FlexPay™ CRIND® payment module. The concept will be unveiled to retailers this week at the Automechanika show in Frankfurt, Germany.

With the new Scala-powered Gilbarco FlexPay, oil companies and retailers will benefit from an integrated offering that enables high quality advertising and multimedia messages at the forecourt. Previously, this integration was unavailable to the market due to security constraints and pump performance issues.

We are privileged that Gilbarco Veeder-Root has selected Scala to enable digital signage in its innovative FlexPay platform

“By working with Scala, Gilbarco Veeder-Root will offer our customers a seamless indoor to forecourt digital signage and advertising experience by coupling the breakthrough technology of our FlexPay payment engine with Scala’s leading digital signage platform. The combination is sure to drive greater in-store traffic and therefore increase profitability,” said Andrew Robinson, Gilbarco Veeder-Root’s director, global payment business unit.

“We are privileged that Gilbarco Veeder-Root has selected Scala to enable digital signage in its innovative FlexPay platform,” said Oscar Elizaga, vice president, EMEA for Scala. “We are now actively working with Gilbarco and Scala’s worldwide network of partners in several significant projects.”

About Gilbarco Veeder-Root
Gilbarco Veeder-Root and Gasboy are the leading suppliers of outdoor payment systems, integrated fuel control, site management, and support services for petroleum marketers and commercial fuelling enterprises worldwide. (www.gilbarco.com, www.veeder.com, www.gasboy.com). For more information visit www.gilbarco.com.

About Scala
Scala is a leading global provider of digital signage and advertising management solutions. By combining digital and traditional signage systems, Scala has become the world’s first connected signage company, offering the leading platform for content creation, management and distribution in digital signage networks, and the first unified platform for advertising management of both traditional and digital signage networks. The company’s solutions are used in retail, education, entertainment, government and other industries for diverse applications such as retail advertising networks, corporate communications (employee TV), traditional and digital billboards, digital menu boards, digital posters, cable TV, hotel lobby signage, gas pump toppers, outdoor advertising, interactive kiosks, etc. Scala pioneered the digital signage industry and today drives over 200,000 screens worldwide; more screens than all competitors combined. The company’s digital signage customers include Rabobank, IKEA, Burger King, T-Mobile, Virgin MegaStore, EuroDisney, McDonalds, Warner Brothers, The Life Channel, Rikstoto, FuelCast, Repsol, Shell, NorgesGruppen and thousands more. Advertising management customers include CBS Outdoor, Clear Channel Outdoor, Magic Media, Reagan, Adams Outdoor Advertising, among others. Scala is headquartered near Philadelphia, USA and has subsidiaries in Canada, Netherlands, France, Norway, Japan and also over 450 partners in more than 60 countries. More information is available at www.scala.com.

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SAN LEANDRO, CA–(Marketwire - September 15, 2008) - Opinionmeter International, developer of the award winning customer satisfaction feedback system, has released a major upgrade to their web-based SurveyManager application, enabling customers to include multimedia content within their survey’s questions and responses. The SurveyManager remotely manages a wide-range of web-enabled touch screen survey devices, providing real-time point-of-experience customer feedback.

This enhancement provides clients the option of including video, sound and image content within their survey questionnaire. Additionally, clients can run multimedia presentations and digital signage on their touch screen Opinionmeters during idle time between surveys.

This multimedia enhancement is available with most TouchPoint Opinionmeters, including the TouchPoint kiosk, Tablet and Handheld models.

Opinionmeter’s touch screen survey devices collect real-time point-of-experience survey data, and transmit that data across the Internet to its web-based reporting tool known as the SurveyManager. The SurveyManager automates the entire real-time survey process — formulating the questions, deploying the survey, aggregating the data, and reporting analyzed results.

The Opinionmeter System gathers large amounts of customer feedback instantly from the point-of-experience, analyzes it, and transforms that data into information it delivers to any authorized person anywhere in the world for meaningful actions. The system is quickly implemented, easy, convenient, and economical to use. The result is immediate, providing spontaneous data that is not aged or dated — it is ripe for meaningful business action, or for timely response to a just occurring negative action, such as poor service.

About Opinionmeter

Opinionmeter International is a leading provider of technology-based customer satisfaction market research tools. With a range of interactive survey devices Opinionmeter enables its clients to capture real-time ‘voice of the customer’ satisfaction feedback at the point-of-experience (the moment the customer experiences the product or service). Built on the Windows platform, Opinionmeter can deploy its system onto a wide range of devices (including handheld, tablet and survey kiosk devices), providing maximum flexibility and device independence. More information, including an online SurveyManager web-demo and Guided Product Tour are available at www.opinionmeter.com

MXN Middle East FZ-LLC and Aptec Kiosk Services have announced that AKS will promote MxN’s Octane Media Platform and will use Octane to integrate Digital Signage into its Kiosk solutions.

There are many underutilized opportunities for the integration of Digital Signage and Information kiosks. More and more customers are requesting overhead LCD screens to be integrated into their service kiosks to promote their products or to generate extra revenue. After extensive research, we found that MXN and their product Octane helped us to delivered a superior product to our customers’ says Hazem Adel, from AKS. Aptec will highlight the Octane Media Platform in its state of the art offices opening in Dubai Internet City at the beginning of October.

MxN Middle East will work to help Aptec integrate Digital Signage into their Kiosks and provide support services to Aptec in helping them to establish a Digital Signage arm.
‘We look forward to working with Aptec and building an increased awareness of Digital Signage and Kiosk technology’ says Raad Raad, Managing Director of MxN Middle East.

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RVINE, Calif. — Competisys Corp. and EDR Media LLC announced a strategic alliance for the development and management of a dual-language digital-advertising network. The network will be an integral part of the Competisys MAGA-FundStream Program being installed at grocery stores in collaboration with the Mexican-American Grocers Association.

“Our goal is to provide unsurpassed financial services dedicated to the Spanish-speaking market, with the support of leading advertisers who want to reach that market,” said William Prentice, chairman and chief executive for Competisys. “We selected EDR Media because of its proven expertise and its use of leading digital-content -anagement technologies.”

Under the MAGA-FundStream program Competisys will place Internet-enabled financial-services kiosks and digital-advertising displays at MAGA-affiliated retail locations nationally. The kiosks will provide an array of services to attract additional store traffic, including financial services such as check-cashing, prepaid cash-card dispense, remittance cards and bill-payment services to un-banked customers under the Banco el Mago banner. The kiosks will be equipped with high-resolution video displays for advertising content to be distributed and managed by EDR.

“Our alliance will help Competisys expand and refine the MAGA-FundStream Program at a faster rate,” said Peter Vrettas, EDR Media’s CEO. “We’ll do this by utilizing state-of-the-art content-management software from Scala Inc. that will allow advertisers to design and implement custom advertising programs for the participating MAGA stores.”

Europe is catching up with North America in the adoption of self-service kiosks, according to the latest Summit Research Associates kiosk state-of-the-industry report. Europe, which in the last report two years ago had even fallen behind Asia-Pacific, is now expected to grow its installed base by 53% and challenge the US’s dominance.

Summit Research’s seventh flagship report, ‘Kiosks and Interactive Technology’ examines recent trends and provides projections for the kiosk industry through 2010. The kiosk sector has seen growth across several markets and the number of currently-installed kiosks has exploded from a world total of 734,000 in 2006, to 1,151,574 at the end of 2007.

Usage is up, hardware and software downtime has been significantly reduced, and customer satisfaction is at an all-time high,” the report says. “More than ever before, people are comfortable and confident in using kiosks.