FNAC USES NAVORI TO DRIVE CORPORATE AND RETAIL STORE COMMUNICATIONS

Lausanne, December 5, 2011 – FNAC is an international entertainment retail chain offering cultural and electronic products, founded by André Essel and Max Théret in 1954. It is one of the largest retailer of its kind in Europe.

The company has recently deployed a digital signage network in their corporate offices and in retail locations across Switzerland. This 100+ screen network is powered by the Navori digital signage software platform . FNAC uses the system to display corporate messages, advertising content and real-time data feeds.

FNAC’s Antonio Solazzo comments on the installation: “We have found the Navori software platform to be very flexible and extremely stable. The fact the software can accept almost any media format and offers detailed content playback statistics has been very important to us.

We especially like the Web console that lets several people manage our screens from any location. Navori’s IT staff have also been very responsive to our requests and suggestions for product enhancements.

Therefore we expect this tool will continue to meet our future communications needs”.

Western Carolina University selects Navori for campus signage project.

Western Carolina University selects Navori for campus signage project.

Western Carolina University has selected Navori to be their digital signage platform of choice. The university plans to deploy the software in many departments across campus over the new year.

Navori Launches German version of Navori.com

Navori Digital Signage Software Company launches there german version of website.
http://www.navori.com/de

Megapantallas De Mexico Lleva Sus Pantallas De Leds Al Mayor Nivel De Eficiencia Con Navori

MDM (Megapantallas de México SA de CV) fue la primera compañía en México en ofrecer pantallas de ED móviles montadas en camiones en modalidad de alquiler, así como el diseño y fabricación de las nidades es de la más alta calidad disponibles en el país.



Cada una de sus unidades de alquiler está equipada con una pantalla LED de alto brillo (sunlight readable) de 3 por 5 metros que se eleva hasta 8 metros de la tierra y capaz de girar 360 grados. Cada unidad cuenta con un estudio con capacidad de pre y post producción, un switcher digital de ideo para 8 cámaras en vivo, 4 reproductores de vídeo digital, un servidor de contenido digital, un mezclador de audio digital y un sistema de sonido profesional de 12.000 watts. Todo el equipo s alimentado por un generador de 50KVA turbo diesel montado en cada unidad. Estas pantallas óviles de LEDs se utilizan en todo tipo de eventos como conciertos, eventos deportivos, resentaciones de alfombra roja, campañas políticas y la comercialización de todo tipo de productos y servicios en todo el país.

En el último año, MDM ha integrado los reproductores de contenidos de NAVORI a sus unidades óviles, así como la gestión de sus contenidos a través de NAVORI Server. La solución de software rofesional suizo no sólo permite simplificar el manejo, actualización y programación de ontenidos, sino que también permite integrar los contenidos en vivo elaborados en el camión para ofrecer una
programación de mayor calidad y variedad de contenido incluyendo fuentes externas que se pueden actualizar en tiempo real. Esto incluye videos y noticias RSS, deportes y clima, entre otros contenidos.


“…La confiabilidad y simplicidad de NAVORI Player, junto al elaborado equipamiento de las unidades móviles con pantallas de LEDs de MDM, han demostrado ser una combinación ganadora, lo que implifica la gestión de contenidos y su actualización en tiempo real de nuestras unidades vía remota. Si bien MEGAPANTALLAS tiene su central en Monterrey, el servicio se brinda clientes en todo México, desde Cancún hasta Tijuana, lo que eleva el nivel de complejidad de nuestro negocio. Nuestros clientes son muy exigentes y no podemos darnos el lujo de fallarles. Requerimos un sistema de reproducción de contenidos de alta calidad, versátil, confiable, robusto y fácil de gestionar. El sistema suizo NAVORI ha cumplido ampliamente con todas nuestras expectativas y ecesidades…” declaró Gerardo Ylizaliturri, CEO de MDM

Además de la renta de equipos móviles de LEDs y de producción, MDM es proveedor de soluciones integradas para señalización digital y también ofrece el servicio de gestión de contenido total o parcial de sus clientes a través de su propia red auto-gestionada de cartelería digital. Las oluciones ofrecidas van desde sistemas de un player hasta una red de cientos de pantallas full HD con alcance a nivel nacional.

Para más información, visit:
http://www.megapantallas.com
o envíe un email a info@megapantallas.com

NAVORI UNA SOLUCIÓN PARA CADA NECESIDAD DE CARTELERÍA DIGITAL

NAVORI es líder mundial en soluciones de software profesional para cartelería digital. Nuestra suite se adapta a cualquier segmento de aplicación, tamaño y presupuesto de proyecto.

NAVORI es la elección correcta para su próximo proyecto de señalización digital.

PORQUÉ NAVORI

• RENTABILIDAD: El mejor retorno de inversión del mercado (ROI). Reduce el CAPEX en un 30% y el PEX en un 50%

• CALIDAD Y PRECISION: Diseño eficiente al servicio de una performance extraordinaria. ransiciones perfectas, soporte Full HD, calidad broadcasting

• SIMPLICIDAD DE GESTION: Interfaz multiusuario, intuitiva de gestión y gran simplicidad para el despliegue y monitoreo de los players.

• PRODUTIVIDAD: Soporta todos los formatos profesionales del mercado y cuenta con herramientas de creación deplantillas y tickers de noticias, ofreciendo funcionalidades sofisticadas sin necesidad de programación de código.

• ACCESIBILIDAD: Gestión Multiusuario, Multi OS, sin límites geográficos


EXPERIENCIA EN LA QUE SE PUEDE CONFIAR

• 75,000 Players mundialmente en uso

• 14 años vida en el mercado con una filosofía de de mejora continua de producto

• Cobertura en 90 países

• Red de Distribuidores Certificados en 65 países

• Software disponible en múltiples idiomas

SOMOS UNA EMPRESA SERIA, PROFESIONAL y GLOBAL

Alcance global, con casa matriz en Suiza y subsidiarias en Norteamérica, Latinoamérica y Australia. El 90% de nuestras ganancias viene de exportaciones a 90 países.

Llevamos a cabo nuestras operaciones en forma racional y eficiente, y contamos con una solidez financiera basada en una política de crecimiento sostenido: 40% crecimiento anual promedio en los últimos 10 años.

Somos reconocidos en el mercado como líderes por calidad y sofisticación en nuestras soluciones

MERCADOS CLAVE

1. PUNTO DE VENTA
2. COMUNICACIONES CORPORATIVAS
3. RESTAURANTES / QUICK SERVICE (menu-boards)
4. HOSPITADAD Y ENTRETENIMIENTO
5. GOBIERNO Y DEPENDENCIAS PÚBLCAS
6. EDUCACIÓN
7. TRANSPORTE
8. HOSPITALES , CLÍNICAS Y CONSULTORIOS MÉDICOS
9. BANCOS Y CENTROS FINANCIEROS
10. CASINOS Y LOTERIAS
11. CINES Y TEATROS
12. OPERADORES DE TV CABLE


NAVORI SA - World Trade Center, Avenue Gratta Paille 2 CH-1000 Lausanne, Switzerand
Phone: +41 21 641 19 60 Fax: +41 21 641 19 61
NAVORI IBERO AMERICA - Buenos Aires, Argentina -Phone: +54 911 5813 8739

http://www.navori.com

http://www.navori.com/es

Digital Signage - How to turn a $250 PC into high-quality digital signage powerhouse

It is possible for a low-cost PC-based media player to drive high-quality video and motion graphics smoothly to digital signage screens. Read on to find out how this is achievable.

By Jerome Moeri

For many year, hardware costs have been one of the main barriers to entry in the digital signage marketplace, and end-user customers and integrators have steadily been pushing technology providers to deliver a PC-based media player that combines high performance and low cost. But high performance and low cost rarely co-exist.

Getting PC-based media players to drive high-quality video and motion graphics to screens, and have them run smoothly day after day, has always required significant capital investments in faster CPUs, extra RAM and add-on video/graphics cards.

When network operators tried to cut cost corners by using lower cost, consumer-grade PCs meant more for word processing and web surfing, they’ve been disappointed by the results. Video frames dropped. The on-screen graphics stuttered instead of flowing smoothly. Overall, the output just wasn’t good enough to roll out.

Technical and operations people will know that with lower cost PCs, running video and particularly Adobe Flash files sends CPU demands spiking to 80 percent and higher, and can very quickly cripple those computers – forcing hung screens and reboots. Many small form-factor, low-cost units that show up on gadget blogs look like the answer, but on test benches, they’ve quickly shown they are not a viable solution because they don’t have the needed processing power.

As a software developer, my company, Navori, has steadily been made aware by our resellers of the marketplace demand for somehow getting high performance from these low-cost units. On a small deployment, saving $150 a unit is almost inconsequential. But for large projects, $150 savings on a 1,000-unit project works out to $150,000. That’s the sort of number that could make a difference in getting a project approved and launched, or getting it tossed aside.

We recognized that this issue was not going away, so we sat down with our engineering team, and started looking at whether it was possible to generate broadcast-quality video from a $250 PC. Through a lot of difficult, time-consuming and expensive R&D work, we determined it was indeed possible:Our engineering team figured out how to deliver video that’s precise to the 1/30th of a second, at 1080P HD. It can run video, several Flash files, tickers and overlays, and still use less than 15% of a low end PC’s CPU.

We determined that software development actually can get much more out of a CPU and graphics processor than was generally assumed, and that that those low-cost PCs – that are largely written off as great for budgets, but bad for operations – can be used. Without giving away our secret recipe, here’s what we sorted out:

1. The core software application that drives media playback had to be completely redesigned to maximize efficiency. Many software companies either use or adapt open-source media players already on the marketplace, or activate commercial players. We built or re-built our own.

2. We don’t use any third-party playback codecs, relying instead on what’s specifically tuned for our playback engine. That eliminated shortcuts and took much more time and resources, but we were left with a playback engine that’s stable, reliable and fully under our control.

3. We load-balanced between the CPU and graphics chipset, which in lay terms means the two components that affect playback quality are sharing the workload.

There is, of course, a qualifier to using lower cost PCs. Even at the “budget” level of computing devices, there are quality devices and junk. There are still some basic CPU and RAM minimums that must be met. The environment where the PC is located must be considered. For example, any PC (no matter the cost) with a fan in a fast-food environment will likely fail because of all the airborne dust and flour.

Device management is also important no matter the type and cost of a PC, but particularly so with lower-cost units. It’s particularly important to have software that can monitor these PCs, observe and record their performance, and allow problems to get remedied remotely.

With those factors kept in mind, we’re now at a point in digital signage where cost-conscious end-users don’t have to be warned away from budget PCs. With R&D, we now know these PCs have a role and can help activate projects that have been held up by budget restraints.

Jerome Moeri is the founder and chairman of Navori [www.navori.com], a Swiss-based digital signage software company that has customers in 90 countries around the globe.

Digital Signage News - Navori Digital Signage QL Software Selected by Alcatel-Lucent As A Component Of Its Enterprise Multimedia Suite.

Navori's new QL software part of Alcatel-Lucent's Enterprise Multimedia Suite offer for enterprise-level digital signage projects in US

MONTREAL, QUEBEC – Alcatel-Lucent has selected Navori's new QL software as a component of its Enterprise Multimedia Suite (EMS) in order to expand deployments of large-scale Digital Signage projects in the United States.

EMS is a versatile and cost-effective digital media solution, which makes it an ideal candidate to manage all types of enterprise digital media content distribution deployments, such as Digital Signage, Corporate TV, Hospitality TV, Corporate Video Portal and Tele-Assistance.

“Navori needed a vendor that knows how to design a complex multimedia solution. We are working with Alcatel-Lucent, as they have a broad range of expertise and experience and have developed proven methodologies to deliver world-class multimedia services,” says Jerome Moeri, Navori's CEO.

North American operations and support for these projects will be conducted from Navori's offices in Montreal, Canada. “Our 14 years of experience and development in pace with our continuous growth has materialized into a software platform that is extremely stable and reliable yet very scalable,” says Moeri. “Over the last couple of years, we saw our typical sales evolve from small installations on average to mid size and large projects. With this experience, and our product platform, we have an offer which now makes Navori a great choice for such ventures.”

Navori is about to release its next generation development Navori QL. “From Evolution to Revolution, that is our bias now,” adds Moeri. “The new QL platform recombines our technical experience and market analysis into a new product that will offer superior play-out quality and manageability.”

Alcatel-Lucent Multimedia Integration business is the market leader in the design, integration and deployment of IPTV networks and applications. With broad expertise and extensive investments, Alcatel-Lucent has developed proven methodologies to deliver world-class, end-to-end multimedia services that are reliable, scalable and secure with reduced time to market. In total, Alcatel-Lucent provides middleware and solutions that support more than 7 million IPTV subscribers, representing more than 18 percent of all IPTV subscribers worldwide.

The company is also involved in more than 55 triple play service delivery architecture (TPSDA) deployments and more than 60 IPTV transformation and integration projects. Leveraging its IPTV expertise and experience, Alcatel-Lucent launched the EMS solution in 2010, which is engineered to deliver the best of Digital Media across different enterprise market segments, enabling customers to achieve their business objectives, more quickly and efficiently.

ABOUT NAVORI

Navori is a one of the largest, most well-established and successful digital signage software publishers in the world, with more than 75,000 active installations in 90 countries. Navori develops solutions used for all types of screen-based communications, including retail, corporate communications, advertising networks, public space signage, wayfinding and the food/hospitality sector. Headquartered in Switzerland, privately-held Navori also has offices in North America, South America and Australia.

Learn more at http://www.navori.com

http://www.navori.com/data/Alcatel-Lucent-makes-Navori-key-component-in-digital-signage-development.pdf

Contact Information
Jan K. Suetens
Business Development Manager
NAVORI SA International
World Trade Center
Lausanne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 21 641 19 60
j.suetens@navori.com

NAVORI Inc (North-America)
1134 St. Catherine St. West, Suite 410
Montreal, QC, Canada H3B 1H4
American Toll Free Phone: 1 800 720-2751

News Digital Signage - Navori Powers One Of Canada’s Largest Digital Menu-Board Rollouts

Calgary-based E Display using Navori’s precise, powerful and friendly digital signage software to drive sales and improve messaging on menu screens in fast-growing OPA! Souvlaki chain

CALGARY, ALBERTA – Turnkey solutions provider E Display is using Navori’s digital signage software suite to roll out what has quickly become one of Canada’s largest QSR digital menu-board deployments.

Almost 200 screens in the Greek-flavored OPA! Souvlaki fast food chain are now using a digitally-driven menu-board platform to significantly lift sales of promoted items and steadily cycle through the QSR’s menu features and promotions with minimal cost or effort.

Calgary-based E Display Inc. has rolled out to the balance of existing OPA! locations across the country, and digital menu-boards – usually three per site - are part of the standard set-up for the new stores that are being added each month. E Display handles deployment and does all the content management for OPA!

The company started working with the chain in Sept. 2009, and after tests and trials with several Tier 1 software platforms, E Display settled on Navori for the full deployment.

“When we started our search for digital signage software, we ran into products that were not mature enough,” said E Display president Imran Khan. “If they offered most of the features we needed, they ended up being too expensive. The main selling point of Navori was how it offered a comprehensive product at a reasonable cost. We also liked how the Navori team was open to suggestions on enhancements and new features. Instead of resistance, we got enthusiasm.”

The food services firm doesn’t speak specifically about sales impacts, but says his client and site operators have said promotions driven on screens see significant sales lifts. But the menu boards are also used to drive efficiency and lower costs. OPA! changes its promotions as often as three times per month, and converting to digital from analog sign systems has removed all the time, labor and costs of manual changes.

“Now we update their boards across Canada just using Navori Manager,” says Khan.
“E Display is an important client and partner for Navori because they’re demonstrating success in a very hot sector for digital signage – QSRs,” says Jerome Moeri, Chairman of Navori International SA. “This is an area that will see explosive growth in the next two years, and E Display has done an excellent job of demonstrating the power, simplicity and value that Navori presents.”

The OPA! rollout is one of several in Canada for Navori, one of oldest and most successful software companies active in the fast-growing digital signage marketplace. Operating since 1998, Lausanne-based Navori has clients in 90 countries and more than 75,000 active players in the field. Its premise-based software is available in seven languages, and variations of Navori’s platform powers everything from single screens to huge enterprise networks with hundreds or thousands of screens.

The official launch of Navori’s new QL platform – short form for Quantum Leap - was set for Feb. 1-3 at the massive Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show in Amsterdam. QL makes broadcast-quality HD video possible on entry-level PCs, and adds more power, precision and easily-used tools to the platform. Navori will be demonstrating QL and meeting customers, partners and resellers at booth #12E82.

Navori QL’s North American launch took place three weeks later at Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas, Feb. 22-25, with a product demo and meeting area at booth 2028.

ABOUT NAVORI

Navori is a one of the largest, most well-established and successful digital signage software publishers in the world, with more than 75,000 active installations in 90 countries. Navori develops solutions used for all types of screen-based communications, including retail, corporate communications, advertising networks, public space signage, wayfinding and the food/hospitality sector. Headquartered in Switzerland, privately-held Navori also has offices in North America, South America and Australia.

Learn more at www.navori.com

Contact Information
Jan K. Suetens
Business Development Manager
NAVORI SA International
World Trade Center
Lausanne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 21 641 19 60
j.suetens@navori.com

NAVORI Inc (North-America)
1134 St. Catherine St. West, Suite 410
Montreal, QC, Canada H3B 1H4
American Toll Free Phone: 1 800 720-2751

ABOUT E DISPLAY

E display Inc. is a full service provider of Digital Signage solutions in all vertical markets. E Display focuses on finding the right match between technology and affordability for its Clients. Whether the need is for a stand-alone unit or an enterprise-wide network, E Display helps each client intimately every step of the way from initial concept to a successful deployment and beyond. E Display Inc. is based in Calgary, in Canada, and provides services to clients all over North America.

Learn more at www.edisplayinc.com

E Display Inc.
Imran Khan
President
2216 - 27th Ave NE, Suite 206
Calgary, AB, T2E 7A7
Phone: 403 278 1300
imran@edisplayinc.com