Technology Partners
To create a complete display solution we recognize that there are numerous components that must work together to ensure a successful deployment. The following categories represent many of the key pieces required to create a digital signage system and we have listed some of our partners in each area to help you assemble the right solution.
Commercial Grade LCD Displays
NEC Display Solutions – NEC is a pioneer in developing and delivering advanced display technology and has taken a leadership role in providing total digital signage display solutions. By bringing together strategic partnerships and the broadest portfolio of display technologies on the market, NEC is able to offer a single point of contact, while providing turnkey solutions for a wide range of markets, environments and applications.
Samsung – Imagine sharing your ideas with the world, and having the same power and impact that you originally imagined. Or communicate important information quickly and clearly. Whether you’re trying to reach people in a conference room, a mall or an airport, Samsung professional LCD displays offer exceptional performance. Innovative technology results in unmatched images and text, with networking options for every application. It’s communication in the biggest and best way possible. With Samsung professional LCD displays, it isn’t hard to imagine.
Touch Screen Displays
Horizon Display - specializes in supporting the Interactive Digital Signage Market with large touch screen displays. Horizon Display is ISO certified and has been recognized by both NEC and Samsung as authorized integrators. Horizon provides a host of Solutions-on-Demand while standing on the front line of tomorrow’s cutting edge technology.
Trident Systems – Entering the touch screen industry in 1989, Trident Systems Inc. has successfully encompassed an ever changing market, building our reputation for customer focus by providing the right touch solution for each customer’s application. With tens-of-thousands of touch solutions installed worldwide, our touch solution specialists offer valuable assistance in providing the best touch technology for reliable, worry-free performance. Our pricing and availability makes Trident Systems Inc. a single source provider for all touch screen solutions requirements.
Touch Systems – Competing in today's world market requires cutting-edge technology and reliable partnerships. This partner must share your core values and deliver world class products and service at a cost you can afford. Utilizing displays from leading manufactures, TouchSystems integrates a variety of touch technologies to bring your digital signage display to a whole new interactive level. The possibilities are endless: with the highest quality and value of touch technologies on the market today. These monitors bring interactive life to markets like retail point of sale, entertainment, hospitality, transactional and informational kiosks, industrial, education and transportation.
Media Players
Shuttle – Established in 1990, Shuttle Computer Group Inc. is the American arm of the world renowned Shuttle Inc. Based in Taiwan with an extensive worldwide network of subsidiaries, resellers, partners, and suppliers, Shuttle Inc. is recognized as a premier manufacturer of media players.
A-Open – As the pioneers of MoDT® in 2004, AOpen® remains in the wheelhouse today with its strategic alliances in streamlining vertical market solutions for digital signage. AOpen® provides transformative technologies in uSFF, Mini-ITX and micro (for thin client) media players offering durable service-oriented architectures that optimize wireless peripherals and IP-based signage (SaaS) streaming over secure networks. Ruggedized media players from AOpen® empower HD presentations running 24/7 year-round in extreme environments. Need mission-critical performance? Turn to AOpen®.
The following integrators configure and supply the A-Open digital media player with the Rise Display Network ready out of the box:
Ingram Micro – The Digital Signage Division provides the hardware, software and expertise to enable solution providers to successfully sell, service and support complete, end-to-end digital signage solutions.
Synnex – offers a Total Digital Signage Solution, which can be scalable for any vertical. This premier one-stop program is here to simplify all your signage needs with our pre-configured A-Open media players.
Now Micro – is a nationally recognized system builder with expertise in design, assembly, shipping, and support for PC and Network based digital signage using the A-Open media player.
Sherlock Systems – is a leader in the fast growing world of Digital Signage, and has been since 2001. We offer customized digital signage packages to fit your vision. From the simple countertop display to custom built masterpieces, we can design a solution for anything that you could dream up. We offer turnkey digital signage solutions as well, ready to go out of the box. Our many partners allow us to offer you everything you need along the way…from installation to content creation and management. However big or small the project is we can help make digital signage technology simple for you.
Video Cards / Video Distribution
Cables to Go – Three guys, $3000 in startup capital, and a vision of quickly delivering custom-made cables at a good price. That's how Cables To Go started in 1984 in the back room of a small Dayton Ohio computer store. After 24 years, our popularity keeps growing as we've become a leading manufacturer and distributor of computer cables and connectivity solutions. Our products are available directly to consumers and resellers, and also through key distributors such as Tech Data, Ingram Micro, and Synnex.
Matrox Graphics - Matrox leverages its expertise and over 30-year experience to deliver the highest quality graphics solutions with both hardware and software features tailored to the digital signage market. With innovative solutions that include multi-display graphics cards and new multi-display initiatives like GXMs (Graphics eXpansion Modules) and the Matrox Extio Series of RGUs (Remote Graphics Units), Matrox takes great pride in the fact that all of its products are natively engineered from chip, to board, to driver. Capable of powering 2, 3 or 4 displays from a single graphics solution and backed by a specialized digital signage management team and product support teams worldwide, Matrox continually works with the leading industry partners to offer you the ultimate cost-effective solution to power your digital signage displays.
Minicom Digital Signage - Minicom Digital Signage is the world leader in advanced multimedia distribution and extension platforms for the digital signage marketplace. The digital out of home industry has come to rely on Minicom's low density CAT5-based hardware systems to deliver high resolution, high performance multimedia content. Today over a quarter of a million screens worldwide run using Minicom technology.
Minicom's award winning solutions enable transmitting multimedia content from a media player or video server to multiple digital displays located up to 600m away allowing enormous flexibility in screen layout and design as well as placing media players safely in a backroom simplifying service and maintenance.
Our systems eliminate the need for deploying computing power at the display side, saving on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). They also lower licensing costs by allowing a very high ratio of screens per content source.
Mounts / Enclosures
Insight Digital Signage – Insight Digital Signage is the cutting edge digital signage enclosure company that builds solutions to give a stylized look and provide security to any digital signage application. We believe that style and security should go hand in hand in any deployment of digital signage. We take away the risk of vandalism to LCD screens, and provide assurance that your digital message will reach your target audience without causing any unnecessary downtime. Our units are multi-faceted providing variety to the typical digital signage approach. With our unique solutions, you can take your digital signage content from the mall to the gas pump. We have a wide assortment of specialized options that will expand your digital reach to more consumers, in turn creating more revenue. We provide indoor and outdoor solutions so you can take your message to the streets, yet still providing the reassurance that your digital signage system will be protected. We can also build exactly to your clients needs for any digital signage application. With Insight Digital Signage's experience in the fields of engineering and design, the sky is the limit.
Peerless – Peerless manufactures professional-grade mounting solutions that have helped deploy over 15,000 digital signage networks in retail settings, airports, hotels, schools and supermarkets. Our mounts ensure safety and security while maintaining aesthetics and optimizing the viewing experience. Peerless understands that digital signage applications are unique and may call for a modified or custom mount to meet all required specifications. From a projects inception to its conclusion Peerless' custom project manager is involved every step of the way. With fast prototyping, on-time delivery and 'in-the-field' experience, Peerless' custom department has what it takes to help make your messaging really come to life.
Ergotron, Inc - Founded in 1982 by VESA FDMI standard author and visionary Harry Sweere, Ergotron has been improving the human interface with digital displays for over 25 years. Our history of innovation and passion for differentiation is evidenced in over 35 patents and our growing portfolio of beautifully designed mounting and mobility products for computer monitors, notebooks, and large flat panel displays and TVs that are as easy to use as they are to mount. Ergotron’s mounting solutions includes wall and desk mount arms, desk stands, carts and vertical lifts. High-quality products offered at an exceptional value are the hallmark of Ergotron.
Installation
USSI – USSI provides field maintenance and system integration for multiple technology markets including commercial communication systems, government weather & consumer sites, digital media and broadcast host locations. Coverage is what else sets us apart. With over 300 service locations throughout the continental U.S., others in Canada, Mexico, U.K. & the Caribbean Islands, we are positioned to handle your national and global requirements.
Research
MultiMedia – MultiMedia Intelligence provides a comprehensive set of marketing & business development services to its customers. Multimedia Intelligence is unique because it looks at the ecosystem not just the technology, product, company or market, it looks at the entire food-chain and how each component impacts the business. We are able to do this because of our strategic relationship with Experian. MultiMedia Intelligence combines supply-side and technology industry expertise, market sizing and forecasting models and databases with primary, survey based, in-depth data on consumer behavior, psychographics, lifestyles, opinions and attitudes. The result is industry-first market segmentation, insights and forecasts based on combined supply-side and demand-side views of the markets, mapping end-consumer demand, behavior and purchases back through the entire value chain.
