We’re hiring : Business Development Manager UK required
Due to the expansion of our UK business, we are looking for a dynamic and self-motivated person to join the sales team of one of the world’s premier software providers in the Digital Signage industry. We develop a multi-award winning web based platform that enables users to remotely manage rich media content for playback onto screens located anywhere in the world.
The ideal candidate will have a track record in new business development and be able to demonstrate experience of presenting and selling to senior executives.
We are looking for a business professional with an outgoing personality and a a broad skill set to include a good understand of IT hardware/software, business operations, marketing and sales experience.
The role will be challenging and varied to offer a rich variety of responsibilities that will include:
- Travel to reseller and customer offices throughout the UK and occasionally overseas to develop relationships and generate new business.
- Support existing signagelive distributors and resellers with product demonstrations and pre-sales activities.
- Attend trade shows and industry related events.
- Respond to inbound live chat, email and telephone sales enquiries.
- Provide web demonstrations to customers looking to purchase signagelive.
- Recommend hardware and services that compliment signagelive for reseller and customer projects.
- Respond to tender requests.
- Work closely with hardware vendors to maintain a firm understanding of new and emerging technologies to help keep signagelive ahead of the competition.
If you have a proven track record and want join our team, send your CV and supporting email telling us why you are perfect for the position to jason@signagelive.com.
No agencies please.
IAdea launch new range of SMIL devices for signagelive
IAdea the SMIL open standard device manufacture has updated their website with a brand new range of SMIL digital signage players. All IAdea SMIL players are 100% compatible with the signagelive virtual player and fully integrated with our platform from free 30 day trial to managing 1,000′s of devices.
The new auto-update of playlists in next week’s new release to signagelive, enables a single change to the media content in a playlist to be dynamically updated on every player scheduled with the same playlist.
Digital Signage Hardware – Beware of cheap imitations
When considering a PC to run your digital signage software it is tempting to choose the cheapest consumer PC you can find and assume it will provide the commercial performance and reliability you expect from your digital signage solution.
Unfortunately, just because you choose a cheap PC running Windows it does not make it an optimised digital signage player. A standard windows PC has been manufactured using consumer grade components that are not built for unattended 24/7 use over many years. In addition, consumer PC’s come will a full Windows operating system that includes thousands of software components that are not required for running digital signage and which effect the stability and performance of your player.
Fortunately, there are companies such as our hardware partners Advantech who manufacture and support Industrial grade PC technology specifically designed for digital signage. Advantech PC technology has been optimised for long term unattended use and in many cases for use in hostile environments with dust and very low and very high temperature ranges. Each PC has been developed and tested over a two year period before release and comes with a long term life cycle ensuring availability of the same product for several years after the product lunch.
A great example of an optimised digital signage player is the Advantech ARK-DS303 (shown above) which offers a rugged, fanless PC purpose built for digital signage and shipped preloaded with signagelive Display Edition onboard and a Windows Embedded operating system with only the components needed to run signagelive ensuring optimal performance and maximum uptime.
The Advantech ARK-DS303 preloaded with signagelive is available globally through Advantech and signagelive distributors and partners. See the table below for a comparison of a consumer PC against an Advantech Industrial PC built for use in digital signage projects.
Advantech Consumer Digital Signage vs Industrial Digital Signage
Whatever PC product you choose to run your digital signage software, make sure you choose based on quality, reliability and overall cost of ownership and not just on the cheapest price you can find online.
Come and see signagelive at the CETW Show in New York
signagelive will be exhibiting at the CETW Show in New York City’s Javits Convention Center on 10th and 11th November 2010, booth 240. Visit www.kioskcom.com to register for tickets.
On show we will be demonstrating the new signagelive synchronisation capabilities which has been developed to work with an unlimited number of signagelive players enabling stunning installations to be created for Digital Out of Home and Iconic locations. See a sneaky peak video of the synchronisation in action here.
Advantech will be supporting signagelive where visitors will be able to take a closer look at the impressive range of dedicated digital signage players including the impressive ARK-DS303. signagelive has been enhanced to make use of the ARK-DS303’s Broadcomm “Crystal HD” High Definition hardware decoder supporting 1080p HD video content and enabling the ARK-DS303 to run at 10%! processor load for maximum uptime and stability.
We look forward to seeing you in the Big Apple!
Video : signagelive adds feature to control unlimited synchronised players
This video shows a sneak peak of the new synchronised player capabilities of signagelive. In this clip, four separate PC’s (2 x Windows XP, 1 x Windows 7 Ultimate and 1 x Windows Vista) are working together to playback time-synchronised media developed by Alex Hughes and the team at www.iamigo.co.uk for us to test.
The solution has been developed to work with an unlimited number of signagelive players enabling stunning installations to be created for Digital Out of Home and Iconic locations.
signagelive enables remote configuration of any signagelive display device as a master with associated slaves, so the configuration of players and screens can be changed as required on a per campaign basis.
Watch out for future videos showing the new signagelive synchronised player feature running in public locations across the world!
