AOpen OpenService - Solving Digital Signage hassles

Nov. 7, 2011 - PRLog -- OpenService, an alliance of hardware, software and content creation partners, is seeking to tackle the challenges and hassles of digital signage deployments. Most small and medium sized businesses that are deploying digital signage these days do not really know what they are getting into beyond the obvious capital expenditure of buying a display, a media player and a software package. Many deployments of digital signage solutions often revert to displays being used to show the weather channel or a news channel, without any brand messaging or digital signage-specific content. After a while the business that spent a ton of money on their digital signage deployments just gave up on trying keeping fresh, relevant content playing on the displays.

"Basically what we're trying to do is take that pain away from the customer," said Vernon Slack, Director of Business Development for AOpen America. "The reality is that most people don't really understand what they have to deal with to get a digital signage solution in place and keep it maintained and running. What we're saying is we'll outsource that for you, we'll do it for you."

"The bigger issues for people installing digital signage have nothing to do with the capital expenditure," said Slack. "Eighty percent of the total costs of ownership on those devices really are the operational costs, which are maintaining the system and the content creation."

Now end-users can think of digital signage like they would a new smart phone. They can just pay a monthly fee and use it, without worrying about how it works. Instead of shopping around for all the components necessary for a comprehensive and full-spectrum digital signage solution and new digital signage, end-users can go to one provider and get everything in one place.

Our End-to-End services include:

Remote Management: Utilizing the latest technologies, hardware diagnostics and maintenance can now be done remotely, eliminating the need for most on site visits.

Content Creation Services: These services take the hassles out of having to create fresh, creative, and up to date content on digital deployments.

Consulting Services: Consultants will help customers come up with a long-term strategy built around their digital signage deployment.

Anonymous Video Analytics: This service is Using Intel's AIM (Audience Impression Metrics) Suite for anonymous video analytics.

Mobile and Social Engagement: The service will push their digital signage brand message out to mobile and social networks.

Analytics provides a powerful tool for advanced and real time feedback of digital signage campaigns, improving overall business efficiency. This allows the overall OpenService platform the ability to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership for digital signage deployments by up to 25 percent, through savings in labor, operations, maintenance, and content services. If you would like a demonstration of these tools and services, OpenService will be demonstrating at CETW on November 9th to the 10th in Booth #313 and at the Sprint Open Solution Conference from November 2nd to the 5th in the M2M demo room. If you would like to schedule a demonstration or obtain more information, please contact: sales@open-service.org

About OpenService:
Founded and built upon an alliance of hardware, software, and content creation partners, OpenService seeks to tackle the challenges of traditional digital signage deployments with the expertise and experience necessary to bring a total solution to any digital signage deployment and ensure it is done right. By offering an End-to-End total solution, OpenService takes the hassles of purchasing solutions, maintaining hardware, and creating new relevant content and puts it all in the hands of professionals.
Please visit us at www.open-service.org

About AOpen:
AOpen Inc., founded in 1996, is headquartered in Taiwan with offices in America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. AOpen has more than 10 years of IT hardware manufacturing experience along with keen insights into IT industry trends that help drive the growth of AOpen. As the leading manufacturer of digital signage hardware solutions world-wide, AOpen keeps expanding its products and services for digital signage and other vertical application markets. With in-depth market knowledge, AOpen can offer advice for complete digital signage platform solutions. AOpen has cultivated a sophisticated ecosystem of premium solution providers to offer its solutions via its value added channel network to the market.

Please visit us at www.aopen.com or usa.aopen.com

For more information please contact:
AOAMarketing@aopen.com

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As the leading manufacturer of digital signage hardware solutions world-wide, AOpen cooperates with its global value added channel network to go to market.

Please visit us at www.aopen.com or usa.aopen.com