AccessVia Deploys a Multilingual Sign Printing Solution for a Major Canadian Communications Retailer; Language option showcases Web dSignShop's international capabilities in 350 stores.SEATTLE -- AccessVia(R), the leading provider of automated sign printing solutions and electronic display technologies for retailers, today announced that it has deployed Web dSignShop(R) to deliver sign and label printing for 350 Bell Canada Bell Canada Enterprises (TSX: BCE, NYSE: BCE), legally BCE Inc., is a major Canadian telecommunications company. Through its subsidiaries including Bell Canada, Bell Aliant, Northwestel, Télébec, and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local exchange carrier for corporate and independent stores. The signage solution allows locations to print data-integrated signs in both English and French, a capability unmatched in the industry and an indicator of AccessVia's international expertise. Web dSignShop allows associates throughout the network of Bell Canada's Bell World stores to print promotional signs and shelf-edge labels using just a Web-connected PC and desktop printers. The Bell World headquarters team controls the sign layouts and item data, ensuring design consistency and sign accuracy across all of its retail locations. Individual stores simply access batches of the centrally designed signs or compose their own signs using easy templates and real-time product data. In the past, associates have used word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and and spreadsheet applications to create the signs that merchandise the stores' products and service plans. Web dSignShop gives Bell World the flexibility to serve different segments of their retailing community as well as different segments of the Canadian public. Corporate-owned stores will access Web dSignShop via the enterprise's intranet, and independently owned stores can use conventional Internet connections to tap into identical functionality. Both types of retailers can print signs in English, in French, or in both languages -- without manual adjustments to the composition of the signs -- allowing the retailer to optimally market its services to a multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual adj. 1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary. 2. customer base. AccessVia CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Dean A. Sleeper Sleeper Stock in which there is little investor interest but that has significant potential to gain in price once its attractions are recognized. Antithesis of high flyer. said, "Retailing demands technology that suits more than one kind of environment, and this deployment really showcases Web dSignShop's versatility. We're enabling on-demand capabilities and enterprise-level sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. , regardless of varying platforms or hardware configurations. And the language choices address an emerging retail reality -- stores have to be ready to cater to the global customer. Web dSignShop delivers options, and that's what it takes to stay competitive." AccessVia Web dSignShop was recognized in both 2002 and 2003 as a Microsoft(R) Retail Application Developer (RAD (1) (Rapid Application Development) Developing systems incrementally and delivering working pieces every three to four months, rather than waiting until the entire project is programmed before implementing it. ) Award winner and has won the 2004 Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. RAD Award. The Microsoft RAD Award highlights the most innovative Microsoft-based software solutions for the retail and supply chain industries. The AccessVia Print solution includes both Web dSignShop and dSIGN(R) to provide clients with accurate and attractive signs, shelf-edge labels, fact tags, coupons, and more. Web dSignShop is designed for retailers who want to use the Internet, an intranet, or an extranet to publish signs using a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. without installing or maintaining in-store software. dSIGN is built for classic client/server implementations and offers advanced product data delivery and unmatched integration with legacy systems. AccessVia also offers a solution for automated electronic displays, including customer-facing POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale displays, self-service terminals, and kiosk applications for price verification, assisted shopping, endless aisle services, and gift registry. AccessVia customers include Bed Bath & Beyond, Kroger, LCBO LCBO Liquor Control Board of Ontario LCBO Logistics Career Broadening Officer (AFMC/USAF) , Petco, Safeway, Staples, SUPERVALU, Target, and Walgreens. About AccessVia With AccessVia solutions, the nation's leading retailers transform the information in their product databases and use it in creative ways to communicate with their customers. AccessVia technologies enable automated consumer messaging, allowing retailers to reach buyers wherever they are. AccessVia systems are built on a flexible architecture that allows retailers to extract data with precision, automate its presentation, and then communicate it artfully to a variety of purchase environments. Fortune 500 companies at over 25,000 stores reach their customers daily with AccessVia solutions. AccessVia -- one solution for print and display. For more information, visit www.AccessVia.com. |
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