California Universities Team Up With InfoGenesis; CSUN Caps a String of Recent Wins for InfoGenesis in the Education Marketplace.SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an (CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge ) recently selected Revelation point-of-sale (POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale ) from InfoGenesis to manage foodservice sales throughout the university. This selection caps a string of recent wins for InfoGenesis in the California education market including Stanford University; California State University, Fullerton California State University, Fullerton, commonly known as CSUF, CSU Fullerton, or Cal State Fullerton, is a part of the California State University system. The University is located in the city of Fullerton, California, in northern Orange County. ; University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of ten campuses of the University of California system. ; University of California, Santa Barbara History The predecessor to UCSB, Santa Barbara State College, focused on teacher training, industrial arts, home economics, and foreign languages. Intense lobbying by an interest group in the City of Santa Barbara led by Thomas Storke and Pearl Chase persuaded the State ; and Santa Barbara City College As of 2004, total enrollment of full-time and part-time students reached 17,000. It is currently led by President John Romo, who will be retiring at the end of Spring 2008 after seven years with the institution. . "We selected Revelation because it is such a flexible solution, and it fits our specific needs," said Dave Nirenberg, Director of Commercial Services for CSUN. "InfoGenesis interfaces easily with numerous one-card systems, a feature we are we are planning to implement, providing the flexibility and functionality we need to grow into the future." Revelation provides managers real-time access to their entire system for monitoring POS terminal status, reviewing sales, labor and food cost figures, and managing configuration settings. The flexible solution lets university food & beverage managers track systems at a store, division, or enterprise level from anywhere in the world over any Internet connection. "Revelation is a great fit for the university environment," said Kipp Dougherty, Director of Dining Services for University of California, Riverside. "The product has the features we require to manage all profit centers on campus, and InfoGenesis interfaces directly to our Blackboard software giving us a complete technology solution." Microsoft-based Revelation posts each POS transaction in real-time to the central database, making instantaneous views of business performance available for the entire operation. Electronic gift card and other cashless account programs work without interruption from one cafeteria location to the next. This extraordinary technology offers student meal plan options, employee payroll deduction, and departmental charging privileges throughout the campus. Revelation interfaces to the Diebold Card System and Blackboard, allowing each university to customize a campus card program for purchases and identification and security access. Students and faculty can now purchase meals and other items anywhere on campus with one card. Both interfaces help increase sales at university cafeterias and retail stores, enhance information management and improve service to students. Based in Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara is a city in California, United States. It is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 92,325. , InfoGenesis is a leading developer of enterprise information solutions for the hospitality and food service industries built on advanced Microsoft technology and making use of IBM SurePOS point-of-sale hardware. For more information visit www.infogenesis.com. |
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