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Wincor Nixdorf's Industry-Leading Convenience/Petroleum Software Certified to PCATS Standards.


NAMOS NAMOS National Art Museum of Sport (Indiana University-Perdue University Indianapolis)  Compact Complies with Industry Standards for POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET.

(2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak.

POS - point of sale
 and Back Office Communication and Integration

AUSTIN, Texas -- Wincor Nixdorf Wincor Nixdorf (FWB: WIN) is a corporation that provides retail and retail banking hardware, software, and services. Wincor Nixdorf is engaged primarily in the sale, manufacture, installation and service of self-service transaction systems (such as ATMs), retail banking equipment , one of the world's leading suppliers of IT solutions for the banking and retail industries, today announced that its NAMOS Compact software for petroleum/convenience retailing has achieved the Conformance Validation Certificate by the Petroleum Convenience Alliance for Technology Standards (PCATS PCATS Petroleum Convenience Alliance for Technology Standards
PCATS Maintain Personal Computer-Based Automated Test System
).

The PCATS certification validates that NAMOS Compact complies with specific-use instances for the PCATS-NAXML standards, which were designed to ease integration and communication between point-of-sale (POS) systems and the back office. PCATS was formed in September 2003 to continue developing and maintaining standards work that was initiated under the National Association of Convenience Stores' (NACS NACS National Association of Convenience Stores
NACS National Association of College Stores
NACS North American Catalan Society
NACS North American Catalysis Society
NACS Network Access Control System
NACS National Advisory Committee On Semiconductors
) Technology Standards Project. With 160 retailer and supplier members, the group's membership represents more than 22,000 convenience stores The following is a list of convenience stores organized by geographical location. Stores are grouped by the lowest heading that contains all locales in which the brands have significant presence. .

NAMOS Compact is used by the world's largest petroleum retailers and is also ideal for small-to-midsized C-stores, due to the software's flexibility and scalability. It combines a low Total Cost of Ownership with the agility to quickly adapt to new applications, brands and strategies. NAMOS Compact's multi-layer architecture enables petroleum and convenience retailers to integrate all functions of the POS, back-office and pump system control. Its open interface architecture allows additional products or existing back office and/or head office solutions to be seamlessly connected, including outdoor payment and car wash terminals.

"As one of the world's leading suppliers of retail technology solutions, Wincor Nixdorf is deeply committed to international and U.S. industry standards," said Doug Evans Doug Evans is the name of:
  • Doug Evans (football player), retired professional American football player
  • Doug Evans (ice hockey), retired professional Canadian ice hockey player
, vice president of retail, Wincor Nixdorf USA. "PCATS certification increases Wincor Nixdorf's market momentum in convenience and petroleum retailing, and it will give our customers confidence that NAMOS Compact complies with this vital industry standard."

"We have been working closely with Wincor Nixdorf on certification of the NAMOS Compact POS software, and we appreciate their support and leadership in PCATS," said John Hervey, executive director, Petroleum Convenience Alliance for Technology Standards. "As technology increases in complexity and 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.
, PCATS certification is the key to ensuring successful implementations for POS and back-office applications."

About the Petroleum Convenience Alliance for Technology Standards (PCATS):

The Petroleum Convenience Alliance for Technology Standards (PCATS) was founded in September 2003 to continue the development and maintenance for standards work initiated under the National Association of Convenience Stores' (NACS) Technology Standards project. With 170 retailer and supplier members, the group's membership represents more than 22,000 convenience stores. Membership is open to any petroleum marketer, convenience store owner/operator, other retail channels, or any of their suppliers or vendors. For additional information regarding PCATS, please visit www.pcats.org.

About Wincor Nixdorf

Wincor Nixdorf is one of the world's leading suppliers of IT solutions to the retail and banking industries. The company's extensive portfolio, consisting of hardware products, software, consulting, maintenance and other services, is aimed at reducing the cost and complexity of business processes while improving customer service. Wincor Nixdorf is the world's third largest supplier of POS systems and automated teller machines automated teller machine (ATM), device used by bank customers to process account transactions. Typically, a user inserts into the ATM a special plastic card that is encoded with information on a magnetic strip.  and the number one supplier of POS systems in Europe (source: Clarendon Report, April 2005). With over 7,500 employees and net sales Net Sales

The amount a seller receives from the buyer after costs associated with the sale are deducted.

Notes:
This amount is calculated by subtracting the following items from gross sales: merchandise returned for credit, allowances for damaged or missing goods, freight
 of e1/41,744 million last fiscal year, Wincor Nixdorf operates in over 90 countries with manufacturing plants in Germany, China and Singapore. Worldwide headquarters are in Paderborn, Germany and North American North American

named after North America.


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 headquarters are in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.wincor-nixdorf.com/usa.
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