nTAKE – A complete digital board solution from AOPEN

Business owners looking for a way to cut costs and streamline what may seem like tedious operations, ought to consider a complete digital menu board solution like AOPEN’s nTAKE. Static menu boards most often turn out to be a costly affair with repeated printing, delivering and installing. That costs time and money. However, nTAKE helps eliminate all the costs associated with static displays. The solution is designed to connect up to four HD displays to one media player and control content from a single location.

A range of solutions to suit every level of business

nTAKE is an ideal digital menu board solution whether you own a deli, quick service restaurant or grocery store. To help you create engaging content and enhance customer experience, it comes a powerful content management system and other features to fit any level of business. Owners and managers have the perfect tool to promote the right products at the right time. They can keep track of what’s selling by simply connecting to their POS system.

nTAKE Value

nTAKE Pro

Owners and managers have a choice of nTAKE digital menu board solutions.

nTAKE Value is designed to control in-store communications and supports major media formats. The solution offers users the choice to create content with prebuilt templates or design their own layout.

If you are looking for a heavy duty solution, nTAKE Pro has all the features needed to support any restaurant or deli owner needs.

From support for up to 4 screen in major media formats to design templates and remote management of up to 30 media players, nTAKE Pro can help take customer satisfaction and business growth to a whole new level.

There’s more To Digital Menu Boards than Items and Prices

Digital signage has soon become a standard feature at restaurants and quick service outlets. The numerous benefits include cost savings and the opportunity to up-sell and influence a customer’s buying decision. This has driven just about everyone from Mom & Pop QSRs to national chains to consider upgrading to digital menu boards.

Enhance customer experience

Digital menu boards makes it a whole lot easier to alter prices, add new items, remove sold out items, and entice customers with special offers and promotions. All this can be done centrally so that multiple stores can receive simultaneous updates. However, there is much more to digital menu boards, more than just menu items and prices. They are interactive tools that help you communicate directly with customers. After all, all that technology and investment must translate into revenue. This is what digital menu boards can help you achieve through enhancing customer experience. It’s about creating compelling digital content that allows you to up-sell and cross sell to customers.

Enjoy a great ROI

Digital menu boards offer the flexibility to change menus based on the time of day or week. Most importantly, they allow menu changes to accommodate local, state, federal & international menu board regulations and comply with new caloric laws by easily displaying the necessary information next to each item on the menu. So if you are looking to provide a better experience for your customers and take full control over delivering engaging and useful information to them, think digital menu boards. They are the perfect way to customer satisfaction and sales.

AOPEN Retail Evolution Lab - Where we Work Wonders in Digital Design

An increasingly digitally connected world makes it easier for every business, marketers, retailers, and store designers to leverage digital design technology to gain a competitive edge. This is what AOPEN, a major electronics manufacturer that specializes in ultra-form factor computing has helped many global businesses achieve.

AOPEN has years of experience in tailoring business solutions and an intuitive understanding of the needs of vertical industries. AOPEN's Retail Evolution Lab is the perfect blend of experience and inventive design, and for those industries looking for custom made digital media solutions this is the place to be!

Retail Evolution Lab

Blending Innovation with Action

The consumer today demands an innovative and dynamic commercial experience. This can only be achieved through a marketing strategy that effectively uses all digital media channels to allow free flowing communication between the consumer and the company.

The Retail Evolution Lab at AOPEN works closely with brands and retailers to help them achieve a new level of audience interaction. Digital marketing platforms play a vital role in solving marketing and sales problems, and AOPEN uses inspiring and innovative digital deployments to create a never-before visual experience.

Interested? Visit us to know more

The scope of digital media is endless, and it can be daunting to find solutions on your own. Visit AOPEN Retail Evolution Lab at San Jose, and let our experts help you carve winning strategies for your brand.

From the latest in touch-screen technology to the 'What's New' in in-store branding and communications, we know the pulse of the market like no one else. Make a reservation now, and come tour our facilities to know more.

A Look at AOPENs Digital Signage Technology for Retailers

Digital marketing is now being pursued by most businesses, as it offers a great deal of efficiency and outreach to targeted customers. Many digital marketing strategies are much more cost friendly compared to traditional strategies, and hence it could easily be considered by businesses of all sizes. Digital signage is one such marketing strategy that is being used today. With the help of smart devices, it is possible to not just display your marketing message, but also offer a great deal of functionality to your customers.

AOPEN is a provider of digital signage solutions, both hardware and software. Open Sign is an interactive digital marketing and signage platform that has been designed to be used by retailers. Managing a digital signage network can be a costly and time consuming affair, when you don’t have the assistance of a well-designed platform. Open Sign by AOPEN lets you manage the content easily even without any design experience. It is an integrated platform that allows store managers to publish content to many touch-screen devices, and also offer real-time promotions and offers.

The Open Sign range of solutions addresses the needs of the retailers in particular. There is customer facing interactive display units that could be positioned at the POS. This could be used to capture the imagination of the customer while providing them with a way to find out what you have to offer. There also are in-store personal shopper solutions that can assist a customer to make the best choice for their needs.

Visit: http://www.aopen.com/us/retailers to find about the other great solutions put together for retailers.

AOPEN nTAKE and Digital Menu Board Solutions

With the tremendous growth in digital technologies, we now have great solutions to address so many of our needs. Cafes, restaurants, and groceries can now make use of digital menu boards as an alternative to the tedious process of managing static menu boards. Static menus are not just something that requires effort to manage, but they also involve considerable printing expenses. This could be addressed by a digital menu board whose content could easily be updated without much effort or expenditure.

A few years ago, installing and operating digital menu boards were not such an easy task as there were not really many good solutions providers. AOPEN, a digital display specialist, now offers both hardware and software solutions to help with your digital menu board requirements. nTAKE is a complete solution that lets you connect up to four HD displays on a media player. It comes with a very powerful content management system, which lets you take control over what your customers see. You could even use nTAKE to synchronize and update your menu boards across multiple locations. This is perfect for a chain of restaurants or retail stores as all the digital menu boards could be managed from one central location.

Digital Menu Board Solution

nTAKE can manage digital menu board systems of any size. It comes with pre-installed software that lets you work with the content. Managers can make extensive use of nTAKE to take a control over their digital menu boards. They could easily integrate their marketing message with this setup.

Technology Driven Digital Signage

Digital Signage uses a number of electronic displays like LCD, plasma, LED, 3D projection, water and fog screens and holographic displays. With the availability of new technology, digital signage are becoming more attractive to look at, thereby drawing the attention of people. The technology behind the signboards is simple. It is connected by three devices- the host server, digital media player and the electronic signage. When an audio or video message has to be displayed, then these three need to be connected. The signage and player is connected via audio-video wiring and the digital media player and content server is connected via Ethernet or Wi-Fi. And using this, the content is passed from the server to the digital media player and played on the signage.

For the content, software like content management systems and digital media distribution systems is used to transfer the desired content from the server or hosting device to the hardware, which is the signage. This content which is displayed on the hardware, is stored, managed and organized in the content management software. Content can also be directly displayed from the internet, provided it is connected to the server via Ethernet or Wi-Fi. It is vital for the display to always update his information so that people are not misguided or confused by the outdated information. Information is changed manually, as and when required.

Also scheduling solutions can be used, where the message automatically changes as per a preset schedule. If a particular server connects to a number of digital boards placed in different places, then the same information can be displayed on all the connected sign boards.

The World of Digital Retailing

Advertisement is one of the most important factors that increases the sales and profits of a company. Any form of advertisement is good, be it word-of-mouth, TV ads, mobile, online, radio ads, billboard, signage or coffee cup placements. They do the one most important thing- it communicates a message. 

Having a digital signage is a form of investment and advertisement. If it allows a business to add in a few more customers, then it is worth it. Hence sign boards or digital signage can be seen placed in vital areas all around you. And each of them competes with the other in order to attract the viewers. Similarly, retailing too has now moved to an all new level. A decade back, nobody knew much about the internet and what it could do. But today, there is hardly anything that cannot be done via the internet including retailing, which is also known as, Digital retailing. Digital media like internet and mobile apps are used to compare price and products and buy and sell goods. Even when visiting a retail outlet, if you do not have time to go inside the store to check out its contents, you can take a look at the digital display mounted on the wall outside the store. It contains all the details pertaining to the products, price, specifications, etc. And if you are interested in what you see, then you can go inside. Digital display is the new age window shopping.