Comments on: Our Top 10 Digital Signage Vendors Part 2

By: Gary Hiramoto

Gary Hiramoto — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:26:02 +0000

Your list of top digital signage providers does not include inLighten. Inlighten was founded in 1990. Today the company services over 1,000 financial institutions across the united states in thousands of locations. The company authors software for both desktop and web publishing of multimedia content. Producers hardware from single video outputs to fully integrated videowall solutions. In addition, the company provides complete content support, inlcuding live news, music, creative installation, etc. Your list is not valid without inLighten. InLighten is a private company with over nearly 100 employees, offering the most extensive and complete digital signage solutions. While companies like Scala produce software, they rely on third parties for field sales and support. Do not provide turn-key content or specialized creative and content developement support. Cisco while a large company has very little direct digital signage product. Their solution is geared around selling customers on spending significant monies on replacing out of date network solutions as their digital sgnage product is not a narrowcasting solution and is not practical for most real-world installations without serious bandwidth improvements worth many times more than the digital signage solution. These two and some of the other companies are good companies. However, inLighten provides the complete solution from software, hardware, content, consulting, installtion and service. inLighten is not the cheapest provider, but they just may be the best. Get to know them. http://www.inLighten.net

By: Isabel Gysels

Isabel Gysels — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:14:34 +0000

dZine is a key player in digital signage with an installed base of over 100.000 players worldwide. We deliver total solutions to our customers, not based on Windows. We are a devoted innovative company founded on a strong dedicated team of engineers. With its track record of over 15 years, dZine is rapidly expanding worldwide.
Why are some companies, only working on Windows PC based platforms mentioned in the list, while this was one of the criteria to be excluded from the list?
Maybe an updated list would be a good idea?
I would be happy to talk to you.

By: mark fleisher

mark fleisher — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:29:11 +0000

My company operates four ad supported networks including one in a large regional supermarket chain. We almost went with Broadsign because we agree that their software worked well. Also the SAAS solution made a lot of sense from a financial view point. However, the big stumbling block was Broadsign’s contract.

After shopping for software for two years and studying the various choices we never saw a contract so slanted against the customer. The biggest problem was the ownership of content. Broadsign’s contract said they would have the right to use all content we place on their servers. As a SAAS system that meant all of our content would become the property of Broadsign.

I am sure the bigger players were not presented with this kind of contract. But if they were, I am sure that stipulation was deleted. As a result, we were turned off by the Saas concept.

By: tim

tim — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:23:05 +0000

Hi,
i wonder why you did not mention the 42mediagroup…they are the by far biggest Player in Germany! They run the biggest Networks over here (Postbank, getTV, medimax, etc.)! I could imagine that they soon will spread out all over Europe…for now they seem to be focused on the german market, but this could change anytime soon!

In my opinion they need to be on your list!

By: Erez Turin

Erez Turin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:14:39 +0000

Hey Adrian — Isn’t it time to update the content of the list? According to your site YCD has made some major strides lately.

By: Clinton Gallagher

Clinton Gallagher — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:15:08 +0000

Hey, hey, hey let’s just hold on a minute. I got one in my basement I’m working on. How come I don’t count?

By: Phil Austin

Phil Austin — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:53:38 +0000

I have left a response on this. see http://www.dailydooh.com/archives/1268

By: Ahmed ElRidi

Ahmed ElRidi — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:54:25 +0000

Well, I am amazed of the positioning that you have above, specially when you are ranking companies based on the technology, not the proven track record of the installations.

We work with SCALA as a client in the GCC and believe me we have 1000+ players running in the field in more than 40 networks with 7 Banks (3 of them are nation wide) and we ca prove it if you need further info.

By: ES

ES — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:08:47 +0000

Its great that you reviewed the services on the other side of the water. We have reviewed two of the services in your top 10 list but were wondering, is there a plan to review US based services that have just as much presence.

By: Derek Kuziw

Derek Kuziw — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:49:18 +0000

More than a little surprised that you haven’t got Net Display Systems http://www.NDS-NL.com in your list. They are successful,profitable, long established with incredible functionality in their PADS 3.1 Applications. Sold in over 65 countries, they have an impressive base of end users from Coca Cola, Rolex to Marriott, Toyota and Porsche. And we should know as we have been successfully distributing their products in The UK for almost 2.5 years to our 2000 dealers under the A+K PADS brand name. Derek Kuziw – Managing Director Anders+Kern