Mohawk Industries, the world’s largest flooring supplier, is using UCView’s digital signage software platform to improve workforce communications and maximize uptime and efficiency on plant floors. Based on employee feedback and cost-savings, what started as a test is now being rolled out globally.
Challenge
The global recession hit the commercial and residential building industry hard, and the world’s biggest flooring supplier was not immune to the slowdown in new building and renovation activity. Shrinking demand forced Mohawk Industries to reduce its workforce by roughly 20 percent, and the company saw morale start to slip as staff worried about their futures.
Northridge, CA, January 07, 2012 UCView’s new SignEdge product reduces the technical challenges of putting digital signage in a small business to plugging in a couple of cables and typing a short set of numbers into a web browser.
SignEdge is a simple, highly affordable bundle of a small PC and digital signage software that enables any small business operator to quickly and very easily start communicating with customers and staff using eye-catching, impactful video displays
We’ve taken Google maps to the next level! As long as you have Web access, you can check out where your displays locations anytime from anywhere with our newinteractive Google Map View feature. This powerful tool allows for network owners and location managersto view the locationsof all current digital ads ensuring real-time accuracy. Network and location updates shown on UCView’s innovative new feature enable you to dynamically display your display locations on interactive map and display them on your website with a few simple clicks in just seconds. Simply go to the “Location and Displays” section under your account and click on the new button “Map View” to get started.
Tap into the full power of ucview with content Apps
For the first time, resellers using UCView SaaS - the Software as a Service solution for small and emerging digital signage network - can access many apps that enhance their displays. Digital signage Re sellers like you choose UCView SaaS because you want the versatility and flexibility of the UCView platform without the need to host your own digital signage server or work maintain the environment. In other words, you want the flexibility, simplicity, and confidence provided by UCView in the cloud.
The New UCView SaaS delivers on these key benefits:
Flexibility: UCView Digital Signage Content Store enable you to customize and enhance every area of your display - , integrate with other digital signage content providers, setup organization department and users, schedule and distribute your content securely and more.
Simplicity: The New UCView software enables you to activate many of these digital signage content apps with just a few clicks.
Confidence: “Trusted digital signage content apps” let you know that UCView has reviewed the apps and found that it meets or exceeds specifications for security and performance, and that the content apps comes from a trusted developer who has agreed to provide regular updates and technical support for the extension.
If you notice, our login page has a new option “Beta login” or Portal.ucview.com. This login is a release candidate for UCView version 3.0. We added a lot of exciting features to our new version, so let’s list some of these features here.
Multi Language support. We added many languages starting with Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Hebrew.
Enterprise Level Filter for campaigns, ads display, tags and more. This filter feature allows you to filter displayed results by any value, for example: under campaign you can filter all the campaigns which are playing on a specific tag or a location.
Advanced Playlist view. We have a new and improved playlist page which easily displays what is playing on your screens in any specific moment.
Improve EZBoard Features. We added functionality and ease of use to our EZBoard, like loop animation, Buttons effects for Interactivity and more.
Global View Improvement. Sort and display snapshot of your entire network displays or by specific criteria.
Player OS selection. Chose between players operating system and manage your player easily even if you have mixed players operating system on your network.
Reports: Display your ads impression and export to excel with one click of a button.
Improve Content Store with many more apps and dynamic apps management console.
We have just added a new function to our playlist screen. This filter allows you to filter your playlist by a specific date or date range. The function will dynamically filter your playlist and will display the current ads playlist related to the date and time selected in the filter. So if you would like to see which digital signage content will be playing on your displays on a specific date use this feature. Check it out on our new ver 3 release.
EZ Event is a Dynamic Digital signage content allows you to modify, maintain and present the details of your next big business or personal event any way you want the fun and easy way with the EZevent digital signage content. The dynamic data integration functionality available through the EZevent App interface provides a powerful tool to create and control all of your event list needs from start to finish. Interface functions include design customization such as adjusting color schemes and themes of the overall presentation applicable to any professional organization or great for personal enjoyment. Additionally, each event keeps up-to-date information that will automatically be swapped out, once expired, for other upcoming events and presentations ensuring accuracy in current messaging.
How you can use EZevent as benefit digital signage content The new and innovative approach to event and presentation planning through the EZevent content offers several benefits that could not be achieved through traditional means via phone or emails. This application offers a revolutionary means of keeping all your event data in one secure place with monitor updates in real time allowing an easy and convenient way for everyone to be up to speed and alerted at the same time. The updates made within the event management system are immediately reflected on your digital signs eliminating communication breakdowns across various channels while ensuring a successful means to communicate will all of your event attendees at multiple locations simultaneously.
What is Layered Navigation? Well, it’s what makes drilling down into campaign and ads easier, for example: checking your playlist and showing which content plays where. This will be incredibly quick with UCView. Ver 3. When you login to UCView ver. 3 you can filter campaigns by any name section or ad name. In addition, when confronted with 100s of campaigns and displays containing thousands of ads spread across multiple pages, most users will simply throw in the towel. Give them the option to filter by what they are looking for, whether its ad name, tag, display name, location or any other aspect of the system, and it will filter your results. Now, layered navigation isn’t anything new, but the implementation of it on UCView will be incredibly fast and easy. The filter navigation will be found in any aspect of the portal , from campaigns, display to global view. Enjoy
UCView Digital Signage Content Store is accessible through our portal or server platform. When a customer logs in to our portal or any UCView Product, they are able to select content from numerous apps in a wide array of categories, preview the content and then publish it. Our content store will provide a powerful tool for network owners and location managers to publish updated dynamic digital signage content to their screen with an ease of mouse click.
QR code abbreviated from Quick Response code, it is a bar code made of a two-dimensional code that is readable by barcode scanner or camera telephones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The QR code can contain information like text, URL, phone number, SMS, or Contact information Vcard.
Today QR codes are used in many digital signage applications as call for action advertising, proof of performance and ROI use. The QR code allows the advertiser to provide the audience with fast access to information, promotion and coupons, without the need to memorize any coupon codes, website or contact information.
Some of the reasons they are more useful than a standard barcode is that they can store much more data, including URL links, geo coordinates, VCard, SMS, etc. Another key feature of QR Codes is that many modern cell phones can scan them. Once it is in your cell phone, it may give you details about that business or promotion.
How can you use QR codes to benefit digital signage?
There are many ways to utilize QR Codes in digital signage; the concept of QR codes in digital signage is to display the QR code on the screen in combination of content or an ad. The audience can scan the QR code from the display to get additional information on content or promotion displayed on the screen. Using this technology you can measure and improve the digital signage ROI.
The success in using QR codes is dependent on some important factors. First and foremost is that you need to have a captive audience and they are close enough to the screen so they will be able to scan the bar code. Second, if you going to have QR codes in your marketing plan for digital signage make sure you keep the content relevant and attractive.
How do I generate QR CODES? There many free or-code generators that can help you generate images of the QR code. You can use these images as an ad and upload them to your digital signage CMS, With UCView as we always promise to make thing simple, you can use our free app QR-Coder from our content store to generate your QR-code directly to your display. Using QR-Coder app you can generate any type of QR code in just seconds. You can publish the QR code as independent ad or as a sync ad related to any ad or content in your playlist, this will allow you to play relevant qr code to the content currently plays on the screen.
UCView Weather app will offer accurate, localized, and detailed weather news and information in a modern and clean format, The weather widgets allows you to modify any aspect and look of the widget and adjust the coloring to the look and feel of your display. To use this widget just log-in to The UCView portal, click on Store select your weather widget or app and click instal
We are in the final stage to release our multi Language narrowcasting software platform. You can choose the language of your choice from a simple drop down menu, and Bam!! You are done. The multi Language feature evolved from paying close attention to many of the requests from our worldwide customers
Established in 1982, Hanmi Bank was founded to serve the Korean-American Community. Since then,They have grown into the largest Korean-American Bank in the United States, with more branches in California than any other. Hanmi Bank also has the fastest growing nationwide presence of any Korean-American Bank. UCView View Edge server is deployed in their Head quarters and manage to distribute content to all the brunches.
Just in time for Californians summer rush, First Cake deploys UCView digital signage at one of the most popular gas station fill up spots on the route to our beautiful Malibu Beach and its surroundings.
Google Maps content is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, UCView utilizes their technology to allow users to distribute map and traffic report content to the digital signage displays.
