Digital Signage Company .advancedMethod and Best Buy Canada Announce Partnership
16 6월 2009 - 4:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
SEATTLE, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- .advancedMethod is proud to
announce a new partnership with the Commercial Sales Group of Best
Buy Canada Ltd. In conjunction with this partnership, Best Buy has
selected .advancedMethod's express digital signage system to offer
to their customers. The express digital signage system will now be
available directly through Best Buy Canada's digital signage group,
making professional looking digital signage more accessible to the
public than ever. Tony White, Sales Manager of the Commercial Sales
Group, explains Best Buy's decision by saying, "We are excited to
announce our partnership with .advancedMethod. We feel express is
well suited for our small to medium sized business customer base
due to its ease of use and professional content." To kick off the
joint venture, .advancedMethod, Best Buy Canada and LG recently
joined forces at the Alberta Hotel and Lodging Association
Convention and Trade Show in pristine Lake Louise, Alberta to
display the most cutting edge technology available to the
hospitality industry, including the express digital signage system.
Robert Grawet, General Manager of .advancedMethod, describes the
experience by saying, ".advancedMethod was very excited to partner
with Best Buy Canada for the Alberta Hotel Association show at Lake
Louise in April. We worked hand in hand with our partners: Best Buy
and LG to show real world examples of how hotels can utilize
digital signage to enhance their guest's comfort while increasing
the hotel's sales. .advancedMethod also demonstrated our eHotel
Tours (custom interactive video hotel tours)." The partners
received great acclaim, winning the "Best Booth" award for their
Virtual Hotel Room. .advancedMethod's express prides itself on
being a new kind of digital signage system: one that is easy to
use, easy to update and easy to buy - express includes the basic
player and software necessary to create your own content right out
of the box, plus industry-related templates, even "live" news
feeds. express is designed to dramatically simplify the deployment
of digital signage, whether that means to a single sign or a
gigantic network. With the re-bundling of their IT services,
.advancedMethod continues to offer customers the options they are
looking for in a digital signage system - all at a competitive
price point. The .advancedMethod team members have unique
backgrounds having worked with Apple, Smart Technologies, Da-Lite,
EIKI International, Packard Bell Computers, and Adobe. More
information can be found at http://www.advancedmethod.com/. About
.advancedMethod: Founded in 2002 to provide innovative web-based
communications services, .advancedMethod engineered new concepts in
streaming video and in creating eVideo, a proprietary methodology
for delivering a "live" presentation with available bandwidth. This
mastery was then applied to digital signage solutions, resulting in
a robust digital signage operating system, user-friendly authoring
tools, and support services. About EIKI Digital Systems, Inc. With
more than a half century of experience in professional audiovisual
communications technology behind it, EIKI Digital Systems, Inc. was
established in 2008 to broaden the scope of The EIKI Family of
Companies. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, EIKI Digital
Systems shares management and a focus on the ProAV channel with its
older sibling, EIKI International, Inc. of Rancho Santa Margarita,
California. About Best Buy Canada Ltd. Burnaby, BC-based Best Buy
Canada Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc.
(NYSE:BBY). Best Buy is Canada's fastest-growing retailer and
e-tailer (http://www.bestbuy.ca/) of consumer electronics,
computers and entertainment products and also operates the Geek
Squad (http://www.geeksquad.ca/), a technology service provider
specializing in computer support and home theatre installation.
There are over 50 stores in British Columbia, Alberta,
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia. The
Commercial Sales Group of Best Buy Canada Ltd delivers
business-to-business (B2B) services to clients across Canada in the
areas of digital signage, incentive programs, lotteries, promotions
and prizing. The Commercial Sales Group also sells and distributes
electronic solutions to hotels, restaurants and the resource
industry throughout Canada. The Group builds new commercial
business segments and opportunities in consumer electronics,
appliances, media and gaming that are aligned with the client's
present capabilities. For more information on the Commercial Sales
Group, please call 1-877-725-3429. CONTACT: Kasie Dawkins,
206.973.2938 DATASOURCE: .advancedMethod CONTACT: Kasie Dawkins of
.advancedMethod, +1-206-973-2938, Web Site:
http://www.advancedmethod.com/ http://www.bestbuy.ca/
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