ACCESSVIA WINS MICROSOFT EMEA RAD AWARD 2004
Award Highlights Innovative Solutions that Enhance Customer Experience
SEATTLE, November 9, 2004 – AccessVia® Web dSignShop® was awarded the Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Retail Application Developer (RAD) Award for In-Store Solutions. Web dSignShop is designed for retailers who want to use the Internet, an intranet, or an extranet to publish signs using a Web browser without installing or maintaining in-store software.
The award was presented at the EMEA Retail Technology Conference 2004 in Barcelona Spain on November 4, 2004. Competitors included companies from Germany, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Turkey, the UAE and UK who all strove to demonstrate business value, innovation, and excellence in their use of Microsoft technologies.
“We are pleased to be recognized as a global leader in retail technology,” said Dean A. Sleeper, AccessVia CEO. “With the focus for this award on enhancing the customer experience, it confirms our long-held belief that in-store signs are at the core of a customer’s experience within a store.”
“Not surprisingly, as most retailers are looking to add value to the customer experience, most of the winning solutions deliver tangible benefits for the consumer,” explains Dilip Popat, managing director, EMEA Retail Industry Unit, Microsoft. “The winners also demonstrate the flexibility and scalability of Microsoft products to help Europe’s leading retailers to deliver a smarter shopping experience with a quick and quantifiable ROI. We believe competitions such as the RAD Awards benefit the whole of the retail community as they stimulate creativity coupled with the delivery of real business value, and continue to ‘raise the bar’ for application development.”
The AccessVia Print solution includes both Web dSignShop and dSIGN® to provide clients with accurate and attractive signs, shelf-edge labels, fact tags, coupons, and more. Web dSignShop is designed for retailers who want to use the Internet, an intranet, or an extranet to publish signs using a Web browser without installing or maintaining in-store software. dSIGN is built for classic client/server implementations and offers advanced product data delivery and unmatched integration with legacy systems. AccessVia also offers a solution for automated electronic displays, including customer-facing POS displays, self-service terminals, and kiosk applications for price verification, assisted shopping, endless aisle services, and gift registry.
AccessVia Web dSignShop was also recognized in both 2002 and 2003 as a Microsoft® Retail Application Developer (RAD) Award winner. AccessVia customers include Tesco Lotus, Farmacias El Amal, Kroger, LCBO, Safeway, Staples, SUPERVALU, Target and Walgreens.
More information on Microsoft, Microsoft EMEA, and the Microsoft EMEA RAD Award can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/emea
http://www.microsoft.com/emea/pressCentre/PressRelease.aspx?file=MSEMEARADAwardsPR.xml
AccessVia customers include Bed Bath and Beyond, Kroger, LCBO, Petco, Safeway, Staples, SUPERVALU, Target, Walgreens and Wal-Mart.
About AccessVia, Inc.
AccessVia takes retailers beyond price point to a place where they can truly connect with customers at the moment of choice. Smart consumers expect more than flashing lights and red type. The new consumer requires new messaging.
AccessVia Consumer Messaging Optimization Services help you to envision that future and make it happen. Seasoned retail professionals, armed with best practices, industry benchmarks and new ideas, work with your team to transform your consumer messaging effectiveness and efficiency. AccessVia Publishing Platform solutions provide the software tools to extend your retail brand promise to the Last Mile – where the customer chooses to browse or buy.
Create new business processes for the future then manage your publishing systems with software being used today by Global 500 companies in over 40,000 retail stores. Take your customers beyond price point with AccessVia.
For more information contact:
Gaylene C. Meyer
206-285-4994 x150
gmeyer@AccessVia.com
