EuroShop 2017: The digital shelf for the smart shopper

Weinheim, February 06, 2017 +++ Digital shelves provide the ability to offer an extensive product range even with limited sales…

Digital Signage solutions from PRESTIGEenterprise on the ISE 2017

Weinheim, January 16, 2017 +++ Online Software presents the newest developments of the Digital Signage Software PRESTIGEenterprise for the POS…

EuroShop 2017: Shopping with a smile

Online Software AG will exhibit modern solutions for digital customer contact that will delight shoppers at EuroShop 2017. Weinheim, December…

Fujitsu presents PRESTIGEenterprise Solution in Paris

Under the slogan CONNECTED RETAIL, Fujitsu in Paris is showcasing a PRESTIGEenterprise supported solution with the Multimedia Shelf designed to…

PRESTIGEenterprise 5.0: Custom made to measure – simple and quick to deploy

Weinheim, 17.05.2016 +++ The new version 5.0 of the software platform PRESTIGEenterprise is now available. Online Software remains true to its…

EuroCIS 2016: PRESTIGE Solution Campus presents solutions for the complete spectrum of POS media

Weinheim, February 23, 2016 +++ In the PRESTIGE Solution Campus Online Software will exhibit the most modern communication solutions based on…

At last! Digital POS media has become simple.

Weinheim, February 23, 2016 +++ Until now it was necessary for there to be a large amount of expertise to…

EDEKA Minden-Hannover renews partnership with Online Software AG for multimedia sales promotions

Weinheim, Jan. 11, 2016: The EDEKA Minden-Hannover IT-Service GmbH has renewed the cooperation with Online Software AG in the area of multimedia sales promotions. With over 1,550 supermarkets, EDEKA Minden-Hannover is one of the largest of the seven regional organisations within the national EDEKA cooperative. The regional organisation embraces continual collaboration to be able to offer its retailers long term security, system stability and flexibility in terms of future technologies. A cooperation in the areas of poster and label printing based on PRESTIGEenterprise software has already existed for many years. Screens and scales in EDEKA markets have been managed with this software for the past 6 years. “We have consciously decided upon a future-oriented solution. Here, we focus on process optimisation, the stability and future capability of the software as well as the long term advantages,” explains Marcus Bleidorn, responsible for retailer media at EDEKA Minden-Hannover IT-Service GmbH. “With the platform PRESTIGEenterprise we can connect and control a large part of the important media for the retail markets.” Through continual development EDEKA Minden-Hannover and ONLINE guarantee that future innovative and promising technologies will also be connectable. The EDEKA regional organisation is therefore well prepared for the future with PRESTIGEenterprise. In November EDEKA Minden-Hannover opened the largest EDEKA Center in Niedersachsen, an over 6,000 m² sales area, at BraWoPark in Braunschweig. PRESTIGEenterprise takes on a central role in the area of retail media. In addition to screens in the service and checkout areas, as well as a large video wall in the entrance area, central poster printing has also been implemented. EDEKA Center employees are able to compile all contents themselves and access standardised image and promotional information in form of printed posters or content for the screens for the variety of goods. EDEKA Minden-Hannover started to employ digital elements in their serving counter area over six years ago. Customers get information via screens on the backs of service counters and scales. Newer and modernised EDEKA supermarkets will one after another also introduce large format screens from Online Software AG to the service counter presence. Meanwhile more than 500 screens inform awaiting customers of daily offerings, new services and special promotions. The contents are managed by EDEKA Minden-Hannover IT-Service GmbH and regularly updated. In addition, individual stores are able to add their own sales promotional elements, or have them added. They receive individual access credentials to the centralised PRESTIGEenterprise system. About 2,000 scales with customer directed screens in over 500 EDEKA stores, which enliven with, among other things, emotional images. Since the manufacturers Bizerba and Mettler-Toledo are used for the EDEKA store scales, an interface management with connection to both scale manufacturers is one of the most crucial components PRESTIGEenterprise offers. Scales at the meat or cheese counters are not only used for promotions. The PRESTIGEenterprise “LiveInfo” module is also used at over 100 EDEKA Minden-Hannover stores. The module offers market employees, with the help of user displays, the ability to call up and relay product information. An extensive convenience catalogue, with valuable tips and information for the actual product, they are weighing, is accessible in this manner. Additional information, recipes or appropriate spices can then be conveyed to the customer – a service that has a positive effect on customers and strengthens the professional competence of the sales counter team. This is a convincing reason to continually promote the integration of software in the marketplaces. “We’ve been working together for years in partnership with EDEKA Minden-Hannover and maintain a regular exchange of information, from which many important advancements of the PRESTIGEenterprise software originate,” knows Gerd Betz, Director Retail Sales at Online Software. “For the start of 2016 we have planned a connection to EDEKA’s ePIM system, among other items. We still have big plans together and Online Software’s team is looking forward to the new challenges.” About EDEKA Minden-Hannover EDEKA Minden-Hannover is the top earning regional organisation in the national EDEKA cooperative with sales of 7.5 billion Euros and 66,883 employees belonging to independent retailers. The business region extends from the Dutch to the Polish borders, it encompasses a part of Ostwestfalen-Lippe, and almost completely Niedersachsen, Bremen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Berlin and Brandenburg. Two thirds of the 1,550 stores are in the hands of independent retailers. In addition 25 C+C wholesale stores (MIOS), five bakeries (Schäfer’s) as well as two production plants for meat and sausage goods (Bauerngut) belong to EDEKA Minden-Hannover. The EDEKA Minden eG was founded in 1920 as cooperative alliance of individual merchants. Today about 650 individual food retailers belong to EDEKA Minden eG. About Online Software AG Online Software AG is an innovative software vendor with an emphasis on the development of solutions for wholesale and retail. The medium-sized company locate in Weinheim on the Bergstrasse has supported the retail market for over 25 years with software solutions for professional store advertising and is with over 35,000 installations in 35 countries the market leader in the area of media comprehensive Instore communications and sales promotion. With the software PRESTIGEenterprise Online Software offers a communications platform for customer contact at the POS, that encompasses classic media as well as digital output media. In this manner the multiple award-winning software constitutes the perfect basis for an integrated communications concept by including posters and labels as well as large format displays, video walls, cash register and scale screens, kiosk systems, digital shelves and electronic shelf labels (ESL), to mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and MDE’s. Further information: Online Software AG Bergstrasse 31 69469 Weinheim, Germany info@online-software-ag.de www.online-software-ag.com Sandy Heinzmann Manager Marketing & Communication P. +49 6201 9988-682 F. +49 6201 9988-77 sandy.heinzmann@online-software-ag.de

EuroCIS 2016 – The art of digital persuasion

Weinheim, 14. December 2015 +++ At EuroCIS 2016 everything at Online Software AG’s PRESTIGE Solution Campus at stand D39 in Hall 9 revolves around „the art of digital persuasion“ at the Point of Sale. Retailers and retail experts can inform themselves here about the application possibilities of most modern technologies for Instore Marketing that are direct towards the demanding customers of tomorrow and that fulfill their desires for more background information, more service, more guidance, more shopping experience and more integration of shopping channels. At EuroCIS 2016, with PRESTIGE Solution Partners, Ciber AG, NEXGEN smart instore GmbH, Oki Systems GmbH, Reditune GmbH, Revionics INC., Samsung Electronics GmbH and Tradesolutions AG, Online Software AG will present the complete spectrum of innovative ideas and already existing solutions for the implementation of a comprehensive Omnichannel strategy in the retail industry. Solutions based on the market-leading software, PRESTIGEenterprise, that persuades customers to linger and moreover supports the retail industry with customer communications in stores, will be displayed. Effective, industry-specific applications will presented – from the classic print solution to digital communications on screens, video walls, information terminals, cash registers and scales, to mobile addressing via apps. Focus will be the possibilities in context of a digital transformation as well the classical topics of process optimisation and integration in the IT landscape. About Online Software AG Online Software AG is an innovative software vendor with an emphasis on the development of solutions for wholesale and retail. The medium-sized company locate in Weinheim on the Bergstrasse has supported the retail market for over 25 years with software solutions for professional store advertising and is with over 35,000 installations in 35 countries the market leader in the area of media comprehensive Instore communications and sales promotion. With the software PRESTIGEenterprise Online Software offers a communications platform for customer contact at the POS, that encompasses classic media as well as digital output media. In this manner the multiple award-winning software constitutes the perfect basis for an integrated communications concept by including posters and labels as well as large format displays, video walls, cash register and scale screens, kiosk systems, digital shelves and electronic shelf labels (ESL), to mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and MDE’s. Further information: Online Software AG Bergstrasse 31 69469 Weinheim, Germany info@online-software-ag.de www.online-software-ag.com Sandy Heinzmann Manager Marketing & Communication P. +49 6201 9988-682 F. +49 6201 9988-77 sandy.heinzmann@online-software-ag.de

New Software Generation PRESTIGEenterprise 4.3

Weinheim, 12 June 2015 +++ The new software generation PRESTIGEenterprise 4.3, available as of June, is aimed at the IT and communication landscape of large enterprises. Alongside extensive new features in media management and other improvements in poster printing, various background processes have also been greatly optimised and improved to allow quick and easy management of networks, even those containing several thousand screens and printers. Focused on the printed, digital and mobile sales approach at the POS, Version 4.3 is even more powerful and feature-rich, for greater possibilities in professional and modern communication between branches. Based on latest-generation technologies, PRESTIGEenterprise 4.3 contains numerous interfaces to allow integration into the structures and workflows of existing IT systems. Usage rules further allow transparent, secure working even in internationally operating businesses. Playlist Mixer simplifies media planning Version 4.3 allows for the planning and playing of more than just one playlist. This makes planning much easier with PRESTIGEenterprise, where playlists with entirely different playback schedules can now be played automatically in succession. So if playlist A is active from Monday through Saturday and playlist B is only active on Friday and Saturday afternoons, then on Friday afternoon playlists A and B are automatically played one after the other and from Monday on it automatically switches back to just playlist A. Series slots can also be added to the running playlists, with special offers for after hours, for example. Even the graphical programme guide has been revised to maintain a clearer overview. Comfortable LivePreview The smart poster preview offered by the new LivePreview module makes daily handling easier and supports integration into other systems. With LivePreview, posters, labels and ESLs can be previewed and verified as soon as data has been created in the inventory management system without it being saved. In addition posters can be created containing data prior to it being transferred to PRESTIGEenterprise. Flexibly editable “opening times” To save energy, the “Night Mode” function has evolved into the far more detailed “Opening Times” function, which allows for finer control. It is now possible to separately configure screen on and off times for each day of the week. As always in PRESTIGEenterprise, there are default settings as well as the option to define exceptions, for example for terminals or screens in display window areas. Expanded functionality and new features as basis for large-scale installations In the print media area, the search functionality in poster folders has been further optimised to allow for more detailed search with substantially shorter loading times. The new detailed search by text, article number or EAN yields faster results and allows for more targeted search results. The search filter for existing templates has also been further refined. To ease the integration of PRESTIGEenterprise into large companies and enterprises, groups and users can now be automatically imported from XML files of user rights and authorisation systems. Users can be assigned to groups and branches already during the import process. Communication with the display engine has been optimised in Version 4.3 and the load on retailer application host massively reduced, by prioritizing the processing of current playlists and only checking the changes since the last connection. The display engines automatically adapt to server behaviour. When server loads are high, packets are reduced in size and intervals between queries prolonged. Upon low or dropping server loads, packets are restored to their original size and the intervals shortened again. This is especially important for installations with 1,000 screens or more. To allow professional monitoring of advertising effectiveness, playback data is stored along with content, display duration, date and time, and can then be sent for analysis to a data analysis system such as Retail Business Analytics (RBA) or Business Intelligence System. About Online Software AG Online Software AG is a modern, innovative software company focusing on the development of solutions for the international wholesale and retail trade. Online is a market leader in the field of professional branch advertising with its PRESTIGE poster and labelling software which has been installed more than 35,000 times in 35 countries and 20 language versions. Online supports retailers in the cross-media marketing of products using the market-leading PRESTIGEenterprise software which combines traditional media, such as posters and shelf labels, with the latest digital POS technologies. Many retail businesses are thus increasingly making use of complementary marketing concepts via flat-screen monitors, kiosk systems, scale systems or touch screens. Further Information: Online Software AG Bergstrasse 31 69469 Weinheim, Germany info@online-software-ag.de www.online-software-ag.com Sandy Heinzmann Manager Marketing & Communication Tel.: +49 – 6201 – 99 88 – 682 Fax: +49 – 6201 – 99 88 – 77 sandy.heinzmann@online-software-ag.de