The Release is the First as Part of the STRATACACHE Family of Companies

MONTREAL, June 13, 2018 – X2O Media announced the release of version 6.7 of its X2O Platform, an update with several new features and enhancements to its visual communications solution that significantly improve communications throughout the enterprise. The X2O platform facilitates the creation and delivery of business data, video and graphics-rich content to digital displays, virtual training rooms, employee desktops and mobile devices. The update is X2O’s first as part of the STRATACACHE family of digital media/marketing technology companies, following STRATACACHE’s acquisition of the company earlier this year.

“Companies today are drowning in a sea of data — important measurement metrics that have the potential to immediately impact business objectives. It’s indigestible,” said Chris Riegel, CEO of STRATACACHE. “The strength of X2O Media’s technology is in simplifying the access to that stream of data and the simplicity of the presentation, seeing the live comparison and answering the questions ‘Are we improving? Where and why?’”

From extending the web portal to supporting additional languages and getting important notifications and messages directly in the workspace, users are provided more important information at their fingertips. In addition, campaign and asset management has been improved to enable faster access to important functions. Finally, more information is available to third party integrators with regards to the player status, allowing for better understanding of the players’ operational environment.

Updates to platform version 6.7 include the following highlights:

Communications to X2O Portal users: The server administrator can now broadcast messages to keep portal users informed about planned maintenance events, system upgrades and scheduled downtime. In addition, the customer administrator can control if emails are automatically sent to new users and customize the email content as needed.

New localization features: Extending the existing language choices of English and French for label display, administrators can quickly add new languages or extend the existing one for any custom portal app.

Campaign management “what if” scenarios: The campaign manager can now more easily perform what-if scenarios in addition to having easier visibility on some of the key campaign information.

Asset expire and purge dates: Default values can be configured, allowing uploaded assets to expire or be purged to make asset management easier. When those are set, the content manager uploading an asset will be presented with default expiry and/or purge date that can be changed for specific content.

Easier navigation: A new administration option centralizes the options available to manage users, automations, customization, and other configuration features for the administrator. In addition, the account manager can specify what network a new user should land in when using X2O Desktop or X2O Mobile to ensure the most relevant content is shown from the start. The portal layout has also been improved to show more options and to simplify the wording.

Learn more at www.x2omedia.com.

About X2O Media

X2O Media provides technology and services for the emerging visual communications and real-time data visualization market. The award-winning X2O Platform represents a new category of communication tools that improve the way enterprises engage with their employees and build brand awareness. By extending standard digital signage, X2O Media’s next generation corporate communications solutions reduce costs, drive safety and deliver corporate information and performance dashboards for intelligent targeting to audiences on the screens they use most — their desktop and mobile devices. X2O Media is part of the STRATACACHE family of digital media/marketing technology companies and is headquartered in Montreal. Learn more at www.x2omedia.com.

About STRATACACHE

STRATACACHE provides scalable customer experiences, empowering retailers to learn deeply about their customers’ shopping preferences and behaviors, allowing for personalized shopper interaction. Our solutions deliver consumer activation at the point-of-decision, generating new sales opportunities and enhanced retail profitability. With 2 million+ software activations globally, we power the biggest digital networks for the world’s largest brands. Across the STRATACACHE family of complementary digital media/ad tech solution companies, we have the technology, expertise and track record to bring retail innovation that delivers results. Learn more about the STRATACACHE family at www.stratacache.com, on Twitter @STRATACACHE or on Facebook.

DAYTON, OH, US—January 9, 2019—STRATACACHE will feature new marketing technology that drives retail transformation in booth #3921 at NRF 2019: Retail’s Big Show, featuring technology, professional services and retail expertise found across the STRATACACHE family of companies. On display in the 3,000+ square foot space will be immersive in-store shopping solutions that bring customers into the brick-and-mortar store and deliver an informative, personal experience through an extensive array of technology — including digital signs, augmented and virtual reality, mobile sensors, computer vision technology and artificial intelligence. The booth also features demonstrations and discussions of emerging tech such as automated service robotics and multi-user virtual reality for assisted or considered design. STRATACACHE is in booth #3921 at NRF 2019, being held January 13-15 in New York.

Booth highlights include:

Shopper and store operations dashboards: In today’s retail environment, it’s more important than ever to have real-time access to business-critical information wherever and whenever needed. An extensive display of dashboards, showing deep shopper and operational insights tied to each shopping experience, is included in a “back of house” area of the booth. Experts will show retailers and brands how to leverage the power of real-time retail analytics, mobile sensors and artificial intelligence, using STRATACACHE’s in-house platforms from Walkbase and X2O Media, to inform and optimize the in-store experience and increase sales.

In-booth theater featuring:
Daily Transformation Talks featuring 15-minute presentations that highlight insights from retail industry experts both inside and outside the STRATACACHE family. Topics include retail analytics and proximity marketing, getting online in the store and what to look out for in the world of emerging technology.
Virtual reality shopping demonstrations running continually throughout the show. These live demos show practical, multi-user, real-time, collaborative VR and will highlight use cases for: considered design, virtual inventory, collaborative consumer engagement, internal workflows for pre-visualization, sales engagement possibilities, concepts for flagship enterprise-level immersive interactive experiences and experiential destinations.

John Batchelor Show podcast recording, January 14 at 11 a.m.: Veteran WABC Host John Batchelor will interview retail technology experts live in the STRATACACHE booth, capturing the discussions for future broadcasts of The John Batchelor Show, a breaking-news program that focuses on a wide range of topics including global politics, economics and hard sciences. At NRF, the conversations will dive into how deep tech is evolving the retail landscape to thrive in the age of Amazon. Learn more at www.johnbatchelorshow.com and @batchelorshow.

Guided shopping experiences, focusing on value-add narratives for retailers and marketers:
Personalization at Scale—The advent of social media influence has evolved and shaped the way we shop online, and our fashion-focused solution leans into this behavior and makes it more actionable by bringing it into a retail environment, allowing for the best of both worlds. Using a touchscreen display, shoppers browse, curate and choose the looks they like, and immediately try on, share or buy with one tap.

Automation—STRATACACHE has integrated ordering kiosks with facial recognition technology and a robotic cocktail machine to create a memorable, streamlined ordering experience. After choosing or designing a favorite drink from our self-ordering kiosks, featuring our own commercial-grade tablets, the robot gets to work preparing the order. By automating certain tasks in the customer experience, sales associates are free to concentrate on shopper interaction and store operations.

Assisted Selling—This solution focuses on two key areas that drive the in-store experience — clarity when comparing products and delivery of a personalized, memorable shopping trip. Our tablet-based experience streamlines product discovery for the shopper, offering unobtrusive upsell opportunities throughout the experience. The solution also provides a tool for sales associates to have insight into the shopper’s preferences before offering assistance, ultimately delivering a concierge-level shopping experience.

Customer Loyalty—We’re evolving the drive thru, providing convenience and improving speed of service for loyalty app users in a retail pharmacy environment. Using digital displays along with sensor and voice technology, our smart drive thru solution identifies app users and delivers a personalized experience to loyal customers, building a stronger relationship with the customer and inspiring repeat visits. Digital displays help associates prepare orders while customer-facing displays deliver a guided experience, presenting medication details and prescription reminders during dwell time.

See full details, including the three-day Transformation Talks schedule, at www.stratacache.com/NRF-2019.

About STRATACACHE

STRATACACHE provides scalable customer experiences, empowering retailers to learn deeply about their customers’ shopping preferences and behaviors, allowing for personalized shopper interaction. Our solutions deliver consumer activation at the point-of-decision, generating new sales opportunities and enhanced retail profitability. With 2 million+ software activations globally, we power the biggest digital networks for the world’s largest brands. Across the STRATACACHE family of complementary digital media/ad tech solution companies, we have the technology, expertise and track record to bring retail innovation that delivers results. Learn more about the STRATACACHE family at www.stratacache.com, on Twitter @STRATACACHE or on Facebook.

X2O Media’s Business Intelligence Solutions Will Be on Display at ISE 2019.

Montreal, 4 February 2019—X2O Media today unveiled the addition of X2O Media-branded media players to their solution offering, taking the guesswork and risk out of choosing the right device for an enterprise’s visual communication. The new media players, along with X2O Media’s employee engagement solutions to enhance employee productivity, will be on display at this year’s Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2019, being held 5-8 February in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

X2O Media, part of the STRATACACHE family of marketing technology companies, will also demonstrate their performance data visualization dashboards and team collaboration tools that allow enterprises to collaborate on tasks and projects across remote locations. Two companies in the STRATACACHE family will have marketing technology on display at ISE — X2O Media can be found in booth D245 in hall 15 and Scala in booth E160 in hall 8.

The X2O media players exceed business needs of optimal performance, stability and capability. X2O Media designed the players for optimal performance according to enterprise needs, drawing on the experience and expertise of STRATACACHE, who first launched media players in 2011, to develop and distribute the new media player hardware. The addition of X2O Media-branded media players gives enterprises a comprehensive, end-to-end solution to create, deploy and manage successful digital networks in a smarter, more streamlined way.

Mansour Brek, CEO at X2O Media, says the media players were engineered to round out X2O Media’s full solution offering. “X2O media players are designed to deliver optimal hardware and software integration and performance while rounding out our full corporate communications solution offering,” he said. “Having access to the expertise of the STRATACACHE family of companies allows us to develop and deliver a media player that meets the needs of enterprise communicators everywhere.”

Learn more about the X2O Media Player-L at www.x2omedia.com/en/solutions/oneroom/classroom/.

About X2O Media
X2O Media provides technology and services for the emerging visual communications and real-time data visualization market. The award-winning X2O Platform represents a new category of communication tools that improve the way enterprises engage with their employees and build brand awareness. By extending standard digital signage, X2O Media’s next generation corporate communications solutions reduce costs, drive safety and deliver corporate information and performance dashboards for intelligent targeting to audiences on the screens they use most — their desktop and mobile devices. X2O Media is part of the STRATACACHE family of digital media/marketing technology companies and is headquartered in Montreal. Learn more at www.x2omedia.com.

About STRATACACHE
STRATACACHE provides scalable customer experiences, empowering retailers to learn deeply about their customers’ shopping preferences and behaviors, allowing for personalized shopper interaction. Our solutions deliver consumer activation at the point-of-decision, generating new sales opportunities and enhanced retail profitability. With 2 million+ software activations globally, we power the biggest digital networks for the world’s largest brands. Across the STRATACACHE family of complementary digital media/ad tech solution companies, we have the technology, expertise and track record to bring retail innovation that delivers results. Learn more about the STRATACACHE family at www.stratacache.com, on Twitter @STRATACACHE or on Facebook.

Montreal, QC — March 14, 2019 — X2O Media will demonstrate solutions for a next generation team collaboration room and virtual classroom, as well as fully integrated enterprise visual communications solutions, at Enterprise Connect next week. X2O Media, part of the STRATACACHE family of marketing technology companies, develops real-time business intelligence solutions that deliver data visualization and enterprise visual communications to any screen in the digital workplace. X2O Media can be found in booth #1835 at the event, being held March 18-20 in Orlando, Florida.

Solutions in booth #1835:

Team Collaboration Communication and Design
The X2O collaboration room lets employees collaborate on tasks and projects across many different locations. The system provides a unique audio-visual and interactive experience by bringing together multiple rooms, remote participants and interactive tools to create an environment in which all participants experience the same interactions and benefits of in-room attendees by entering a live room for team collaboration or to join a virtual classroom.

Performance Data Visualization
X2O Media’s performance data visualization capabilities help connect employees to the business-critical information they need to increase performance, productivity and decision making. The X2O platform lets users aggregate real-time data into custom dynamic dashboards and deliver the dashboards to any screen including video walls, desktop and mobile devices.

Enterprise Visual Communication
Increase employee engagement and enhance corporate-wide communications with X2O Media’s dynamic visual channels featuring videos, images or real-time data that can be delivered to digital displays, interactive touch screens, desktops and mobile. X2O Platform gives users the flexibility to customize messages across geographic regions, business units, departments or even specific employee groups.

X2O Media Players
X2O Media-branded players are designed to deliver optimal hardware and software integration and performance while rounding out a full corporate communications solution offering.

“X2O’s technology has always been about bringing large enterprises and their employees closer together through improved visual communications that drive employee engagement by enabling them to do their jobs better. Our new collaboration room takes that to another level, by allowing participants that are dispersed throughout the world to enjoy an immersive collaboration experience without having to fly in to corporate headquarters,” said Mansour Brek, President of X2O Media.

Learn more at www.x2omedia.com/ec-2019.

About X2O Media

X2O Media provides technology and services for the emerging visual communications and real-time data visualization market. The award-winning X2O Platform represents a new category of communication tools that improve the way enterprises engage with their employees and build brand awareness. By extending standard digital signage, X2O Media’s next generation corporate communications solutions reduce costs, drive safety and deliver corporate information and performance dashboards for intelligent targeting to audiences on the screens they use most — their desktop and mobile devices. X2O Media is part of the STRATACACHE family of digital media/marketing technology companies and is headquartered in Montreal. Learn more at www.x2omedia.com.

About STRATACACHE

STRATACACHE provides scalable customer experiences, empowering retailers to learn deeply about their customers’ shopping preferences and behaviors, allowing for personalized shopper interaction. Our solutions deliver consumer activation at the point-of-decision, generating new sales opportunities and enhanced retail profitability. With 3 million+ software activations globally, we power the biggest digital networks for the world’s largest brands. Across the STRATACACHE family of complementary digital media/ad tech solution companies, we have the technology, expertise and track record to bring retail innovation that delivers results. Learn more about the STRATACACHE family at www.stratacache.com, on Twitter @STRATACACHE, or on Facebook.

Montreal, QC —May 10, 2019 —X2O Media will demonstrate fully integrated enterprise visual communications and real-time performance data visualization solutions, at Unified Communications Expo (UC Expo) next week. X2O Media, part of the STRATACACHE family of marketing technology companies, develops real-time business intelligence solutions that deliver data visualization and enterprise visual communications to any screen in the digital workplace. X2O Media can be found in booth #F124 at the event, being held May 15-16 in London, UK.

Solutions in booth #F124:

Performance Data Visualization
X2O Media’s performance data visualization capabilities help connect employees to the business-critical information they need to increase performance, productivity and decision making. The X2O platform lets users aggregate real-time data into custom dynamic dashboards and deliver the dashboards to any screen including video walls, desktop and mobile devices.

Enterprise Visual Communication
Increase employee engagement and enhance corporate-wide communications with X2O Media’s dynamic visual channels featuring videos, images or real-time data that can be delivered to digital displays, interactive touch screens, desktops and mobile. X2O Platform gives users the flexibility to customize messages across geographic regions, business units, departments or even specific employee groups.

Collaboration Room and Virtual Classroom
The X2O Media collaboration room and virtual classroom lets employees collaborate on tasks and projects across many different locations. The system provides a unique audio-visual and interactive experience by bringing together multiple rooms, remote participants and interactive tools to create an environment in which all participants experience the same interactions and benefits as those physically in the room.

“Collaboration is essential to engaging your employees, and to getting them the data they need to do their job efficiently. The future of collaboration is bringing that real-life experience into the meeting room or into a classroom. The X2O Media team has the technology to do just that,” said Robert Brinklow, Sales Manager at X2O Media.

Learn more at www.x2omedia.com/uc-2019.

About X2O Media

X2O Media provides technology and services for the emerging visual communications and real-time data visualization market. The award-winning X2O Platform represents a new category of communication tools that improve the way enterprises engage with their employees and build brand awareness. By extending standard digital signage, X2O Media’s next generation corporate communications solutions reduce costs, drive safety and deliver corporate information and performance dashboards for intelligent targeting to audiences on the screens they use most — their desktop and mobile devices. X2O Media is part of the STRATACACHE family of digital media/marketing technology companies and is headquartered in Montreal. Learn more at www.x2omedia.com.

About STRATACACHE

STRATACACHE provides scalable customer experiences, empowering retailers to learn deeply about their customers’ shopping preferences and behaviors, allowing for personalized shopper interaction. Our solutions deliver consumer activation at the point-of-decision, generating new sales opportunities and enhanced retail profitability. With 3 million+ software activations globally, we power the biggest digital networks for the world’s largest brands. Across the STRATACACHE family of complementary digital media/ad tech solution companies, we have the technology, expertise and track record to bring retail innovation that delivers results. Learn more about the STRATACACHE family at www.stratacache.com, on Twitter @STRATACACHE or on Facebook.

DAYTON, OH, US — June 11, 2019 — STRATACACHE will showcase our full scope of end-to-end advanced audience engagement technology solutions at InfoComm 2019. In booth #661, STRATACACHE will demonstrate and discuss integrated collaboration tools, personalized engagement, professional services and digital signage expertise found across the STRATACACHE family of marketing technology companies, including Scala, X2O Media and Optika Display. Our marketing technology experts will offer deep dives into the practical uses and strategies behind STRATACACHE’s smarter signage solutions. STRATACACHE is in booth #661 at InfoComm, being held June 12 – 14 in Orlando, Florida.

“Each brand in the STRATACACHE family offers different but complementary digital signage and collaboration solutions,” said Kelly Amaroso, Director of Product Marketing at STRATACACHE. “When we bring the family of companies together for a show like InfoComm, we are able to demonstrate how we offer a full scope of software and hardware technology to our customers that is unmatched in the industry.”

Booth highlights include:

STRATACACHE family-branded technology:
STRATACACHE’s in-house hardware and software solutions are on display including a full range of media players, all-in-one tablets and large format displays and collaboration solutions.

• Collaboration Room and Virtual Classroom: The X2O Media collaboration room and virtual classroom lets employees collaborate on tasks and projects across many different locations. The system provides a unique audio-visual and interactive experience by bringing together multiple rooms, remote participants and interactive tools to create an environment in which all participants experience the same interactions and benefits as those physically in the room.
• Tablets: Our all-in-one touch screen tablets have the ability to create an interactive experience in any physical space, in a range of sizes, from 11.5 to 55 inches. With a combination of high performance computing and a slim design, our tablets deliver commercial-grade reliability and interactive touch for applications such as digital signage, meeting room signs, self-service kiosks and interactive guided selling.
• Outdoor Digital Display: Reliably display content in the drive thru at any time, under any condition — our outdoor digital displays have a life expectancy of 10 years and feature a modular design, allowing all components to be field serviceable in 15 minutes or less.
• Media Players: Our full-feature media players powering our booth are engineered for performance, stability and capability to suit every need.
• Cross-industry Interactive Solutions featuring STRATACACHE hardware show how marketing technology can drive service automation, deliver personalization at scale, enhance customer loyalty and direct assisted selling.

See full details, including the full STRATACACHE marketing technology overview, at www.stratacache.com/infocomm-2019

About STRATACACHE

STRATACACHE provides scalable customer experiences, empowering retailers to learn deeply about their customers’ shopping preferences and behaviors, allowing for personalized shopper interaction. Our solutions deliver consumer activation at the point-of-decision, generating new sales opportunities and enhanced retail profitability. With 2 million+ software activations globally, we power the biggest digital networks for the world’s largest brands. Across the STRATACACHE family of complementary digital media/ad tech solution companies, we have the technology, expertise and track record to bring retail innovation that delivers results. Learn more about the STRATACACHE family at www.stratacache.com, on Twitter @STRATACACHE or on Facebook.

MONTREAL, QC., July 10, 2019 – X2O Media today unveiled the addition of Windows-based X2O Media Player-S hardware to their growing product offering. The addition of X2O Media-branded players gives customers a comprehensive, end-to-end solution to create, deploy and manage successful digital networks in a smarter, more streamlined way. X2O Media and Scala, both companies in the STRATACACHE family of marketing technology companies, partnered to design the players for optimal performance according to market needs, and will draw on the experience and expertise of parent company STRATACACHE to develop and distribute the new media player hardware.

“We now have multiple media players to be able to cater to our customer’s immediate needs,” says Mansour Brek, President of X2O Media. “The expansion of the X2O Media product line, now with the latest addition of our Media Player-S, allows us to offer commercial-grade reliability for applications such as enterprise corporate communications, customer experience centers and conference room content management. Moving forward, we will be looking into more player options to add to our full solution offering.”

The X2O media players are dedicated devices that combine carefully designed hardware, optimally configured system software, and X2O Player software to deliver high-quality 24×7 playback in a robust and security-hardened environment. The X2O Media Player-S is a mid-range digital media player with device management and full HD playback support for all visual communication playlists.

Chris Riegel, CEO of the STRATACACHE family of companies, says, “X2O media players are designed for premium performance to deliver powerful experience communications,” he said. “Continuing to build our presence in the STRATACACHE family of companies starts with having access to subject matter experts who have developed and deployed similar hardware to be implemented cross-industry.”

Learn more about the X2O Media Player-S here.

About X2O Media

X2O Media provides technology and services for the emerging visual communications and real-time data visualization market. The award-winning X2O Platform represents a new category of communication tools that improve the way enterprises engage with their employees and build brand awareness. By extending standard digital signage, X2O Media’s next generation corporate communications solutions reduce costs, drive safety and deliver corporate information and performance dashboards for intelligent targeting to audiences on the screens they use most — their desktop and mobile devices. X2O Media is part of the STRATACACHE family of digital media/marketing technology companies and is headquartered in Montreal. Learn more at www.x2omedia.com.

About STRATACACHE

STRATACACHE provides scalable customer experiences, empowering retailers to learn deeply about their customers’ shopping preferences and behaviors, allowing for personalized shopper interaction. Our solutions deliver consumer activation at the point-of-decision, generating new sales opportunities and enhanced retail profitability. With 3 million+ software activations globally, we power the biggest digital networks for the world’s largest brands. Across the STRATACACHE family of complementary digital media/ad tech solution companies, we have the technology, expertise and track record to bring retail innovation that delivers results. Learn more about the STRATACACHE family at www.stratacache.com, on Twitter @STRATACACHE or on Facebook.

Montreal, QC – January 17, 2020 – X2O Media today announced the enterprise-grade Virtual Classroom experience, an innovative solution that has changed how remote students access, communicate and collaborate with their peers, will be demonstrated at The Bett Show next week. X2O Media, part of the STRATACACHE family of marketing technology companies, designed the experience to enable higher education institutions to offer remote students a unique learning experience to allow them to participate in everything that is taking place within the live classroom. X2O Media can be found in booth SE24 at The Bett Show, which features marketing information technology in education, being held January 22 – 25, 2020 in London.

“We see that as a result of the accessibility of high-speed internet, enrollment in distance learning courses is increasing. Coupled with shifts in global economies, students are turning to online courses to complete degrees or to improve their career potential. Universities worldwide need to step up and meet the unique needs of their growing distance learning students. With X2O Media’s virtual classroom higher education institutions can supply the increasing demand for online courses. The highly social peer-to-peer communication gives remote students an unparalleled experience and helps them achieve a high level of success in their online course,” said Mansour Brek, President of X2O Media.

Rob Brinklow, Sales Manager at X2O Media Europe adds, “Today, technology enables forms of communication and collaboration undreamt of in the past. X2O Media is bridging distance learning spaces to link the global remote learning community with a common purpose. We look forward to showcasing the classroom’s power and features during Bett Show where you can experience first-hand the X2O Virtual Classroom at Stand SE24.”

For more information about the advantages of X2O Media’s Virtual Classroom technology, contact sales@x2omedia.com.

About X2O Media

X2O Media provides technology and services for higher education and corporate learning centers to build virtual classrooms as well as, solutions to provide emerging visual communications, and real-time data visualization. The award-winning X2O Platform brings advanced education opportunities to people across the globe. Remote students can experience and participate in everything that takes place in the live classroom. X2O Media is part of the STRATACACHE family of digital media/marketing technology companies and is headquartered in Montreal. For more information, contact X2O Media at sales@x2omedia.com and follow X2O updates on LinkedIn and Twitter.