Windows embedded POSReady 2009

March 2010 IT in Manufacturing

In an economy where relationships are increasingly strategic to long-term profitability, businesses need to rely on POS (point-Of-service) devices to strengthen customer loyalty and drive down costs. POSReady 2009 is a flexible operating system designed to seamlessly connect POS, kiosk or industrial solutions with peripherals, servers, and services.

POSReady reduces costs, increases security, and provides the reliability, familiarity, manageability, ongoing service, and system updates expected from all Windows platforms. POSReady is the perfect replacement for existing XP Professional designs to reduce licence cost and optimise deployment and replacement.

Features

* No activation.

* Evaluate with trial version.

* Built-in networking capabilities help ensure that next generation smart devices easily connect to other devices, PCs, servers and services.

* Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.

* Windows Media Player 11.

* Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 support.

* .NET Framework 3.5 support.

* Office Viewers support – Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Applications

* Kiosk.

* POS.

* Cash register.

* Industrial PC.

* Medical devices.

* Measurement devices.

For more information contact Thato Dipudi, Avnet Kopp, +27 (0)11 809 6100, [email protected], www.avnet.co.za

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