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News
The
Whitlock Group Wins DIGI Award for AxisTV Deployment at Virginia
Commonwealth University
February 19, 2008
ATLANTA, GA —
The
Whitlock Group, in partnership with Visix, Inc., has been awarded the
2008 DIGI Award in
Education Application, Excellence in
Technology
for their deployment of the AxisTV unified communications software
solution at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). The Whitlock Group
is a leading audiovisual integration firm and Visix Premier Partner.
The 2008 DIGI Awards
from The Digital Signage Group honor
excellence in the digital signage industry by selecting 14 winners in
seven categories: Retail, Corporate, Entertainment, Education,
Healthcare, Public Venue and Judges’ Choice. Judges for the
distinguished awards included Alan Brawn, Principal, Brawn Consulting;
Bill Collins, principal of Decision Point Media Insights; Ed Weil,
Sourcebook Director-Content, Inc. magazine; Lyle Bunn, Principal,
Lyle Bunn Consulting; and David Keene, Executive Editor of Digital
Signage Magazine and DIGI Awards Chairman. Sean Matthews, President,
Visix, Inc., will join other winners on a panel at the Digital Signage
Expo in Las Vegas, February 27-28, 2008. The panel, entitled
“Bringing It All Together”, DIGI Award Winners Share What It Takes to
Implement a Winning Digital Signage Project will be held Thursday,
February 28, 2008 at 4:30pm.
The AxisTV
Enterprise solution deployed at VCU provides the university with a
sophisticated, campus-wide communication solution to deliver news,
announcements, schedule changes, and critical weather and emergency
alerts to more than 30,000 students and approximately 17,000 full and
part-time employees. An integrated suite of application tools delivers
timely content to thousands of overlapping endpoints including large
screen displays, televisions, desktops, cell phones and RSS enabled
devices.
About The
Whitlock Group
The
Whitlock Group is a systems integration firm focused on the design,
procurement, engineering, installation and service of audiovisual,
videoconferencing, video-streaming, digital signage, video-production
and broadcast solutions. As a systems integration firm, The Whitlock
Group delivers complete solutions that seamlessly integrate the audio,
video, display and system controls to create unique and compelling
multimedia solutions.
The Whitlock Group is an authorized representative of over
400 manufacturer
product lines. By offering such a large range of manufacturer
choices, The Whitlock Group is fully prepared to design and deliver
systems tailored to best fit your specific needs and applications. As
each situation is different from the next, every product functions
differently in one application over another. Therefore, The Whitlock
Group has chosen to represent a comprehensive spectrum of product lines
so we can offer independent, best-choice solutions for every
application.
As an experienced and widely respected systems integration firm, The
Whitlock Group has developed an impressive
portfolio
of successfully completed projects, including turnkey broadcast and
production facilities, presentation systems, network operations centers,
business videoconferencing centers and electronic boardrooms.
About Virginia
Commonwealth University
Virginia
Commonwealth University, located on two downtown campuses in Richmond,
Va., ranks among the top 100 universities in the country in sponsored
research and enrolls 30,000 students. VCU offers more than 195
certificate, undergraduate, graduate, professional and doctoral programs
in 15 schools and one liberal arts college. VCU is also
the largest-single
employer in the Richmond area, with more than 10,700 full-time and 6,000
part-time employees.
The University is also
the first major research university in the country to develop a homeland
security and emergency preparedness undergraduate degree and will offer
a master’s program in the fall of 2008.
About The
Digital Signage Group
The
Digital Signage Group is a specialty distributor 100% focused on Digital
Signage. We assist Pro AV and IT dealers with project consulting and
coordination, constructing project teams, and a robust line of
specialized software and hardware solutions for diverse digital visual
messaging applications.
We also co
publish the Digital Signage Resource Directory and Digital Signage
Magazine. More information is available at www.tdsg.net or by calling
866-591-1974.
About Visix
Visix,
Inc. designs, develops and supports a suite of software applications
that allow users to create, import and manage their visual
communications from anywhere and to deliver those messages to virtually
any endpoint.
The
company offers digital signage software, room and event scheduling
solutions, and applications for targeted messaging to desktops and
portable devices. Each of these products works independently or can be
integrated into scaleable deployments from a single display to large
networks. This comprehensive approach to on-time communications – from
concept to delivery – provides systems including software, hardware and
distribution accessories, as well as multi-tier service and support
options to manage and maintain dynamic visual communications.
Contact
Visix at 800.572.4935 or salesteam@visix.com. Parties interested in
additional information about Visix, AxisTV, MeetingMinder™, and
MessageBlox™ visual communications products should visit the Visix web
site at www.visix.com.
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