The retail trade is facing huge challenges coping with the digital transformation.
With the new version of the digital-signage software solution kompas, dimedis has
introduced new functions that are especially useful for the retail trade and
communication at the POS. With kompas POS.Pointer, dimedis has integrated
interactive digital signage into modern shopfitting. When a user selects a product on
the column or an interactive kiosk system, the product is illuminated in the adjacent
shelve. It also works the other way round: the customer can scan in the product via
the barcode and the relevant data such as price, availability, accessories or
alternative products is displayed on the digital-signage screen. With version 8.0.20
of kompas, dimedis has introduced additional features such as a mobile version of
kompas in order to receive status displays or to improve the integration of audio.

Patrick Schroder, Head of Digital Signage at dimedis, talking about the new version
of kompas: “It is no longer possible to imagine the retail trade without digital
signage. Besides being used for advertising purposes, interactive applications also
serve as a bridge between stationary and online retail outlets. kompas provides
everything you need to combine merchandise management and the online shop.
With kompas POS.Pointer, we have enhanced our software with direct control of a
physical medium on the shelf, i.e. the seamless integration of interactive digital
signage with modern product presentation on the shelf. If the user selects a product
on the column, the product is lit up on the adjacent shelf. The user can now try out
the product and put it into his shopping basket straight away. Moreover, kompas is
the ideal tool with which to manage dynamic content and the digital-signage
network.’

Further highlights of the new kompas version 8.0.20:

• Kiosk: Hardware support for jog dials to control kompas player & kiosk
menus. A jog dial is a control element on electronic equipment in the form of a
wheel that can be rotated with the finger.

• Booking: Display of spots that have already been played in the playlist
dialogue and deletion of these spots via a context menu.

• As the first function of our Mobile First strategy, we have expanded the
smart.desk plug-in: Status display of a kompas player on the smartphone by
scanning a QR code that can be affixed to the player or the monitor housing.

• Player: Standard screen configuration templates (Full HD portrait/landscape).

• Audio: Improved integration of content control into the kompas user interface.

• Safety: Flash plug-in deleted from the kompas user interface and improved
login.