Payment Card Commoditization
08.12.05 (4:34 pm) [edit]
SCB Solutions, Inc. Announces Solution to Payment Card Commoditization
Banks’ control over electronic payments is under attack. Banks are losing contact with their customers and are relegated to differentiating themselves by pricing. SCB Solutions can help them leverage their untapped resources.
Arlington, VA (PRWEB) August 9, 2005 -– Banks’ control over electronic payments is under attack. Much of the industry power historically held by established banks is shifting into the hands of processors and merchant associations. Banks are losing contact with their customers and are relegated to differentiating themselves by pricing. SCB Solutions can help them leverage their untapped resources.
Financial institutions and payment associations such as Visa and MasterCard are spending billions of dollars on infrastructures that are mainly used to fight fraud or prevent misuse of cards. At the time of a payment transaction, a link is established between the cardholder and the issuing bank, but currently this sophisticated link is only used to communicate transaction approval to the cardholder. “What a waste in a market where payments cards are seen more and more as commodity items. Our solutions leverage the underused IT investment to establish a richer link at the time of the transaction,” said Ronan Lapie, President of SCB Solutions.
The channel of communication between the issuer and the point of sales terminal offers a variety of new options. For example, a bank could use the solution to provide instant cash-back, rather than waiting till the end of the month or the end of the year. Or, the customers could redeem their miles on regular transactions. And those are just enhancements to current payment schemes. In addition, this new communication channel in the hands of marketing people will likely spark the development of new concepts.
“SCB Solutions has always promoted products that combine high security on the one hand and a better and richer experience for the end-users on the other hand. We are now just applying those concepts to the banking world,” added Lapie.
About SCB Solutions, Inc.
SCB Solutions, Inc. is a provider of smart card, identity and secured transaction technologies. The company portfolio includes integrated smart card applications and products for the enterprise, government and banking markets. SCB Solutions allows its customers to enhance and secure their digital world and provide an easier and richer experience to the end-users. SCB Solutions' offerings include SCB Access™ logical access, secure logon, and single sign-on applications, and Sm@rtSite™, an integrated multi-application smart card system with modules for card management, identification, payment services, security and loyalty. The SCB Solutions consulting practice is designed to provide strategic, technological and logistical support to organizations considering new identification, authentication and advanced payment. For more information on SCB Solutions, Inc., visit www.scbsolutions.com. For more information on Advanced Payment, visit http://www.scbsolutions.com/w...
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703-465-9491
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Banks’ control over electronic payments is under attack. Banks are losing contact with their customers and are relegated to differentiating themselves by pricing. SCB Solutions can help them leverage their untapped resources.
Arlington, VA (PRWEB) August 9, 2005 -– Banks’ control over electronic payments is under attack. Much of the industry power historically held by established banks is shifting into the hands of processors and merchant associations. Banks are losing contact with their customers and are relegated to differentiating themselves by pricing. SCB Solutions can help them leverage their untapped resources.
Financial institutions and payment associations such as Visa and MasterCard are spending billions of dollars on infrastructures that are mainly used to fight fraud or prevent misuse of cards. At the time of a payment transaction, a link is established between the cardholder and the issuing bank, but currently this sophisticated link is only used to communicate transaction approval to the cardholder. “What a waste in a market where payments cards are seen more and more as commodity items. Our solutions leverage the underused IT investment to establish a richer link at the time of the transaction,” said Ronan Lapie, President of SCB Solutions.
The channel of communication between the issuer and the point of sales terminal offers a variety of new options. For example, a bank could use the solution to provide instant cash-back, rather than waiting till the end of the month or the end of the year. Or, the customers could redeem their miles on regular transactions. And those are just enhancements to current payment schemes. In addition, this new communication channel in the hands of marketing people will likely spark the development of new concepts.
“SCB Solutions has always promoted products that combine high security on the one hand and a better and richer experience for the end-users on the other hand. We are now just applying those concepts to the banking world,” added Lapie.
About SCB Solutions, Inc.
SCB Solutions, Inc. is a provider of smart card, identity and secured transaction technologies. The company portfolio includes integrated smart card applications and products for the enterprise, government and banking markets. SCB Solutions allows its customers to enhance and secure their digital world and provide an easier and richer experience to the end-users. SCB Solutions' offerings include SCB Access™ logical access, secure logon, and single sign-on applications, and Sm@rtSite™, an integrated multi-application smart card system with modules for card management, identification, payment services, security and loyalty. The SCB Solutions consulting practice is designed to provide strategic, technological and logistical support to organizations considering new identification, authentication and advanced payment. For more information on SCB Solutions, Inc., visit www.scbsolutions.com. For more information on Advanced Payment, visit http://www.scbsolutions.com/w...
Contact:
Ronan Lapie
703-465-9491
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POS solution - restaurant
08.07.05 (11:12 am) [edit]
Chick-fil-A and USAT Corp. Win Technology Award for Innovative M2M Project
Chick-fil-A and USAT Corp. were recently awarded a prestigious 2005 Value Chain Award at the M2M United conference in Chicago. The award recognized the companies' work in implementing a portable POS solution that could be used at grand openings for new restaurant locations.
Atlanta, GA. (PRWEB) July 27, 2005 -- Chick-fil-A was recently awarded a 2005 Value Chain Award at the M2M United conference in Chicago. M2M Magazine, the leading publication covering machine-to-machine communications, awarded Chick-fil-A the Silver Prize in Retail Innovation for the company's work in implementing a portable POS solution that could be used at grand openings for new restaurant locations.
Also accepting a Silver Prize with Chick-fil-A was solutions provider USAT Corp., a company that specializes in using wireless data for remote asset management. USAT Corp. provided wireless data hardware, integration advice, and wireless data plan activation services to the internal Chick-fil-A Information Technology team that managed the project.
M2M Magazine created the Value Chain Awards to honor the most successful adopters of M2M technology and their enablers, the teams of solution providers that made their successes possible.
In summing up the benefits reaped from his department's M2M project, Chick-fil-A Senior IT Supervisor Tony Letts, says “… Using wireless technology, Chick-fil-A can begin processing credit cards as soon as we open a new location, and we do not have to worry about delays caused by lags in getting the landline POS infrastructure in place. This helps to ensure that our new restaurants open on schedule every time.”
About Chick-fil-A Inc.:
Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A, Inc., the nation's second-largest quick-service chicken restaurant chain (based on sales), currently has more than 1,200 restaurants in 38 states and Washington, D.C. Credited with inventing the chicken sandwich and first introducing the chicken nugget concept, Chick-fil-A serves nutritious and freshly prepared food products in malls, free-standing units, drive thru-only outlets, Chick-fil-A Dwarf House® and Truett's Grill® full-service restaurants, and through licensed outlets in college campuses, hospitals, airports, businesses and industrial sites. More information about Chick-fil-A is available on the chain's websites, located at www.chick-fil-a.com, www.chick-fil-apressroom.com or www.truettcathy.com.
About USAT Corp.:
Based in Chapel Hill, NC, USAT is a mobility systems integrator dedicated to maximizing the uptime of employees working outside of the conventional office setting. A full-service technology partner, USAT can procure, implement and support the components needed for wide-area Remote Asset Management (RAM) initiatives. More information about USAT Corp. is available on the company's website, located at www.usatcorp.com.
Chick-fil-A and USAT Corp. were recently awarded a prestigious 2005 Value Chain Award at the M2M United conference in Chicago. The award recognized the companies' work in implementing a portable POS solution that could be used at grand openings for new restaurant locations.
Atlanta, GA. (PRWEB) July 27, 2005 -- Chick-fil-A was recently awarded a 2005 Value Chain Award at the M2M United conference in Chicago. M2M Magazine, the leading publication covering machine-to-machine communications, awarded Chick-fil-A the Silver Prize in Retail Innovation for the company's work in implementing a portable POS solution that could be used at grand openings for new restaurant locations.
Also accepting a Silver Prize with Chick-fil-A was solutions provider USAT Corp., a company that specializes in using wireless data for remote asset management. USAT Corp. provided wireless data hardware, integration advice, and wireless data plan activation services to the internal Chick-fil-A Information Technology team that managed the project.
M2M Magazine created the Value Chain Awards to honor the most successful adopters of M2M technology and their enablers, the teams of solution providers that made their successes possible.
In summing up the benefits reaped from his department's M2M project, Chick-fil-A Senior IT Supervisor Tony Letts, says “… Using wireless technology, Chick-fil-A can begin processing credit cards as soon as we open a new location, and we do not have to worry about delays caused by lags in getting the landline POS infrastructure in place. This helps to ensure that our new restaurants open on schedule every time.”
About Chick-fil-A Inc.:
Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A, Inc., the nation's second-largest quick-service chicken restaurant chain (based on sales), currently has more than 1,200 restaurants in 38 states and Washington, D.C. Credited with inventing the chicken sandwich and first introducing the chicken nugget concept, Chick-fil-A serves nutritious and freshly prepared food products in malls, free-standing units, drive thru-only outlets, Chick-fil-A Dwarf House® and Truett's Grill® full-service restaurants, and through licensed outlets in college campuses, hospitals, airports, businesses and industrial sites. More information about Chick-fil-A is available on the chain's websites, located at www.chick-fil-a.com, www.chick-fil-apressroom.com or www.truettcathy.com.
About USAT Corp.:
Based in Chapel Hill, NC, USAT is a mobility systems integrator dedicated to maximizing the uptime of employees working outside of the conventional office setting. A full-service technology partner, USAT can procure, implement and support the components needed for wide-area Remote Asset Management (RAM) initiatives. More information about USAT Corp. is available on the company's website, located at www.usatcorp.com.
Retail Management
08.03.05 (3:26 pm) [edit]
Zunch to Provide Search Engine Marketing for DueMaternity.com High End Maternity Fashion Boutique Switches to Dallas Company
Zunch Communications, Inc. has announced an addition to its client roster with the recent signing of Due Maternity, an online retail boutique specializing in maternity clothing for the fashionable mother-to-be. Zunch will provide search engine optimization and search engine marketing for the site located at www.DueMaternity.com. In addition to a full online store, the company also has boutiques in Santa, Barbara, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas and a new store soon to open in San Francisco.
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) July 12, 2005 -– Zunch Communications, Inc. has announced an addition to its client roster with the recent signing of Due Maternity, an online retail boutique specializing in maternity clothing for the fashionable mother-to-be. Zunch will provide search engine optimization and search engine marketing for the site located at www.DueMaternity.com. In addition to a full online store, the company also has boutiques in Santa, Barbara, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas and a new store soon to open in San Francisco.
Tony Wright, Zunch’s Chief Interactive Marketing Officer, whose wife is an expectant mother, is excited about the opportunity to work with Due Maternity.
“As the husband of a mother-to be, I know how hard it is to find maternity clothing that isn’t – how do I say this nicely – frumpy,” says Wright, “There are plenty of expecting women like my wife, or like our own Carrie Tinsley, Co-Director of Zunch’s SEO Division, who don’t think you have to sacrifice fashion when you become pregnant.”
Due Maternity’s clothing lines extend from jeans and fashionable tops to sleep-ware intimates and dresses. Also featured on the website are diaper bags, swimwear and nursing clothing.
Wright explained the difference between search engine marketing (SEM) and organic search engine optimization (SEO).
“SEM is also known as pay-per-click. Those are the search results on Google, for example, that are over on the right side of the page, or the ones at the top highlighted in blue. With PPC, you are buying keywords that you know your potential market is searching for. In the case of Due Maternity, an obvious keyword phrase might be “maternity fashions,’” Wright continued, “Organic search engine optimization makes use of your web content. We try to make sure that your website is optimized with keyword rich content, thus bettering your ranking when potential customers search those keywords. We go about this scientifically, of course, researching the phrases most searched. But with this many expectant moms around me, I think we’ll be able to intuitively come up with a few phrases relating to maternity fashion – or lack thereof.”
Due Maternity has plans to begin an Interactive Public Relations campaign with Zunch in the coming months. Company representatives for Due Maternity cited Zunch’s ability to provide all of their services in-house as one of the reasons they recently switched interactive agencies.
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Zunch Communications, Inc. (http://www.zunch.com) is a search engine optimization, website design and Microsoft Certified application development company dedicated to achieving measurable results for its clients. Top-ranked worldwide in search engine optimization, Zunch Communications is a member of DFWIMA, SEO Consultants, seopros, DFWSEM, topseos and a Circle Member of SEMPO.
Zunch Communications, Inc. has announced an addition to its client roster with the recent signing of Due Maternity, an online retail boutique specializing in maternity clothing for the fashionable mother-to-be. Zunch will provide search engine optimization and search engine marketing for the site located at www.DueMaternity.com. In addition to a full online store, the company also has boutiques in Santa, Barbara, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas and a new store soon to open in San Francisco.
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) July 12, 2005 -– Zunch Communications, Inc. has announced an addition to its client roster with the recent signing of Due Maternity, an online retail boutique specializing in maternity clothing for the fashionable mother-to-be. Zunch will provide search engine optimization and search engine marketing for the site located at www.DueMaternity.com. In addition to a full online store, the company also has boutiques in Santa, Barbara, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas and a new store soon to open in San Francisco.
Tony Wright, Zunch’s Chief Interactive Marketing Officer, whose wife is an expectant mother, is excited about the opportunity to work with Due Maternity.
“As the husband of a mother-to be, I know how hard it is to find maternity clothing that isn’t – how do I say this nicely – frumpy,” says Wright, “There are plenty of expecting women like my wife, or like our own Carrie Tinsley, Co-Director of Zunch’s SEO Division, who don’t think you have to sacrifice fashion when you become pregnant.”
Due Maternity’s clothing lines extend from jeans and fashionable tops to sleep-ware intimates and dresses. Also featured on the website are diaper bags, swimwear and nursing clothing.
Wright explained the difference between search engine marketing (SEM) and organic search engine optimization (SEO).
“SEM is also known as pay-per-click. Those are the search results on Google, for example, that are over on the right side of the page, or the ones at the top highlighted in blue. With PPC, you are buying keywords that you know your potential market is searching for. In the case of Due Maternity, an obvious keyword phrase might be “maternity fashions,’” Wright continued, “Organic search engine optimization makes use of your web content. We try to make sure that your website is optimized with keyword rich content, thus bettering your ranking when potential customers search those keywords. We go about this scientifically, of course, researching the phrases most searched. But with this many expectant moms around me, I think we’ll be able to intuitively come up with a few phrases relating to maternity fashion – or lack thereof.”
Due Maternity has plans to begin an Interactive Public Relations campaign with Zunch in the coming months. Company representatives for Due Maternity cited Zunch’s ability to provide all of their services in-house as one of the reasons they recently switched interactive agencies.
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Zunch Communications, Inc. (http://www.zunch.com) is a search engine optimization, website design and Microsoft Certified application development company dedicated to achieving measurable results for its clients. Top-ranked worldwide in search engine optimization, Zunch Communications is a member of DFWIMA, SEO Consultants, seopros, DFWSEM, topseos and a Circle Member of SEMPO.
For Hire: Point of Sale Installation Experts
08.02.05 (10:31 am) [edit]
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08.02.05 (10:15 am) [edit]