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Image Vault Announces Digital Dining Interface

Image Vault, the leading provider of end-to-end digital video security solutions, and Menusoft Systems, an industry pioneer of PC-based point-of-sale solutions, today announced the release of a custom interface between Menusoft’s Digital Dining product suite and Image Vault’s DVR software. The two companies also announced a strategic alliance between Image Vault and Menusoft Systems to promote each other’s products.

According to Brandon Ring, National Sales Manager for Image Vault, the benefits for Digital Dining’s user-base of 120,000 restaurant locations are clear. “The Digital Dining / Image Vault interface will enable restaurants that deploy Digital Dining to simultaneously view video and transaction information from Digital Dining within Image Vault’s DVR software.” Ring continued: “suspect transactions from the POS, such as Discounts, No Sales, and Voids, can be entered into Image Vault’s exception reporting database for quick and efficient review, and email alerts can also be set up for instant notification of priority exceptions.”

This interface also greatly benefits the VARs who offer Digital Dining to their restaurant customers. Although the benefits of a DVR integrated with the POS have been definitively proven for the restaurant industry, the technical process of actually interfacing a DVR to a POS system has been fraught with guesswork because the DVRs and POS systems are designed and manufactured so disparately. According to Andre Nataf, Strategic Alliance & Large Accounts Manager for Menusoft Systems, “since the Image Vault / Digital Dining interface is factory certified by both Image Vault and Menusoft, it is now a much easier engineering proposition for a VAR to sell and install a POS that is already integrated with a DVR.”

The bottom line is that the business relationship between the two companies and technological enhancement makes it easier for shared customers and VARs to maximize the use of both these best-of-breed restaurant industry solutions. The Digital Dining interface is available now on Image Vault Version 8.6 and on Digital Dining Version 7.3.04. Please contact Image Vault, to receive software for the interface.

POS dealers and VARs seeking to increase sales to existing customers by selling Image Vault DVRs interfaced with Digital Dining should contact Brandon Ring at 888-462-4382 ext #8, 3535 or brandonr@image-vault.com or Andre Nataf, Strategic Alliance & Large Accounts Manager, Menusoft Systems, Developers of Digital Dining at 303-522-2652, andrenataf@mindspring.com.

Interested restaurant owners and operators should contact their local Digital Dining dealer or Image Vault.

Since 1998, when Image Vault developed a digital product that was a plug and play replacement for the VCR system, its recorders have been proven in many successful applications nationwide. Advancements in the product family, including the latest release of Image Vault PRO-Command, continue to enable Image Vault to extend its sales penetration to other markets that are benefiting equally well from its established product line. For more information about Image Vault, please visit www.image-vault.com

About FireKing Security Group
FireKing Security Group manufactures a broad array of security products with best-in-class service and support for businesses around the world. The products and services we offer focus solely on protecting customers’ assets, people, and vital information. FireKing Security Group’s brands include FireKing fireproof files and safes; Adesco, EXL, McGunn, Meilink, and Gary home, office, and commercial safes; NKL and PerfectCash cash-handling and cash-validating products; and Image Vault digital video security solutions. The New Albany, Indiana-based company is privately held. Additional information about FireKing is available at www.fireking.com.

About Digital Dining/Menusoft Systems
Digital Dining was originally developed and installed in Australia in 1978. The product was introduced in the United States in 1984 and the Virginia Corporation, Menusoft, was formed. Today Menusoft is both recognized as a pioneer in the hospitality point-of-sale (POS) market and as an innovator with regards to functionality and features. Digital Dining is now in its 22nd year of production and development and has been installed at more than 30,000 sites throughout North America. From quick service to table service and everything in between, Digital Dining can be configured to meet any environment using the same application and the same corporate database. Menusoft continues to grow and develop the software, each year adding more and more features and capabilities. More information is available at www.digitaldining.com.