Wyse Technology and Pippard have come together to create a POS system that is designed and optimized for these environments.
The Pippard MRT-WCR includes the traditional POS system display, cash drawer, receipt printer and scanner, but its heart is based on a new Wyse virtual client processor combined with a Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 2009 operating system.
- The Wyse component is unique in the market, offering hardware support for advanced multimedia and video, enabling easier to use and more impactful POS applications.
- It also uses solid state storage rather than a hard disk to store local operating software, significantly increasing the reliability. Windows Embedded Standard 2009 delivers peripheral connectivity and enterprise class manageability.
The system will be available in January 2010 directly from Pippard and through distribution in mid-2010. The system will be available as a thin client targeted at the specialty retail market and as a zero client with Wyse Streaming Manager targeted at the large format retailer with greater than 6 registers per store.
This approach connects directly to cloud computing, virtualization and streaming software technologies delivered by Citrix, Microsoft, VMware and Wyse today, and provides several benefits:
- Highly secure – no data is stored on the POS system, so no data is lost or exposed in the case of damage or theft of the system.
- Increased margins – through lower operating costs
- Lower energy costs – The ENERGYSTAR certified Wyse client consumes less than 7 watts of electricity in full operation – the same amount of energy consumed as a typical holiday tree light bulb, and typically 85 percent less than PC-based products.
- Simplifies and reduces IT costs, via central management, reducing or eliminating the need to ever visit the system to perform maintenance, upgrades, and diagnostics
- Reliable – operation continues even in the case of network failure
- POS resiliency – a solid state disk drive option provides for remotely managed, local virtualized POS transaction storage in the event of loss of communications with central server
- Flexible – seasonal traffic increases can be easily handled by simply connecting additional units to the in-store network
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