Vista Cinema
software solutions
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The Vista suite
from VCSTIMELESS has been developed and designed
exclusively for the cinema industry. A truly integrated
management information system, Vista provides
significant benefits for customers and cinema operators.
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Vista
Technical Architecture - Cinema software solutions |
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Vista Cinema
software solution |
TECHNICAL
ARCHITECTURE |
Hardware & Technical
Information
Unlike many other cinema software systems, Vista
does not force cinemas to use proprietary hardware
or databases. When Vista was initially developed
it was designed to run with an infrastructure
that customers could get at the ‘local computer
store'.
This is why the Vista Cinema system has
been built around the Microsoft infrastructure.
The software
is programmed in Microsoft Visual Basic, the database
is Microsoft SQL Server, and the applications are
implemented on Microsoft Windows.
Compatible POS
workstations include Partech, NCR, IBM, Javelin
and standard Intel and Windows based
personal computers with a touch screen. Vista’s
kiosk application is compatible with a number of
hardware devices including Partech, NCR, IBM, or
custom-built kiosks. The recommended operating system
for both is Windows XP Pro.
The Vista PDA product,
MobilePOS, can run on Pocket PC or Windows CE.
Vista
Point of Sale supports a wide range of card swipe
devices, barcode readers, cash drawers and
customer displays. Vista
Point of Sale and Kiosk also support the OPOS retail standards as a popular
way of communicating with different hardware devices.
Vista
supports a wide range of ticket printers, including
Practical Automation, Boca, Zebra Stripe,
NCR, Epson, Star, IBM and many more. The layout
for all tickets, receipts, vouchers and slips can
be easily customised for each cinema. Additionally,
tickets can be fanfold or continuous roll paper.
Vista
is able to support a wide variety of fiscal devices
and many different ticket number algorithms
as required.
Secure
Vista offers a number of options to keep your cinemas
up and running. Using RAID and hot swappable disks,
if the cinema experiences a hard disk failure,
then our customers are able to keep on selling
while an engineer swaps out the faulty hard disk.
Sites running Microsoft’s SQL Log Shipping
are able to run 2 servers in parallel and if one
fails, the system can cut over to the secondary
server. Vista also offers the option of off-line
sales at POS.
Benefits:
The Vista Technical Architecture
provides many different benefits to cinema owners
such as:
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Open Architecture.
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Vista’s
unique cabinets system for user defined data
access.
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Open reporting
system.
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Multi level
security.
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Automated release
upgrades.
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Customer controlled
multi-language facilities.
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Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs) for
many functions
including:
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Vista Sales
Server – enables 3rd
party systems
to interface with Vista.
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Vista Payments
Module – provides
a standard payment
interface to all Vista modules.
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Vista
Utilities Server – relays
cinema information
to the utility systems such as Signage,
Air Conditioning
and
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Projection
Systems.
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Easy integration
to other
systems.
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