Challenge
mirabyte FrontFace is a software product which is widely used
across the world for displaying all kinds of visual content on versatile digital
screens, displays, interactive terminals, and information kiosks.
As a significant part of their customers has web-based content, the FrontFace
developers needed a solution to integrate and display web pages in either
playlists or touchscreen menus. The legacy Internet Explorer could no longer
handle modern web standards, so the team was looking for a browser component,
which could meet cutting-edge requirements of today’s web.
FrontFace is also extensively used for all kinds of interactive kiosks and
customer information terminals — from airports and museums to government
institutions. In order to automate the service workflow, these screens often
require form-filling functionality. This was another reason why mirabyte needed
a component which can provide interaction with PDF documents.
Solution
mirabyte selected DotNetBrowser as a web rendering component for their software.
It allowed the team to attain top-notch quality in processing and
displaying complex web content across all types of displays and signage.
The DotNetBrowser PDF Viewer functionality came into use for those FrontFace
customers who requested the ability to input data into forms directly from
the terminals.
Professional technical support was provided directly by DotNetBrowser
developers. It allowed mirabyte to save time on the integration and tuning
up of the browser component and focus further on developing
FrontFace instead.
Touch screen display for museum.
Results
With the constantly updated multi-platform DotNetBrowser under the hood,
FrontFace is reliably serving its numerous and diverse customers worldwide,
providing extensive web display and interaction capabilities for informational
and advertising digital signage.
“We are more than happy to have chosen DotNetBrowser which is not only
an outstanding web browser component but also comes with world class
technical support!”
Joachim Schwieren, mirabyte CEO
As mirabyte outlined its plans to make FrontFace more platform-independent by
expanding its capabilities also to Mac and Linux®, DotNetBrowser turned out to
be the right choice of the component due to its cross-platform compatibility.
Thus, enhancing the future-proof nature of mirabyte’s solutions and supporting
its strong position in the market of professional digital signage and
kiosk software.
