Released on = December 11, 2006, 6:02 pm

Press Release Author = Derek Meade

Industry = Food & Beverage

Press Release Summary = Volanté Systems offers a new POS (point of sale) solution
for the hospitality and gaming industries, where the demand for complete reliability
and security is critical.

Press Release Body = There's no question that a reliable POS (point of sale) system
can benefit your business. Finding and implementing the right POS solution will
not only allow you a tighter control on costs, but it can increase productivity as
well. A smaller restaurant or lounge operation can purchase and install a system
relatively easily. For larger, more complex venues, however, sourcing out a
reliable, flexible and secure system presents a different challenge. For the
hospitality and gaming industries in particular, complete reliability and security
is critical.

A multi entertainment complex, for instance, may encompass a casino, numerous
restaurants and lounges, an outdoor patio and merchandise sales. In the past,
establishments such as these have required separate systems to handle their diverse
technology requirements. Linking these outlets under the umbrella of one POS
system, and having it all integrate into a patron management system presented unique
challenges. Companies such as these also have a wish list of features, the most
important being:

- Customer Relationship Management
- Enterprise version for corporate and multi-location
- Reservation system
- Wireless POS/Wireless mobile computing
- Security
- Flexibility

Woodbine Entertainment Group faced these challenges when sourcing out their
hospitality software. Woodbine Entertainment is involved in thoroughbred racing,
standardbred racing, casino and food and beverage operations. They needed a system
that was not only secure, flexible and reliable, but it needed to also integrate
with Woodbine's player reward application. Another important consideration for
Woodbine was the ability for the system to stand alone.

Eddie Stutz, VP of Operations for Woodbine, says that flexibility was first and
foremost on his mind. "Reliability is also very important, especially a system that
can stand alone. We can't have our system go down, who wants to find themselves in
that situation? So having no down time at all is key."

Stutz had looked at a number of point of sale systems, before finally deciding to go
for Tesoro's Volanté Systems. "As you know, there are so many of them out there."
says Stutz. "At the end of the day, I knew that Volanté is what I wanted." The
reason why? "We are a very complex company. Woodbine has given Volanté much more
exposure than anticipated, due to the fact that it can be used in many venues. It's
an all encompassing system. I'm able to pull up any menu I want from any location, I
can pull up a dining room menu, then switch to a lounge menu, for instance."

Other reasons for choosing Volanté included its array of other applications,
including purchasing, rewards and retail, as well as the ability to integrate with
Woodbine's player-reward application. Woodbine installed Volanté at all their
various venues (club, casual and fine dine, cafeteria and quick service), numbering
some 200+ registers in a mixed Linux / Windows enterprise topology. \"Nowadays
everything is about convergence and getting all systems into one\", says Randy
Folmes, director of IT. \" We want to get to the point where we can say \'how much did
we sell today?\' and run one report to find out\".

Volanté is developed entirely in pure Java. Given its highly object- and network-
oriented nature, Volanté is an excellent POS software choice for a complex
hospitality environment. Since Java is the premier language of the internet, Volanté
thus is able to seamlessly integrate corporate activity to the powerful features of
internet computing. Also, given that Java is cross platform compatible language,
Volanté will run on the operating system of your choice, Linux, Unix or Windows, or
Linux and Windows, for instance. Woodbine saw a cost benefit right away. "Volanté
has a really good platform, which is also very cost effective. I like the fact that
I don't need to pay Window's licensing fees, for instance." says Stutz. He was also
impressed by Volanté's wireless option. "I especially like the wireless hand held
unit. Believe it or not, I initially saw the product at a trade show in Vegas. It's
funny that I had to go to Vegas to find a company that's located just around the
corner from me."

In fact, Volanté has revolutionized the wireless POS industry. Their creative
approach to wireless mobile computing makes Volanté the perfect wireless solution
for venues such as stadiums, trade shows, casinos, arenas, race tracks and outdoor
sales areas where conventional POS terminals aren\'t practical nor feasible. By using
PC notebooks (not much bigger then a handheld) the entire POS software is loaded on
the unit and it runs as a terminal with peer to peer, data synching etc. PDA\'s don't
work in this manner- they require writing to the unit (in other words, new code,
separate product) plus they\'re not robust enough for Food and beverage. Volanté has
evolved its software into the peer to peer architecture, and now POS software can be
loaded onto a small wireless notebook with amazing results. The technology is
revolutionary - nobody else can do what Volanté is doing.

For complex hospitality providers, hoping to enhance their guest's experience while
improving operational efficiency at the same time, the odds are looking good.


Web Site = http://www.volantesystems.com

Contact Details = Annette Ennamorato
Director of Sales & Operations
1188 Martin Grove Road
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
416.522.1825
sales@volantesystems.com