Scala in Malvern, PA offers their digital signage software which provides Designer for content design, Content Manager for content organization and control, and Player for content viewing. Notably the software supports a wide array of digital signage including touchscreen kiosks and service for direct customer engagement and interaction.
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TelemetryTV
Score 8.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
TelemetryTV is a digital signage platform built for the modern organization who needs to engage audiences, generate awareness, and give their teams and communities a voice. TelemetryTV allows users to broadcast dynamic content by streaming video, images, social feeds, turnkey apps, and data-driven dashboards to all displays, wherever they are. The vendor states TelemetryTV powers marketing and internal communications at Starbucks, New York Public…
$8
Annual term : No Minimum Devices
Pricing
Scala
TelemetryTV
Editions & Modules
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Entry
$8 per device /mo
Annual term : No Minimum Devices
Core
$13 per device /mo
Annual term : No Minimum Devices
Elite
$16 per device /mo
Annual term : Minimum 10 Devices Required
Enterprise
$35 per device /mo
Annual term : Minimum 100 Devices Required
Network
starting at $4500 /mo
Annual term : Minimum 500 Devices Required
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Pricing Offerings
Scala
TelemetryTV
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
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Higher Volume Discounts Available for Enterprise-Level Customers and Advertising Networks
If you are in the data science world, Scala is the best language to work with Spark, the defacto data science data store. I think that is really the main likely reason I would ever recommend Scala. Another reason is if you already have a team of programmers familiar with functional programming, e.g. they all have years of Haskell experience. In that case, I definitely think Scala is a superior and faster-growing language than Haskell and that picking up Scala after Haskell should be quick.
Telemetry works well with basic communications. If you have a TV screen set up in a high traffic area you can add and remove info on the fly. It will update within minutes. Also, several users can make edits as needed.
Compatibility with Java: if you are switching off of Java onto a new language, one reason to pick Scala is that it is about 99% compatible with Java, so any Java libraries or code you were using before can be called from Scala (not vice-versa though).
Great built-in features for managing concurrency (e.g. Futures, Actors, and Akka). Making the most of every single thread on the machines your Scala code is running on is much easier and safer than doing it with Java. Scala abstracts away thread pools and threads quite well with Futures. I wouldn't say Futures are easy to learn though....but they are definitely safer to use than pure threads.
Null-pointer safety: In Scala, null pointers are rare because most libraries pass around a class called Option when whatever you are referencing could possibly be null. Options are first-class and the functional nature of Scala combined with Options means you can almost always avoid referencing a null directly using Option.map or Option.flatMap (see here for what they do https://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/Option.html). That means you'll almost never encounter another null-pointer exception unless you do something quite stupid and avoidable. Java has Options for helping with this now, but it's not widely used and not nearly as powerful.
The Scala community is still pretty active and friendly. Martin Odersky, the creator Scala, and his team are sill quite passionate and gone above-and-beyond to fix bugs and address the need for more features. They also have a company called Lightbend that will help you integrate Scala into your engineering stack. I have heard mixed things about them but never worked with them myself so take what I say with a grain of salt.
Each time I have called with a problem, I have gotten a prompt and courteous reply. And, my problem is always solved and followed up on. I honestly don't get this type of response from any other support group I am involved with. Thanks so much for such an outstanding staff.
Hypersign and Mvix Digital Signage. Telemetry TV's display options and reliability beat both of them. Telemetry also offered a lot more at a much better price point.
