Many businesses use digital signage apps to share content, data dashboards, or alerts with their audiences. Often, they try to connect their digital signage with a third-party platform or product, and they rely on standard integrations made available by their digital signage software. While these integrations can be enough to handle basic needs, they rarely provide the customization businesses need for truly unique signage solutions.
Why these third-party integrations can fall short
Custom business processes vary drastically from company to company. One organization might want a countdown timer on their retail display that syncs perfectly with a real-time POS system. Another might want an internal dashboard that shows different information according to current sales and campaigns. Most integrations can’t handle these specific requirements seamlessly. Users end up going back and forth with support or patching code.
How Screenly Edge Apps solve the integration issue
We built Screenly Edge Apps to allow users to build and deploy their own custom digital signage applications. With Screenly Edge Apps, you don’t have to rely on a single integration built by someone who doesn’t understand your unique business goals. Instead, you can build a digital signage app from scratch, editing code line by line. This flexibility means that you can integrate with whatever tools or hardware your business uses.
Screenly Edge Apps run locally on the digital signage player itself. This approach results in almost zero latency and allows for a faster user experience overall. If your app needs to react within milliseconds, that’s no problem. For example, when someone picks up a product in a store, your digital signage app can instantly display relevant info about that product. Edge processing removes most network latency that other signage solutions face, which is critical in situations where speed is essential.
Take advantage of out-of-the-box Edge Apps
You don’t have to be a developer to start using Screenly Edge Apps. We have many out-of-the-box apps that are ready for deployment right away. These include apps for weather forecasts, RSS feeds, bus stop signage, countdown timers, and more. Our digital signage software also makes it easy to take any existing Edge App as a template and adapt it to your unique use case. If you need custom bus stop signage in your city, you can easily start with our London-based TFL bus stop Edge App and reconfigure it for your city.
Streamline authentication for digital signage
A major obstacle for many organizations is authentication. Often, businesses need to display a private web page that contains sensitive company information. People shy away from the difficulty of using an authenticated link with a digital signage player and resort to making the link public. That public link floats around for anyone to access and poses serious security concerns. Screenly’s signage solutions help solve authentication issues with specialized digital signage player app integrations. For example, we have a PowerBI App that deals with authentication under the hood. This approach means you don’t have to share your private company info via a public link. Screenly securely manages the sign-in process so you can focus on what matters—showing the content on screen.
Enjoy a free digital signage experience with a no-cost trial
Screenly offers a free 30-day trial so you can get started without committing to a long-term contract. When you create a free account, you can explore our cloud-based digital signage software and test out the functionality of our Edge Apps. Get started with a free trial today.
