Netkey, NCR announce Web kiosk software agreement

NEW YORK -- Netkey Inc

"Netkey's software provides a valuable addition to our solution portfolio, and will help us capitalize on the current market opportunity for self-service systems," said Alan Couch, NCR solution vice president for Web kiosk sales in the United States. "The software technology found in Netkey solutions fits well with the NCR Web kiosk platform. Together, we can deliver measurable value to our customers in a wide range of industries."

Netkey's software suite includes products that help businesses create and manage a Web kiosk environment using their existing Web site. Under the agreement, NCR can offer Netkey software with the NCR Web kiosk solution. NCR will also use the Netkey software suite to deliver solutions as part of NCR customer engagements in target markets including the retail, utility and transportation industries.

In its latest "World Interactive Kiosk Markets" research report, Frost & Sullivan projects a compound annual revenue growth rate of more than 20 percent in the interactive kiosk market over the next six years.

Netkey and NCR have a history of joint kiosk deployments, including projects for major retailers such as Service Merchandise.

"NCR has established a leadership position in the growing Web kiosk market, and Netkey is pleased to partner with them to deliver high quality, market ready solutions to companies throughout the world," said Alex Richardson, CEO of Netkey. "Together, Netkey and NCR will begin bridging the gap between e-Commerce and bricks-and-mortar by helping companies bring the Web closer to their customers."

The NCR Web kosk offers full multimedia capability and an infrastructure that allows the kiosk to interface with other applications. Netkey's software platform provides the ability to enhance the performance and intelligence of large scale, Internet-based customer workstations. Netkey software products provide a complete software infrastructure for the distribution, delivery and management of content and applications to self-service kiosks and Web-based POS terminals.