Kurani Global Restaurant Group Turns to Envysion to Help Streamline and Improve its Business Operations

July 21, 2008

LOUISVILLE, Colo. , July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Envysion(TM) Inc., (http://www.envysion.com) the leading Managed Video as a Service (MVaaS) provider, today announced it has begun rolling out a phased implementation of its Envysion Video MVaaS system for the Kurani Restaurant Group, one of the largest fast-food restaurant franchise owners in the Southeast. Envysion Video enables customers to improve their operations and profitability by easily accessing live or recorded video from any remote or on-premise location using a simple Web-browser interface. It integrates with critical business systems, such as Point of Sale and security access, and enables reporting and alerting across all of a company's locations.

With 120 locations throughout the Southeast, including 80 Pizza Hut franchises and several Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins stores, Kurani Global Restaurant Group generates almost $75 million in annual revenue through its multiple franchise locations. A large part of Kurani's award-winning success is its ability to hire and train good people as well as ensure its customer experience is always positive.

As Kurani's grew through its fast-paced success, it realized it needed a better way to easily manage its operations remotely as well as ensure the security of its operations against theft. It already had existing video surveillance systems in place at several locations, but, wanted a system that could do more than just monitor the premises. It wanted a video solution that also could easily integrate into its existing Point of Sale (POS) systems to reduce shrinkage, as well as leverage its best practices for employee training and operational improvement across all locations.

Coincidentally, that is when Business Information Technology (BIT), a partner of Envysion's, approached Kurani's and introduced it to Envysion Video. Kurani's liked what it saw. "After BIT contacted us and showed us what Envysion Video could do, we immediately realized how it could help us reduce shrinkage, improve brand consistency and increase our margins," said Sultan Kurani , owner of Kurani Restaurant Group.

"Even through the initial pilot program, we could immediately see how we could realize a strong ROI from the Envysion system. The reports make it simple and easy to spot discrepancies through its tightly linked POS integration. Plus, now our area managers don't have to drive to every single location to see how their operations are performing. It saves them enormous time and fuel costs, which can be considerable in today's high-priced gas world."

The Envysion system currently is being rolled out to all the 120 locations and Kurani says he expects it to be fully completed by August of this year.

"We are realizing the benefit of tapping the Envysion system to glean and implement best practices among our employees across all locations. It helps improve our brand and, most importantly, the overall customer experience. That's really the bottom line for us."

For more information on BIT, visit http://bit-inc.net/

For more information on Envysion and Envysion Video, visit http://www.envysion.com

About Envysion

Envysion is an award-winning innovator in web-based video management that is redefining video surveillance and providing demonstrable results for its customers. Envysion Video enables organizations to leverage remote video and provides operators insights to improve performance in every location, every day. The service goes beyond traditional security and loss prevention applications by integrating video with business tools such as Point of Sale (POS) systems. Operators benefit from easy-to-use remote viewing of live and recorded video from an unlimited number of locations, providing insight into operations, loss prevention, marketing effectiveness and customer behavior. The company is driving the development of Managed Video as a Service (MVaaS), which brings the Software as a Service (SaaS) model to the video surveillance market. Through the MVaaS platform, Envysion Video eliminates the complexity of managing a large scale video deployment and is constantly and seamlessly upgraded, allowing users to focus on their business. Target markets include restaurants, retail, hotels and financial services. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Louisville, Colorado . For more information, visit http://www.envysion.com or call 303.590.2350.

SOURCE Envysion Inc.

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