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Dynamax Technologies Ltd is a manufacturer of Digital Signage software; both on premise licensed (POVng), and SaaS (digitalsignage.net). Officially formed in 1999, its headquarters are based in Blackburn. The Company's Digital Signage software powers thousands of digital screens world-wide, primarily in the advertising space, but used in education, corporate & other markets.

Dynamax Technologies have been independently categorised in the top 10 of digital signage software producers by digital signage industry cognoscenti

History
Dynamax Technologies originally started life in 1995 operating within their parent company TDS Cad-Graphics who acted as an incubator. In 1999 Dynamax Technologies was officially created along side Promethean Ltd when TDS Cad-Graphics changed its name to Promethean to concentrate on Whiteboards into the education space, with Dynamax concentrating on the use of AV technologies in the emerging Digital Out of Home Space. The first product was POVng an on premise enterprise level digital signage application which quickly saw mass take up in the digital advertising space. POVng is used to power the Transvision network which is a network of large format LED screens in the major train stations around the UK as well as powering the LCD screens in the same stations. Although the advertising market has been the major user of POVng where Dynamax has had direct relationships with these advertising companies, POVng has sold very well into the education, corporate and retail markets through a local and international network of Value-added_resellers In September 2010 and after a year of development Dynamax launched its SaaS product digitalsignage.NET. digitalsignage.NET is a cloud based subscription based service, hosted on Windows Azure to provide enormous scalability and resilience features. digitalsignage.NET is aimed at a less sophisticated market than POVng and is targeted at Small_and_medium_enterprises as well as people who operate advertising funded networks. digitalsignage.NET also supports lower cost playback devices such as those from IAdea

Ownership
The owner of Dynamax Technologies is Tony Cann, CBE, DL, Hon.LLD

He is also a Trustee of The Ruskin Foundation, member of the Strategy Board of the Institute of Effective Education at the University of York, and Trustee of the Bowland Charitable Trust. He has served as a Director of the University for Industry, a Governor of Nelson and Colne College, a member of the National Advisory Council for Education and Training Targets (NACETT), Chairman of the Finance and General Purposes Committee at Lancaster University, as the founding Chairman of the East Lancashire Training and Enterprise Council (ELTEC), and a founder member of the Further Education Funding Council for England (FEFC). Awarded the CBE for his work in education and training, he has also received an Honorary Doctorate from Lancaster University.