XProtean Partners With NCR to Offer Point-of-Sale Solution for Convenience and Fuel Stores

Solution Delivers Increased Accuracy, Ease of Use and Visibility Into Store Operations

MILPITAS, Calif. -June 30, 2008- XProtean today announced that it has joined NCR Corporation’s NCR RealPartner program as a reseller of NCR RealPOS™ point-of-sale (POS) workstations. The XProtean solution pairs NCR RealPOS hardware with its integrated retail management software solution to optimize operations for small format retailers -- from the point of sale and the back office to corporate.

“NCR’s innovative, customizable POS platform is a perfect match with XProtean’s software,” said Vikas Jain, executive vice president of marketing and business development for XProtean. “The result is a flexible, easy-to-use solution that gives retailers the tools they need to run and grow their business.”

XProtean is designed specifically for the fast-growing segments of mixed environment retail, convenience stores, restaurants and retail fuel. Retailers using the solution are able to increase revenue by improving speed of service, order accuracy, customer loyalty, product availability and sales per visit while lowering overall costs by reducing inventory shrink, fraud and employee training time.

NCR RealPOS workstations offer a variety of configuration and hardware options including space-saving designs and enhanced serviceability tailored for nearly any retailer.

“NCR is proud to include XProtean in our family of retail partners,” said John Saccomanno, NCR director, Food, Drug and Petroleum Industry Marketing. “Their industry knowledge and hands-on experience, combined with the hardware quality of NCR, raises the bar for retail management solutions.”

Bonfare Markets, a chain of convenience and fuel stores in Northern California, relies on the XProtean and NCR solution to manage its business. “Before XProtean, our stores used time-intensive manual processes to manage operations. With XProtean and NCR, we have a system that keeps an automatic eye on inventory, prices and promotions,” said Bonfare Markets Regional Manager Danny Arcayena. “That automatic eye also helps us comply with liquor laws. Some Bonfare Markets are open 24 hours a day and by local law we can’t sell alcohol after 2 a.m. Sometimes when employees are busy they don’t notice the time, however now that our system is automatic, our scanners won’t register an alcohol purchase after hours.”

Contact:

Contact Person: Vikas Jain
Company Name: XProtean, Inc.
Telephone Number: (408) 933-4466
Fax Number: (408) 933-4545
Email Address: info@xprotean.com
Website address: www.xprotean.com