Visix Clients Take Top Clients Take Top Rankings in Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-13

Leading digital signage software provider serves half of the top 25 ranked schools.

2012-10-25

ATLANTA, GA, October 25, 2012 (Press-News.org) The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-2013 were released on October 4. Visix congratulates its customers who ranked high on this year's list of world class universities. Current Visix clients include four of the top 10, 12 of the top 25, 26 of the top 100, and 36 of the top 200.

Each of these universities is using Visix digital signage software and many have custom interactive wayfinding designs from the company's creative services division.

"We're thrilled for our clients to have achieved such high rankings in such a prestigious listing," says Trey Hicks, Chief Sales Officer for Visix. "Higher education has always been our primary client base, and we'll continue to evolve our products and services to match the high standards of these prestigious schools."

The US continues to dominate the rankings with seven of the top 10 places and a total of 76 in the top 200. Some of the top ranked universities using Visix technologies are Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University and University of California, Berkeley.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-2013 powered by Thomson Reuters are the only global university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments. See the full rankings here: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings

About Times Higher Education magazine
Times Higher Education is the world's most authoritative source of information about higher education. Designed specifically for professional people working in higher education and research, Times Higher Education was founded in 1971 and has been online since 1995. Times Higher Education is published by TSL Education Ltd.

About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision-makers in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs approximately 60,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. For more information, see www.thomsonreuters.com.

About Visix
Visix, Inc. designs, develops and supports a suite of browser-based digital signage products that allows users to create, manage and schedule organizational communications from anywhere and to deliver messages and media to virtually any endpoint. The company offers digital signage software, meeting room signs, interactive wayfinding and applications for targeted messaging to desktops and portable devices. Learn more about Visix digital signage products and services at www.visix.com.

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