MVaaS, as has been discussed in numerous previous blog posts, provides many valuable loss prevention benefits. Most recently, one of our channel managers relayed a recent success story of a client who recently installed Envysion’s managed video. The hamburger franchisee was looking at point of sale reporting from the previous night and saw a three hour drop [...]
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Phil Wainewright has an interesting post on the progress being made with SaaS enterprise-grade ”mashups”.
For those who are unfamiliar with the term, in technology a mashup is a combination of data from several different sources provided to the user through one integrated tool. This is not a new concept. But its development in [...]
We all have heard of the saying “When the cat is away the mice will play” and it is a good reflection of human nature as well. Once the boss leaves many people have a tendancy of letting up a little and maybe playing around a little more than they normally would and less work [...]
What does open architecture mean? Who cares what it means?
An interesting discussion regarding single vendor solutions or “packages” over at ipMarketVideo and Matt Marshall’s SecurityCaffeine made me think about this a bit.
The single biggest reason I can see a customer wanting an open architecture is because they don’t want to be locked into a single [...]
I posted a while back about getting to know the folks at Protiviti at a conference. A very good customer of ours happens to be a very good customer of theirs so we started talking. They are thought leaders in the world of loss prevention and provide consulting services to retailers to help them drive [...]
Yesterday, I wrote about exception reporting. Recently we received two requests for exception reports in the same day. Here are two examples:
#1 Indicate when the quantity of line item voids within a single transaction exceeds a threshold
#2 Indicate number of cashiers whose count of voids in a single day exceeded a threshold
One [...]
I am such a geek. To prove it to our sales folks, I used the following “tripartite motto” for the development of Envysion’s products: Easy, Enamor, Stun.
Okay, so I am not a great wordsmith. At least it kept our sales folks interested, or at least laughing, for a few minutes. While the terms are [...]
In a previous post, I stressed the importance that leaders act decisively, often with imperfect or incomplete information. This is an imperative, and is not going away.
Still, smart business people desire the best information available at the time, so as to help them formulate the optimal course of action. Operating on “hunches” or “gut” alone is not a recipe for [...]
I received two requests for exception reporting linked to video last week. One from a prospective customer who is in trials with Envysion and one in the form of an RFP. Both came from loss prevention staff. Both are interested in using Envysion’s video and reporting functions for LP activities.
It is interesting how these two [...]
Driving to work this morning, I found myself frustrated by the traffic. Then I remembered that it’s the first day of school for the district adjacent to mine. Given that I have a 6.2 mile commute, you probably shouldn’t feel too sorry for me, as my usual 10 minute commute turned to 15.
For multi-unit operators, [...]
