Last week’s NACStech show in Dallas provided an opportunity to see the latest in technology for convenience stores and petroleum retailers. There were about a half dozen video providers exhibiting at the show, as video is a long-established technology in the convenience store environment. The combination of late-night hours, customers who tend to pay with [...]
This blog has previously mentioned digital signage as an example of a Managed Video application. For a succinct summary of issues to be considered (and resolved) when deploying a large-scale in-store digital signage project, check out this recent article in RIS News by Allyn Crowe of Stratacache. I’d be interested to hear anyone’s comments: Are [...]
As the pizza shop owner contemplated options to shrink his work week while maintining control over his investment and operations, he looked at a number of alternatives. Hire a GM (too expensive), reduce hours of ops (not profitable enough), continue working 80+ hours per week (not sustainable). Then he looked to video as a potential [...]
When you get in a room with a bunch of CIOs and senior IT executives from a single industry you expect to hear a lot about technology, and that was certainly the case with the IT execs that attended the recent Hotel Technology Forum. These folks are the model for what you want from your [...]
In response to a comment asking for a recommendation of specific content on the Saas Showplace that I mentioned the other day, I poked around a bit more on the site. For me, the most interesting thing there is just the general sense of “wow, this delivery model is really gaining traction — fast!” Using [...]
If you want to quickly see who is doing what in the broader Software-as-a-Service arena, check out SaaS-showplace.com. The site is run by a company that does SaaS consulting and it offers a list of SaaS solutions in a wide variety of industries, as well as a number of interesting white papers and posts.
Managed Video for the Small Business – Getting your life back Retail business owners face a myriad of challenges. Payroll, inventory control, human resource issues, marketing and a litany of other daily functions consume your day. Cash flow is always tight and accounting for every dollar is paramount to staying in business, given the razor [...]
For the security organization, real-time, live video access provides the ability to proactively watch for situations that put staff members or guests at risk, as opposed to only looking at what happened in the past. They can also use video to educate the entire staff about risks to watch out for, dramatically expanding the number [...]
One of the industries that I work with is hospitality, specifically the hotel industry. In the past, video surveillance meant cameras hooked to a VCR in the back room. If a bad person did something terrible you would go to the back room to review the tape. The only person interested in the system was [...]
It is my belief that a Universal Truth that is often forgotten is that technology doesn’t matter. This may seem strange coming from a guy who has been in the tech business for over 25 years and has made a living selling both software and hardware to companies all over the world. Don’t get me [...]
