Envysion has developed it’s own reporting development language designed to help make it easier to find exceptions in the vast sea of customer point of sale data. We’ve been adding capabilities and building reports with it for some time now.
We affectionately call it “Troyport” after the developer who initially created it.
We decided to [...]
Due to customer demand, Envysion Video now has support for Firefox and Windows 7 in addition to Internet Explorer 6,7 and 8 on Windows XP and Vista.
We’re currently working on support for Firefox support under Linux as well.
Refering back to my blog on SaaS being around for 114 years, Herman Hollerith didn’t get everything right. According to IBM archives, Hollerith resisted new ideas for the operation of his machines and wasn’t working well with one of his best and original customers, the US government.
To quote the IBM archive of their employee publication “Think” [...]
I’m reading a new book called “The Future of the Internet and how to Stop It” by Johnathan Zittrain. In the early part of the book Zittrain examines some of the history of the computer and data communications industry. It seems to me that one of the first “computers” was sold as a service. It’s [...]
Computers use a lot of power. A typical home PC might use between $5-$10 a month in power if left on 24×7 without any power savings functions turned on. Video recording systems based on PC’s which are encoding video and constantly writing that to hard drives puts a heavy load on computers and normally defeats [...]
Half of the physics prize will be shared by two researchers from Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. While at Bell Labs, Willard Boyle and George Smith invented the charge-coupled device, or CCD, which takes the place of conventional film in many of today’s digital cameras.
The CCD also powers a lot of surveillance cameras and [...]
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Today’s 40th anniversary NASA will broadcast the best available footage from some recordings engineers made of the video received on the ground as opposed to the original tapes from the moon. These are reported the highest quality images published in 40 years since the lunar mission. Some original tapes from the lunar cameras [...]
Fredrik Nilsson of Axis Communications gives a talk promoting the benefits of SaaS.
While the talk focuses a bit on security applications, it’s refreshing to see that they’re not focusing exclusively on “remote recording” for video. Instead they are focusing more on “hosted software” aspect, where the video managment system is hosted.
The power point presentation does [...]
Envysion recently introduced support for ACTi IP cameras. In particular our customers are demanding a mid to low priced camera that offers megapixel resolution.
Our customers needed a reliable, high resolution camera option at the lowest possible price. ACTi’s megapixel cameras supply good quality images that exceed our customer’s requirements. Our customers also like the several [...]
Is IT governance a problem? Using internal charge back schemes to manage costs for IT? A simpler solution might just be SaaS. Check out RSR’s article on IT Chargebacks: Tools for Business Alignment or Past their Prime?
I agree with them that internal chargebacks for IT have past their prime. SaaS is helping to further make [...]
