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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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I’ve been thinking a bit about operations science and quality assurance for a few weeks now.  I think there could be some parallels to performing loss prevention.
If no one counted the cash at the end of the day, how much would go missing?  The answer: you can’t tell if you’re not measuring it.
So [...]

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Over at IP Video Market Info John Honovich has a good discussion going regarding megapixel without IP.  The topic might also be labeled: “What’s the best way to retrofit an existing analog system for megapixel video?”
Currently megapixel requires IP cameras which can be a costly upgrade if you are all analog today.  IP [...]

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A new report from Retail Systems Research states:
while retailers that use IT strategically have the opportunity to turn technological advantage into real long term market gains, most survey respondents report a growing backlog of demand for IT services driven by lack of governance, tangled obsolete application portfolios, and siloed departments each clamoring for their own solutions. 
MVaaS can [...]

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Envysion regularly visits our customers, providing training and receiving feedback about how to improve Envysion video.
A new customer of Envysion Insight last week had a great story to share.  An area manager had just explained to his employees the full system capabilities and how they will be used.  One of his stores saw immediate 20% [...]

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I was reminded today of the number of applications and the massive numbers of downloads of iPhone applications out there.  As of this writing nearly 1 billion downloads of iPhone apps have occurred.  That sure is a lot.  It also reminds me of a great quote from Sci-Fi author Kurt Vonnegut:
“It has been [...]

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IMS has a new report on RVMaS (Remote Video Monitoring and Surveillance).  IMS defines RVMaS as: “…network camera based solutions that allow the end user to remotely view live or recently recorded video in security and non security related applications.”
MVaaS is certainly a piece of that market which IMS claims is about $158M in annual [...]

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Remember those images where if you “defocus” your eyes just right you can see a 3D image jumping out at you on the page?  These “stereograms”
A new imaging chip from Stanford University uses a similar principle to capture an image which includes depth information.  It sounds like they are looking at digital photography, but one [...]

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Or perhaps, more precisely, sales of tickets to see movies on the big screen are up over 10%  according to a report from NPR.  In the last 7 years of recession since 1965, movie sales have gone up in 5 of them.
Mall Cop out grossed all comedy films of 2008.  Fast and Furious 3 had [...]

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