Everything you need to know about MVaaS (Managed Video as a Service).
There’s a great little case study over at ipvideomarket.info for a chain store retailer who put together DVR systems for their 3 store regional apparel chain The store owners had to deal with products being discontinued, incompatibilities and the resulting mutliple user interfaces and pains of maintaining different configurations for different DVR systems. To contrast, Envysion [...]
It’s predicted that in less than 2 months, the global authority which delegates IP Addresses which computers need to access the Internet will run out of addresses. The IANA is the global source for all IP addresses and delegates control of IP addresses to regional authorities. The regional authorities then delegate control to service [...]
Image via Wikipedia So one of the big new issues on the SaaS market is, how to integrate cloud to cloud? Or to cut some of the jargon, how do you integrate your applications you use every day when they are hosted by different companies? Hosted customer relationship management, hosting billing, hosted POS system, Hosted [...]
Image via Wikipedia In retail, the Point of Sale (POS) system is one of the most important and useful data system for their entire business. Being able to interface this with video is obviously extremely valuable. But it isn’t exactly easy to get value without a relatively deep integration. Beware that a lot of vendor’s [...]
Does your video management system link directly to a network operations center with technicians standing by to help you? Envysion video does. Sure we have online help, tips and tricks and that sort of thing. But with a click on the web, you can get a technician dispatched to any of your locations and have [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]