Fredrik Nilsson of Axis wrote an article at SecurityInfoWatch about how SaaS is taking off in video surveillance. It’s a good article and highlights some of the reasons that SaaS is gaining momentum, although as you would expect it is definitely told from the IP camera manufacturers perspective. A key point jumped out for me [...]
John Honovich has a great post on whether you can believe manufacturers’ claims or not. While I am a service provider and my comments will fall under this same scrutiny, I definitely think the answer to this is generally “not without some proof or evidence”. Take a couple of recent press releases in the industry [...]
As part of my on-going responsibilities I meet with investors (both my current and some potential future investors) throughout the year. My current investors, Columbia Capital, High Country Ventures (the Colorado state technology fund that is managed by local private equity firm Tango), and Dan Caruso meet with me monthly during our monthly board calls. [...]
My last post about a week ago was about how I felt like I finally have a strong enough grasp of where Envysion fits in the broader world of video/security that congregates at ISC West, making the conference seem smaller and more manageable to me than it ever has in the past. In that post, [...]
Literally, by a little bit, and figuratively, by an order of magnitude for me. A couple of folks from Envysion went with me to ISC West this year and personally it felt a lot smaller than in years past. On the literal side, it actually wasn’t as much smaller as I had expected it to [...]
A colleague and friend of mine, John Honovich, just asked me a couple of questions on what I thought about the retail market given that is a big target market for Envysion. First of all, if you haven’t already signed up for John’s ipVideoMarket.info site you should right away. John has more connections and better [...]
Busy week so far. We spent Sunday night through Wednesday this week at the Multi-unit Retail Technology (MURTEC) conference in Las Vegas. It was a great event for us as we met with 20-30 CIO/GM types from some of the leading retail brands in the industry. In another sign of how far MVaaS has come [...]
Sounds like we aren’t the only ones that think SaaS is model that will have a profound impact on the video and broader security spaces. Our own Rob Hagens spoke on the topic at TechSec this week and was joined by a number of other industry leaders in making the case for SaaS. Security Systems [...]
Most video providers that pitch integration with point of sale are selling a promise that they can’t or don’t deliver. The promise is simple – the system can show you the video associated with any transaction you want across your company. Look up any product, any employee, any amount and simply click on the transaction [...]
One of the challenges in being an innovator in an industry that has a long established history is that the majority of people you deal with are by definition “Old School” relative to your solution. If you define Old School without a negative connotation it means doing something the way you’ve always done things b/c [...]