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 there [...]
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 News [...]
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 [...]
This week marks Envysion’s 3rd anniversary in its current form. Three years ago a handful of us started the company with some seed money from our investors, a shell of a struggling legacy company and an idea for a new business model.
I am very proud of the team and the accomplishments that we’ve made together [...]
I had an interesting conversation with a potential customer today that reinforced one of the key advantages of MVaaS over traditional video services and made me think of it in a slightly different way. One of the topics we touched on was how easy it is with MVaaS to centrally control who has access to [...]
Have you ever heard a requirement or a request from a customer and been tempted to debate with them as to the merits of said request? I’ve seen a lot of people and companies that do exactly that and try to convince someone that what they are asking for doesn’t make any sense. This is [...]
I’m not sure where I learned that phrase. It was either from my long stint in telecom at Level 3, which makes no sense whatsoever, or from my days in consulting at Bain. In either case, the point of the saying is that if you are trying to get your customers to try something, you [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. My lapse in posts resulted from a combination of year-end activity, holidays, a re-imaged laptop that didn’t have my login and a whole host of other not very good excuses.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been reflecting on our accomplishments in 2008 and our objectives for 2009. In [...]
