Physical Security Articles

81. Creating A Content Marketing Strategy For VARs 11/3/2014

    It can be tempting for a company to use its content outlets, such as blogs, social media, eBooks, and other articles, as avenues of self-promotion. They use these distribution channels to advertise new products, customer acquisitions, or other business wins. While the business owners and employees may love reading these updates, customers don't. Instead, for value-added resellers (VARs) to ensure the continued loyalty and engagement of their audiences, companies need to create content that appeals to these customers.

82. IT Professsionals Need To Build Better Relationships With Other Departments, Report Says 10/31/2014

    IT professionals need to pay more attention to the relationships they have with people in other business units and be less concerned about resources, according to a recent report by Information Week.

83. Access Control And Video Surveillance News From September 2014 10/15/2014

    Each month, Business Solutions reports news on business in the channel. This month in access control and video surveillance news, Genetec offers a new security center communications management module, Milestone Systems adds support for edge storage and enhances its customer dashboard, and Exacq Technologies introduces an automatic IP camera connector feature.

84. What To Look For In New IT Employees 10/8/2014

    When you are interviewing potential new IT employees, are you biased toward a certain personality? A new study by IDG “Introverts vs. Extroverts: Is There an IT Personality?” researched personality types in among IT professionals and sheds light on the perception that they tend to be introverted.

85. 3 Keys To Handling IP Video Growth Pains 9/18/2014

    Following three years of unprecedented growth, this systems integrator’s foresight to become more strategic and increase employee development and customer service proved to be a smart move.

86. Access Control And Video Surveillance News From August 2014 9/15/2014

    Each month, Business Solutions reports news on business in the channel. This month in Access Control And Video Surveillance news, Panasonic Systems Communications Company expands its i-PRO camera line, Samsung Techwin America releases a retail heat-map analytic solution, and Staples partners with ERI to offer a recycling service for old electronics.

87. ONVIF Launches Education, Enforcement Campaign, To Ensure Product Conformance 8/26/2014

    Campaign designed to educate manufacturers about requirements to comply with standardization initiative for IP-based security products .

88. When Peeping Toms Go High-Tech, Could VARs Be Held Liable? 8/21/2014

    As legislation catches up with surveillance technology, could IT solutions providers be required to run background checks?

89. Is Video Data A New Opportunity for VARs And ISVs? 8/21/2014

    Video analytics — the automated analysis of terabytes of video content — has a proven track record helping investigators to glean information from surveillance cameras, recognize faces in a crowd, or zoom in on the license plates of suspects. However, researchers know they need more advanced capabilities and software algorithms to go beyond detection and tracking and really understand the relationships between objects in video footage.

90. Access Control And Video Surveillance News From July 2014 8/13/2014

    Each month, Business Solutions reports news on business in the channel. This month in Access Control And Video Surveillance news, WavestoreUSA releases a new version of video management software (VMS); Genetec expands a partnership enabling the company to resell BCDVideo servers and storage equipment; and OnSSI introduces a new licensing structure that requires only one license for each encoder IP address, regardless of the number of analog cameras. Also, D-Link expands its IP camera line and offers a new access point, and Pivot3 upgrades its virtual SAN software.