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Total annual revenue of nearly $8 billion, built upon more than 61,000 project starts, marked an extremely robust year for the 100 largest security systems integrators in 2007, as revealed in SDM’s 13th Annual Top Systems Integrators Report.
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This exclusive report ranks, by revenue, the largest firms that contract electronic security projects for commercial, industrial, institutional, government, and other non-residential markets. For ranking purposes, these are businesses that derive more than half of their revenue from the sale, design/engineering, installation and service of multi-technology electronic security systems, such as access control and identification, video surveillance, alarms, perimeter security, and other network-based technologies.
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The numbers alone don’t tell the complete story of the opportunities and challenges that “continue to present themselves” to these high-profile integrators. The complete picture is found in the integrators’ descriptions of their growth markets.
In fact, there was much consensus among the integrators about which markets did hold the best opportunities: corporate/property management; education; healthcare; government; industrial and utilities — in that order.
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Many integrators found that the newest technologies spurred growth in 2007, particularly technologies that expand the value of the investment beyond security and into business management metrics.
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SIDEBAR: Success Stories from the Field
No. 26-ranked SD•I (System Development Integration LLC), Chicago, designed and implemented technology systems for the new McCormick Place Security Command Center. The command center oversees the 9-million-square-foot convention center’s safety and security activities. SD•I designed, procured, installed and integrated video display systems including a 20-foot video wall; an incident management system; consoles and computers; and a unified command interface. The completed unified command interface integrates surveillance cameras, access control systems, fire alarm, parking garage, and elevator management systems. This integrated system features automatic response to events and data and video links to Chicago’s 911 center, Navy Pier attraction, and Chicago City Hall through an Internet VPN.
SIDEBAR: Success Stories from the Field
SIDEBAR: Success Stories from the Field
SIDEBAR: Success Stories from the Field
SIDEBAR: Success Stories from the Field
No. 67-ranked Advanced Control Concepts Inc. was involved with the NASA Johnson Space Center Ellington Field security management project, a turnkey detailed engineered project that connected to the NASA Lenel Enterprise System. Ellington Field, located 10 miles from
SIDEBAR: More From the Report
To gain additional information beyond that published in this issue and online, the complete SDM Top Systems Integrators Report and Database is available in Excel format. Included are contact names, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, Web site URLs, branch office locations, and more.
SDM’s Top Systems Integrators Report and Database contains the data needed to target products and services to the systems integration market.
The cost of the report is $595. It may be ordered by contacting Heidi Fusaro at (630) 694-4026 or e-mailing fusaroh@bnpmedia.com.