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Why We Should Build a Baseball Team at Work

Baseball teams are structured and built for winning, not dissimilar to the way teams in the workplace should be.

November 4, 2019

This probably sounds like the start to an article about work/life balance, team-building exercises, or a fantasy sports pool, but I promise you it is not.

Tech Solutions

Back-Office Software Provides a Single, Integrated Solution for Managing a Security Business

July 1, 2019

While security integrators are in business to integrate security systems, often there’s nothing integrated about the business of security itself — from the central stations, interactive service providers and point solutions, to the myriad homegrown systems implemented and jury-rigged together over the years.

Editor’s Angle

The Real Threat of ‘Operating Complexity’

Laura Stepanek

March 5, 2019

How would you rate your ability to operate a security company in a complex environment? The fact is that business-operating complexity may be one reason the security industry is contracting.

Management Software Helps Dealers Run Operations

November 27, 2013

AlarmBiller announced that its management solution is now available through central station partners on a free trial basis.

Use your CRM Database for Marketing

Marketing with your Customer Resource Management database is the next step in growing your sales.

Carol Enman

September 1, 2013

Marketing with your Customer Resource Management database is the next step in growing your sales.

Home Energy Management: It’s All About The Platform

Jay Kenny

April 19, 2012

For consumers, the market for home energy management technology and products has, all at once, become highly frenzied yet tremendously exciting. From sleek, standalone ‘smart thermostats’ to solutions tightly integrated with the security system to new broadband-based home energy offerings from large cable and telco providers, consumers must not only decide which tool fits with their particular lifestyle, but which underlying platform offers the most stability and value.

Crystal Balling 2012: Part Two

Tactics to Squeeze More from the Future Now

Bill Zalud

January 19, 2012

Just envision the business opportunities in the house of the future. You won’t find traditional furniture styles or old-fashioned appliances. Everything is ultra-modern, a blending of lifestyle and technology.

Security Celebrates Accomplishments, Ensures Future Success at ESA Summit & ESI Forum

January 12, 2012

At the ongoing ESI Forum and The Electronic Security Association (ESA) Leadership Summit events taking place at the Omni Mandalay at Las Colinas in Irving, Texas, attendees have ample opportunity to celebrate recent achievements as well as ensure more success to come through educational session presented by their peers. The events opened on Monday, Jan. 9 and will wrap up on Friday, Jan 12.

7 Reasons PSIM Is Ready for the Little Time, Too

Bill Zalud

November 15, 2011

From the guy who many say invented the term, security consultant Steve Hunt’s advice on physical security information management (PSIM) is not to get hung up on the highfalutin name. Instead, get into the business benefits of the evolving concept; and, for integrators, focus on the approach as a way to have a longer, deeper, and more profitable relationship with clients.

Hikvision ‘On Track’ in Nuremberg

June 22, 2011

Cameras from Hikvision, City of Industry, Calif., are being used at Nuremberg railway station in Germany, the largest railway station in northern Bavaria that currently receives 130,000 passengers every weekday.