Business Services & Education

RSS

ASSA ABLOY announced its partnership with StarRez, a provider of student housing software solutions. The partnership enables seamless integration between ASSA ABLOY’s PERSONA Campus™ software and StarRez’s student housing solution, making it possible to manage electronic access control for student housing via the same StarRez platform used for other housing management functions.

Within this great industry that we have come to love, we understand there is tradition and a certain way things have been done for years, and we respect that. But in a world where the 800-pound gorillas are beginning to dominate and in an era where your potential customers have been programmed to tune out more than 90 percent of any marketing effort put in front of them, don’t you think it’s about time to start doing things differently?

If I were a security technician, salesperson or project manager — or an executive responsible for the training of these individuals — I would be energized about the opportunities for industry education taking place this spring and summer.

The life safety industries have been fortunate over the last 20 years in that monitoring services associated with recurring monthly revenues (RMR) have been reliant on hardwired systems whose signals were transported to monitoring centers via the telephone landlines.