Drops ASIS Booth After 20 Years - Open Options Notice

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John Honovich
•Nov 30, 2017
IPVM

The ASIS show has struggled the past few years as ISC West has continued to strengthen. While ASIS 2017 did better for exhibitors, concerns remain.

Access control manufacturer Open Options has sent out a thoughtful email about why they are not doing a booth at ASIS 2018, key excerpts:

While results vary from tradeshow to tradeshow, the trend is that expenses to companies exhibiting at these shows continue to increase and the value to the exhibiting companies continues to decrease.

Starting with ISC West 2018 in April, there will be three major tradeshows in Las Vegas in a year’s time. In our opinion, this poses a few issues:

1. This represents a significant investment in one general region for our national tradeshow participation.

2. Having a meaningful presence at major tradeshows requires additional staff who are then unavailable to service and support our customers that do not attend these shows.

3. The expense of these tradeshows ultimately affects our customers, and we feel continued investment in events of diminishing value is not fiscally responsible or fair.

What do you think?

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Brandon Knutson
•Nov 30, 2017
IPVMU Certified

Maybe other manufactures are now dropping the annual ASIS show, but this is the first that I am aware of. OO is our ACS system. I respect them for being independent thinking and focusing on what matters most... Me... (I mean their customers)    

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John Honovich
•Nov 30, 2017
IPVM

Maybe other manufactures are now dropping the annual ASIS show, but this is the first that I am aware of.

Recall: UTC / Lenel Joins FLIR Dropping ASIS. Overall, there are definitely far less video and access manufacturers exhibiting at ASIS than ISC West.

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Undisclosed #1
•Nov 30, 2017
IPVMU Certified

Starting with ISC West 2018 in April, there will be three major tradeshows in Las Vegas in a year’s time. 

Counting both ISC West 2018 and 2019?  Or is there another tradeshow more important than ASIS?

 

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John Honovich
•Nov 30, 2017
IPVM
In reply to Undisclosed #1

Yes, they mean April 2018 ISC West, September 2018 ASIS and April 2019 ISC West, all in Las Vegas.

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Undisclosed #1
•Dec 02, 2017
IPVMU Certified
In reply to John Honovich

...there will be three major tradeshows in Las Vegas in a year’s time.

Yes, like I have two birthdays in a year’s time ;)

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Undisclosed #2
•Nov 30, 2017

3. The expense of these tradeshows ultimately affects our customers, and we feel continued investment in events of diminishing value is not fiscally responsible or fair.

What do you think?

I think the next to last word should be nor, not or...

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Undisclosed #1
•Nov 30, 2017
IPVMU Certified
In reply to Undisclosed #2

I think the next to last word should be nor, not or...

Based on the number of unhelpfuls received, I think your penultimate word suggestion may have been misinterpreted to apply to the “What do you think?” sentence instead of the sentence before that :)

“not fiscally responsible nor fair.” 

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Undisclosed #2
•Nov 30, 2017
In reply to Undisclosed #1

I don't think that this could possibly be the case... my comment would not even make sense if it they applied it to John's question.

I think it's just the fact that nobody likes a douchebag who points out trivial stuff like this that nobody but him (me) cares about.

if this gets lots of agrees, then I am right.  : )

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #3
•Dec 01, 2017
In reply to Undisclosed #2

I was an English major, and I'm a pedantic jerk, and I still clicked "Agree".  Show me a dangling participle, though, and I explode!

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Undisclosed End User #4
•Dec 05, 2017

ASIS has changed the name of its annual security conference from the ASIS Annual Seminar and Exhibits to the Global Security Exchange (GSX).

No mention if ASIS's event pricing will decrease, in the spirit of a true partnership.

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