Such a claim is, to put it lightly, optimistic.
There's 2 parts to it:
- Do industry people care about Pelco?
- How strong competitively is Pelco?
For (1), industry interest in Pelco is at an all time low and continuing to decline, based on our reader stats and input we get from members. I am not saying most people hate or dislike Pelco but just that Pelco has become irrelevant generally. However, Pelco's integrator favorability ratings were one of the worst:
(2) On the camera side, Pelco just does not have the range and the functionalities to compete, even leaving price out of it. We just finished testing Pelco Surevision 3 and it was ok overall. The multi-imagers are competitively stronger (e.g., see our 180 test and 270 corner test) but that's a niche. On the VMS side, they have a new VMS which we have not tested yet, though it's hard to bring a new VMS to market in 2016 / 2017.
Pelco has nice, good people but it does not appear that Schneider is willing to provide the resources to fight against strong competitors like Avigilon, Axis, Hikvision, Milestone, Genetec, etc.
Agree/disagree?