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Comments (98)
Brandon Knutson
I’ve been an OnSSI end user since 2007. This is not the VMS growth and stability I was looking for.
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Undisclosed #1
Well, at least they don't use Silverlight :)
I can't say I am all that shocked by this. Battery Ventures dumped a bunch of money into Qognify, and I don't think they have gotten much for it yet. Qognify has a long way to go to become well-known in the market, and a company whose products come up for consideration day-to-day on a typical job/quote. At this stage in the industry, you're pushing rope uphill trying to build a VMS brand. Trying to build 3+ brands is practically insane.
They still have the mess of overlapping product lines to sort out, and presumably little portability across products (though maybe that is easier with OnSSI/SeaTec).
Qognify is turning out to be a case study on how to enter the security market in the most self-limiting way possible.
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Brian Rhodes
I predict the phrase "We used to be OnSSI" will be mentioned by Qognify reps often.
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #2
It looks to me like a new beginning, rather than a disappointing end.
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Clint Hays
Maybe they will buy Pelco to have another set of VMS offerings next quarter.
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Abdelhamid Metwally
It actually might have made more sense to drop the Qognify name and use the ONSSI name instead.
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Undisclosed #3
NICE move?
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Undisclosed #5
Qognify OnSSI Seetec anagrams:
GOOEY FENCE INSISTS Q
YO Q! FECES INGESTIONS
NICE Q - GOOFY SENSES IT
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Carl Lindgren
I don't know. I have a sort of soft spot in my heart for Qognify, since they bought out NICE and the old FAST/Alpha VMS. I always thought the GUI was among the easiest to learn for new operators and one of the best performing among the old analog/encoder - based systems. The codec's flexibility could be daunting but once you learned the tricks of programming GOPs, it used one of the most efficient MPEG-2 codecs around; rivaling many h.264 codecs.
Of course, MPEG-2's inability to handle HD was its primary downfall. Still, I wish Qognify had retained the GUI. It was a real joy to use.
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Jason Crist
Ok, I'm here. Haven't read a comment yet but you can start beating on me
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Sam Eskew
When i say good, I mean for the competition.
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John Bazyk
IPVMU Certified | 03/04/19 01:49pm
Here's what I know. I know who OnSSI is. I don't know the other two brands. As a company who has only ripped out OnSSI I see this is a neutral move. I didn't like OnSSI when we demoed it or used it with custoemrs who already had it in the past and I have never met an enduser who liked it. My limited experiance with it doesnt make me a very good judge. However, because I have had a negitive experiance, putting myself in the shoes of an end user learning that a company purchased OnSSI and dropped the brand seems possitive. If I put my self in the shoes of an end user and not as an integrator I might be more interested in what this new company has to offer. As an integrator I will absoutly look into it where as I would not have revisited OnSSI. There are both positives and negitives to this move so therefore my vote is neurtal. I don't think it hurts them anymore than the OnSSI brand likley already was and I don't think it really helps them much either.
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Brad Anderson
Wow . . . many people and many years were invested in the OnSSI brand. We "evangelized" IP before it was popular. It will be interesting to see where this goes. Hopefully this new leadership can inspire action and relevance in the security industry.
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Jason Crist
Ok, well I was suckered into this thread. Yes See-Tec and ONSSI names are folding under the Qognify name but the Ocularis brand name and part numbers stay just as my reps told me in the past weeks, this post is not breaking any news at least not to me. Ocularis has been the brand for years now and that's not changing.
So I'm not sure that you, John, just got this info and thought it was breaking but it's not. I will take such "breaking news" with a grain of salt and a closer look. You're welcome for the post activity though!
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #7
When an end user purchases a new "Qognify" system later this year... are they getting an Ocularis 5.0 license or VisionHub?
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Jeff Dallmann
If GM was purchased tomorrow, but Chevrolet, GMC, and Cadillac (Buick is too boring to mention) names and product all stuck around, would everyone stop buying? I don't think so. When Tata Motors purchased Land Rover and Jaguar it was called the end of the brands, yet both are still doing relatively well, with new products coming out. Note: I'm biased as an owner of both for 17 years.
Ocularis product isn't going anywhere, and it's actually a pretty good product, just as the Seetec product in Europe.
Wasn't long ago that the Hanwha buyout of Samsung Techwin was major news but look, same solid product today, with increased sales.
My local news (KKTV) calls everything Breaking News. I don't care, as it's simply the news...
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #8
Mulli and Gadi got their money. This is very sad for all of those who put their heart and soul into Onssi (employees and customers alike). I honestly don't believe they were ever fully appreciated by the founders and certainly not by Qognify. In typical acquisition fashion Qognify acquired a company for good reason and then let all of those reasons go. Just the loss in the code knowledge base alone could sink them. I just don't see how they are going to be able to pivot quickly with 'new' software engineers. Honestly, maybe the strategy is to reduce the tech support hold time for Onssi from a call back in less than 24 hours to while the tech is onsite. Will this be the sinking of the Titanic or the rise of the Phoenix? We will see.....
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Undisclosed #3
Who the hell fires programmers?
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Jason Thomas
This is good, I know some companies that have OnSSI. Time to sell them an Upgrade!
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Undisclosed End User #10
OnSSI end user here again... I've started getting calls from integrators to switch to VMS product XYZ. I would have more to report if I took their calls. Irritated.
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