ISC West 2016 Best and Worst
ISC West 2016 had very strong attendance and moderately strong new products, following a year of unprecedented acquisitions. Traffic was almost...
By IPVM Team - over 6 years ago (Info+)
ISC West 2016 had very strong attendance and moderately strong new products, following a year of unprecedented acquisitions. Traffic was almost...
By IPVM Team - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Aimetis, a VMS company based out of Waterloo, Canada has been acquired by a division of Israeli company Magal S3. We look at the low acquisition...
By Brian Karas - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Taking a page out of the Axis / Milestone playbook, Mobotix has found itself a Japanese company to pay them top dollar in a commoditizing...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
In business for 20 years but only recently doing any significant marketing, 3xLogic has moved from a VMS developer to an end-to-end solution...
By IPVM Team - over 6 years ago (Info+)
A decade ago, Intransa and Pivot3 both hit the video surveillance market hard with big money and big claims for advanced storage offerings....
By Brian Karas - over 6 years ago (Info+)
We take it back; All the things about Ingram Micro being a bunch of fools. They have totally redeemed themselves. Faced with an increasingly...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
With the Favorite Camera Manufacturers 2016 and Worst Camera Manufacturers 2016 identified, we now turn to the VMS manufacturers. 150...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
The world's least favorite security company, ADT, is being merged [link no longer available] in a mega deal with Protection 1. The ADT brand,...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Axis rarely makes acquisitions. They get acquired, of course, (i.e., by Canon for $2.8 billion USD last year) but they generally do not buy other...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
One of the biggest security manufacturers and integrators (Tyco) and one of the biggest building management providers (JCI) are combining. The two...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Avigilon soon may no longer be an independent company, but Avigilon's CEO is determined to control his own destiny. After 2 years of punishing...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Tyco is betting $175 million on the retail market, acquiring retail analytics firm ShopperTrak. In this note, we look at the valuation and impact...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago (Info+)
Securitas, one of the largest security guard companies in the world, with 300,000+ employees, has acquired one of the largest North American...
By John Honovich - almost 7 years ago (Info+)
A number of Avigilon investors and analysts have asked us about the potential for Avigilon to be bought out / taken over. Basically, with the...
By John Honovich - almost 7 years ago (Info+)
One of the bigger players of the prior era is exiting the video surveillance market. NICE is selling off its 'physical security business unit' to...
By John Honovich - about 7 years ago (Info+)
One man is betting $50 million on hosted access control. Dean Drako [link no longer available], who has been investing millions into building a...
By John Honovich - about 7 years ago (Info+)
The plan to merge two second-tier door hardware and access control companies may give birth to a new giant. Europe-based Dorma and Kaba plan to...
By Brian Rhodes - over 7 years ago (Info+)
Evidently they are not done yet. In the past 18 months, Avigilon raised $169 million, then bought nearly $100 million in patents, VideoIQ for $32...
By John Honovich - over 7 years ago (Info+)
The dominoes continue to fall. One of the biggest VMS providers in North America, OnSSI, has bought [link no longer available] one of the biggest...
By John Honovich - over 7 years ago (Info+)
Hikvision admits their equipment got hacked in a large government deployment - stock down just 7.5% Avigilon announces revenue up 42% - stock down...
By John Honovich - over 7 years ago (Info+)
ObjectVideo is making millions on patents. And Avigilon will now look to build on that momentum. New financial disclosures as part of Avigilon's...
By John Honovich - over 7 years ago (Info+)
This is the biggest deal in video surveillance ever. Just 8 months after buying Milestone, Canon is set to buy Axis. Canon has offered $2.8...
By John Honovich - over 7 years ago (Info+)
Another VMS is acquired. Another mega company buys a VMS. Following the 2013 Tyco acquisition of Exacq and the 2014 Canon acquisition of...
By John Honovich - over 7 years ago (Info+)
The Tyco-fication of Exacq is gaining stream. Exacq has fired multiple manufacturer representative firms. In addition, Tyco has implemented a...
By John Honovich - over 7 years ago (Info+)
Spending $80 million on patents last month was evidently just the start. Now, Avigilon has acquired 96 more patents from 4 different...
By John Honovich - over 7 years ago (Info+)
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