Eagle Eye has been the biggest spender in the cloud VMS market including (via their owner) acquiring Brivo for $50 million and CameraManager from Panasonic, though their product / service still lacks many fundamental VMS functionalities (see IPVM ...
By IPVM Team - 6 months ago
How do integrators ensure the profitability of their projects? As part of our profitability study, 100+ integrators answered the following question: What is the most important metric(s) your company uses for ensuring profitability? Why? In...
By IPVM Team - 6 months ago
Open Options experienced major changes in 2018, including being acquired by ACRE and losing its President and General Manager, John Berman who passed away unexpectedly at the same time. Now, Open Options has recruited formerly retired industry ...
By Dan Gelinas - 6 months ago
Hikvision favorability results declined significantly in IPVM's 2019 study of 200+ integrators. While in 2017 Hikvision's favorability was polarized, now Hikvision's net unfavorability is clear, as the summary results below show: In this note, ...
By IPVM Team - 6 months ago
Network Optix is arguably the last new VMS. Founded in 2010, more than a decade after most client/server VMS offerings, the company has become a factor in the VMS market. However, this has largely been through other brands, as they are better know...
By John Honovich - 6 months ago
BCDVideo says they have more than tripled revenue in the past 5 years and are continuing to grow, powered most recently by switching their lead provider from HP to Dell. In this note, based on our talks with CEO Jeff Burgess and CTO and Co-Foun...
By IPVM Team - 6 months ago
While gunfire detectors have been around for years, typically they are limited to enterprise level or municipal deployments. Startup AVidea, makers of the Safe Zone Gunfire Detection System is selling their detector at a consumer price point - $14...
By Dan Gelinas - 7 months ago
Last weekend, Axis paid for a group of 100+ of the most powerful people in the industry, supposedly independent consultants / AEs that specify many of the biggest projects, on a series of drinking events - including the Corona Beer Burro, Top Golf...
By John Honovich - 7 months ago
With ISC West just a month away, we examine the most notable exhibitor moves including big exhibitors who dropped out and a number of significant newcomers. By contrast, see our full 2018 ISC West show report. Inside, we cover: Huawei Hanw...
By IPVM Team - 7 months ago
A decade ago, PSIM promised significant potential but has always suffered from significant problems. Now, a number of PSIMs have either gone out of business or stopped marketing. One PSIM provider, France's Prysm never received much attention dur...
By Dan Gelinas - 7 months ago
Despite more product shortages, but strengthened by increasing cybersecurity and China concerns, Axis' favorability, amongst 200+ integrators in our new study, improved: Inside this note, we examine the main reasons integrators are positive tow...
By IPVM Team - 7 months ago
Qognify, having acquired OnSSI less than 2 months ago, in December 2018, has cut ~25% of OnSSI total employees, primarily at OnSSI's HQ in Pearl River, NY. This has created a significant amount of concern about the future of OnSSI but OnSSI tel...
By John Honovich - 7 months ago
One is a major US defense supplier. The other is owned by the Chinese government. But you can "SAVE BIG" on both at ADI. In this note, we examine FLIR's ongoing attempt to divest itself financially and publicly from US government banned Chines...
By John Honovich - 7 months ago
BluB0x has doubled in revenue every year since its founding in 2013, according to CEO Patrick Barry. We originally reported on them in 2015. At the time, they described themselves as a "hosted security platform that delivers unprecedented unificat...
By IPVM Team - 7 months ago
Over the past 2 years, video surveillance storage specialist Rasilient has expanded its workforce significantly, aiming to build its own branded business. However, this month, Rasilient has made significant cuts in its sales teams. Inside this ...
By John Honovich - 7 months ago
Ubiquiti has quietly grown into a $1+ billion annual revenue company, with offerings across wireless, wireline network and video surveillance (see our profile). While the company does little to no marketing, in IPVM's integrator study, they receiv...
By IPVM Team - 7 months ago
Anyvision raised a $43 million Series A and according to their newest investor: what you need to do is push the gas pedal and build an organization which can monetize and take on this opportunity to grow massively Anyvision is hiring 'massiv...
By John Honovich - 7 months ago
Most industry professionals have never heard of Solink, a company whose tagline is: It's time to revolutionize the way business uses video. However, raised ~$12 million USD recently, a substantial raise for video surveillance standards, espe...
By Dan Gelinas - 7 months ago
A "strange narrative" is being spun, said Michael Barnes at the 2019 Barnes Buchanan Conference. However, despite that narrative, it is a "great time" to be in the industry. Barnes gave a 3-hour presentation on the current state of the industry...
By Dan Gelinas - 7 months ago
Hanwha Techwin's favorability results surged, in IPVM's 2019 study, going from barely neutral in 2016 to strongly net positive, as the results chart below shows for 2019: Back in the 2016 version of this study, IPVM was skeptical that Hanwha co...
By IPVM Team - 8 months ago
Taiwanese video surveillance manufacturers, even relatively large ones like Vivotek, have lost ground in the PRC-China-driven race to the bottom. With market dynamics shifting, how would this impact Vivotek? Vivotek favorability results improved ...
By IPVM Team - 8 months ago
Genetec's favorability moderately strengthed, in new IPVM integrator statistics over their results from 2017, with 2019 results showing solid, but not exceptional, net positive favorability: In the past 2 years, Genetec has inserted itself into...
By IPVM Team - 8 months ago
Canon / Milestone are putting tens of millions into Arcules - their bet on the future of the VMS market (see IPVM's Arcules test report). But over the past half year, Arcules has had a rocky road, with significant turnover including at the execut...
By John Honovich - 8 months ago
At the Intersec 2019 show in Dubai, IPVM spoke with the show's "exclusive artificial intelligence sponsor" Huawei who recently declared their intentions of becoming a top 3 global provider in video surveillance. By contrast, Hikvision's President ...
By Charles Rollet - 8 months ago
Bosch's favorability moderately strengthed, in new IPVM integrator statistics over their results from 2017, with 2019 results showing strong net positive favorability: By contrast, in 2017, integrators main complaints were for support and prici...
By IPVM Team - 8 months ago
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