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San Diego Schools De-Escalate Incidents, Protect Assets and Catch Perpetrators

This system makes each campus safer for students and staff. We now have the level of visual communication we need to resolve most problems before they arise. When we do have incidents, we’re able to de-escalate situations more quickly than we...read more

September 3, 2015, from Customers, Milestone in the Field viewpoints.

Why Keep Saying ‘CCTV’?

We don’t use public telephone booths anymore – we each have our own mobile phones that work wirelessly, anywhere. We don’t listen to music on a gramophone or with tapes anymore – we stream it from iTunes, Pandora or Spotify. Xerox and...read more

September 1, 2015, from Milestone Insider viewpoints.

Stop Thinking Backwards! Software is the Core

Have you ever tried to start a puzzle from the middle? It’s more effective to start from the outside and work your way to the center, focusing on the edge and corner pieces first. It also guides you to focus on points in the content of the...read more

August 25, 2015, from Milestone Insider viewpoints.

10-Year Relationship with IP Video Confirms a Good Decision

Since its inception 11 years ago, security systems integrator Digital Surveillance Solutions (DSS) has focused on selling a narrow but powerful and feature-rich set of products. “This allows our sales team and field personnel to become...read more

August 17, 2015, from Milestone in the Press, Partners viewpoints.

Recalibrating the Market

What is really motivating customers, what are their real issues and hot buttons? From our global network of partners, a new way of looking at customer needs was revealed: traditional definitions of the security market no longer fit the truth of...read more

August 17, 2015, from Milestone Insider viewpoints.

Too Many Cooks Don’t Spoil Open Platform VMS

Our industry is collapsing and expanding on itself at the same time. What would Einstein say? Have we violated basic realities of business physics? Not really, we just happen to live in a time of many new start-ups, new software apps, stronger...read more

August 17, 2015, from Milestone in the Press viewpoints.

8 Cities Video-linked for Ring of ‘Pro-Tec’tion

Working as a Milestone channel partner and Vertical Market Specialist in the city surveillance and transportation markets, Pro-Tec Design has been installing and servicing security and surveillance solutions in the Twin Cities for decades...read more

August 17, 2015, from Customers viewpoints.

Nothing in Common Makes a Good Match

Both companies promised ‘business as usual’ after the announcement, but there have been many comments on the Internet about the future of open platforms, with some websites listing the ‘last remaining open platform’ vendors – assuming Milestone...read more

August 17, 2015, from Milestone in the Press viewpoints.