Articles by Laura Stepanek

This issue features the 22nd annual Top Systems Integrators Report, a ranking of the largest security integrators by their North American systems integration revenue.

In this month’s feature article, “Financial Services: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t,” author Joan Engebretson focuses on some financing facts that are well known to security dealers  as well as some lesser known facts, such as that interest rates are expected to increase soon.

Every time we at SDM have an opportunity to ask our readers what their greatest business challenges are, the topic of “finding and retaining employees” always emerges as one of — if not the most important — issue that dealers face.

As in past years, the April issue of SDM centers on the theme of access control.

If you’ve run a security business for a long time then you know operations as well as the back of your hand.

The Presidential Inauguration is taking place at the time of this writing and two things at first stand out to me as I begin to watch the coverage: First, how time-honored traditions — such as the swearing in of the president-elect, the benedictions, and the playing of the military bands — play such an important role in our society in times of transition.

Michelle Lindus, central station manager at Vivint Inc.’s headquarters in Provo, Utah, is the winner of CSAA’s 2016 Central Station Excellence Award for Manager of the Year.