So, that while the annual SDM Forecast Study for 2004 finds security dealers, installers and systems integrators cautiously optimistic about how things will turn out by the end of this year, most report pretty darn good performance last year, throwing caution to the wind.
Total industry revenue driven through that dealer, installer, integrator base jumped more than 8 percent (8.2 percent) from 2002 to 2003, according to the survey, mailed to a random sample of SDM subscribers.