How to Tackle an Enterprise-Level System Integration Project
Systems integrators play a unique role in the engineering and implementing of enterprise-level access control systems — projects that are not without their frustrations.
Enterprise access control systems are not just supersized installations. The term “enterprise” is not always well defined. Some think an enterprise has to be a certain number of access control readers; others talk about number of locations, how databases are managed, or the extent of integration involved. But there’s one thing all agree on: the larger the enterprise, the more complex — and the more differentiation from just a large system.
“When we start talking about enterprise systems that are spanning many dozens of locations and time zones, potentially different continents, at that point it is not just an access control system with 1,500 readers,” says Chris Sincock, vice president, security business, DAQ Electronics LLC, Piscataway, N.J. “You have to scale it from a processing and communications side and also provide central command and control capabilities.”