Most security integrators today agree that offering services to customers is more important than ever — both to create “stickiness” and the increase that all-important recurring revenue. 

There has been a decided push in both technology and interest — from both security integrators and customers — on the cloud-based services that bring recurring monthly revenue.

In a post pandemic world, businesses and organizations off all types are reinventing themselves to adopt hybrid or work-from-home policies in order to sustain company culture as well as viability in the marketplace.

According to a recently released report by HID Global, “The 2022 State of Access Control Report,” there has been an increase of interest in mobile credentials — in large part as a result of the pandemic.

Employees are demanding flexibility as the world of work is changing, confirming the results of Brivo's Top Security Trends in 2022 report: that hybrid-work environments are the future.

Combining the key feature sets of discrete security systems — such as access control and video surveillance — is giving installing security contractors the capability to create new business efficiencies for their end customers and expand upon existing systems. 

As the pandemic continues to drag on and businesses and people in general grow weary of the fallout, there is a stronger sense of urgency to get “back to normal” in all walks of life

We’ve seen plenty of thinkpieces regarding the “death of the office building.” 

In the past, guards, fences, turnstiles and more have been used to keep the bad guys out.

Working from home was slowly gaining traction before the COVID-19 pandemic.