We would like to thank Andrew Davidson, the Channel Development Manager for TotalMobile, for contributing to the PPM Blog as a guest author. TotalMobile is a PPM 2000 technology and integration partner that specializes in providing cutting edge mobile applications to various private enterprises, as well as public safety, healthcare and government organizations. Their security apps for guard tours, post orders, BOLO, incident capture and inspections allow in-the-field personnel to capture information and instantly relay it to back-office systems, such as Perspective by PPM 2000, saving on processing paperwork, travel costs and operative time.
Over the past decade, the Guard Tour process has been dominated by wand-based systems. The “magic wand” is carried by an officer and plugs into pre-determined wand outlets, providing post verification to a supervisor. Officers are in turn forced to add additional equipment to their tool belt and depend on another piece of hardware to complete their jobs.
Question: Would an officer be happier and more efficient carrying less equipment; being able to do more with less?
What the average person carries in their “tool belt” has changed significantly over the past 10 years: a map for directions, a camera to take pictures, a CD player for music and paper to jot down notes. The evolution of the mobile device has definitely simplified the average person’s life; allowing for on demand GPS directions, high resolution pictures of the family with a swipe of the finger, your favorite music on-the-go and a grocery list that is never lost.
The next logical step is to apply this methodology to security and the Guard Tour process, allowing officers to do more with less. Replacing a “magic wand” with a mobile device will not only allow an officer to capture location verification via the latest technology, NFC (Near Field Communications), but also eliminate the clip board of forms, capture images in the field, receive real time updates and access mission critical data in the back-office system.
Prediction: With the evolution of mobile devices, the demise of the “magic wand” is inevitable.
For more information on TotalMobile’s security apps and their integration with Perspective:
Watch this quick intro video…
Request this webinar recording on Empowering Officers and Investigators with Real-Time Incident Management…
Or… contact your Account Manager at information@ppm2000.com.
—Andrew Davidson, Channel Development Manager, TotalMobile Inc.
In recent months, PPM has announced a number of new partnerships. One of these partnership announcements highlighted a new integration between PPM’s Perspective and Brivo’s ACS WebService.
The integration between these two SaaS-based solutions means that select access control events can now be passed to an incident reporting system for documentation, analysis, and follow-up.
This integration is the first of its kind and we are very excited to demonstrate the value it will bring to organizations looking to connect their systems.
If you are heading to ISC West in Las Vegas from Apr 6th to the 8th, and you would like to see this integration in action, be sure to pop by the Brivo booth (#6086). Frank Kennedy, PPM’s Director of Sales, and Kevin Moore, one of PPM’s Senior Account Managers, will be present at the booth to help showcase our Perspective SaaS solution and the ACS WebService integration.
For more information on this integration, read the full press release…
—Cora Bolianatz, Director, Marketing & Communications
I can remember the day well over 5 years ago when I met with the then current VP of i2, Bill McGilvery, at the ASIS Conference in New Orleans. We shared a vision of combining case management data with link analysis tools, and from there we progressed on the first path of integrating i2 solutions with Perspective.
The result was taking the i2 Power2 technology and developing the Visual Analysis module for Perspective, one of the first tools for completing dynamic link analysis on Perspective data.
Being familiar with the i2 analysis software and the powerful results it delivered to public agencies in their investigations, I strived for the day that the entire i2 visualization and analysis product line would be integrated to Perspective to provide the same power to corporate investigations as public agencies had. The power to visualize and share investigative data… to find the needle in the haystack… to solve the puzzle.
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New from PPM 2000 and Brivo Systems: Save data entry time and accelerate incident response by integrating Perspective with a Brivo Access Control System.
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As much as we go into the ASIS Annual Seminar & Exhibits ready to present our latest innovations, the show also gives us the opportunity to find out what needs to come next. What’s everyone asking about? What’s the buzz on the floor? Throughout the three day event, we spent a lot of time talking about integration and interoperability. We collaborated with many of our partners who were at the show—including Microsoft Global Security and Brivo Systems—and we engaged in a number of discussions around cloud-based computing and our SaaS option. With a number of exciting offers to promote and some significant advancements to our product line (both at the show and in development), we had an amazing week in Dallas, and we came home with invaluable feedback that will help us prioritize our development projects to ensure that we continue to address your top Incident Reporting and Investigation Management concerns.
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