ACCESS CONTROL
Open migration The key benefits of migrating to an open architecture access control system by Nick Smith, Business Development Manager at Genetec
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he access control market has undergone a major transformation in the last decade. The arrival of new technologies has given organisations a greater choice of components, allowing them to do more with their access control systems (ACS). Some organisations, however, are still holding on to outdated ACS technology. In part, they’re afraid of the costs associated with migrating and opt instead to
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pour time and money into maintaining their legacy systems. Protect your business A unified ACS can do more than simply lock and unlock doors. It can protect an organisation’s people and assets more effectively and can help improve business operations and decision-making capabilities. It can give organisations access to new insights that helps them improve operations, especially
when relevant data is aggregated and displaying dynamically through intuitive dashboards. These dashboards are fully customisable and combine live devices with reports, charts, and histograms in one central location. This means security teams have a unified view of events happening on site or within systems at a single glance. By tracking key indicators and information, dashboards put events into perspective. For example,
