Fresh thinking about workplace optimisation will be one positive from a tumultuous year
One thing that we’ve notice changing during 2020 – with all its stresses – is that questions around workspace optimisation have risen up the corporate agenda. When we talk to facilities managers and clients, there is now much more awareness that buildings need to be used as efficiently as possible. Pressure to reduce property costs is a given, but [...]
Streamlined futures – why enterprise customers now see integration as vital
Today’s business landscape is changing rapidly. In almost every part of the economy, even sectors which once seemed relatively slow moving and predictable, we are seeing major challenges and disruptions.Each business faces its own sector-specific pressures: retailers, most obviously, adapting to the challenges of e-commerce, oil giants facing hefty carbon taxes, the education sector shifting to e-learning, healthcare providers treating [...]
Contactless vs Frictionless access. What’s the big difference?
They both sound good – and they both are – but there’s a big difference between contactless access solutions and frictionless. ‘Contactless’ describes the latest generation of technologies that let authorised users get through a secured entrance without having to physically touch anything. In our newly hygiene-conscious age, these technologies have become more valued, and with good reason. ‘Frictionless’ [...]
Security and corporate systems integration now made easier with Quanika tech available through NIT for Middle East and Africa projects
Software solutions ‘off-the-shelf’ will give advantage to IT and security integrators DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, 12 OCTOBER 2020 – IT and security systems integrators across the Middle East and Africa can now deliver more efficient, off-the-shelf integration of complete corporate systems – including access control, visitor management, security and building management - following a distribution agreement between Quanika and [...]
Solid foundations for the new workplace normal
Business planners should look beyond the coming winter: multi-function access control and visitor management solutions can solve many of the operational challenges they are facing. As we head towards the predicted challenges of winter, many streets in our city centres remain eerily quiet, and many offices blocks are still deserted. City planners are wondering what the future will hold [...]
Access control – today’s top five requirements
A major shift is taking place in the way companies and organisations operate: the way they use their buildings and manage their people. This transformation is being driven by a combination of external pressures, including the rapid impact of the 2020 pandemic, and longer term trends that were already established, such as the need to cut carbon emissions, manage [...]