New generation integrated solutions are an important answer to labor shortage problems, writes Phil Campbell, Sales Director The evidence of staff shortages is obvious to anyone planning a flight just now – with constant news of flights cancelled, and reports of stressed-out queues at airports, it can feel like a gamble. At the same time [...]
Disruption to global supply chains over recent months has highlighted how essential logistics are to modern life. The efficient supply of goods and materials underpins every aspect the global economy and this efficiency has been raised to impressive levels by the integration of systems, technology, people and processes.. We all now benefit from highly integrated [...]
Phil Campbell, Quanika, Sales DirectorFor security consultants and systems integrators, it’s important to understand the value that customers get from the new generation of streamlined, out of the box solutions instead of a customized mix-and-match approach.Today, the advantageous business case applies to any end-user that wants all their systems working together in the most efficient way: [...]
An important result of the pandemic is that businesses are now taking cybersecurity more seriously, according to the latest report from PWC. Out of 3000 organisations surveyed globally 96% said they are shifting their strategies, with 50% saying that cybersecurity will now be ‘baked in’ to every business decision rather than being an afterthought. This [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Organisations are continuing to prepare for the autumn and winter, redesigning their processes in line with the UK Government guidelines for safe reopening. As they do, there is a real opportunity for systems integrators to help by offering the latest generation of visitor management solutions that deliver much-needed long term value and efficiency. All organisations [...]
"People think lockdown is finished,” the WHO’s European region director, Hans Kluge, said in an interview with The Telegraph this week. But it hasn’t, he cautioned – in truth “nothing has changed”. And for anyone tempted to relax as some of the appearances of normal life return, he had a sobering warning. We should now [...]
