As we begin this 2012 year, I have never been more excited about the alarm industry, the challenges and the growth opportunities. The alarm industry is moving quickly towards connected and interactive advanced technologies. The products and tools that clients will use in the next few years will be tightly interconnected, requiring additional integration among the platforms for monitoring, service & accounting systems, to allow clients to interact in real time and on larger scales than ever before.  Our industry will move from being a singular proprietary controlled industry to a large scale data centric multiverse.  What this means to our industry is that it will be connected to so many other industries using technologies and controls - which may be hard to envision at first, but in time will be a way of life.   

Some of you may be concerned about the new and large players entering the industry, at the same time we have in many directions the large expansion of certain sectors within our own industry.  To me, this means more clients willing to pay for services, more monitoring centers willing to provide such services, and the part I like the best, more of a need for software companies to perfect new products, integrate technologies, and provide advanced services that clients require to be competitive.  It is such an honor and a privilege for me to be such an important part of the heart of your business.

As for one of my new interests, the rapid advancement of PSIM, Physical Security Information Management, centers is very encouraging, and the tools both in the field and in the managed service center (monitoring center) is encouraging to say the least.

Lastly, 2011 marked the year that DICE Corporation provided many remote tool products, these remote tools run on Apple and Android OS, linked to both our accounting and monitoring software systems.  Fire Inspection, Service Management, Mobile Sales Management all with online contracts, credit card processing, and signature capture, are the highlights of the special products only offered by DICE Corporation.  Today at DICE, 2012 and beyond means growth and more advancement of products that others will be unable to offer on all facets.  DICE clients can plan on us to build our products for the new market, the new industry, and the great opportunities that are before us in this close-knit and important industry.  We are so happy to have such great clients, with so many great people to partner with.

Have a great 2012,
CVD