Steve Wilson, the veteran account executive at Envysion, wrote a blog post titled The Right Tool for the Job.
We funded Envysion a few years’ ago. The underlying investment thesis was that a Software as a Service approach to video surveillance would be superior for customers who wanted to view video from dozens or hundreds of locations. A consistent question we faced was “will there be any features or capabilities that cannot be done through a traditional solution?”. This turned out to be a hard question to answer.
Certainly a SaaS approach promised dramatic efficiencies to administrators and users. Many of these are proving to be game-changers. But most of the capabilities could be provided via a traditional solution (albeit in a far inferior way). However, identifying capabilities that simply can’t be replicated was less obvious.
Enter My Clips. Envysion’s MVaaS solution allows a user to point-and-click a interesting video clip to a personal folder in the computing/server cloud. The URL for this clip can then be sent to other users. Also, a “friends” list can be maintained to allow others–such as all the store managers in California–to view certain clips.
MyClips enables video to be viewed and shared in ways that traditional systems simply aren’t equipped to handle. MyClips is becoming one of the most tangible answers to “what features does MVaaS enable that are unique?”.
Thanks Steve for the post.
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