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Im currently looking at different VMS for our locations so ACM would be the next step as I'm completely new to this and want to learn a bit more. But I wanted to gather more research about other companies as well to see if the industry has changed. I see some newer companies have come out.
One of the questions I have is how do you tackle changing over ACM to a different company in so many locations? Do you swap over 1000 employees badges?
Or is it just a slow deploy of new ACM to a location in construction then slowly change over the rest of the locations?
What's your opinion on Kisi, OpenPath, Latch, CCURE 9000 Istar SH, Lenel S2, Avigilon, and etc?
Since Motorola bought Openpath isn't that a competition to Avigilon own ACM?
Another thread said lenel is using old backend with ancient drivers is this different than the S2?
How much work is needed to swap out our current ACM? Do we just need to swap out the panels and nothing needs to be done at the doors except maybe reader replacement?
Thanks everyone for your help. Any opinions or advice is welcome.
Most enterprise level and multi-site customers over 20 sites typically will be buying a server specifically to run their access system if they are going with genetec or lenel.
They are run on on-prem servers, have to VPN into servers or be on network to manipulate the system, have to pay for SLA's(updates), pay to add concurrent users. With the new cloud access control companies you can manipulate the system from anywhere. I can pulse a door when I'm in Switzerland and the office is in California in seconds. I can mass notify from a phone or laptop just need a data connection. Literally all they charge you for is hardware, per door and integrations you want. Auto updates. Has cloud to cloud integrations with multiple different products so that you never have to update either ever again. They speak directly to eachother in the cloud. I could go on and on. The biggest thing is they LIE about their new cloud offering which is a dogshit bolt on to their legacy shit and they charge you out the ass for it.
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Biggest downside to this though is buying $30-60k servers for every location to run it. Also don't forget about their ridiculously expensive nickle and diming they do. Also it is very very antiquated technology in the Access Control space.
Best to look into a cloud option. Feenics is my preferred cloud ACS because it's made by a bunch of ex lenel and honey well guys who couldn't stand lenel and HW's slow R&D and broke off. Very similar to lenel but way cheaper and TRUELY cloud based.