New Integration Provides D-Tools SI Users with Immediate Access to Advanced Financial Planning and Management, Project Reporting and Related Information to Improve Business Decision Making and Performance CONCORD, CA (August 26, 2019) – D-Tools, Inc., the worldwide leader in data-driven system integration software has announced an integration between the company’s award-winning estimation, system design, and project management […]
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Operations in the Summer Months
Getting Back to Basics On a daily basis at NSCA, I chat with integrators about being more efficient. Increasing efficiency leads to more time being available, higher levels of profitability and happier customers (assuming, of course, that quality isn’t sacrificed for efficiency). Integrators often ask us how they can increase profits without adding dollars to […]
Solutions360 and D-Tools Create the Foundation for Outstanding Customer Experiences
Solutions360 and D-Tools share a common vision to help integrators increase productivity, efficiency and standardization. From the first interaction with a new customer to the final service touch point, you want the design and engineering experience to be seamless and impressive. But using disparate systems and tools can make that a challenge. We’ve got good […]
Solutions360 President Working with Canadian Universities on AI Solutions for AV Companies
Solutions360 President Brad Dempsey targeting InfoComm 2020 for launch of prototype of artificial intelligence solution aimed at low-voltage contractors. By D. Craig MacCormack Solutions360 president and founder Brad Dempsey is singing a familiar refrain when it comes to the implementation of artificial intelligence in pro AV, but how many in the industry are listening? Dempsey said at […]
Metrics and KPIs Should Drive the Right Behavior
First, you have to determine, the performance or the behavior you want. Only then can you determine how to measure that performance. This week, Brad Dempsey and Brad Malone, or as we like to call them, The Brad Show, discusses what kind of KPIs integrators should track, and how to use those KPIs to manage accountability. […]
Will Your Integration Business Survive Corporate Adolescence?
Without even defining corporate adolescence, you can figure out what it means. Corporate adolescence is a term Navigate likes to use to describe that awkward stage in a company’s life when they are no longer small—but not yet large. You have some of the characteristics of each but are not quite one or the other. […]
Why You Should Support the NSCA Ignite Initiative
Join Solutions360 and Support the NSCA Ignite Initiative Ignite is an initiative established by the NSCA Education Foundation. The NSCA Ignite program is aimed at attracting and engaging the next generation of audiovisual technology professionals. There is a growing demand for additional talent in our industry, and Ignite’s main goal is to make sure that young people, […]
NSCA Next-Generation Leadership Training
Is Your Next-Generation of Leadership Ready to Lead? Finding and retaining talent is a hot topic with systems integrators in 2019. NSCA commonly hears how many integrators are struggling with developing new leaders to better understand the business, enlarge their contribution, and add more value. NSCA and our partners at Navigate Management Consulting have listened to this […]
Using As-A-Service to Sell More Hardware
A blog entry based upon an article from our partners at GreatAmerica Financial Services There is no way around it. If As-A-Service wasn’t the “thing” before, 2019 is the year of As-A-Service for Managed Service Providers, UC providers and Audio Visual shops. Just last week, Arlin Sorensen, the father of MSP best practice sharing, stated in […]