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March-April 2007 Welcome to the latest edition of The Brivo Brief, with the latest news about Brivo econtrol Online Access Control as well as tidbits about market opportunities and staff members. If you received this newsletter as a forward from a colleague, please contact your Brivo Regional Sales Manager and request to be added to the distribution list. In this edition of The Brivo Brief.... Dealer Corner Brivo Bytes
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Dealer Corner Market Spotlight - Religious Institutions Religious institutions have complicated access needs, often coupled with limited IT resources and budget constraints. Brivo's ACS WebService gives churches and other religious institutions unprecedented flexibility and control over their facilities—at a price that fits their budgets.
Read more about how well Brivo can work for churches. Recent Success Story St. Andrew's Cathedral complex is located in downtown Honolulu, HI. Their access control needs were numerous and diverse, with buildings that include a Fellowship Hall, the Sacristy, an administration building, a theater, and the Cathedral itself, and various groups—priests and administration personnel, prayer and study groups, and wedding parties, to name a few—that need access to them. St. Andrews had already installed an Ethernet network throughout their complex, so Security Systems Hawaii proposed the Brivo system to tie into the existing network and combine all the buildings into one unified account. Without having to invest
in additional network infrastructure, the solution met St.
Andrews' budget. Bringing all of the buildings and various groups
into one account provides centralized administration and a seamless
view of the entire complex. In addition, St. Andrews IT personnel
were happy to have no additional servers or software to maintain,
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Brivo Bytes Brivo's XML-RPC Interface: What it Means To You Brivo's XML interface opens the door to virtually unlimited integration opportunities between Brivo access control systems and other enterprise systems. The classic example is of a Human Resources system passing information to the access control system. New employees are automatically assigned proper credentials, and terminated employees have theirs automatically revoked. The efficiency saves time and improves accuracy. The examples are endless—someone signs up online for a free week's membership at a fitness club and automatically receives an entry PIN code, valid only that week; a monthly parking lease holder fails to pay his bill, and after an established grace period, his card expires. To learn more about how it works, read our press release or contact your Regional Sales Manager. Give Your Customers the Brivo Overview—On Demand! Now available on the Brivo home page is a 7-minute overview of Brivo's ACS WebService. It walks through the power of Web-hosted access control, and the features and benefits you can bring to your customers with a Brivo solution. Direct them to www.brivo.com and they can select the appropriate version: Flash, Quicktime, or Windows Media. Need assistance? Contact Brivo Inside Sales at 866-692-7486, option 1. Welcome to New Brivo Employees We've had some new arrivals! Rueben Orr joins Brivo as our Director of Business Development and will be based in Colorado. Jean-François Champagne comes on board as our new sales manager for the Canada Region. JF is based in Montreal. Joining our Bethesda headquarters are Michael Ahlers, Software Developer, and Bill McElveen, Technical Writer. We welcome these vital additions to the Brivo team! Brivo Employee Spotlight – JoAnn Dillard JoAnn Dillard has also recently joined
the Brivo family. She brings 15 years of a combination of
Inside Sales, Account Support, and online training for major
accounts into her position. JoAnn started her sales career back in
1986 selling patent information on software. Her sales training came
from Thomson & Thomson, she also attended PTC Career
Institute and Rutledge College of Washington.
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Feature Spotlight - Notifications Brivo's access control systems can send notifications of events that can be received by a cell phone, email, or PDA. Notifications can be:
Creating a rule is as easy as the rest of the Brivo interface. When logged into the account, select the "Notifications" tab. From there, a new rule can be created by selecting the desired events from a list. Enter one or more email addresses and save the rule. That's all there is to it! To send to a cell phone, all you need is the number and the service provider-specific domain, for example: 3015555555@vtext.com, where "vtext.com" is for a Verizon phone number. With ACS WebService, this feature is
available without any special system setup. ACS OnSite sends
notifications through the internal mail server. The ACS OnSite
Administrator's Guide posted on our Technical Support Administrator's Guides
page has a section on "Configuring the SMTP Server" that walks
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Upcoming Events PSA Tech May 8-11, 2007 Pheasant Run Resort & Spa St. Charles, IL ISC Expo / East 2007
ASIS
— American Society for Industrial Security
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Call Your Brivo Regional Sales Manager for Anything You Need! Your Brivo Regional Sales Managers are eager to help your team identify, engage, and close Brivo opportunities. They are also available to help train your sales and installation staff. Their contact information is listed below Paul
Thayer -
Northwest (Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Wyoming,
Montana, Idaho, and Colorado) James
McQuade -
Southwest (Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico)
Bill
Ellifson –
Midwest (Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, North & South Dakota,
Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and Wisconsin) Paul
Kercher –
Northeast (Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island,
Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey)
JF
Champagne - Canada Shawn
Gore –
International Randy
Rolin -
Brivo Inside Sales Eleni
Manoloudis -
Brivo Inside Sales JoAnn
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