This is an excerpt of an article posted at Security Info Watch
Late last month, PSIM software provider VidSys announced that James Chong, the company’s founder and chief technology officer, has been named by its board of directors as their new CEO. In his new role, Chong will be focused on expanding the company’s capabilities to meet growing demand and help scale their offering beyond PSIM into the Internet of Things (IoT) market.
SIW recently caught up with Chong to discuss how he plans to grow the company, as well as the various trends impacting the market for PSIM software.
SIW: Having founded VidSys and served as the company’s CTO for a number of years, how will becoming CEO help you grow the company the way you envision?
Chong: I think this is really a strategic move for us. This is also timed with the activities of the market, as well as where we are as a company with our product. With my role, it is not necessarily undoing anything that we’ve already established, but it is helping us to accelerate even more our innovation agenda as well as to meet the faster growing demand of the market. Also, at the same time, we are looking to expand our capabilities that will take us beyond just the area of physical security into what I’ve been talking about which is physical security plus information management. Ultimately, those things traverse into another area, which is the Internet of Things where more advanced connectivity to sensors and devices will be a part of things that we’ve always done, but also incorporating additional services to create that intelligent services and virtualized services platform. With our browser-based and web-enabled technology that we really had first in this industry… all of these are things we feel are really exciting – not just for the physical security market but from other expanding markets where our product roadmap and maturity model are taking us into.
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