Tag: Bold Technologies
Advances in monitoring technology changing the standards landscape
July 18, 2018Paul Ragusa
YARMOUTH, Maine—As technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace within security, monitoring companies and third party standards organizations such as UL are doing their best to understand what this means for central stations today, especially in regard to creating requirements that reflect the current state of innovation within the industry.In March, UL published a proposal to extend the effective dates for two sets of requirements that are new to the eighth edition of UL 827, The Standard...
Bold Technologies announces new training platform, BoldU
April 18, 2018Spencer Ives
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Bold Technologies recently launched BoldU, its new learning and training platform.“We really want to engage the lifelong learning of our customers. We want them to really … get everything that they can out of our system,” Caryn Morgan, Bold's curriculum designer told Security Systems News. “The more you learn about the software you're using—especially in the alarm industry—the better you can service your end customers.”Bold has been...
Bold adds a new data center
March 26, 2018Spencer Ives
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Bold Technologies recently announced that it is adding a second data center in Los Angeles to support its Manitou Cloud Service.Having a second data center will essentially double the company's footprint and “allow us to offer different things like being a large center's secondary location. … A lot of these large central stations are purchasing—or they're going to have to purchase—a second facility to meet the new UL spec. We can actually act as that...
Bold Technologies integrates with 3xLOGIC
April 20, 2017SSN Staff
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Bold Technologies, a provider of alarm monitoring and PSIM software, has recently completed the integration of ManitouNEO, Bold's latest alarm monitoring software, with the 3xLOGIC VIGIL video platform. The integration leverages all aspects of the ManitouNEO Video Control Center (VCC) and the 3xLOGIC VIGIL software and Multi-Sensor NVR solution.
Charlie Erickson, SVP Product Marketing for 3xLOGIC, states, “Both 3xLOGIC and Bold have an ambition to satisfy the fast-growing...
Bold releases ManitouNEO
February 1, 2017Spencer Ives
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—ManitouNEO, Bold Technology's latest version of its central station automation platform, is commercially available as of today.
Rod Coles, Bold's CEO, called ManitouNEO “the first major re-architecture of the software. … This is version two.” Bold Technologies released its first version of Manitou in 2003, 14 years ago, and Coles expects this version to hold up just as long. Bold has about 600 customers using Manitou; the upgrade is free for current Manitou...
Virtual roundtable: Monitoring in the cloud
September 7, 2016Martha Entwistle
YARMOUTH, Maine—In the past few years, several providers have introduced monitoring center software that will enable central station infrastructure to sit in the cloud. Proponents of this software say it can reduce the cost of entry for new monitoring stations to start up, bring new capabilities to existing monitoring stations and make it easier for end users to set up proprietary monitoring stations.Security Systems News invited three central station software providers—Rod Coles, CEO,...
MKS hires Chuck Speck
July 20, 2016Spencer Ives
KISSIMMEE, Fla.—As security software provider MKS's new EVP, Chuck Speck plans to work on the internal process and communications as well as the customer experience.Speck joined MKS on July 7.“We've established a few [processes] right out of the gate,” Speck told Security Systems News. “I think there's going to be some structural changes and infrastructure changes within the company. Really, the design is to focus on what impacts the customer first.”Specifically, the...
Bold Technologies refocuses on existing customers
July 5, 2016Spencer Ives
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Bold Technologies' president Chuck Speck recently left the company to pursue other opportunities. Speck's departure comes as the company takes a new approach, Bold CEO Rod Coles told Security Systems News.“Chuck did a fantastic job getting new customers and building our account base. … We're just shy of 600 customers right now,” Coles said. “[In] the last few years, our focus has been adding new accounts, but we're at stage now where we really don't...
Bold gets UL Certification for Manitou Cloud Services
May 11, 2016SSN Staff
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Bold Technologies in late April received the UL 827 listing for its Manitou Cloud Services Data Center.
“It was very important for us to meet and even surpass the UL certification standards for our Manitou Cloud Services data center,” Bold's director of SaaS, Shaun Blair, said in a prepared statement. “We want our hosted customers to feel absolute confidence entrusting us with their data, and the UL listing is an essential part of gaining that trust....
A Bold move to the cloud
October 7, 2015Spencer Ives
Bold Technologies has launched its new cloud-based automation platform, Manitou Cloud Services, and is working to add 30,000 accounts to it by the end of the year, Rod Coles, Bold's president and CEO, told Security Systems News.
Designing the service to be UL compliant was the company's top priority, Coles said, and it is currently in the process of attaining that certification.
Coles said the release of Manitou Cloud Services was sooner than he expected and credited a rise in consumers' confidence...