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DICE announces new Tech Security Summit for spring 2019
October 31, 2018Spencer Ives
BAY CITY, Mich.—DICE Corporation announced in late October that it will be expanding its annual user's conference, addressing new topics and bringing in new professionals.The event will be held in Nashville, Tenn., at the Sheraton Grand National Downtown from April 29 to May 2, 2019. Event highlights include panel discussions with DICE representatives and industry experts, product demos, exhibitor showcases, education and training, roundtable sessions, and networking and group activities, the...
DICE announces new VP of sales, new business development manager
September 5, 2018SSN Staff
BAY CITY, Mich.—DICE Corporation recently hired Heidi Husted as the company's new vice president of sales, and Corinne Faulmann as DICE's new business development manager.Husted will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of sales for the company, including establishing sales targets to meet company objectives and developing strategic sales plans, the company said. Husted has more than 30 years of experience in sales and management, with the past 24 years being in telecommunications and...
DICE announces new mass notification system
March 28, 2018Spencer Ives
BAY CITY, Mich.—DICE on March 21 formally announced its new mass notification service, Matrix SMS Check-In, which is now available.“This allows you to mass notify groups of people or your entire company,” Cliff Dice, company president and CEO, told Security Systems News. “This is our first venture into mass notification.”The company initially developed the system for an oil company and other Fortune 500 companies. Beta testing ran for about six months, according to Dice,...
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,...
DICE expands operations team
July 6, 2016Spencer Ives
DICE recently announced the latest expansions to its operations team; James Beaty joins DICE in the newly created role of VP of operations and Jen Balash was promoted to director of account management.
The operations team will be focused on maintaining a cohesive environment between different departments of DICE, Beaty told Security Systems News. “Part of what I do is make sure that we're working together and as efficiently as we can,” he said.
Beaty said one thing he is specifically...
DICE launches advertising agency, security products
May 25, 2016Spencer Ives
DETROIT—DICE announced a new security-focused ad agency among the company's new services and products at the DICE Users Group conference.“We have on-staff videographers, and on-staff web developers, and content managers. It's an entire advertisement agency that we've built inside of Dice,” Cliff Dice, company CEO, told Security Systems News. “We formed it in the last 12 months, but announced it at DUG.”The advertising agency will not restrict its work to DICE customers,...
SMS: The path to reducing work for central stations
April 4, 2016Spencer Ives
YARMOUTH, Maine—Monitoring centers can reduce their workload through alerting users by SMS text messages; more central station automation platforms are expanding this offering.Security Systems News spoke to two central station automation providers, Dice and MKS, as well as full service alarm company Per Mar Security Services about the benefits of texting alarm users.MKS previewed its new SMS module for low-priority alarms at its users conference, held in Orlando, Fla., in March, MKS president...
Alarm industry-focused telecom grows
January 13, 2016Spencer Ives
BAY CITY, Mich.—IPtelx.net, a telecom carrier focused on the alarm industry, had a successful first year after spinning-off from Dice Corporation, according to Cliff Dice, president and CEO of Dice.“Regular telephone companies are concerned with voice calls, they're not concerned about alarm signals. We built a network in the telecom industry for alarm signals,” Dice told Security Systems News.One factor for the spin-off was that IPtelx.net grew to support some of Dice's automation...
Dice has 200k accounts in the cloud
September 15, 2015Spencer Ives
BAY CITY, Mich.—Dice has added more than 200,000 accounts to its cloud-hosted monitoring center platform this year, said Cliff Dice, company president and CEO.The cloud platform helps VoIP issues like dropped signals and also cuts attrition for alarm dealers, Dice said.Cliff Dice is part owner of a telephone company, and Dice's hosted monitoring center uses its own network. Having the ability to fully track the signal allows Dice to see when and where a signal gets dropped and address the problem.“Because...
Dice adds 200k accounts to cloud-hosted center
August 19, 2015Spencer Ives
Dice has added more than 200,000 accounts to its cloud-hosted monitoring center platform this year, the company announced today, and has a 24-month goal of reaching 1 million accounts total.
I got the chance to talk with Cliff Dice, company president and CEO, today about the platform's growth and some of the problems it has helped solve, like dropped signals and account attrition.
Prior to this year, there were only about 10,000 accounts on Dice's monitoring center, Dice estimated. Many of the new...