Tag: Intelligent Access Systems (IAS)
IAS moves into Cincy, a critical infrastructure 'mecca'
April 14, 2014Martha Entwistle
CINCINNATI—Setting up shop in this city, with its chemical, power and other critical infrastructure businesses, has been on Intelligent Access Systems' roadmap for four years, Ron Oetjen, IAS founder and SVP of Securadyne Systems, told Security Systems News.“Cincinnati is known to be a mecca for those types of companies,” he said. “We have several significant enterprise client opportunities in this region. We also have an office in Canton [Ohio] and we wanted to serve western...
Securadyne expands in the Heartland
April 9, 2014Martha Entwistle
Intelligent Access Systems—a rapidly growing systems integrator that was acquired by Securadyne in January—has made a move in the Midwest, expanding into Cincinnati and tri-state region (comprising Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana).
IAS employee Kevin Grice has relocated to the area and hired Cincinnati native and industry veteran, Jeremy Brewer.
Securadyne Systems' branch network is now in more than 15 locations, from Texas to Maine.
Founded by Ron Oetjen in 2004, IAS specializes in integration...
Securadyne acquires Intelligent Access Systems
January 7, 2014Martha Entwistle
CARROLLTON, Texas—Securadyne Systems took a giant step toward becoming a national integrator with the acquisition, announced today, of Intelligent Access Systems (IAS), one of the most successful and rapidly growing regional integrators in the country.
Securadyne now has $70 million in revenue, 300 employees and 16 branch offices in the Southwest, Southeast and the Northeast.
IAS, based in Garner, N.C., was founded in 2004 by Ron Oetjen and specializes in integration for critical infrastructure,...
Security companies grow fast, again in 2012
August 22, 2013Martha Entwistle
NEW YORK—The 2013 Inc. 5,000 list has been released and, again this year many security companies made the list, which ranks businesses based on self-reported growth data.Topping the list of included security companies was Security Hunter of Baltimore, Md. At number 551, it had $21.8 million in revenue in 2012, a three-year growth of 820 percent over its $2.4 million in 2009 revenue. Founded in 1988, the company manufacturers and installs electronic and physical security systems used by federal...
The Haves & Have-Nots of Security Integration Companies
May 8, 2013Martha Entwistle
PSA TEC is in full swing. The action started on Sunday night, but I arrived late on Monday. Yesterday I spent the day (Tuesday) talking to PSA Security integrators and members and attending four different educational sessions.
I attended the State of the Industry panel, moderated by PSA Security CEO Bill Bozeman and featuring a large group of integrators and industry experts; a discussion on Big Data, Business Resiliency and Physical Security moderated by Chris Peckham of Kratos; a session on...
The PSIM potential
September 4, 2012Kenneth Z. Chutchian
YARMOUTH, Maine—If you are a vendor or integrator of PSIM systems, the chances are good that you consider this to be an exciting time in the security industry.
And the chances also are excellent that, regardless of your expertise and experience, your views on PSIM market trends will be challenged by others in the field.
PSIM (physical security information management) software and systems are only six or seven years old. That's young enough to generate the buzz of possibilities yet...
Who in security topped the Inc. 5000 this year?
August 22, 2012Martha Entwistle
The Inc. 5000 has released its 2012 list, and again, there are a number of physical security companies included.
Top among the physical security companies that I saw on the Inc. 5000 list, which was officially released yesterday was VMS Alarms, a residential and small business security company and Monitronics dealer.
VMS Alarms ranks #526 on the 2012 List. It had a three-year growth rate of 731 percent; 2008 revenues of $2.3 million, and 2011 revenues of $19.5 million.
Here's...
IAS branching out in Charlotte
June 13, 2012Martha Entwistle
CHARLOTTE, N.C.--Intelligent Access Systems, a PSA Security integrator, is opening its sixth office here this month. "This is the first time we've not had a key customer in the area where we open an office," IAS CEO Ron Oetjen told Security Systems News. What IAS does have, Oetjen said, is "the right person, the right opportunity and the right city [to make this office work].""If you look at our company vision statement, it says that we want to be the strongest and most respected independent systems...
Intelligent Access Systems creating new software
October 27, 2011Martha Entwistle
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Intelligent Access Systems in September hired a VP of IT, Mike Baranski, whose first project is to oversee the creation of new access control software for regulated industries.
“It's for access control provisioning,” Ron Oetjen, president of IAS, told Security Systems News during an interview at the PSA Security Convention, which was held here Oct. 21-25.
“Customers in regulated markets have to do a certain level of documentation for auditors,...
Advice from PSA-TEC 2011: Embrace change
May 26, 2011Martha Entwistle
WESTMINSTER, Colo.—What's the biggest challenge for independent integrators today? According to Bill Bozeman, “it's not the need to learn the latest and greatest technology,” and it's not learning how to sell better or more efficiently. Rather, it's understanding how to run and adapt their business models so they can run profitable businesses.
Bozeman mentioned conversations he's had with Ron Oetjen, president of Intelligent Access Systems of N.C., a tech-savvy...