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A Complex Landscape of Workplace Platforms Provides the Foundation for Office Apps
September 1st, 2021The Best Opportunities for Physical Security Business Growth over the Next 3 Years
August 9th, 2021
Workplace Technology M&A Shows a Rapid Rise in 2021
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Workplace technology has become a significant focus for acquisition activity this year as 15 M&A deals to date enable commercial real estate stakeholders to augment their software and IoT offerings. The strategic rationale for deals is on expanding solutions that address landlords’ needs to ensure […]

Integrated Access Control Can Create Secure “Virus-Smart” Buildings
We have been talking about the return to the workplace for over a year and while we must be closer to that happening, there is no clear end to the pandemic in sight. Vaccine rollouts have certainly accelerated our path to the end of the crisis, but that end is unlikely to be a definable […]

The Critical Factors That Will Deliver Physical Security Growth to 2025
In this article we discuss the 6 most important factors that will shape the future of the Physical Security industry through the next 5 years, which will require fundamental changes to business strategies. 1. The gap between the major suppliers of Video Surveillance equipment and the many hundreds of smaller suppliers gets wider every year […]

Analysis of M&A Deals in the Physical Security Business
M&A data collected by Memoori over the last 18 years shows that the Physical Security industry has gone through 4 cycles of growth and decline sometimes exaggerated by a number of billion dollar deals in one year, or increased activity from Private Equity or buyers outside the physical security industry. Memoori’s annual world report The […]

Contract Security Services or ‘Security as a Service’?
Buyers of Access Control and Video Surveillance Services now have the choice of using Contract Security Service companies or the new breed of ACaaS & VSaaS suppliers now coming from the physical security manufacturing business, with many looking to sell direct to the end user. Both are delivering sophisticated services that are reducing the total […]

Verkada Hack “Exposes How Broadly We’re Being Surveilled & How Little is Put into Securing IoT”
A damning IoT security breach occurred this week as a hacker group gained access to video surveillance feeds, as well as company and customer data, of Silicon Valley security startup Verkada. The hackers gained access to over 150,000 cameras, including those in Tesla factories and warehouses, Cloudflare offices, Equinox gyms, hospitals, jails, schools, police stations, […]

Smart Building Tech Can Limit Infection But We Need to Present the Data to Alleviate Fear
Office workers have become comfortable at home. After being forced to work from home for much of the last 12-months, the long-awaited return to the office (whenever it comes) will now represents change and with change comes fear. Just as the end of the pandemic will not be a specific date, the return to the […]

Will the Pandemic Drive More Growth for Access Control as a Service?
Memoori’s World Market 2020-2025 Report on the Physical Security business shows that all types of organizations across the world are investigating how they can leverage the cloud, as it is proving to be a very attractive proposition. We estimate that in 2019 ACaaS investment was worth $620 million and of this approximately 40% was installed […]