tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87572996509204304792011-07-08T12:58:33.938-04:00"Micro Key Solutions provides essential Alarm Monitoring and Management Solutions to Alarm Companies, Contract Central Stations, Universities, Municipalities, and other proprietary users all over the world."Wayne Torrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00388973607861354217noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757299650920430479.post-9898819880203781102010-08-25T12:38:00.004-04:002010-08-27T11:42:36.073-04:00

When Micro Key moved from a DOS to a Windows platform back in the late 90's, we could not fully support the legacy dot-matrix style self-mailers that some customers had come to know and love.  Our customers were forced to use laser printers and go back to folding and stuffing invoices. Recently, we have identified a vendor who creates very nice self-mailers that can be printed on specific laser

Wayne Torrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00388973607861354217noreply@blogger.com0Kissimmee, FL, USA28.2919557 -81.40757128.2163777 -81.52430050000001 28.3675337 -81.2908415tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757299650920430479.post-69071765022240392152010-04-19T11:29:00.004-04:002010-04-19T11:49:43.540-04:00

Whether you were an attendee or exhibitor, I sure hope ISC West 2010 was as successful for you as it was for Micro Key Solutions. Considering the economy, attendance at our booth was better than expected. We served more beer on Wednesday in celebration of our 25th Anniversary than anticipated, and the entire experience exceeded our expectations. We met so many interesting people and gave numerous

Wayne Torrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00388973607861354217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757299650920430479.post-3293989875823252762010-02-01T11:00:00.008-05:002010-02-01T12:16:14.145-05:00

Being an active member of CSAA (Central Station Alarm Association) and sitting on a few of their boards I am now part of the Social Media subcommittee. CSAA is offering a number of free Webinars throughout the year that are open to members and non-members. The first is titled "Social Media-Help or Hype?". This is an area that each and every Security Company and/or Central Station should become

Wayne Torrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00388973607861354217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757299650920430479.post-82177611448913637642009-09-25T11:20:00.009-04:002009-09-28T14:57:29.413-04:00

Video verification has become more an more popular in recent years with the advent of No Response policies and Enhanced Call Verification (see CSAA's CS-V-01 Verification Standard).Two call verification has proven to cut down on false dispatches but video verification adds a whole new dimension to the verification process. Why is video better than making multiple calls? There are several reasons

Wayne Torrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00388973607861354217noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757299650920430479.post-40129115387231800002009-08-24T11:45:00.005-04:002009-08-26T16:19:45.004-04:00

What is SAAS? Imagine you could kiss your IT nightmares goodbye and the only thing you needed to run your business is an internet connection and a basic PC. All of your critical business applications are hosted on servers miles away that are backed up automatically by the hosting company. All software upgrades are done on the server level by your hosting company in addition to

Wayne Torrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00388973607861354217noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757299650920430479.post-45886047778149135022009-08-10T14:04:00.007-04:002009-08-10T14:26:22.122-04:00

In the software development world there are many technology paths a company can take. As a software company, can we develop for all the current technologies? Not Likely. Do we just pick one direction and stick with it to the end and hope that we selected the best, most accepted technology? There is always the chance that something will come along that is better than the current technology

Wayne Torrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00388973607861354217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757299650920430479.post-48830619019031572292009-07-01T09:40:00.008-04:002009-07-01T17:23:09.972-04:00

I am frequently asked where I see the future of Central Station Monitoring going. It is pretty clear that creating one user interface for a Central Station Operator is key to increasing efficiency, and therefore, controlling costs. Looking much further into the future I see where alarm panels will contain all critical information that we currently store at the central station. I will leave that

Wayne Torrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00388973607861354217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757299650920430479.post-48128273185001532022009-06-11T15:20:00.003-04:002009-06-11T15:53:52.981-04:00

It seems to me that this show in its second year will exceed all expectations. I don't know any of the preliminary numbers for registration but most of the people I talk to are planning on attending. There is a very robust set of training sessions and seminars that all look interesting. I may attend a few myself.The show is a joint effort between NBFAA and CSAA and all show profits will go

Wayne Torrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00388973607861354217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757299650920430479.post-55041418052753760152009-05-15T10:23:00.008-04:002009-05-20T16:10:39.152-04:00

I am really excited to announce Micro Key Solutions and Honeywell reached an agreement to integrate Win-Pak into Micro Key's Millennium Series Software.Many of our customers already own and use Win-Pak for their access control needs so adding Win-Pak to our product offerings makes a lot of sense.All the day to day functions that you currently do on Win-Pak will be done within the MKMS and MKMSCS

Wayne Torrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00388973607861354217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757299650920430479.post-83090769474578551782009-04-28T10:08:00.000-04:002009-04-28T10:25:02.547-04:00

Yesterday I saw the new Micro Key Millennium Series Software’s new help file.  They are being developed using the most recent version of MKMS and will continue to be updated as new versions are released. The Getting Started sections will be broken down by module so you will only need to setup the specific maintenance items for that module when you are ready to implement it. What good is a Micro

Wayne Torrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00388973607861354217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8757299650920430479.post-26178245398981976222009-04-24T11:38:00.004-04:002009-05-15T14:07:50.702-04:00

During our Virtual Users Conference in mid March I asked for people to volunteer to join our new focus groups for Collections, GPS and Action Plans.  So far it has been a huge success with Collections and GPS.  Next week I will be sending out my initial thought regarding Action Plans so we can start working in that areas also.The whole focus group idea is to allow our customers more control in

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