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Matt Tourney


Matt Tourney is the team lead for CDW's enhanced video surveillance practice. Matt has more than 20 years of experience in various pre-sales and post-sales consulting service roles in the data center and infrastructure solutions areas.

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3 Ways to Support Public Health with Enhanced Video Surveillance

Organizations can modify existing solutions to enable safe back-to-work and back-to-school activities.

By Matt Tourney
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October 12, 2020
Security, Software

[sayit]Enhanced video surveillance (EVS) has been a game changer for physical security. Now, as businesses and organizations strive to resume operations while supporting public health, many are deploying these systems for new purposes: thermal screening, occupancy management and social distance monitoring. Read CDW's new white paper to learn how technology tools can help organizations return…

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How to Implement Enhanced Video Surveillance Technology

Like telephone systems a decade ago, the digitization of data provides valuable new use cases for surveillance systems.

By George Howard  and Matt Tourney
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May 18, 2020
Security, Software

[sayit]Video surveillance technology plays an essential role in protecting the safety and security of businesses across industries. Organizations ranging from hospitals and schools to manufacturing plants and retail stores depend on video surveillance to reduce many different kinds of risk. Until recently, the camera systems providing this video surveillance typically fell under the responsibility of…

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Smart Cities Look to Enhanced Video Surveillance for Fresh Insights

Video analytics provide a deeper understanding of traffic, pedestrians and more, enabling informed decisions to make cities safer and better.

By Matt Tourney
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May 31, 2019
Networking, Software

Cities and municipalities face a number of tough questions as they try to provide residents with a good place to work and live. How much congestion and pollution are caused by vehicles circling the block as drivers look for a parking spot? Which intersections have the most near-miss accidents? Where is jaywalking common — and…

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Make Your Factory More Efficient and Productive with IoT-Powered Condition-Based Monitoring

The Internet of Things enables more informed business decisions, starting with equipment maintenance.

By Matt Tourney
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May 20, 2019
Networking, Digital Workspace, Other, Software

Unplanned downtime is a crisis for manufacturers. It’s bad enough that productivity comes to a screeching halt, but when a company can’t meet its commitments to customers due to downtime, it erodes the trust those customer have in that company. IIoT World reports that 82 percent of companies have experienced unplanned downtime in the past…

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How Samsara Fleet Management Improves Business Outcomes While Maintaining ELD compliance

By enabling fleet owners to tap business intelligence to improve decision-making, cameras and next-generation management platforms make compliance the means to an end.

By Matt Tourney
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May 10, 2019
Networking, Software

[sayit]The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s electronic logging device mandate looked daunting when it was announced. But now that they’ve implemented the necessary hardware and software, many fleet owners have found the regulation delivers a silver lining in the form of reduced paperwork and more data to make informed business decisions. Phase 2 of the…

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Find Hidden Synergy in Digital Transformation Projects

To maximize each project’s return on investment, make sure data doesn’t languish in departmental silos.

By Matt Tourney
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February 25, 2019
Networking, Digital Workspace, Software

Digital transformation initiatives can make workers and processes much more efficient and productive. But are the actual initiatives as efficient and productive as they can be? This isn’t a brain teaser. It’s about identifying ways to maximize each digital transformation project’s return on investment while minimizing its overhead costs. Organizations often have multiple digital transformation…

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Digital Transformation Needs to Be a Group Effort

When every department and line of business has a say, digital transformation projects deliver more bang for the buck.

By Matt Tourney
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August 10, 2018
Digital Workspace, Networking, Software

The average office building is about 15,000 square feet and uses more than $30,000 annually in electricity and gas. Even with all of the computers, servers and other IT infrastructure inside, lighting still consumes the most energy: 39 percent. HVAC is another 28 percent. Those figures highlight why businesses, school districts and other organizations are…

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For Manufacturers, IoT Is a Must-Have for Maximizing Uptime — and More

Tools such as Cisco Kinetic enable new, deep insights into equipment health and savings opportunities.

By Matt Tourney
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June 7, 2018
Networking, Software

How much can you justify spending on the Internet of Things (IoT)? For manufacturers, the answer often lies in another question: How much downtime can you afford? For example, in auto manufacturing, just one hour of unexpected downtime can cost $1.3 million in production losses. If unexpected downtime becomes a chronic problem, there can be…

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How Restaurants Can Use Digital Menus and Pay-at-the-Table to Maximize Revenue and Margins

Without the right partner, navigating all the technological options can be a recipe for trouble.

By Matt Tourney
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May 17, 2018
Networking, Software

Twenty-five percent of diners consider a restaurant’s technology when deciding where to eat, according to the National Restaurant Association. Among millennials (ages 18-34), it’s even higher: 32 percent, when they’re choosing among quick-service restaurants. One of those technologies is pay-at-the-table, which 63 percent of all customers surveyed say they’re willing to use, up from 48…

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When IT Partners with Lines of Business for IoT, Everyone Wins

By collaborating with LOBs, IT ensures success — and elevates its position in the organization from a cost center to an innovator.

By Matt Tourney
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April 27, 2018
Networking, Cloud

A few years ago, many lines of business (LOBs) started bypassing their IT departments to buy cloud services directly. That’s because IT couldn’t provide the resources they needed fast enough to build and test new products — projects that would enable the company to make more money and stay competitive. History may be poised to…

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IoT and Digital Transformation: What’s the Difference?

The two terms are often used interchangeably, but one actually enables the other.

By Matt Tourney
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March 22, 2018
Networking, Digital Workspace

Digital transformation and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two of the biggest buzz phrases these days — and not just in IT. That's because both have the potential to affect virtually every part of an organization, from supply chain to building management to vehicle fleets. The terms "IoT" and "digital transformation" often are used…

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