President's Letter: April 2007

DPS Provides You with Controlled and Cost-Effective Legacy Migration Solutions

Our last few years have shown a shift in our client demographics. For many years, our clients used DPS solutions to migrate from legacy equipment. In the last several years, however, most of our system deployments have been "new installations" or "complete system replacements".

Now, we are seeing a new wave of "legacy system migration" opportunities coming our way. We really enjoy these kinds of deployments, because we love watching the reaction of our clients when they experience the difference in speed and functionality relative to their older systems (Yes, we know it's not a "fair" comparison, but it is reality).

It also reminds us of the fact that there are still lots of companies out there trying to make due with monitoring gear way past its prime. The underlying philosophy is many companies either choose to or have to "use the old system 'til it breaks". We certainly understand the business reasons for that kind of thinking. Unfortunately, when a legacy system does fail, now you're dealing with an emergency response situation.

The value that DPS brings to the table, as you will see in this e-zine, is that we can provide you with a controlled, cost-effective migration instead of a full network swap-out.

This issue of The Protocol also features a SCADA update, as well a new technical knowledge paper on how to set up analog inputs on the NetGuardian 832A to work with analog sensors.

Production Department Update:
Over the past few months, we have been bringing new automated production machines online. The good news is you might have noticed that we have been substantially shortening our standard delivery times.