In the age of Big Data, IoT (Internet of things), video analytics, deep learning and everything in between, the ability to effectively generate valuable information from raw video becomes a necessity. With the right tools, the volume of data analyzed, the accessibility across an organization and applications for security, safety, operations and beyond, the potential of video surveillance technologies can finally be realized.The use of video surveillance by law enforcement, security agencies, investigators, public safety, transportation and safe cities is constantly growing. Much has been said about the imminent explosion of video data and the challenges it brings. For video data to be considered useful information that is worthwhile reviewing, the video data must be first tagged, organized, searched, combined, filtered and finally processed into a form that enables organizations to act upon it in a productive way. [More… Taming the Video Data Monster]