Canon Marketing Japan to Resell BriefCam Syndex® Software

Boston, MA, Sept. 6, 2017 — BriefCam^®, the industry’s leading provider of VIDEO SYNOPSIS^® solutions for rapid video review and search, real-time alerting, and quantitative video insights, today announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with Canon Marketing Japan (TYO: 8060). BriefCam’s award-winning Syndex products are deployed in over 40 countries and utilized by the world’s leading law enforcement, public safety, government, and business organizations to transform their raw video data into actionable intelligence.

Canon Marketing Japan (MJ) is the exclusive sales and marketing arm of Canon Inc. in Japan. By adding BriefCam Syndex to its portfolio, Canon MJ can offer its customers a complete video surveillance solution comprising Network Cameras, Video Management and Recording (Milestone XProtect), and Video Content Analytics (BriefCam Syndex®). BriefCam Syndex® will provide Canon MJ customers with the ability to review hours of video within minutes, rapidly pinpoint people and objects of interest, proactively receive real-time notifications of critical events, and dynamically analyze key performance indicators.

“We are excited to add BriefCam’s Syndex products to our product portfolio,” said Koichi Mikami, Vice President and Group Executive for NVS Management Headquarters for Canon Marketing Japan. “Everything from the quality of their patented Synopsis presentation layer to their advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities is cutting-edge. These unique capabilities enable us to offer our customers the best-of-breed video analytics solution, with comprehensive capabilities that range from countering security threats to increasing operational efficiencies.”

Organizations everywhere want solutions that proactively identify and alert users about potential security or safety threats, reduce the overall time spent reviewing video, and address the new “big data” opportunity that video provides. According to researchers at Markets and Markets, the video surveillance market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 15.4% to reach a projected market size of $75.64 billion by 2022. This ubiquity of network cameras is driving the groundswell of demand for solutions that quickly and accurately analyze, classify, and quantify the content of video data.

“We are delighted to add Canon MJ to our list of valued partners,” said Trevor Matz, President and CEO of BriefCam. “We look forward to working with Canon MJ to unlock the value embedded in the petabytes of video recorded by their customers, and to provide breakthrough efficiency and effectiveness to security, operations, and management teams across Japan.”

Recognized as the de facto standard for video analytics solutions by hundreds of prestigious customers worldwide, BriefCam offers transformational video analytics solutions that prevent and solve security challenges for Federal Government, Security, Law Enforcement, Safe/Smart Cities, and Transportation Agencies across the globe, while providing F500 Enterprises, Healthcare and Educational Institutions with advanced capabilities to address safety, security and operational efficiency objectives.