Bosch, Sony pool their video surveillance businesses
VOV.VN - Bosch Security Systems and Sony have announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement that will result in an unprecedented level of collaboration between the two companies’ video surveillance business units.
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Officials of both companies stopped short of calling the agreement a merger of their separate video operations, which would imply that Bosch is taking over Sony, even though the partnership between the two is subject to review and approval by antitrust authorities.
From a technological perspective, the companies will be joining forces but Sony will continue to separately manufacture the Sony products, said Bosch spokesperson Anne Insero. The sales and marketing employees of Sony will transfer to Bosch, so Bosch will handle all the sales of Sony branded products.
Sony’s video security customers will be served and supported by a dedicated sales and marketing team within Bosch, offering customer support, after-sales service and training in many different languages in over 50 countries around the globe.
“The global Bosch Security Systems organization will support the dedicated sales and marketing team responsible for Sony-branded products as well as Sony’s customers to grow the business by excellent support and service,” Bosch Security Systems President Gert van Iperen said in a statement.
Under the partnership, which will become effective at the beginning of 2017, the companies will combine their respective strengths in video surveillance to deliver customer solutions that deliver optimum image quality in all lighting conditions, as well as superior video analytics and bitrate performance.
