Putting IT Before Paint | By Bill Lally

In a time when most of the world can’t go more than a few minutes without checking email, responding to texts or checking Facebook, it’s obvious that our reliance on technology has become a critical factor in the operation of any business. Integrators are tasked with implementing these important technologies, but a lot more than you may think gets put into these systems in a business or hotel. And unfortunately, as paint, décor and architecture are considered early on in the design process, technology is often left on the backburner and on near-impossible timelines. Not only do integrators customize systems for each of their clients’ technological needs, we do so while navigating the uncharted courses of new technology. Technology that when originally designed, was state-of-the-art, and becomes antiquated two years into a typical construction project.