Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announced the launch of Smart Security as a Service (SSaaS) solutions for enterprise customers. Through SSaaS, Zain offers a wide range of smart solutions beyond video surveillance, including advanced video analytics and intelligence, self-service, centralized monitoring, and more via Zain’s secure cloud to help businesses achieve higher levels of security and more accumulated smart insights.
The announcement comes as part of the company’s continuous efforts to offer a refreshed portfolio of world-class, advanced security solutions to the local business community, serving businesses of all sizes, including large enterprises and SMEs. This comes in line with Zain’s digital transformation strategy that aims at empowering a more efficient business sector in the Kuwaiti market.
SSaaS introduces a number of advanced features, including video management and recording, basic video analytics and cloud archiving. The service utilizes artificial intelligence tools to automatically detect and recognize faces, license plates, and objects while providing behavioral analysis, business intelligence, classification, and tracking data on-screen.
The service features secure and private connectivity and is linked to a detailed GIS map where footage based on geo-map location of the camera can be accessed. SSaaS also offers Unified Incident Management, including surveillance controls, navigation, stream management & analytics, and alarm integration. Centralized Monitoring provides instant and easy access to real-time footage of all branches from one platform. The service also features a user-friendly end-user portal which offers the customer self-service capabilities.
Zain’s SSaaS solution offers a number of benefits to customers, including lower upfront investment, as the service is based on monthly installments, allowing customers to invest capital into other business areas. The service also allows lower power costs, with a shared infrastructure that gives better hardware utilization with more efficient power use and lowers the cost of electricity. In addition, the service allows reduced IT staffing costs by lowering a company’s total IT cost and redeploying employees with the cloud provider’s IT staff shared infrastructure.
From a technical perspective, Zain’s SSaaS solutions enjoy strong reliability, operating via numerous data centers located in the cloud that can protect customers’ data and systems against failures. The service is highly flexible with a plug & play model, allowing coverage of several branches, adaptable to wide range hardware, security subsystems, and applications. The service is also highly modular with a scalable architecture of different modules supporting on demand expansion in storage, processing power, memory, and cameras as per the customer’s needs.
Zain Business also provides secure and easily accessible data storage and management, with 24/7 surveillance, in addition to a wide range of connection types with various bandwidths and speeds to choose from depending on every customer’s business needs. Zain has collaborated with the best video surveillance tech companies to offer the best services to all types of businesses, regardless of their size.
Zain’s strategy is centered around digital transformation leadership and empowering the community to enjoy a smarter portable lifestyle, as well as using advanced technology to enable an easier and more flexible life. The company places itself as an active partner in creating the future of smart life in Kuwait. Today’s launch will contribute to prove the company’s full potential in triggering the digital community.