AMAG sells the machinery that decides who gets in. Its more interesting business is helping organizations change their security without throwing away the buildings, badges and systems they already have.
A camera that watches a crossing is useful. A camera that helps light the person crossing it is a more interesting proposition. Inside ISS, the company turning video into a cue to act.
The 29-year-old video company survived the appliance era by turning hardware into software. Its next bet is that the meeting nobody rewatched may contain the answer an AI agent needs.
A photography company choked on 20 terabytes of its own work. The fix became a cloud-software business - and a useful playbook for any team whose content library has turned into a junk drawer.