Having effective digital solutions for various aspects of your operations—event management, digital signage, access control, payment gateways, HVAC systems, etc.—is great. In fact, in today’s busy world, it’s more accurate to say it’s essential.
However, what’s better than simply having those solutions? Having them integrated! That’s why we collaborate with providers of other mission-critical systems and make it easy to integrate with their products.
We introduced four of them to attendees of a Mazévo Connect webinar titled “How Mazévo Integrates with Leading Technologies.” It was an informative session that got people thinking about how to streamline and simplify their operations through integration. We encourage you to check out the recording if your organization (like every organization, honestly) could benefit from systems sharing data instantly and seamlessly. We’ve also summarized the session below.
Remember that you can find other interesting and enlightening Mazévo Connect videos on our YouTube channel. We do sessions every month, so our channel is an excellent source of fresh, actionable insights!
TL;DR Key Takeaways:
- Mazévo integrates seamlessly with several mission-critical systems and platforms.
- Mazévo comes with an API that makes integrating our solution with other systems easy.
- Four of our integration partners explain their offerings, which provide functionality that many organizations find essential.
- Digital signage, HVAC automation, secure payments, and building access control are just a few examples of helpful integrations.
How System Integration Can Benefit Your Organization
The systems you rely on to manage your facility are all powered by data, of course, and data can be shared. For event management professionals, integrating systems to exchange information delivers many benefits, including:
- Significant time savings. Sharing data eliminates the need for rekeying information and other manual tasks, freeing team members and empowering them to be more productive.
- Streamlined operations. Integrating different functionalities creates more efficient and cohesive event management workflows.
- Reduced errors. Integrating systems minimizes the chances of manual data entry mistakes in areas like access permissions and financial transactions.
- Better customer experiences. Event hosts and their guests enjoy smoother processes, from booking space, registering for events, and finding reserved spaces onsite to paying invoices and handling other administrative details.
- Enhanced security. Connecting with facility access systems provides better control over who can enter event spaces and when.
- Improved data insights. Combining information from various systems enables a more holistic view of metrics like event attendance, resource utilization, and financial performance.
- Increased revenue potential. Integration can help organizations make more money in several ways, from reduced labor expenses to better event promotion and increased attendance.
API: Small Acronym, Big Impact on the Ease of Integration
You might have heard the acronym API. It stands for application programming interface. An API is the key to easy integration between computer programs and platforms, including between Mazévo and other systems.
Mazévo comes with an API. Essentially, it’s a bridge that makes it simple to connect our scheduling solution with other systems, including the four Mazévo partners profiled in the Connect session:
Visix: Digital Signage for Better Communications
As Visix COO & CSO Trey Hicks shares, his company’s first API integration was with EMS, the business Mazévo CEO Dean Evans founded decades ago (and later sold).
Visix is a leader in an array of communications systems, including video walls, wayfinding tools, interactive experiences on mobile devices, and more. Their products help organizations in an array of industries share meaningful content with event attendees and other stakeholders.
Trey talks about several of the company’s products, including its innovative e-paper offering (wireless devices that run for up to five years on a set of batteries you can buy at the grocery store), touch interactive meeting room signs, and custom interactive campus maps (with voice-activated wayfinding).
Streamside Solutions: Energy-Saving Building Automation
Streamside Solutions CEO Dwight Stewart starts his presentation by noting that a building’s HVAC system is its largest source of energy consumption, and keeping rooms heated or cooled to a comfortable temperature when unoccupied wastes a significant amount of money.
That’s where building automation comes in. The company’s Events2HVAC product can integrate with Mazévo, using info on scheduled events to bring room temperatures to desired setpoints prior to attendees arriving—and then allowing the spaces to return to more energy-efficient temperatures when an event concludes. And this all occurs with zero labor costs.
Dwight also points out that the Streamside Solutions team can (if you prefer) set up, configure, and manage their software remotely, which makes the process simple and cost-effective, with payback achieved in only a few months. As evidence of the financial benefits, he shares the case study of a university that saves $1 million annually by using Events2HVAC.
7 Point Solutions: Innovative Solutions That Make Scheduling Software Better
7 Point Solutions Principal Ed Nowak goes way back with our team, to our days at EMS. Today, he leads a company that has, for over a decade, helped organizations maximize the value and usefulness of their scheduling systems.
They do that through subscription-based add-ons and custom development projects. Ed gives some examples, talking about his company’s PCI-compliant payments page (which he demonstrates), Student Organization Connector (comprehensive integration with products like Anthology Engage), and Microsoft365™ Connector (linking Mazévo with room resources in Exchange).
As for custom integrations, Ed says 7 Point Solutions can handle (and has handled) virtually every type of integration that’s relevant to event management professionals. This includes custom web applications, automations, financial reports, and lobby event displays, to name a few. He and his team have a well-earned reputation for being the “there has to be a better way guys.”
Detrios: Essential Integrations for Access Control System
Detrios Integrations Team Lead, Amanda Imperial explains that the company has more than two decades of experience in access control systems, with a long customer list across many industries (including 50+ in higher education) and over 1,000 custom integrations. Their solutions integrate with all the leading access control, housing management, student information, and event management systems. She says that if they don’t currently integrate with a particular system, by the end of their conversation with you, they probably will!
Amanda describes the company’s DAX product, a middleware solution that automates the locking and unlocking of facility and room access points. Through integration with Mazévo, it can do that based on event schedules, eliminating the need for manual actions by staff members, the huge number of reports needed to keep everyone on the same page, and the challenges associated with last-minute changes.
She then demonstrates DAX, including the configuration tool that lets you set parameters like unlocking a classroom 15 minutes before the scheduled start time to allow the instructor and early arriving students to get in and locking the room five minutes after the class has concluded. Amanda also shows the Reader Mappings function, explaining that DAX can be set up to unlock all the doors a visitor could potentially encounter on their way to their destination (for example, front, rear, and side building entry doors and the room door).
Coming Soon: A Connect Webinar on Student Information System Integration
Another critical integration that’s easy to accomplish with Mazévo is connecting our solution to a student information system (SIS). However, that topic warrants its own Mazévo Connect session, which we’ll be presenting soon.
Ready To Make Your Life Easier With Integrations?
If you’re considering connecting Mazévo with another system (or several systems), contact us. Integrations are much easier to accomplish than you might think!
We’re happy to learn about your operational goals and explain how our integration partners can leverage the Mazévo API to help you achieve them.
