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Company: Hiperwall
Headquarters: Irvine, Calif.
Technology Sector: Software
Key Product: Hiperwall Video Wall
Year Founded: 2007
Number of Channel Partners: None
Ideal Channel Partner: Midmarket-focused solution provider
Why You Should Care: Hiperwall brings a huge cool factor with its software, which turns a group of ordinary displays into a giant video wall.
The Lowdown: A picture is worth a thousand words, so imagine what your customers could say if they had a really big picture to work with. Hiperwall's Video Wall software gives them just such a canvas, creating scalable, high-performance video walls out of standard computers, monitors and an Ethernet network.
Customers can use the software to create large-format displays featuring graphics, photos and digital movies in standard and HD formats. The software also supports streaming content from cameras and other live sources, as well as live sender feeds that show changing screen displays from one or more sources.
Hiperwall is a spinoff from the University of California at Irvine (UCI) built on research and
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| Vint Cerf, Calit2 advisory board member, checks out Hiperwall's technology. |
Right now, Hiperwall does not have channel partners, but is interested in working with solution providers whose customers could benefit from large-format, high-resolution visualization systems, including manufacturing systems, security, realtime enterprise management and patient monitoring, just to name a few.
The company is accepting applications for participants in its Founding Partners program.
"We're seeking resellers who provide added value in their solutions by enabling their customers to collect large amounts of data from multiple sources for analysis and decision making," said CEO Jeff Greenberg. "By supplementing existing quantitative analysis methods with visual analysis, we can enable our resellers to provide incremental value and thereby justify incremental margin."
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