Security Contractors

Scalable Intelligence Built on Snowflake and Sigma: The New Standard for WinTeam Operations

For consolidators in commercial cleaning and security, your data strategy is your competitive advantage. Learn how Wavelytics, built on Snowflake and Sigma, turns operational chaos into a single source of truth.

How Cleaning and Security Companies Cut Costs Without Cutting Corners

Cleaning and Security companies use WinTeam ERP Software to cut long-term expenses in tough economies.

The Physical Security Industry in 2026: Three Shifts You Need to Prepare For

Prepare your security business for 2026. Discover how tech-enabled guarding, stricter compliance and real-time client proof will shape the industry's future.

TEAM Software 2026 Roadmap: What's Ahead for Workforce Management

Explore the TEAM Software 2026 roadmap. Discover how AI, offline mobile tools, and predictive data are transforming workforce management.

Understanding Dimensions and Facts: The Foundation of Effective Business Intelligence

Learn how dimensions and facts form the foundation of business intelligence. This guide helps you structure your data to make smarter decisions faster.

Three Priorities Shaping the Future of Enterprise Cleaning and Security Operations

Modernize enterprise cleaning and security operations. Discover how data, AI, and efficiency drive profitability and growth.

Gear Up for the ISSA & BSCAI Contracting Success Shows: A Guide to Conquering Las Vegas

Conquer the ISSA & BSCAI shows in Las Vegas! Get the ultimate guide to Contracting Success, cleaning technology, and AI-focused sessions.

Beyond Spreadsheets: Why Intelligent Security Guard Scheduling Software Is Your 24/7 Edge

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The Future of Employee Benefits: Earned Wage Access Is Now Table Stakes

%%excerpt%% EWA is a must-have benefit. Learn why earned wage access is moving beyond a perk to a standard offering and how it's shaping the future of employee benefits for cleaning and security companies.

Mastering Both: Physical vs. Logical Access Control for Unbreakable Enterprise Security

Master both physical & logical access control for robust security. Learn why your security team needs a holistic approach. Explore TEAM Software's integrated solutions.

Processing Overtime: Navigating Upcoming Changes for Cleaning and Security Operations

Overtime Tax Changes 2025: What Cleaning & Security Businesses Need to KnowMeta: Upcoming tax law changes in 2025 will affect how overtime pay is reported and taxed. Learn what cleaning and security businesses need to know to adapt payroll systems an...

The Best ERP for Security Companies 2025: Comparison + Buyer's Guide

Struggling with disconnected software? Our 2025 guide helps you find the best ERP solution for security companies, covering scheduling, payroll, and financials.

Enterprise Payroll and Invoicing Solutions for Commercial Cleaning and Security Operations

Streamline payroll and invoicing for your cleaning or security company. Explore integrated solutions that handle complex pay, compliance, and billing.

From Overwhelmed to Empowered: How Data Marts Deliver Clarity Inside a Data Factory

Unlock the full potential of your operational data with data marts. Get focused, persona-ready insights to empower your teams and drive better decisions.Slug: data-marts-for-service-companies

Complete Guide to Job Costing for Cleaning and Security Companies: Turning Financial Data Into Profit

Unlock profit in cleaning and security with expert job costing. Track costs, boost margins, and make data-driven decisions for sustainable growth.

The Hidden Cost of Payment Delays: How Integrated Payment Processing Fixes Cash Flow Problems for Cleaning and Security Companies

Stop payment delays from draining your bottom line! Discover how integrated payment processing solves cash flow problems for commercial cleaning and security companies, speeding up payments, reducing admin, and boosting financial visibility.

From Reactive Management to Proactive Intelligence: How Real-Time Analytics Elevates Commercial Cleaning and Security Operations

Learn how real-time analytics for commercial cleaning & security improves SLAs, boosts profits and optimizes your workforce.

Earned Wage Access for Cleaning and Security Companies: A Complete Guide to Better Retention

Discover how earned wage access reduces turnover by 36%. Implement EWA without changing payroll processes or cash flow.

Reporting vs. Analytics: The Critical Difference Every Service Business Must Understand

Understand the crucial difference between reporting and analytics for your service business. Learn how analytics drives real-time decisions and a competitive edge.

Debunking the Top 10 Data Myths in Cleaning and Security: Why Your Data Strategy Matters

We're breaking the top 10 data strategy myths in commercial cleaning and security and showing how better data can transform your operations.

From Cost Center to Profit Driver: How Modern AP Departments Generate Revenue

It’s time to turn your AP department from a cost center to a AP automation revenue generator. Reduce costs while earning cashback.

Simplifying Data Management in Cleaning and Security

Learn how a data warehouse transforms raw operational data into insights that boost efficiency, customer experience and profitability

Business Intelligence and AI for Cleaning Companies and Security Businesses: Key Takeaways from Our Latest Webinar

Watch how Business Intelligence and AI tools offer real-time insights for cleaning companies and security businesses. Learn key questions from industry peers about using data to improve efficiency and make better decisions.

How AI and BI Empower Lawn, Pest, Cleaning and Security Industries to Harness Their Data for Success

For cleaning and security companies, being profitable while protecting margins hinges on operational efficiency and strategic use of data.

What the New Administration Could Mean for Your Business

The new presidential administration is poised to bring changes to industries deeply tied to the nation’s economic and regulatory framework.

The State of Field Service Industry Software

Field service industry software is rapidly changing. Find out how technical advancements can help optimize business.

Tax Compliance and Upkeep with Industry Software

Tax compliance is a complicated subject, but tax software designed for security and cleaning companies can help.

AI in Commercial Cleaning and Security Services: What’s Ahead

This article was originally published on September 12, 2024 and updated on June 9, 2025. Artificial intelligence (AI) is seemingly everywhere. Across industry events, conferences, expos and meetings, AI is the topic that everyone wants to hear more a...

Ensuring Security Officer Safety During Patrols

Security officer safety is a challenge for contractors to encourage. Find out ways to do just that in this short article.

How to Earn Security Contracts by Better Showcasing Your Work

Security contracts oftentimes require contractors to market themselves and their business. Find out ways to do both in this short article.

Security Guard Scheduling: Avoid Common Problems and Schedule More Efficiently

Security guard scheduling is an important topic, as missed shifts can cause financial trouble. Read how to avoid issues.

Fraud Prevention Procedures for Cleaning and Security Companies

Fraud prevention procedures are important for cleaning and security companies who are vulnerable to threats. Learn more today.

Security Guard Technology Trends, Advancements, and Industry Buzz

Discover the latest advancements in security guard technology! This overview covers trends, tools, and insights to keep your security operations ahead of the curve.

Choosing Physical Security Software

Choosing physical security software can be a complicated task. Learn key takeaways to ensure your business makes the right decision.

Market Trends for Cleaning and Security Contractors

Market trends can help cleaning and security contractors better plan for their next move. Read about current industry trends.

HR Recruitment Software: Effectively Hire and Retain

HR recruitment software comes in various shapes and sizes. Use your software tools effectively during this tough job market.

Security Incident Reporting Software: Why Your Security Firm Needs It Now

Is your security firm ready for today's challenges? Discover how security incident reporting software can enhance incident management and protect your assets effectively.

Employee Turnover: The Bottom-Line Buster

Find out creative ways to retain employees, review how to measure staff retention and learn more about employee turnover analysis.

Security Guard Safety Tips

Reviewing and sharing security guard safety tips can have a huge impact on the safety of your workforce. Find out more in this short article.

Challenges in the Security Industry and How to Overcome Them

Learn some of the top challenges in the security industry and find out ways to overcome them using cutting-edge technology.

How a Guard Tour System Improves Incident Response and Security Operations

Learn what to look for in a guard tour system and how it enhances accountability, reporting and client satisfaction for security companies.

Your Software Buyers Guide: A Visual

Our software buyers guide uncovers your needs and the best solution for each, so you know which software will bring you the most value.

What Are The Biggest Opportunities For Cleaning and Security Contractors

Maximize profitability and growth in the market by taking action on these five opportunities for cleaning and security contractors.

Sorting through Software Terms

How do you know what software is right for your needs? We’re explaining common software terms and what they really mean for your business.

How to Decide What Solution Is Best For Your Business

What do you need most out of an integrated workforce management solution? This guide can help you decide what’s best for your business case.

Use Customer Benefits to Attract new Customers

Strengthen your customer acquisition process and make your bids more competitive by including value-driven customer benefits.

Annual US Labor Trends Report for the Cleaning and Security Industries

This annual report provides insight and the latest data points around labor trends for security companies and commercial cleaning companies.

Mobile Workforce Management Solution Benefits with Lighthouse

Mobile workforce management solution benefits with Lighthouse are available for security and cleaning professionals seeking business growth.

Time and Attendance Software: Spend Less Time on Employee Time Off Requests

Time and attendance software can help you spend less time on employee time off requests. Keep reading to learn how.

Win (and Keep) Business with Security Guard Software

Win and keep more clients and contracts by adding value to your bids and service delivery with security guard company software.

What Security Guard Companies Should Stop, Start and Continue in 2022

Learn how a security guard company like yours can address security industry trends and what you should stop, start or continue doing in 2022.

Security and Cleaning Labor Market Trends Update

Labor market trends and future predictions can help security and cleaning professionals plan for the future. Learn more today.

Renew Your Focus on Reducing Security Guard Turnover

The more you can reduce your security guard turnover, the fewer new guards you have to hire — and hiring is hard right now.

What Do California’s New Time-Punch Rounding Policies Mean for You?

What you need to know about changes to California’s time-punch rounding policies and how it effects your cleaning or security business.

The Benefits of Mobile Access from Your Security Guard Checkpoint System

What mobile workforce management features should you look for from a security guard checkpoint system to improve and enhance your service delivery?

Eliminate Missed Shifts with Self-Led Security Guard Scheduling Tools

Empower your security guards and improve retention with self-led security guard scheduling software options for your hourly employees.

3 Ways Guard Tracking Software Can Improve Service Delivery

Ensure better guard tracking for your security business through industry-specific features found in TEAM's security patrol software.

How Your Cleaning or Security Company Can Maximize Data Through Reporting

Maximize data through reporting with a software system that helps your company improve processes and gain visibility.

How Flexible Workforce Management Software Can Adapt to Meet New Cleaning and Security Needs

Mobile workforce management tools must be flexible and adaptable. TEAM's solution is both and it can help you meet new cleaning and security needs.

A Look at 2020 Labor Trends for the Security Industry

How does the security industry compare to national averages when it comes to hiring and application trends, and what does it mean for your business?

Ways to Reduce Labor Costs in the Security Industry: A Guide

Reduce security guard expenses without sacrificing quality. Real solutions for security firms managing tight margins.

Addressing Social Media Policies in the Security Industry

Your guards need to be connected through their phones. Most security companies have social media policies while at work but enforcing them is tough.

How to Make Technology Work for Your Security or Cleaning Company

Many times, your software implementation can go smoothly and successfully. But sometimes, technology doesn't always live up to its expectations.

Hang on Tight — Hiring is a Roller Coaster in 2020

Musings from the spare bedroom office while trying to breathe through a mask. Deja vu? July and August are starting to look like March and April all over again. Just as we started to relax and see small glimpses of normalcy a few weeks ago, virus rat...

How Security Guard Roles Continue to Change in 2025

Security guard responsibilities have expanded beyond traditional patrol. Learn how mobile reporting, contract demands and technology innovations are reshaping the role.

Security Guard vs. Security Officer — Which Should You Use?

The difference between security guard and security officer in a job title is subtle but could make a big difference in your security hiring and retention.

Meal and Rest Break Compliance: Keep Better Track of Work Breaks

Navigate complex meal break laws and rest period requirements and learn how to support break compliance and rest periods.

Are Weekly Trends Signaling a Cleaning and Security Industry Hiring Recovery?

As we eagerly watch local economies reopen, hiring data are beginning to emerge and paint a picture of a cleaning and security industry hiring recovery.

The Essentials of Predictive Scheduling for Your Business and Employees

Understand the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance and what it means for your cleaning or security business and your use of predictive scheduling.

Four Reporting Functionalities Your Cleaning or Security Business Needs in a Crisis

Reporting functionalities through your software solution add visibility over your entire business, keeping your operations streamlined during a crisis.

Three Key Things to Keep in Mind During Software Implementation

ERP implementation for your cleaning or security business is a lot like most big undertakings — the first steps are the hardest.

Compliance Updates to Keep Your Business on Track

Stay informed and in compliance with these updates COVID-19 and tax updates from TEAM Software.

Three Things You Need to Know Before You Post a Job

Posting the job itself is only half the battle. Create a structured hiring process before you search for applicants. It used to be that posting an opening for a cleaner or guard was a huge task. But today, that’s not the case. Anyone can hop on a job...

Three Tips to Make Managing Your Distributed Security Workforce Easier

Find the right software to improve visibility and streamline processes for your security business. As a security contractor managing a distributed workforce, you face a unique set of challenges like lack of visibility into your sites, changing work r...

Positioning Your Business for Success Going Forward

As the initial crisis moves behind us and you look ahead, you might be wondering what comes next for your cleaning or security business.

How Assessing Your Business Now Can Help You in the Future

Use this time to really uncover where your gaps and inefficiencies are and make sure you’ve taken all possible steps to future-proof your business.

An Illustrated Look at Workforce Management Tools Accessible via Mobile Devices

Workforce management tools can streamline a cleaning or security business with industry specific, on-the-go features. Learn how.

Additional Tips for Employee Retention Through Technology

Don’t stop at just engaging your employees through technology. Go a step further and improve your cleaner or guard retention through technology.

Three Tips to Improve Your Job Costing with Data

Access to the right data from your cleaning or security business can improve your job costing by decreasing your spending and increasing your profits.

The Essentials of the CARES Act for Your Business and Your Employees

Understand the essentials of the CARES Act and how it applies to your janitorial or security company.

How Mobile Software Improves Your Workforce Communication

Security guard management software can improve your field-to-office communication — and your company.

Reporting During and After COVID-19

Reporting requirements and transparency are changing, with more to come as this crisis moves toward long-term management. Right now, cleaning and security contractors are seeing huge shifts in demand. Increases are happening in healthcare, constructi...

Why Industry Technology for Cleaning and Security Contractors Matters Now

Industry technology for cleaning and security contractors matters now more than ever. Find out how your business can benefit.

Three Tips for Engaging your Workforce Through Technology

No matter where your customers take your cleaning or security contractors, you face a unique challenge of engaging your workforce through technology.

The Essentials of COVID-19 Paid Leave Changes for Your Workforce

Stay on top of changing sick leave and family and medical leave laws for your employees and what that means for your janitorial or security business. On March 18, 2020, the U.S. passed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), whi...

Mobile Tools for Essential Services like Cleaning and Security

On-the-go technology for your on-the-go cleaners and guards.

Six Essential COVID-19 Forms for Security Contractors to Use Right Now

Stay in control and in compliance with adaptable forms.

Essential Tools for Essential Services

As the leader of a cleaning or security business, you’re on the front lines of an unprecedented crisis.

Security Contractor's Guide to Reducing Overtime

How to protect your profits through reducing overtime, cutting labor costs and improving schedule optimization.

Software Implementation for Security or Cleaning Contractors

What to look for and what to expect when implementing all-in-one software for your business. As a janitorial or security contractor, you know all too well the challenges that face your industry like competition, thin profit margins, high labor costs ...

Six Things Security Operations Managers Need from Software

Improve efficiency and performance with the right software for your security company. As your security company’s operations manager, your overall job and day-to-day processes rely heavily on technology. But when your tech system no longer meets your ...

Security Guard Tracking System Software: Three Key Technologies

Discover the top three key technologies used in security guard tracking system software for efficient security company operations. Learn more here!

How to Evaluate a Security Guard Tour System

A security guard tour system can provide a real-time view of your security operations across multiple sites. Increase workforce visibility with TEAM's solution.

Drive Efficiency with an Outside Perspective

Janitorial and security contractors can improve business processes by leveraging specialized consulting. Do any of these scenarios sound familiar? Your janitorial or security company is experiencing exponential growth and you can’t keep up. You’d lik...

Three Reasons You Need Guard Tour Software

Guard tour software helps you improve security operations, reduce on-site supervision and save money with automated reporting. Learn more about TEAM's solution.

Seven Tips to Improve Your Employee Retention Strategies

These 7 tips can improve employee retention strategies. Learn about job responsibilities, tools, employee preferences, supervisors, access, and more.

TEAM Client Conference: What We Learned

Highlights from our annual event last month. We hosted our annual client event TEAM Client Conference last month in Omaha, Nebraska. The conference is an opportunity for TEAM customers from across North America to come to Omaha for in-person training...

Seven Tips to Retain Good Security Guards

Use these seven tips to stop the revolving door and retain your best security guards. This article is posted in partnership with Kwantek, and its original version can be found here. Kwantek is the preferred Applicant Tracking Software partner for TEA...