When I started my position over a decade ago, our counseling education clinic was using a sports analysis system to record their sessions. That system was getting old, and we replaced it with a security video system. As we used the security video system, it always felt like we were trying to pound an oversized square peg into a small round hole. As we were very dissatisfied with that system, I started looking again for a video system for our clinic. This is when I found Intelligent Video Systems. After a demo and talking with the folks at IVS, we decided that this was the system we really needed a few years before. Our first installation was pre-VALT, but it was vastly superior solution for our clinic. At that time, IVS as a company was just starting to grow. When the VALT system was introduced, implementing it on our users' computers was even easier than before. This system allows for live viewing of the session, watching the recording later, and adding tags both live and when reviewing. Recordings can be scheduled to start and end automatically, or they can be started and stopped manually. Overall, this system has been easier for me to support than the previous security video system. I liked the VALT system so much that when our literacy clinic was having some struggles with a system designed for classroom use (I was not involved in the original selection of that system), that I was able to convince the literacy clinic to implement a VALT system, which actually ended up meeting their needs better, at about a third of the cost of the previous system.

It is so user-friendly. I can start new people using it with very little instruction.