On your own Genetec or Milestone deployment, against your real alarms, at no cost. We install it and configure your rules with you.
There is no new VMS licence to buy, but the two vendors differ and it is worth knowing which you are on. On Milestone, MIP SDK usage is covered by your existing licence and there is nothing separate to buy. On Genetec, Security Center needs a plugin part number activated on your licence before the plugin will load — we arrange that with Genetec as part of the pilot. So there is nothing for your team to chase either way.
They can build the message-sending part in a week. The escalation ladder, acknowledgement state, cooldown suppression, retry and delivery tracking, duty routing, multi-site config, and ongoing VMS version compatibility are the other eleven months — and they don't stop once they ship.