CompleteView v7 Features
CompleteView v7 sets a new standard in VMS, combining powerful features like enhanced playback, cloud integration, and federation for improved scalability and security. It’s the ultimate solution for modern surveillance needs.
A smooth search and playback experience is an essential part of any VMS. Initially introduced in v7.3, CompleteView has improved playback controls and smoother scrubbing.
Highlights include:
- Individually trim multiple camera timelines before export, saving investigators time when fetching and exporting evidence.
- Enhancements which retain time and other search parameters, enabling investigators to more quickly navigate through recorded video from different cameras related to an incident.
Unveiled with v7.0, Salient Cloud Services can be added to any CompleteView deployment, new or existing. A quick, free registration connects CompleteView to Salient Cloud Services, giving integrators and end users visibility through asset record dashboards.
- Paid service option for secure remote access, management, monitoring, and first responder access.
- Painless adoption with no firewall or network security changes required.
- Enables organizations to try cloud capabilities without disrupting existing systems.
The v7.0 release delivered major improvements to the implementation of CompleteView’s video storage management functionality. Storage Pools offer the flexibility, scalability, and predictive consumption analytics to allow security professionals to achieve their desired video data retention goals.
- Use any local, network, or shared storage in a Storage Pool across recording servers and optionally encrypt data at rest.
- Set per camera storage retention policies.
- Storage Pool Dashboards provide real-time and predictive data about storage consumption.
The v7.0 release delivered major improvements to the implementation of CompleteView’s video storage management functionality. Storage Pools offer the flexibility, scalability, and predictive consumption analytics to allow security professionals to achieve their desired video data retention goals.
- Use any local, network, or shared storage in a Storage Pool across recording servers and optionally encrypt data at rest.
- Set per camera storage retention policies.
- Storage Pool Dashboards provide real-time and predictive data about storage consumption.
Introduced in v7.2, Web Views let administrators embed web content within the CompleteView desktop client. This feature enhances situational awareness by displaying local weather, news, or integrating other web-based technology solutions.
- Display websites directly in the CompleteView desktop client.
- Administrators can hide or restrict URLs, control navigation, audio, and more to minimize operator distractions.
- Provide direct access to integrated third-party systems for investigation and configuration.
A streamlined investigation and playback experience is essential for efficient video review. The updated web client introduces several new features that enhance usability and performance—all from within a browser.
- Multi-camera playback and multi-clip export, making it easier to review video from multiple angles and compile evidence quickly.
- An export queue enables users to collect, review, and refine multiple video clips, streamlining the organization of investigations prior to export.
- Web-based access that works seamlessly across more devices and environments—eliminating the need to install or maintain software.
Enhancements and Improvements
Technology Integration APIs
Integrations help our customers extend the capabilities of CompleteView and to solve their unique requirements. We recently introduced new capabilities to our COM and REST APIs, adding the ability to inject and query events via our RESTful API. These new capabilities, along with CompleteView’s Web Views which enable display of HTML content directly in the desktop client, simplify the development of integrations. As always, Salient’s APIs are free to use and do not require any licensing . Get access to our development tools and start integrating with the CompleteView VMS platform—just click below to get started.


Web and Mobile Experience
The v7.5 release introduces a new Android client, along with updated web and iOS clients that align more closely with the desktop experience. All clients are fully compatible with Salient Cloud Services, allowing operators and administrators to use the same interface whether on-site or remote. With v7.6, users gain powerful new browser-based tools like multi-camera playback, multi-clip export, and a streamlined export queue—designed to accelerate investigations and simplify evidence handling from any location.
Enterprise and Security Capabilities
The v7.4 release brought several enterprise-focused enhancements including improved recording server failover with a bank of standby servers to manage the failure of primary servers. The v7.5 release added native support for encrypting both recorded and exported video clips.
