As the Vivint customer base increased by 60 percent from 2008 to 2010, the company realized it needed to improve upon its legacy scheduling platform that had been developed in-house. "The system ...

Founder Pedersen created Vivint, under the name APX Alarm, as a home security company in 1999. The company was acquired by The Blackstone Group in 2012 for more than $2 billion.