New York City Selects Everbridge to Power Citywide Emergency Notification Program
January 09, 2018 at 01:00 pm
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Everbridge, Inc. announced that the New York City Emergency Management Department (NYCEM) has selected Everbridge as the new mass notification platform for its citywide Notify NYC program. With a city population of over 8 million residents, nearly 4 million daily commuters, and approximately 60 million visitors a year, Notify NYC is New York City’s official source for critical information about emergencies and city services. The Notify NYC program will now be powered by the EverbridgeCritical Event Management platform and used by NYCEM to distribute geographically-targeted public safety information such as Amber Alerts, weather warnings, life safety threats, evacuation notifications and community announcements across multiple communication methods including SMS, email, IPAWS, telephone and social media. In addition, over 30 city departments will leverage Everbridge for internal communications and staffing notifications.
Everbridge, Inc. is a global software company. The Company leverages intelligent automation technology to enable customers to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover from critical events to keep people safe and organizations running. Its software as a service (SaaS)-based platform enables its customers to manage and mitigate critical events. Its enterprise applications, such as Mass Notification, Safety Connection, IT Alerting, Risk Intelligence, Public Warning, Community Engagement, Crisis Management, CareConverge, Control Center, Travel Protector, SnapComms and E911, automate numerous critical event management (CEM) processes. Its solutions enable organizations to automate and deliver intelligent, contextual messages to, and receive verification of delivery from, hundreds of millions of recipients, across multiple communications modalities. It has operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Norway, China, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, France, India and other countries.