| A web notification service is a necessity in today's | | | | system that can generate alerts or events that |
| world. Events happen quickly, and managers and | | | | you desire to send out to groups of people, a |
| administrators must be able to respond | | | | web notification service that has reliable web |
| immediately. When an unforeseen event occurs, a | | | | services that you can connect your system to is |
| web notification service is essential. | | | | a must. Web services support easy integration |
| Communications and technology today allow | | | | with any existing customer applications so that |
| instantaneous transmission of information among | | | | you don't need to change your existing business |
| people. Mass notification software has | | | | processes. There are many examples of |
| revolutionized the way that administrators take | | | | companies using web notification services in this |
| action when an incident takes place. With mass | | | | manner, including: |
| notification services, thousands of people can be | | | | 1. Utilities or cable television companies that |
| reached across multiple modalities, including SMS | | | | receive notifications from customers about |
| text message, voice messages to cell phones, | | | | service outages. These companies then |
| work phones, home phones, and email. The ability | | | | automatically relay messages to their service |
| to send BlackBerry PIN blasts is also very helpful | | | | repair teams in the vicinity so that they can |
| in the event that other communications systems | | | | quickly locate and fix the problem. |
| are down. | | | | 2. Financial trading companies that receive notices |
| A web notification or emergency notification | | | | about critical events in the marketplace that will |
| service that is hosted on external computer | | | | affect their investing decisions. These messages |
| services is desirable because in the event of an | | | | can be routed to the appropriate people |
| emergency, your on-premise notification service | | | | immediately so that everyone is up to speed. |
| could be unavailable! With a hosted web | | | | 3. Many companies receive severe weather alerts |
| notification service, that is co-located in a secure | | | | through mass notification systems. Instead of |
| location and backed up at redundant hosting sites, | | | | manually informing individual managers or stores |
| you are guaranteed to be able to send out critical | | | | of impending severe weather, weather alerts are |
| messages to your peers even though your | | | | automatically sent out from a weather service |
| organization's building might be flooded, on fire, | | | | company using a mass notification system. |
| destroyed, or without power. A web notification | | | | 4. IT departments might receive automatic alerts |
| service is infinitely more reliable than on-premise | | | | to their team when a server goes down or there |
| notification software, and because of the benefits | | | | is some other type of overload or incident. |
| that come with a large, time-tested notification | | | | The possibilities are really endless when it comes |
| company, the hosted service is probably a lot | | | | to web notification services. Most likely, YOUR |
| faster as well. | | | | existing business processes can be enhanced by |
| If your company has its own software or | | | | choosing a robust notification service. |