BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ:EVBG), the global leader in critical event management, today announced that it has been awarded a multi-year contract to support the deployment of Australia’s next-generation national early warning system.
In combination with Australia’s major telecommunications companies, the Everbridge Public Warning solution will be used to power Emergency Alert Australia, providing population-wide alerting to help reach the country’s over 25 million residents and approximately 9 million annual visitors. If residing within an area where a sudden, critical event occurs such as fire, extreme weather or a terror attack, residents and visitors to Australia will receive location-based SMS notifications on their mobile phones, in addition to smart phone mobile app notifications and fixed line voice alerts, among other modalities.
Everbridge Public Warning leverages existing telecom infrastructure, with no opt-in required, to reach everyone within a geographic area to reduce disaster risk, support first responder communications, and analyze disaster communication effectiveness for subsequent mitigation activities.
“Our Public Warning solution enables government organizations and public safety agencies to immediately connect with every person in an affected area during a critical event regardless of nationality, residency or mobile telephone handset type,” said Jaime Ellertson, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Everbridge. “Australia has served as a model example for population-wide alerting and emergency preparedness over the past decade, and we are honored to support them on the evolution of their national system.”
The next-generation system is scheduled to become operational in 2020.
About Everbridge
Everbridge,
Inc. (NASDAQ:EVBG) is a global software company that provides enterprise
software applications that automate and accelerate organizations’
operational response to critical events in order to keep people safe and
businesses running. During public safety threats such as active shooter
situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather conditions, as well as
critical business events including IT outages, cyber-attacks or other
incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain interruptions, over
4,500 global customers rely on the company’s Critical Event Management
Platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data,
locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the
execution of pre-defined communications processes through the secure
delivery to over 100 different communication devices, and track progress
on executing response plans. The company’s platform sent
over 2.8 billion messages in 2018 and offers the ability to reach over
500 million people in more than 200 countries and territories, including
the entire mobile populations on a country-wide scale in Sweden, the
Netherlands, the Bahamas, Singapore, Greece, and a number of the largest
states in India. The company’s critical communications and enterprise
safety applications include Mass Notification, Incident Management,
Safety Connection™, IT Alerting, Visual Command Center®, Public Warning,
Crisis Management, Community Engagement™ and Secure Messaging.
Everbridge serves 9 of the 10 largest U.S. cities, 9 of the 10 largest
U.S.-based investment banks, all 25 of the 25 busiest North American
airports, six of the 10 largest global consulting firms, six of the 10
largest global auto makers, all four of the largest global accounting
firms, four of the 10 largest U.S.-based health care providers and four
of the 10 largest U.S.-based health insurers. Everbridge is based in
Boston and Los Angeles with additional offices in Lansing, San
Francisco, Beijing, Bangalore, Kolkata, London, Munich, Oslo, Stockholm
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