“The bottom line is that BlackBerry AtHoc is an effective way for our communications team to activate callouts. You don’t have time to sift through phone trees or email chains during a critical incident – there are too many other things going on. With AtHoc, everything is right there at …

“Though BlackBerry AtHoc was the most cost-effective solution, we don’t really look at it as a cost-saving tool. It provides us with the ability to communicate with our clients and our sites more efficiently and effectively than we could before. And that in turn helps us keep our personnel safe …

“Crisis management, both internal and external, is an absolutely critical component of any police response. And you cannot have effective crisis management without effective communication. We must be able to, at any given moment, connect with any of our 11,000 staff. BlackBerry AtHoc enables us to do that, and securely …

“Contra Costa County’s emergency alerting system was the first of its kind. At the time, there wasn’t anything like it. There wasn’t anything in the alerting community that would take all the different modalities, vendors, and communication channels and connect them through a single platform.”

“The safety of staff and students is of the utmost importance. Because we’ve got people coming and going on campus, we need to be able to reach them anywhere, and at any time. We can’t know what devices they’re carrying, so we also need to send emergency alerts through multiple …

“BlackBerry AtHoc has completely changed the ballgame for us. During the 2018 Summit, we still equipped liaison officers with radios, but almost no one used them. Everyone communicated via AtHoc. It’s completely changed how we connect with our personnel on the ground.”

“For me, the real ROI of BlackBerry AtHoc is twofold. First, our average time to notify a customer of an event in our infrastructure has gone from well over an hour to about fifteen minutes. The secondary benefit was that the individuals originally tasked with crafting incident reports could be …

“The real strength of BlackBerry AtHoc is awareness. Proactively keeping customers up-to-date on our status so they do not need to open a support ticket demonstrates to our valued customers that they are priority. There will always be an element of reactivity with technology, but the more information we can …

“Crisis communication is easy when an incident impacts a whole site. You know who to target. Internal service outages are trickier. With BlackBerry AtHoc, we’re able to send an alert to everyone and determine who’s impacted. It gives us a narrow audience, and helps us better target the problem, drawing …

“We have weekly calls with the BlackBerry AtHoc team. We’re constantly working to improve the BlackBerry AtHoc roadmap. It’s something we’ve been honing over the years.”

“In an emergency scenario, knowledge is one of the worst things to lack – without knowledge, without an effective overview of the situation, you can’t make recovery or response plans. And without those plans, you cannot have order amongst authorities. To protect people in any disaster, you frst need a …

“With AtHoc’s capabilities, we’re able to get alerts out much quicker than we used to and coordinate a far more effective response to emergencies. When it comes to incidents where lives are at stake, that’s a level of value you cannot truly quantify.”

“The more weather events we experience, the more we realize the potential value of the integration. We’ve reached out for pricing details and are considering implementation in the future.”

“When we compare BlackBerry AtHoc to the processes that we had with our previous system, I can sit down and complete three or more alerts in the time it would have taken me to do one. And one template within BlackBerry AtHoc can replace over an hour’s worth of manual …

“Our job is to provide physical security for the storage, transportation, and usage of nuclear material, To that end, we deploy many highly trained firearms officers across nuclear sites throughout the United Kingdom. We also support local police forces from minor incidents up to national emergencies.”