Everbridge chosen to underpin the “multi-agency notification process” for major incidents or emergencies in the Thames Valley
LONDON – October 242019 – Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG), the global leader in critical event management and enterprise safety software applications to help keep people safe and businesses running, today announced that the Thames Valley Local Resilience Forum (TVLRF) has selected Everbridge Mass Notification to enable the rapid communication of vital information in the event of a major incident or emergency in the area.
The TVLRF was established in 2004 by the Civil Contingencies Act to provide means for those involved in emergency preparedness (including local authorities, emergency services, health and environment agencies) to work together to prepare and respond at a local level. The borders of the Local Resilience Forum (LRF) match those of Thames Valley Police and cover an area of the 2,200 square miles of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes. Part of the TVLRF’s responsibility is to share important information and manage a joint response with its partner agencies. With Everbridge underpinning its “multi-agency notification process”, the TVLRF will be able send targeted notifications to those agencies affected or involved in the response from the outset of and during an incident.
“As a publicly funded service, we are always looking at ways to optimise our processes and drive efficiency whilst ensuring that we are able to maintain an effective service to the public,” explained Ben Axelsen, TVLRF Partnership Manager. “We previously used a manual system to invoke a response to a major incident, using basic call sheets to contact the partner agencies. We also relied heavily on email which was not effective if there was an urgent need to notify key personnel out of normal business hours, especially during the night, or if they were on leave. Needless to say, it was slow, inefficient and liable to error. Whilst this has not impacted on our ability to respond to a major incident to date, the risk was something we needed to mitigate against.”
Reviewing solutions in place at its partner agencies, the TVLRF learnt that Everbridge was already being utilised effectively at the South Central Ambulance Service and this impacted its decision to assess and then deploy the solution itself.
Mr. Axelsen continued: “Thanks to Everbridge we can now send targeted notifications with a high level of reliability, which are recognised by our agencies as being the source of truth to be trusted and acted upon. In the event that a situation is more serious, complex or has the potential to be protracted, we can initiate our command structures significantly faster than we could previously, enabling us to share situational awareness, assess the risk and manage an effective joint response.”
The TVLRF moved to the new Everbridge system in July 2019 initially with Thames Valley Police as the primary agency tasked with sending activations. Since its implementation, the system has already been used twice to quickly organize multi-agency teleconferences in response to the recent heat-health level 3 in July and a scaffolding collapse in Reading in early August. On both occasions, it worked very effectively. More partners will be empowered to use the system as the training is rolled out more widely.
Javier Colado, Senior Vice President of International at Everbridge, commented: “When seconds matter, a critical event management platform can automate alarms, digital signs, and messages based on event type, severity, and location. We are very happy to be sharing our extensive experience gained from serving the populations of entire cities and countries around the world in order to help streamline the processes and response times at TVLRF.”
About the Thames Valley Local Resilience Forum
The Thames Valley Local Resilience Forum was established in 2004 by the Civil Contingencies Act to provide means for those involved in emergency preparedness (including local authorities, emergency services, health and environment agencies) to work together to prepare and respond at a local level. The borders of the LRF match those of Thames Valley Police and cover an area of the 2,200 square miles of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes.
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 4,700 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 Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, 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, 8 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, Singapore, Stockholm and Tilburg. For more information, visit www.everbridge.com, read the company blog, and follow on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
