Harris County, TX, the 3rd Largest County in America, Selects Everbridge to Power Its Mass Notification System
The Harris County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management (HCOHSEM) has selected Everbridge as the new mass notification service provider for its Harris County Alerts system which will now be known as Ready Harris Alerts .
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 Harris County is the latest
public safety agency in Texas to power its public alert system with the
state-of-the-art Everbridge platform.
The Harris County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management
(HCOHSEM) has selected Everbridge as the new mass notification service
provider for its Harris County Alerts system which will now be known as Ready
Harris Alerts. The Everbridge platform can send messages via text,
email, mobile app, voice calls, TTY/TDD, and social media, among other
communications modalities, for reaching the public. Everbridge solutions
also allow for targeted messaging that can either be sent countywide or
solely to areas directly affected by a particular event.
Harris County joins hundreds of other local government and enterprise
clients of Everbridge in the Lone Star State, including the cities of
Dallas, Fort Worth, and Corpus Christi, the counties of El Paso and Fort
Bend, as well as Houston Forensic Science Center, Kosmos Energy,
Rackspace, National Oilwell Varco, Memorial Hermann Health System, The
University of Texas at Austin, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance,
University Medical Center of El Paso, and Dallas-Fort Worth
International Airport (DFW).
“We are extremely proud to be working with the largest county in the
state of Texas to keep its people safe,” said Jamie Ellertson, CEO of
Everbridge. “As we experienced from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Florence,
and Michael, communicating quickly and accurately during a storm can
mean the difference between life and death.”
In addition to its widespread use throughout the state of Texas, one of
the key differentiators that led Harris County to choose Everbridge is
the company’s partnership with Google Public Alerts. The partnership
allows Everbridge’s customers to post critical information above
Google’s search results and within its maps, increasing the reach of the
notifications far beyond a client’s contact database.
Harris County residents are encouraged to register and to share this
information with their families, friends, neighbors and colleagues.
Registration is free and only takes a few minutes. New and current
Harris County Alerts subscribers can visit http://www.readyharris.org/Sign-Up
to register or update their information.
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
4,200 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, Cambodia, 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®,
Crisis Commander®, 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
and Tilburg. For more information, visit www.everbridge.com,
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