Emergency notifications in Everbridge notifications system
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Summary of Emergency Notifications in Everbridge Notifications System
The integration of the Everbridge notifications system with the Crisis Management feature in the Business Continuity Management (BCM) application allows organizations to effectively send emergency notifications to individuals or groups. This system facilitates one-way notifications and two-way communications through established delivery channels, enhancing crisis response coordination.
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Key Features
- Notification Sending: Users can trigger emergency notifications that initiate a complete workflow in Everbridge, transitioning from Draft to Complete state.
- Activity Monitoring: All activities related to emergency notifications can be monitored from the Business Continuity Workspace.
- Response Tracking: The notification form summarizes the contacts notified, their acknowledgment status, and any unreachable contacts.
- Delivery Channels: Properly established delivery channels in Everbridge must be imported for your organization to facilitate effective notifications.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing the Everbridge notifications system, organizations can expect to:
- Enhance communication with stakeholders during emergencies.
- Track the effectiveness of notifications through real-time acknowledgment data.
- Quickly resend notifications to unreachable contacts or specific groups as necessary.
For further details on administrative tasks related to this integration, refer to the Setup for Everbridge notifications documentation.
You can integrate Crisis Management in the BCM application with Everbridge notifications system. You can then send an emergency notification to an individual or a group of people alerting them of an impending emergency. It provides a one-way notification and two-way communication through properly established delivery channels.
Crisis Management in Business Continuity Management application uses Everbridge to direct certain crisis response activities. This integration helps to send notifications about critical events to stakeholders and coordinates responses from them in an effective two-way delivery channel.
To send a notification, you need correct contacts, groups, and delivery channels. Delivery channels are created and stored in Everbridge and you have to import those delivery channels for your particular organization ID. These delivery channels are used for sending notifications and contact creation.
Process for sending the emergency notifications
You can send an event notification that triggers a complete workflow of the activities from the Draft to the Complete state in Everbridge. You can monitor all activities from Business Continuity Workspace.
When you send an emergency notification from the Business Continuity Workspace, the action creates an incident and a notification for the incident in Everbridge to be sent to the right contacts and groups.
The emergency notifications for an event are displayed on the Emergency notifications tab for the event. You can view the details of the emergency notification such as the notification state, start date, end date, and so on as shown in the following example.
The emergency notification form is shown in the following example.
Summary of the notification sent to contacts
The Summary section in the notification form displays a list of the contacts and groups to whom the notification was sent and their responses are also recorded. It also displays the number of contacts who could not be reached, the number of contacts who acknowledged the notification, and the number of pending acknowledgments. This information is retrieved from Everbridge and it is displayed in your Business Continuity Workspace as shown in the following example.
The Summary section in the notification form contains the following information:
- Sent to
- Number of contacts to whom the notification was sent.
- Unreachable
- Number of contacts to whom notification was not sent.
- Acknowledged
- Number of contacts who acknowledged the receipt of notification.
- Pending acknowledgment
- Number of contacts who did not acknowledge the receipt of notification.
- Late acknowledgment
- Number of contacts who confirmed the receipt of notification after the notification duration had elapsed.
If there are many contacts to whom the notification could not be delivered, then you can create another notification for the same crisis event. This time, you can send it to a team of managers, as the previous notification did not reach many contacts.
Administrative tasks for integrating Crisis Management with Everbridge
For information on the administrative tasks for integrating Crisis Management with Everbridge notifications system, see Setup for Everbridge notifications.