Everbridge IT Alerting vs. OnPage

Targeting people (or their SIM cards to be specific) in a specific area and warning them about a hazard in their neighbourhood is the intended use, and it executes that perfectly. In addition we have implemented the traveller alert where we can send messages to all Icelandic SIM cards present inside another Country (another Country code), and send them messages about f.ex. terrorist attack and provide guidelines about where they shoud seek assistance if needed. A slight minus here is that you can only address entire countries, where it might be useful to have next level of area codes.

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OnPage is excellent as an on-call doctor paging system; it replaces the need for our call center, lets us have our answer, and either take patient information or be patched immediately through. This gives us time to finish anything we may be doing that might be urgent without losing their information as it is written in the app or time to pull up the patient's chart before calling them back.

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• Delivers prompt messages with important information for patient call back
• Overrides phone ring settings if needed to ensure a sound is made if desired and no pages are missed
• Repeats pages frequently if not opened initially, so they are not forgotten

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• Not really a "downside": because it works so well, any details we haven't documented from our initial setup are probably lost. It's been almost four years since our initial configuration, and I can no longer easily navigate the OnPage site because I literally haven't logged in since the initial implementation.

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It works and is reliable

I would really like to have easier reporting. What warnings were issued, when, and received by how many, by operator or area etc..

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Easy to use both web and phone based application.

Some outages for updates

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I have done well with the service

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The support team has been very supportive, but there is only so much they can do, and of course sometimes things take a bit too long for my impatience.

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When we have issues we have fast response and willingness to help

I had no part of the implementation

I have reviewed quite a few at conferences, but none to the depth of installation and use.

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Out of these, PagerDuty has been my favorite. OnPage is my second favorite so far. The two systems do the same thing. OnPage has a less painful punch in the wallet for the needed technology. The xMatters and ShoreTel Connect only redirect the call and trigger a single alert. Neither of these two products alerts a second time or escalates the ticket. OnPage and Pager Duty have escalation channels. OnPage has an easier scheduler to understand than Pager Duty, however.

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I have had no concerns

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• The government has the duty to equip itself with a mechanism to warn its people. It has allocated that duty to us, and we have chosen Everbridge to provide us the tool for that duty. It is very well suited to fulfill that role.

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• Eliminated the concern that on-call personnel were not notified of an issue at all or on a timely basis
• The reasonable cost, ease of use and reliability reassured management that any issues arising would be handled quickly
• Users disliked carrying the bulky, unreliable and battery operated pagers. Today all users carry cell phones and can easily install and manage OnPage software