The current financial year is quickly coming to an end and for the vast majority of businesses and organisations, analysing and allocating budgets for the new financial year (starting April 6th) is at the forefront of their minds. However, before new budgets are decided it’s also a priority to look at what funds are available […]
Improving the way that you communicate with your staff isn’t just a case of finding a communications solution that gives you what you need technically. You need to be able to make it work from the ground up and get buy in from everyone involved – otherwise, no matter how good the platform is, you […]
Alert Cascade’s mass notification service announced as Business Continuity Institute European Awards 2017 finalist LONDON, GB 25/04/17 12:00 GMT: Following hot on the heels of being shortlisted for Most Innovative Product of the Year in the 2017 Business Continuity Awards hosted by CIR magazine, the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) announced today that Alert Cascade is also […]
• The number of monthly texts sent has increased by more than 7,700% over the last decade• 4.2 billion+ people text worldwide• Over 18.7 billion SMS texts are sent and received every day (not including app to app)• More than 98% of text messages from brands or businesses are read • 90% of SMS text messages […]
Alert Cascade’s mass notification service announced as a business continuity awards finalist in “Most Innovative Product of the Year” category LONDON, GB 27/03/17 20:00 GMT: Alert Cascade’s flagship mass notification service has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2017 Business Continuity Awards, hosted by CIR magazine. As one of only a handful of 100% […]
Emergency notification services are designed to help you contact tens, hundreds or thousands of people at the touch of a button. The downside of that is … you are now responsible for looking after data belonging to tens, hundreds or thousands of people. If you’re lucky, that data may be restricted to work related contact […]
Keeping your contact data up to date is the cornerstone of your emergency notification system – without this, even if the platform has hundreds of bells and whistles, your message won’t get through.Questions to ask:• Can I import my data straight from my existing data source (HR system, CRM etc)?• I want to choose my […]
The recently published BCI Emergency Communications Report 2016 made interesting reading. Whilst it’s encouraging to see the numbers of respondents with an emergency communication plan in place rising year on year, it was surprising to read the reasons given for organisations failing to achieve their targets for getting responses to their emergency communications – especially given that […]
LONDON, GB, 29/11/16 09:30 GMT: As one of the few remaining UK owned and operated mass notification companies, Alert Cascade‘s latest platform release builds on the UK theme by including regional TTS voices designed and engineered by specialists based in Edinburgh. Traditionally, UK TTS has been centred around Received Pronunciation (RP), but recent estimates show that […]
We all have our preferred method of communicating, and our platform lets you cater to those preferences by choosing what contact data you store, which channels you want to use for your message, who you want to communicate with and when. But all that being said, it’s still important to consider how you’d cope if […]