Need for Incident Response Automation Solutions Has Never Been More Pressing
In today’s digital world, across all industries, almost every business transaction is processed via computer applications or mobile apps. IT teams around the world must be prepared to respond to service disruptions and interruptions at a moment’s notice. Incidents are different in nature, ranging from data center outages, application failures, website slowdowns, cyber-attacks, data breaches and distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. As a result, business critical application downtime has become a bigger nightmare for most organizations.
A recent
Everbridge survey shows that the average cost of downtime is $8,662 per minute, and companies take 27 minutes on average to engage the right team of responders. Everbridge’s experience with customers who have automated the IT response process shows that companies could reduce this average time to 5 minutes or less, saving an average of $190,000 per major IT incident – and significantly improving worker productivity.
“When major IT incidents happen, the time it takes to respond is critical,” said Vick Vaishnavi, General Manager of the IT Alerting and IoT Business Unit at Everbridge. “The right information has to get to the right people instantaneously, in order to expedite the response process. The faster the response, the less costly the incident ultimately is – and the more confident end users and customers will feel about service being restored soon.”
Everbridge IT Alerting Customers Have Doubled in the Past Nine Months
The number of customers using Everbridge’s IT Alerting solution continues to grow, doubling since November 2016. IT Alerting customers include: Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Choice Hotels, Digital Reality, Express Scripts, Ericsson, Facebook, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company and Xerox.
Customers continually leverage IT Alerting to globally scale their IT response activities and minimize critical service and technology disruptions. IT Alerting offers the ability to coordinate response team groups, calendars and activities on a global scale, enabling faster time to incident awareness and resolutions, while also ensuring that employees and executives are kept informed of the incident status.
Examples of customer value include:
- A leading US based home improvement company has seen the average time to engage the IT response team reduced by 50 percent, from 6 minutes to 3 minutes.
- A global financial service institution now has more than 11,500 IT resolvers, 3,324 groups and calendars under management in the system. It triages over 36,000 incidents each month. Since deploying IT Alerting, it has been able to streamline communications between team members and improved its SMS reach by 20 percent.
About Everbridge
Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate an organization’s 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 such as IT outages or cyber-attack incidents, over 3,400 global customers rely on the company’s SaaS-based 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, and track progress on executing response plans. The company’s platform sent over 1.5 billion messages in 2016, and offers the ability to reach over 200 countries and territories with secure delivery to more than 100 different communication devices. The company’s critical event management and enterprise safety applications include Mass Notification, Incident Management, IT Alerting, Safety Connection™, Community Engagement®, Visual Command Center®, Crisis Commander® and CareConverge™, and are easy-to-use and deploy, secure, highly scalable and reliable. Everbridge serves 8 of the 10 largest U.S. cities, 8 of the 10 largest U.S.-based investment banks, all four of the largest global accounting firms, all 25 of the 25 busiest North American airports and 6 of the 10 largest global automakers. Everbridge is based in Boston and Los Angeles with additional offices in San Francisco, Lansing, Beijing, London and Stockholm. For more information, visit
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