Continental Selects Everbridge to Increase Corporate Resilience
German-headquartered, Global 500 multinational automotive parts manufacturer to deploy Everbridge solutions to enhance enterprise resiliency of its global IT and emergency response initiatives
MUNICH, Germany – March 30, 2022 – Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG), the global leader in critical event management (CEM), today announced that Continental, one of the world’s leading global automotive parts suppliers, will deploy Everbridge CEM solutions to integrate and streamline the company’s emergency and crisis response initiatives across four global teams. Everbridge was selected to enable the integrated communications and response platform after an intense and deep project evaluation by Continental.
Continental AG, headquartered in Hanover, Germany employs more than 190,000 people in 58 countries and markets. The global manufacturer recently celebrated its 150 year anniversary.
“In a crisis situation, it is especially important that our teams can work together across one unified response and mitigation tool,” said Frank Busch, Chief Security Officer, Continental AG. “If the processes and tools are not aligned and not in sync, this will cause disruptions and delays. Everbridge brings a market-leading enterprise resilience solution to our company so that we can effectively bridge both our digital and physical security remediation requirements.”
In today’s increasingly digital world, organizations must balance investment in uptime, ongoing innovation, and customer experience. Everbridge provides businesses, and their respective IT organizations, with the ability to automate and streamline incident response across teams and toolsets, enabling enterprises to deliver both continuous service uptime and great customer experiences.
Everbridge provides Continental with a unified, common operating platform for managing organizational risk and accelerating communications, response, and recovery efforts to mitigate impact to employees or disruptions to business.
Over 6,000 businesses, governments, and healthcare organizations currently rely on Everbridge’s CEM Platform to assess threats, monitor the wellbeing of their workforces, rapidly communicate warnings, protect business assets, and accelerate the analysis of their operational response.
“Continental selected Everbridge after a long and intense technical and legal review process,” said Andreas Junck, GM for Everbridge DACH Region. “We are honored to support a market leader like Continental with their security incident response initiatives. This win further demonstrates that our integrated platform is a game changer in the industry and in the DACH region.”
As the global leader in critical event management and public warning solutions, the Everbridge platform offers the ability to reach over two billion residents and visitors in more than 200 countries and territories, serving leading Fortune 500 companies as well as cities, states, and entire countries.
About Continental AG
Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2021, Continental generated sales of €33.8 billion and currently employs more than 190,000 people in 58 countries and markets. On October 8, 2021, the company celebrated its 150th anniversary.
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 Organizations 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, product recalls or supply-chain interruptions, over 6,100 customers in 76 countries 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 modalities, and track progress on executing response plans. For more information, visit www.everbridge.com, read the company blog, and follow on Twitter and Facebook.
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