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3n’s Emergency Alert Notification ‘One Call – Reaches All’ Business Continuity Planning System - Helping Organizations Contact Every Employee, Customer & Vendor…In Minutes

3n’s automated emergency alert notification system is helping organizations with Business Continuity Planning through the implementation of an emergency notification system. Successful organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the risk of serious business interruptions and of the necessity of maintaining operations in such events. Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning tools like 3n’s Emergency Notification System help organizations be prepared to communicate efficiently and effectively should an emergency situation occur.

February 6, 2004--http://www.3nonline.com/biz_continuity.htm - National Notification Network’s (3n) proprietary automated emergency notification technology is providing organizations with a fast and reliable means of notifying large numbers of people (employees, customers, vendors, etc.) in emergency situations. Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning tools, such as 3n’s Emergency Notification system, are becoming increasingly important to organizations in an effort to avoid serious and costly business interruptions.

In emergency situations-when seconds matter-organizations need a fast and reliable means of notifying large numbers of people. And today’s businesses know too well the expense, unreliability and limitations inherent to hardware/software solutions built on client-server architecture. Today’s competitive businesses demand more. 3n, a true Application Service Provider (ASP), meets this demand delivering clients a powerful, proprietary telephony and data communications platform. The 3n Notification System is a complete mass communications system delivered on a subscription basis, offering unparalleled accessibility, reliability, security and scalability in a simple and cost effective manner.

Whether in an emergency or non-emergency situation, 3n subscribers can access the fully hosted ASP-based system and initiate notification simply by making one toll-free call from any landline or cell phone, or by logging on to 3n’s secure web site. The system then disseminates critical messages (predefined or created on-the-fly) simultaneously to thousands of target recipients within minutes, running through their prioritized contact paths for all voice and text devices until delivery is made. The sender’s process is complete upon receipt of real-time confirmation of message delivery. Emergency notification will never be the same.

Due to recent national and international disasters, successful organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the risk of serious business interruptions, and of the necessity of maintaining operations in such events.

But Business Continuity is not simply a matter of protecting data and information. It’s also about contacting key business continuity team members, notifying on-call emergency responders, mobilizing and informing employees, keeping management abreast of developments, and notifying customers and vendors of important information. It’s the ability to communicate in a quick, efficient and reliable manner in order to protect lives, prevent or limit economic loss, and avoid misinformation.

The following are examples of how 3n’s Emergency Notification System applies to Business Continuity Planning applications:
* Building Evacuation – Notify specific floors, buildings or entire campuses when major disasters hit
* Emergency Responders – Contact emergency response teams and public safety organizations, e.g. police, fire, EMT, Hazmat, etc.
* Weather Alerts – Relay vital communications related to hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, lightning, wildfires, etc.
* Blackouts – Send critical notifications even when electricity, landlines and computers are down
* Terrorism – Alert employees to changing terrorist threat warning levels from Homeland Security
* Personnel Scheduling – Mobilize additional workers to meet demand: shut down facilities; reschedule or cancel shifts
* Remote Roll-Calling – Verify safety & location of employees with active feedback feature (e.g. Press 1 if at home: Press 2 if at off-site facility)
* Routine Notification – Deliver routine office messages, contact business continuity teams and security personnel

Even today, most private and public organizations are caught up with maintaining expensive hardware systems, upgrading software systems, or dealing with the costs of maintaining enough phone lines to sustain emergency communications. Or worse, they rely on antiquated telephone trees, off-site phone centers, or email distribution lists to communicate with employees. These methods are all notoriously unreliable, labor-intensive, and time-consuming, as was seen during the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., when many phone networks failed due to system overloads, and the 2003 blackouts, when many land lines and computers were non-functional.

With redundant co-located facilities around the country, 3n provides a better way. Organizations are given the power to contact thousands of people within minutes, and the freedom to concentrate on the critical business at hand. The 3n Notification System stands alone in its unique ability to help organizations resume normal business activity as quickly and efficiently as possible, providing unparalleled reliability for Business Continuity.

With 3n, organizations can contact every employee, customer and vendor via multiple voice and text devices…in minutes. 3n’s ‘one call – reaches all’ real-time automated emergency notification system allows for the rapid and accurate communication needed for Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning.