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The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.

Improve Incident Response by Getting Control of Your (Unintelligent) Swarm

Incidents happen. Things go wrong. Systems fail. Sometimes they fail in unexpected and dramatic ways that create Major Incidents. PagerDuty makes a very specific distinction between an incident and an Incident. Your organization may also make such a distinction. Determining if an incident is major or not can come down to a number of factors, or a specific combination of factors, like the number of services affected, the customer impact, and the duration of the incident.

Achieving Maximum Patient Satisfaction Through Effective Clinical Communications

Judit Sharon, CEO and founder of OnPage Corporation, sits down with Healthcare Innovation to discuss how advanced, effective clinical communication systems help teams achieve ultimate patient satisfaction. How has the landscape around time-sensitive communications between and among clinicians and others in patient care delivery, evolved in the past few years?

Benefits of Enterprise Alert's Mobile App

Being in touch with your customers is key to any business. We at Derdack pride ourselves in being customer first when it comes to not only product enhancements and features but also support and building that customer/vendor relationship that lasts for years. We recently took a trip to Texas to visit several customers and the feedback was invaluable! We received a lot more information with a face-to-face meeting that just would not be the same if it were done virtually, like over Teams.

Communicating to Users During Incidents

Imagine you're having a regular day at work, opening up your browser, double checking something for a client in that web app your team built for them, when suddenly, you see this screen: You hit refresh a few times, just to be sure. Nope. Still down. What happens next depends on how well your team has planned for incidents like this (some folks call it unplanned downtime).

Presenting Role-Based Access Control for Squadcast users

Role-Based Access Control is an effective means to enable authentication and ensure only the authorized personnel have access to sensitive data within the platform. This blog explains how to implement RBAC in your organization's Squadcast account to achieve maximum security and confidentiality during Incident Management. We recently released this new functionality into Squadcast (called RBAC) that helps organizations fine-grain the access control provided to users within our platform.