We are going through an incredibly difficult time of uncertainty, lockdowns, cutbacks, and even fear. Taking this time to optimize and rethink the way we do business is essential in ensuring we get back on track and return even stronger than before. Most of us have been working from home for months now and, in some cases, there is no end in sight. How are you and your operations holding up? Are you able to work, maintain, and control your infrastructure?
Enterprise Alert is the central hub for managing critical alerting, notifications, and remediation needs. It is a database-driven application and most of the time, once set up and configured, it just silently does its job in the background.
With our latest release 8.4.4, we included a number of changes to our 2-way smart connectors for the BMC product family to improve running scenarios as well as to ease the way for more integration to benefit from the reliable notifications and remote remediation capabilities Enterprise Alert offers.
We’ve already heard from a couple of customers that continuous operation of critical IT is a ‘must’ in our turbulent times. Not only to facilitate remote work and home office for an unprecedented number of workers but also to keep critical IT infrastructure going. Our customers attest that Enterprise Alert is most critical for them in today’s challenging times and it helps them to stay afloat and be fully operational from their home offices.
Ever since the release of our Teams Integration blog we have received requests from customers on whether we can provide the same functionality for Slack. And the use cases actually are very similar – it is always about an efficient and pragmatic approach to logging issues and tickets that came up during the night by leveraging existing infrastructure and without adding more clutter.
Enterprise Alert is the leading enterprise-class software in automated communication and incident response providing push notifications, SMS text messages, voice calls and emails to deliver instant notifications. With two-way smart connectors, built-in duty scheduling, customizable escalation workflows, and remote actions there is not a worry that critical events are not received and are handled in a timely manner.
One of our customers came to us asking for a way to easily log tickets created during the night shifts in order to allow team members to be up to date on any nightly occurrences even when the On-Call staff hadn’t been at the office yet. Our initial suggestion was to just send a broadcast message to the team members inboxes but due to concerns that such a setup would just add clutter we investigated alternate ways of providing this functionality.
Aquafin is a Belgian company with over 1,000 employees that was established by the Flemish Region in 1990 for the purpose of expanding, operating and pre-financing the wastewater treatment infrastructure in Flanders. Aquafin collects household wastewater from the municipal sewers and transports it to wastewater treatment plants, where it is treated in accordance with European and Flemish standards.
Emergency callouts are some of the most important notifications a user can receive. With the optional ‘Emergency Callout’ add-on, the capability to reliably alert and notify large numbers of employees can become part of your Enterprise Alert installation. These callouts can tell users about dangerous situations such as inclement weather, fires in the building, or even security issues like active shooter in the building. It is imperative that users receive these notifications.
On June 20 we have released the 3rd update for EnterpriseAlert 2019. Don’t get confused by the version number, 8.2.0 would better be 8.3.0, but that’s the way it is. Here is a very short EA 2019 release history for CY 2019.
