Emergency Notification System enables message confirmation.August 23, 2007 -
Available as hosted solution or SaaS, Amerilert v2.4 enables any authorized administrator to push urgent message to organization's Web site, to all digital visual displays, alert beacons, and loudspeakers around facility, and to phones, mobile phones, email accounts, and RSS readers. Recipients can listen to and reply with confirmation that message has been received. SEED ensures 100% alert coverage to all users on organization's email server, whether they have opted-in to alerts or not.
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Original Press release
Omnilert, LLC
525-K East Market St., No.232
Leesburg, VA, 20176
USA
Amerilert Version 2.4 Now Calls Traditional Wired Phones, Satellite Phones, Mobile Phones, and VoIP Phones for Greater Emergency Notification
The new enhancements include message confirmation and more automated tools
LEESBURG, Va., Aug. 13 /-- Omnilert(TM), LLC, maker of the leading affordable emergency notification system called Amerilert(TM), today announced the release of Amerilert version 2.4. A major new enhancement to the service includes the ability for the system to call phones and broadcast a message that recipients can listen to and reply with confirmation that the message was received. Another new feature, called SEED, ensures 100% alert coverage of all employees from day one - whether they have opted-in to the alerts or not. This new version will enable a greater broadcast of time-sensitive communication to reach all employees, members, first responders, citizens, volunteers and others whether they are at work, at home or elsewhere.
Now any authorized administrator can conveniently push an urgent message to the organization's Web site, to all digital visual displays, alert beacons, and loudspeakers around the facility, and to the phones, mobile phones, email accounts, and RSS readers of the entire organization or community.
Major New Features
-- Text-to-Voice: Broadcasts a voice message to phones that enables confirmation of message received
-- SEED: Automatically emails alerts to all users on organization's email server, without opt-in required
-- Auto Opt-Out: Automatically removes a person from notifications with user-defined expiration date
-- NetID Match: Automatically inserts organization's existing username/password from LDAP, Active Directory, or UserID for a subscriber into Amerilert
-- Domain Authentication: SmartCode only appears on authorized pre-defined URLs
Availability and Pricing
As a hosted solution or Software as a Service (SaaS), Amerilert 2.4 is available immediately. All organizations purchasing the new Amerilert Voice service must also have Amerilert Text service. The Amerilert Text service costs about $1 per person per year, depending on the total number of people to be covered. Amerilert Voice service plans start at $841 per year.
About Amerilert
Amerilert is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to instantly communicate to large groups of people - wherever they are located. Favorably reviewed by DISA, Amerilert is a self-service, web-based, emergency notification system that empowers business and government organizations to send instant alerts to thousands of people anywhere, anytime, on any device all at once. It instantly and simultaneously sends mass alerts to a subscriber's mobile phone (via SMS text message), e-mail accounts, RSS reader, and handset phone (via text-to-voice), plus all facility loudspeakers, digital signage, alert beacons, and relevant Web pages. There is no software to install, no hardware to buy, and no additional phone lines needed. An organization can set up a secure notification system in minutes to send routine, urgent or emergency notifications to their entire community or subsets based on geography, departments, interests, and more. To learn more, visit http://www.amerilert.com/.
About Omnilert, LLC
Omnilert, LLC is the leading provider of selective mass communications for sending time-sensitive information to large groups of people. The self-service, Web-based system enables a single person to communicate timely information to thousands of people anywhere, anytime, on any device. It is ideal for announcing school closings, game cancellations, weather warnings, terrorist alerts, and marketing promotions. The system is built around a reliable SMS text messaging system that sends content directly to a mobile phone, traditional phone, e-mail address, Web page, RSS reader, digital sign, alert beacon, or loudspeaker. Omnilert solutions are sold under the names e2Campus, Amerilert, RainedOut and through resellers. The privately held company is headquartered in Leesburg, Va., and at http://www.omnilert.com/ online.
CONTACT: Bryan Crum of Omnilert, LLC, +1-800-936-3525, ext. 703, bcrum@omnilert.com
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