MessageOne's AlertFind Emergency Notification Platform Selected As Top Five "Most Interesting" Technologies at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2006
Orlando, FL – October 19, 2006 – MessageOne's emergency notification and escalation platform, AlertFind, was spotlighted at this year's annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida as one of the top five "most interesting" technologies as rated from a panel of the symposium's more than 6,000 attendees.
In addition to MessageOne, technologies from Oracle, Cisco, EMC and IBM were also nominated by symposium attendees as the "most interesting" at this year's annual conference.
Carolyn Knight, Director of Information Technology at Implant Innovations Inc. was part of the survey and was quoted in the Symposium's ITxpo Times, "MessageOne's AlertFind is something that appeals to me because in Florida, disaster recovery is crucial."
In an emergency or disaster, AlertFind allows companies to reach out to thousands of employees, customers and other constituencies to deliver important messages instantly. To assist with crisis communications, AlertFind automatically send outs thousands of emergency notification alerts to designated individuals using each person’s preferred method of communication (e.g cell phone, email, home phone, etc.). With enterprise data security & access control, AlertFind enables organizations to create teams of users around business units, departments, crisis response teams, geographies, roles and to control which data and functionality each user can access.
The Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the industry's largest and most strategic conference for senior IT and business professionals. This year's symposium included keynote speaker presentations from Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Corporation; John Chambers, President and CEO, Cisco Systems, Inc.; and Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel Corporation.
About MessageOne
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, MessageOne is the leading provider of managed services for email management, archiving and business continuity. For enterprise email and wireless messaging systems, the company’s Email Management Services (EMS™) provides comprehensive email archiving, storage management and e-Discovery with the total continuity, recovery, and security protection only available from a managed service. In addition, MessageOne’s AlertFind™ provides guaranteed emergency notification and escalation to help companies protect their employees during any crisis or disaster. Millions of users around the world depend on MessageOne for its award-winning managed services.
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For more media information, contact:
Paul D'Arcy
Phone: 512-652-4500
Email: paul_darcy@messageone.com
Kirstan Ryan
Phone: 512-652-4500
Email: kirstan_ryan@messageone.com
