In an emergency, you may need to broadcast urgent messages to a mass audience. But how do you reach people simultaneously through a variety of communications devices? Allstream’s Unified Notification service quickly conveys time-sensitive information to a large targeted group via seven different channels – from calls to standard and IP phones to email and PC notifications.

Whatever the emergency, from a health and safety alert to a security threat, Unified Notification ensures you’re prepared to immediately disseminate critical information. The service can also be used for fast, dependable distribution of everyday news and updates to a wide audience.

Strengthen your emergency preparedness.
Allstream’s Unified Notification service better prepares you for a wide range of emergencies by giving you the ability to deliver instant alerts and critical updates to anyone, anywhere. You define exactly what message is sent to which people on their specified communications devices. The advanced, rules-based technology will automatically call recipients’ home, work and mobile numbers until they’re reached.

Customizing the system to fit your organization’s needs, you can set it up to:

• automatically send HTML messages to all IP phones
• send text messages via email, SMS and pop-ups on PC screens – which remain locked until a message receipt confirmation is sent by the user
• integrate paging capabilities via analog PA systems and environmentally adaptive, self-maintaining IP speakers
• connect key individuals in ad hoc conference calls to discuss an emerging situation
• send unique messages for specific areas and time zones.

Improve your emergency response procedures.
With flexible, feature-rich Unified Notification, you can:

• plan your response for typical emergency situations – and have the flexibility to deal with one-time events
• broadcast messages quickly and conveniently, with two clicks of your mouse
• streamline evacuations and emergency-response plans with pre-recorded broadcasts for defined scenarios
• access the communications system remotely at any time using a web-based interface that works with any PC browser
• track the broadcast progress of messages in real time to ensure they get delivered
• have recipients automatically confirm they’ve received messages
• prioritize the calling sequence for people with multiple phone numbers
• immediately discuss and respond to emergencies by conferencing key people together without having to reserve a bridge and provide access codes
• deliver customized PA messages, such as evacuation procedures, to different locations within an enterprise, across a campus or around the globe.

Save time with easy-to-use features:
With Allstream’s Unified Notification service, you can set up a comprehensive, systematic emergency communications plan and then keep ongoing management to a minimum, cost-effectively deploying your IT resources elsewhere. Automatic reminders and updates keep your emergency preparedness current while you focus on other aspects of the business. You can also save time on regular updates of contact information by conveniently importing data from existing contact management systems.

Unified Notification can also save you valuable time by automating the distribution of everyday news and routine information to employees, customers and other stakeholders.