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SunGard K-12 Education Recommends One Call Now for Mass Notifications

BETHLEHEM, PA (PRWEB) February 05, 2013

Leading software provider, SunGard K-12 Education has selected One Call Now as its premier solutions provider for mass communications. The alliance between the two companies integrates SunGard K-12 Education’s PLUS 360 software solutions with the enhanced mass messaging capabilities provided by One Call Now, which claims to be America’s largest message notification provider. School districts with SunGard K-12 Education’s solutions will now be able to keep parents and guardians informed about their students’ performance and quickly communicate in emergency situations.

SunGard K-12 Education’s eSchoolPLUS, an industry-recognized student information system, helps educational stakeholders—students, school administrators, district staff, teachers, parents, and board members—easily manage and immediately access the summary and detailed student information they need, when they need it. The system also can help educators manage their time and make it easier for them to communicate with district staff, parents, and guardians.

Thanks to the new alliance with One Call Now, SunGard K-12 Education is extending the notification capabilities available in eSchoolPLUS to address important concerns for districts, as school budgets tighten and scrutiny of school security increases.

One Call Now offers cloud-based mass notification systems. By making it easy to quickly communicate via voice, text message, e-mail, and social media, One Call Now can help schools communicate efficiently and effectively with their constituencies. As a result of a seamless integration between the two software solutions, districts can quickly send mass electronic communications—reducing paper, printing costs, and postage. And, the mass notification system can help increase parental involvement and improve the timeliness of emergency communications.

Brian Ferrar, One Call Now chief marketing officer, believes the alliance will support student achievement. “The integration of One Call Now notification services into the SunGard PLUS 360 suite will help students, parents, and school staff members communicate quickly and more effectively,” says Ferrar. “Administrators and teachers using SunGard K-12 Education’s systems to manage, track, and help students will have additional ways to connect with parents and students to help improve student performance.”

Through its Strategic Alliance Program, SunGard K-12 Education collaborates with trusted third-party providers to help school districts find quality software solutions for their needs. “As a result of our new collaboration with One Call Now, SunGard K-12 Education is enabling our client school districts to quickly and affordably connect educational stakeholders with information that can help improve school performance,” says Joel Hames, SunGard K-12 Education’s senior product manager.

Current SunGard K-12 Education customer, Christopher Passarge—who is chief operations officer of Lakota Local School District in Liberty, Ohio—has been pleased with the capabilities and customer service provided by One Call Now. “One Call Now tech support responds to our requests in a timely manner,” he says. “When we’ve started using a new feature they are also extremely supportive and even provide instruction material to distribute to our users. The material was very user-friendly, and they were available to troubleshoot any issues that came up. Tech Support also created a daily transmission of updated student data that has allowed our calls to be more accurate.”

About SunGard K-12 Education

SunGard K-12 Education offers software solutions designed to help teachers, administrators, and parents support student achievement. The company’s PLUS 360 products are a single integrated suite of software solutions for the management of student information, assessment and curriculum, special education, and financial and human resources. The suite—which provides anytime, anywhere access to important student information—can be deployed to work together to help meet educational goals and requirements or implemented as stand-alone systems. For more information, visit SunGard K-12 Education at http://www.sungard.com/K12.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 17,000 employees and serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education, and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services, and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $ 4.5 billion, SunGard is the largest privately held software and services company and is ranked 480 on the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit http://www.sungard.com.

About One Call Now

One Call Now is America’s largest message notification provider, with 20 percent of American households—55 million Americans—depending on the company for messages that protect, inform, and engage. Schools nationwide use One Call Now’s high-speed, fully redundant service to quickly and easily send messages to thousands of staff and parents simultaneously. Founded in 2002, One Call Now was recently named as a District Administration Top 100 Product for Schools and to Inc. Magazine’s Honor Roll, having made its list of the fastest growing privately held companies in America for five consecutive years. One Call Now is proud to support the Mission of Educators through partnerships with anti-bullying organization Olweus, sponsorship of The Million T-Shirt March Against Bullying, free levy calls for schools, and KidsReadNow.org, One Call Now’s national summer reading program designed to stop the summer reading slide in elementary schools. For more information, please visit http://www.onecallnow.com.

Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo, PLUS 360, and eSchoolPLUS are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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USNORTHCOM and NORAD Standardize on Desktop Alert IP-Based Mass Notification System, Win Platinum GSN 2014 Homeland Security Award

Chatham, New Jersey (PRWEB) November 21, 2014

Desktop Alert Inc. tThe” less than a minute alert notification platform “used by the US military and numerous healthcare and business organizations worldwide, today announced the USNORTHCOM and NORAD have standardized on the desktop alert notification from the platform and was recently named as recipients 1st Place Platinum Award “nofollow” in the prestigious 2014 GSN Homeland Security Award for implementation of emergency Notable – Federal / state or local on basis of the notification Alert Network Enterprise Desktop Level System.

United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM of) provides command and control over internal defense efforts of the Department of Defense and coordinates defense support of civil authorities. US Northern Command defends the US, the protection of its people, national power, and freedom of action.


Desktop Alert is now the norm in command of the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD), a combined organization in the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense for North America. Latest desktop alert the Desktop Alert emergency notification capability is now integrated with the emergency conference system for NORAD headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado.


Never before a military installation was such a powerful solution for warning and immediate and effective communication to headquarters staff, staff and visitors in case of emergency.


The US Northern Command has a double mission:

Conduct operations to deter, prevent and defeat threats and aggression aimed at the United States, its territories and interests in the area of ​​responsibility

As directed by the president or secretary of defense, provide support to civil authorities (typically a federal agency) in the territory defense operations, including consequence management operations.

Desktop Alert can contact thousands of computer users at their office and force them to click to confirm receipt of the message flashed on their screen. These unaudited are then listed on a report and / or sent as a “Target Package” to be automatically integrated contacted by other means such as email, sms, texting, smartphone, and personal safety device.


Desktop Alert Inc. is the official supplier of enterprise reporting system to the army and the National Guard of the air, and the Air Force Academy United States, the US Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, and Fort Rucker in Alabama. Desktop Alert Inc. is the largest provider notification based on IP to the US military worldwide, including Fort Hood in Texas.


“We are very honored to be declared the network filing standard at this crucial ministry of defense organizations. Critical decisions must be taken by the dynamic leaders of today who know best that they have to establish maximum awareness situation immediately during difficult events. The technology is a high priority to save lives, protect property and ensure continuity of operations in extreme circumstances. With a global mission Increasingly, this integration in a timely warning time on the desktop with the Emergency Conference System Network is a significant fortification building, “said Howard Ryan, CEO and Founder desktop alert Inc.

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Desktop Alert provides a range of end-point integrations with clients of public address systems (voice Giant), intercom systems, commanders channels, platforms, email, and DSN-based telephony and SMS cloud-based systems, desktop alert popups network alerts National Weather Service postcode based, digital signage, Cable TV, many social media, warning the CAP server, sensors to external systems such as temperature devices and fire alarm systems.

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Former AtHoc Department of Defense Mass Notification Expert Joshua Shipman Appointed to Desktop Alert Inc. Advisory Board

Chatham, New Jersey (PRWEB) November 11, 2014

Today Desktop Alert Inc., the ‘less than one minute alerting platform’ used by the U.S. Military and numerous healthcare and corporate organizations worldwide, announced that the company has appointed Joshua Shipman to the company’s advisory board.

Prior to his employment at AtHoc, Mr. Shipman served in the United States Air Force as a Systems Architect at U.S.NORTHCOM and NORAD Theater Communications Coordination Center (TCCC) , NATO HQ AF SOUTH in Naples Italy, multiple Air Force locations, and subsequently deployed enterprise ip-based mass notification systems at AETC, ACC, AMC, PACAF, Patrick AFB, Eielson, Elmendorf, Joint Base San Antonio as an employee of AtHoc.com. While employed at AtHoc Mr. Shipman oversaw enterprise deployments and ongoing operations for all AtHoc USAF MNS systems. Mr. Shipman also managed MNS deployments at Army Corps of Engineers, TRANSCOM, and numerous other deployments.

“Desktop Alert is pleased with the addition of Mr. Shipman to our advisory board. His wealth of experience and knowledge insures that Desktop Alert will not only remain competitive in the federal sector and beyond but also bolster our companies overall value proposition to all markets,” said Howard Ryan, CEO and Founder Desktop Alert Inc.

“I am honored by the appointment to the Desktop Alert advisory board,” said Mr. Shipman.

“After careful evaluation it was clear to me that Desktop Alert brings a simplistic approach to offering a state-of-the-art notification capability at an affordable cost. When notifying users seconds count. What is most critical is reliability, ease of use, and delivery time. In a DoD environment the system must also be able to operate in unique, secure, network environments and not be easily susceptible to failure when changes occur within those environments. Desktop Alert’s solution to Mass Notification encompasses all of these things and more. I am honored to partner with Desktop Alert and look forward to contributing to their continued success in bringing an affordable and reliable notification capability to DoD and beyond,” Shipman added.

“When lives are at stake, second’s count. Desktop Alert is the only known DoD vendor with a 10 second poll rate capability for network alerting beit a on-premise or cloud-based deployment of our notification system. A five year review of our DoD client reports indicate 99% of all network alerts were and continue to be received in less than 60 seconds with a bulk of the alerts being received in under 30 seconds. Latency-based network alerts introduce the risk of failure to all missions. We hang our technological hat on the speed of the alerts delivery, the speed of the alerts receipt and doing so with little to no deprecation of the networks bandwidth,” said Howard Ryan, CEO and Founder Desktop Alert Inc.

About Desktop Alert Inc. http://www.desktopalert.net

Desktop Alert provides an array of end-point integration’s with customers public address systems (Giant Voice), intercom systems, commanders channels, e-mail platforms, DSN-based and cloud-based telephony and sms message systems, network desktop alert popups, national weather service zip code based alerts, digital signage, cable tv, numerous social media systems, CAP server alert, external system sensors such as temperature devices and fire alarm systems.