AlertMedia vs. Titan HST

The AlertMedia platform helped us with several key events, including an F3 tornado near one of our sites and a police situation in a residential neighborhood near our office. With both events, the mapping features allowed us to quickly understand our associates who may be impacted/affected and follow-up with them in a timely and efficient manner.

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Aside from COVID-19, we had to close the school down 3 times this school year due to smoke (bad air) and a piping issue. Titan was able to get our messaging out immediately and we were able to make sure no one showed up to school when we sent out a text message and email message early that morning. We have been able to mitigate issues by communicating effectively with our families and staff.

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• Supports multiple countries with local or short code access numbers
• Very quickly sends multimodal messages simultaneously
• Provides good feedback for message sending, including options to resend to non-responsive people
• Very good Threat Intelligence options, including immediate notifications through subscriptions, and weekly TI summaries.

• The app is extremely easy to use.
• It has been a very useful tool when we have had a couple of emergencies on campus.
• It has kept our parents, faculty, and staff informed immediately during an emergency situation.

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• A build-in template for notifications about various activities (weather, injury, etc.) would help make alerts more systematic in both appearance and content.

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• The only thing would be to change some of the COVID-19 prescreen features.

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Titan has enabled us to quickly and effectively communicate with our constituents. We have used Titan when we need to get an important message out or when we have had a crisis. It has worked extremely well and Titan has provided a top-notch product. The app is extremely easy to use and the web interface is also very simple to use. Additionally, we have made requests to enhance the product and every time a suggestion has been made, Titan has listened. There were two critical updates they were able to make this year, that has made sending messages out a lot easier. We had requested our school name be used when messages were sent out, not our own personal names. So now when I send a community-wide message, it is sent from the school and not one specific person

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Easy to use platform. App is very simple and very mobile friendly

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I have found the app and the web interface extremely easy to use. It is also easy for my colleagues to use even if they don't use it often.

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Support from AlertMedia has been ongoing and very accessible. Staff are consistently available and quick to respond. And I was developing an organization-wide training for this system, I called and spoke with a recruiter/trainer who emailed several training slides and helpful tips that I was able to convert into an online training.

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I have only needed to use Titan Support once or twice, but I was able to get my issues resolved quickly and on the same day. Support and my account rep are always there if I need assistance. They are very focused on customer service.

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Titan told me what they needed on their end to upload the information and I was able to provide them with the data. Our account rep hosted a training for all our faculty and staff so everyone was comfortable using it. It was very straightforward

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AlertMedia slightly edges out Rave for general notifications; Plus, AlertMedia has a very robust Threat Intelligence features that I'm not aware that Rave has.

We used Blackboard Connect previously and it's a terrible product for communications. I am so glad we left it.

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• Efficiently notifying associates of issues affecting our sites
• Timely and efficient return to normal operations when sites have been down and are resuming operations
• Hurricane briefings

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• Titan has been critical multiple times this school year when we least expected we would need it. I am a huge proponent of the Titan App

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