Everbridge’s Critical Event Management Platform Will be Used by the
NYC Emergency Management Department and Dozens of Other City Agencies to
Provide Emergency Mass Notification Services
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2018--
Everbridge,
Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG), the global leader in critical event management
and enterprise safety applications to help keep people safe and
businesses running faster, today announced that the New York City
Emergency Management Department (NYCEM) has selected Everbridge as the
new mass
notification platform for its citywide Notify
NYC program. With a city population of over 8 million residents,
nearly 4 million daily commuters, and approximately 60 million visitors
a year, Notify NYC is New York City’s official source for critical
information about emergencies and city services.
“As the largest city in the United States, with a significant population
of out-of-area commuters and visitors, we recognized the need for a
highly scalable critical communications system to keep our residents,
businesses and visitors safe and informed during a wide range of
emergencies and public safety events,” said NYC Emergency Management
Commissioner Joseph Esposito. “After an open and competitive procurement
process, Everbridge was selected to support New York City’s emergency
mass notification needs. The City is excited to partner with Everbridge
in order to provide critical services at a reasonable value.”
The Notify NYC program will now be powered by the EverbridgeCritical
Event Management platform and used by NYCEM to distribute
geographically-targeted public safety information such as Amber Alerts,
weather warnings, life safety threats, evacuation notifications and
community announcements across multiple communication methods including
SMS, email, IPAWS, telephone and social media. In addition, over 30 city
departments will leverage Everbridge for internal communications and
staffing notifications.
“With Notify NYC, New York City has been a pioneer in delivering
effective emergency communications to the largest and most diverse
population in the country,” said Jaime Ellertson, CEO of Everbridge. “We
are very excited to partner with the New York City Emergency Management
Department to help optimize this program and ensure New York City’s
continued resilience and preparedness in the face of an evolving threat
environment that includes both natural and man-made disasters.”
New York residents and visitors are encouraged to sign up for Notify
NYC, the city’s free emergency communications program. To sign up for
Notify NYC, people have several options, including downloading the free
mobile application, enrolling through www.NYC.gov/NotifyNYC,
calling 311, or following @NotifyNYC on Twitter.
About Everbridge
Everbridge,
Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides
enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate
organizations' operational response to critical events in order to keep
people safe and businesses running faster. During public safety threats
such as active shooter situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather
conditions, as well as critical business events such as IT outages,
cyber-attacks or other incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain
interruptions, over 3,500 global customers rely on the company’s
SaaS-based platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat
data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the
execution of pre-defined communications processes, and track progress on
executing response plans. The company’s platform sent over 2 billion
messages in 2017, and offers the ability to reach more than 200
countries and territories with secure delivery to over 100 different
communication devices. The company’s critical communications and
enterprise safety applications include Mass Notification, Incident
Management, Safety Connection™, IT Alerting, Visual Command Center®,
Crisis Commander®, Community Engagement™ and Secure Messaging.
Everbridge serves 9 of the 10 largest U.S. cities, 8 of the 10 largest
U.S.-based investment banks, all four of the largest global accounting
firms, 25 of the 25 busiest North American airports, six of the 10
largest global consulting firms, six of the 10 largest global auto
makers, all four of the largest global accounting firms, four of the 10
largest U.S.-based health care providers and four of the 10 largest
U.S.-based health insurers. Everbridge is based in Boston and Los
Angeles with additional offices in San Francisco, Lansing, Orlando,
Beijing, London, and Stockholm For more information, visit www.everbridge.com,
read the company blog,
and follow on Twitter and Facebook.
Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the
meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including but not limited to, statements
regarding the anticipated opportunity and trends for growth in our
critical communications and enterprise safety applications and our
overall business, our market opportunity, our expectations regarding
sales of our products, and our goal to maintain market leadership and
extend the markets in which we compete for customers. These
forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release
and were based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and
projections as well as the beliefs and assumptions of management. Words
such as “expect,” “anticipate,” “should,” “believe,” “target,”
“project,” “goals,” “estimate,” “potential,” “predict,” “may,” “will,”
“could,” “intend,” variations of these terms or the negative of these
terms and similar expressions are intended to identify these
forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to a
number of risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or
circumstances that are beyond our control. Our actual results could
differ materially from those stated or implied in forward-looking
statements due to a number of factors, including but not limited to: the
ability of our products and services to perform as intended and meet our
customers’ expectations; our ability to attract new customers and retain
and increase sales to existing customers; our ability to increase sales
of our Mass Notification application and/or ability to increase sales of
our other applications; developments in the market for targeted and
contextually relevant critical communications or the associated
regulatory environment; our estimates of market opportunity and
forecasts of market growth may prove to be inaccurate; we have not been
profitable on a consistent basis historically and may not achieve or
maintain profitability in the future; the lengthy and unpredictable
sales cycles for new customers; nature of our business exposes us to
inherent liability risks; our ability to attract, integrate and retain
qualified personnel; our ability to successfully integrate businesses
and assets that we may acquire; our ability to maintain successful
relationships with our channel partners and technology partners; our
ability to manage our growth effectively; our ability to respond to
competitive pressures; potential liability related to privacy and
security of personally identifiable information; our ability to protect
our intellectual property rights, and the other risks detailed in our
risk factors discussed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (“SEC”), including but not limited to our Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016 filed with the SEC on
March 23, 2017. The forward-looking statements included in this press
release represent our views as of the date of this press release. We
undertake no intention or obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise. These forward-looking statements should not
be relied upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to
the date of this press release.
All Everbridge products are trademarks of Everbridge, Inc. in the USA
and other countries. All other product or company names mentioned are
the property of their respective owners.
View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180109005582/en/
Source: Everbridge, Inc.
Everbridge
Jeff Benanto
jeff.benanto@everbridge.com