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Emergency Notification Software

Emergency Notification

What is Emergency Notification Software?

Organizations use these tools to send urgent notifications via multiple communication channels alerting broad audiences of critical or non-critical but time-sensitive events.

Common Features

  • Multi-Channel Mass Notification
  • Scheduled Messaging
  • Distribution Lists
  • Self-Service Contact Information Update
  • Single Sign-On (SSO)
  • Scripting
  • Contact Information Encryption
  • Multi-Language Support
  • Sequential Processing
  • Voice Recorded Alerts
  • Message Status Reporting
  • Weather Alert
  • Location-Based Notification
  • Conference Call Support

Top Emergency Notification Software

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Products: 8
Next Award: Mar 2025

Top Emergency Notification Software 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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Omnilert

Omnilert

Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

Founded in 2004, Omnilert was the first company to establish the emergency mass notification market. It continues to be an innovation leader and the most trusted partner to over 2,500 customers across diverse industries. Omnilert offers the broadest array of solutions, spanning prevention, notification, engagement, and incident management, as well as the most comprehensive multi-channel communications. Uniquely, the organization employs automation and next generation artificial intelligence to expedite emergency response and enable detection and visualization of critical incidents.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
Badge Winner
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Crises Control

Crises Control

Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Crises Control helps organisations keep lines of communication open during emergencies, by making it easy to send notifications to any number of people at once, allowing for immediate, individual response with an automatic audit trail. Crises Control is invaluable for providing up-to-the minute notifications to users, minimising the impact to peoples safety, damage to the environment and the organisation. Crises Control has cloud locations across the globe and the platform can be accessed via your desktop, tablet or cell phone.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Badge Winner
Badge Winner
Motorola Solutions

Rave Alert

Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10

Powered by a web-based platform, and using multiple communication channels, Rave Alert can quickly and simultaneously alert an entire database to the risk of danger – or send targeted messages to groups within the database – from any Internet-connected device. This system of emergency mass notification for business also supports two-way communication. This means that Rave Alert can be used as a point of contact when an emergency situation is in progress or when an employee wishes to respond to a request for assistance.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
Badge Winner
Singlewire Software

InformaCast

Composite Score
7.4 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

Singlewire Software is the developer of InformaCast, a leading software solution for fast and reliable emergency notifications. More than 7,000 organizations in over 50 countries use InformaCast for emergency mass notifications. Whether it’s an active shooter, severe weather, or another crisis situation, this award-winning software reaches mobile and on-premises devices with critical safety information. By giving organizations the means to develop a connected ecosystem of devices, InformaCast provides that speed and reach needed to share the right information, with the right people, at the right time.

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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Respectful
  • Security Protects
  • Performance Enhancing
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Composite Score
7.2 /10
CX Score
7.2 /10

AlertMedia's scalable, cloud-based platform and flexible API allow organizations to seamlessly send and receive notifications from anywhere, at any time, using any device and any communication channel.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Effective Service
  • Caring
  • Trustworthy
Finalsite school

Messages XR

Composite Score
6.8 /10
CX Score
6.8 /10

Our mass notifications solution, Messages XR, makes it easy to send emails, texts, voice calls, mobile app notifications, website alerts — and translate — all from one place.

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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Fair

Cons

  • Under Delivered
Composite Score
6.5 /10
CX Score
6.2 /10

Mass Notification prioritizes ease-of-use, allowing users at all levels to quickly and easily send emergency communications through the most intuitive user interface on the market. Providing a secure, scalable, and reliable emergency management application, Everbridge Mass Notification with Incident Communications enables enterprises and governmental entities to send notifications to individuals or groups to keep them informed before, during and after critical events.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Fair
  • Reliable
  • Continually Improving Product

Cons

  • Vendor's Interest First
  • Under Delivered
  • Commodity Features
Honeywell International Inc.

Honeywell Instant Alert Plus

Composite Score
6.4 /10
CX Score
6.3 /10

In an emergency, direct communication with multiple audiences can make the difference between a minor event and a major crisis. Honeywell Instant Alert and Instant Alert Plus are customizable, cloud-based emergency and mass notification systems that provide a seamless solution. Whether you need to reach people in an emergency or for routine communication, you can contact them quickly with one controlled message.

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Pros

  • Security Protects
  • Respectful
  • Enables Productivity
  • Reliable

Cons

  • Commodity Features
  • Less Inspiring
  • Under Delivered
Copp Integrated Systems

Copp Mass Notification Systems

Composite Score
6.1 /10
CX Score
6.3 /10

Copp’s emergency and mass notification systems are designed to help you get messages where and when they are needed most. This system can even utilize your existing infrastructure, such as voice systems, LED signage, and LAN networks.

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Pros

  • Saves Time
  • Caring
  • Security Protects
  • Efficient Service

Cons

  • Under Delivered

Products below are ineligible for awards due to insufficient recent reviews

Composite Score
7.1 /10
CX Score
7.1 /10

Alertus Technologies leads the industry in emergency mass notification by providing a variety of innovative solutions that focus on unified mass notification, in-building notification, outdoor notification, and mobile notification. Alertus partners with a wide variety of mass notification systems to allow for easy integration with existing infrastructure to fill in the gaps and enhance your emergency communications efforts.

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Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Friendly Negotiation
  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product