BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG), a global software company that provides critical event management and enterprise safety applications to help keep people safe and businesses running, today announced that the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will be using Everbridge’s Critical Event Management platform to help keep students, staff and faculty safe and informed during crisis situations.
Campuses nationwide are unfortunately seeing an influx in violence. According to the Violent Victimization of College Students report, students report about 526,000 violent crimes each year, 128,000 of those which “involved a weapon or serious injury to the victim.” Further complicating the issue is the fact that UCLA’s campus has thousands of people – including parents, campus visitors and sports fans – on the grounds at any given time, which can make it difficult to communicate effectively. Everbridge’s Critical Event Management platform enables campus officials to keep the campus community informed and able to react quickly to a dynamic situation such as a school lockdown, criminal threat or severe weather.
“Everbridge makes sending alerts to individuals faster and more efficient while simultaneously activating on premise alerting hardware with the same message,” said Art Kirkland, Director, Office of Emergency Management, UCLA. “Everbridge’s proven platform is a crucial piece of our security strategy aimed at ensuring the safety of our students, faculty, staff and visitors at all times.”
Everbridge serves numerous educational institutions including major universities such as California Institute of Technology, University of Maryland College-Park and University of Oregon. In addition, the company often serves state and local governments, hospitals, and transit hubs in the same area as the schools, facilitating coordination in response to major events. For example, within the southern California region, Everbridge serves Orange County, Ventura County, Los Angeles County EMS, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD), Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), Los Angeles World Airports (Los Angeles International Airport – LAX), as well as leading healthcare organizations such as Molina Healthcare and PIH Health.
“Campus safety professionals have an increasingly complex and difficult job to do and we are committed to supporting their efforts,” said Jaime Ellertson, CEO of Everbridge. “UCLA has taken an important step in giving students, staff, faculty and even parents piece of mind that they will be safe even though they may be far from home.”
About Everbridge
Everbridge,
Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides
enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate an
organization’s operational response to critical events in order to keep
people safe and businesses running. 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 or
cyber-attack incidents, over 3,400 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 1.5 billion messages in 2016, and offers the ability to reach over
200 countries and territories with secure delivery to more than 100
different communication devices. The company’s critical event management
and enterprise safety applications include Mass Notification, Incident
Management, IT Alerting, Safety Connection™, Community Engagement®,
Visual Command Center®, Crisis Commander® and CareConverge™, and are
easy-to-use and deploy, secure, highly scalable and reliable. Everbridge
serves 8 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, all
25 of the 25 busiest North American airports and 6 of the 10 largest
global automakers. Everbridge is based in Boston and Los Angeles with
additional offices in San Francisco, Lansing, Beijing, London and
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