City College of San Francisco Enhances Emergency Communications with Waterfall Mobile’s AlertU Platform

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--City College of San Francisco (CCSF), part of the California Community Colleges (CCC) System, announced today it will deploy the AlertU emergency alert notification system from Waterfall Mobile, becoming the 22^nd district in the CCC System to implement AlertU. CCSF is California’s largest single-administration, multi-campus community college. CCSF administrators now have the ability to send critical text message alerts and emergency updates to the mobile devices of over 100,000 students, faculty and staff in real-time.

“As one of the largest community colleges in the nation with 10 campuses and over 150 instructional sites in San Francisco, it is imperative we react quickly and efficiently during an emergency,” said Peter Goldstein, Vice Chancellor of City College of San Francisco. “AlertU gives us the ability to communicate critical information and updates to our campus community, at anytime from anywhere, and monitor alerts and responses.”

With AlertU, CCSF administrators can now create detailed emergency text messages, send alerts to targeted audiences or broadcast school-wide emergency communications. AlertU’s advanced reporting and analytics provide detailed tracking and monitoring combined with a patent-pending 2-way messaging system, enabling CCSF to obtain and react to critical tactical information from first responders and students.

“Proactive and strategic emergency communications planning is essential,” said Matthew Sechrest, CEO of Waterfall Mobile. “AlertU is ideal for large institutions like City College of San Francisco, where secure, enterprise-class communications systems are critical in their ability to effectively respond to emergencies. We are proud to be part of mass alert notification systems in community colleges throughout California.”

AlertU is an easy-to-use, web-based, emergency text alert notification platform architected by Waterfall Mobile for institutions, college and university campus communities, and enterprise facility management. Built with integrated security, scalability and fault tolerance, AlertU offers a robust platform with nontechnical integration, and it is easy to deploy and administer. There are no fees to subscribers for enrolling in the service; however, standard text message rates apply.

AlertU is available to City College of San Francisco students, faculty, staff and campus community. Friends and family are also able to receive alert updates. To subscribe and receive CCSF text alerts, please text CCSF to 253788 (ALERTU) and reply Y to confirm or sign up online at www.alertu.com/ccsf.

About City College of San Francisco

City College of San Francisco is part of the California Community Colleges System, the largest higher educational system in the nation comprised of 72 districts and 109 colleges with more than 2.6 million students per year. City College of San Francisco is the largest single-administration, multi-campus community college in California, with over 100,000 students, faculty and staff. For more information about CCSF or CCC, please visit www.ccsf.edu or www.cccco.edu.

About Waterfall Mobile

Waterfall Mobile, an innovative enterprise mobile technology company, empowers marketers and emergency administrators to easily manage mobile communications, distribute multimedia content and analyze real-time results. The patent-pending technology platform has been deployed by hundreds of enterprises nationwide to manage mobile initiatives. Waterfall Mobile has set the new standard for direct-to-consumer mobile with the first robust enterprise, cost-efficient, on-demand solution. The Waterfall Mobile platform powers two leading products, Msgme for mobile marketing and AlertU for emergency communications.

Waterfall Mobile was founded in 2005. Backed by Vista Equity Partners, a global technology investment fund with over $2 billion under management, the company has offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.

For more information on Waterfall Mobile, AlertU or other products and services offered by the company, please visit www.waterfallmobile.com or www.alertu.com.