Learn how you can use the dynamic text functionality in InformaCast to send mass notification and emergency communications.
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We are talking with Ken Bywaters Executive Vice President of Product Management. Can you tell us more about what dynamic text is and how it works with InformaCast?
Dynamic text in InformaCast or for that matter dynamic audio is really combined so that other systems can pass a message to InformaCast and have InformaCast send it out.
We have a lot of customers that have messages generated by another system or somewhere else some on the Internet perhaps and they still want that message to go out to phones, desktops, and speakers but all the grouping information is already in InformaCast. So dynamic text or dynamic audio components allow you to do just that. They take messages from one place pass messages into InformaCast, use the grouping and all the infrastructure we provide to send that message out to your phones, desktops and speakers.
What would be an example of that?
Well, a straight forward example of that would what people do with weather alerts from the National Weather Service.
If a tornado alert is issued or some other type of severe weather alert, that text is already generated from the National Weather Service. You just want to get it out to your Cisco phones and all the other devices on your network. We can watch for that text to be generated and then pass it through our system and send it out.
The same might be true for amber alerts, or community messages, or anything like that, or even messages generated on your network, security notifications, anything like that, that might be anything our customer systems might generate.
Now is that something that requires a human to push a button to allow that o pass through or can that be setup to remotely or automatically to watch an audio feed or text feed?
No, that automatically happens. So the dynamically part of it means that the person does not have to do anything he has set it up to watch for the content and send it out as soon as we get it.
Ok, now if someone is interested in this how do they get this? Is this the latest version of InformaCast? Where does that if in?
Dynamic text is built into InformaCast starting in version 7.0 and dynamic audio is built into 7.1 which is generally available in May 2010 and it’s all in the documentation. If people have any questions they can always contact our technical support team or their sales person.
Very Good, that you Ken
