This release of InformaCast Mobile features improved in-app real-time statistics, and the ability to send follow-up notifications to groups of people based on their responses.
As Cisco's preferred partner for paging and emergency notification, Singlewire fully supports the 8800 series phones in both the InformaCast Basic Paging and InformaCast Advanced notification modes.
InformaCast Mobile and InformaCast Advanced Notification give organizations the ability to quickly reach their people wherever they are -- on-premises or remote -- with one unified mass notification system.
Singlewire Software’s PushToTalk is a walkie-talkie/intercom feature in InformaCast Advanced Notification designed to facilitate quick, easy, and immediate communication between multiple parties or on a one-to-one basis.
With this announcement, we are able to offer the basic paging aspects of Singlewire’s well-known InformaCast offering at no cost to our CUCM customers.
Singlewire InformaCast is Cisco's choice for paging and emergency notification. InformaCast Basic Paging, live audio broadcasting, is built into several Cisco Unified Communications Manager platforms.
With the Conference Call feature from Singlewire, you can actually start a conference call with an InformaCast broadcast and bring your safety team together instantly.
InformaCast played a key role in notifying our campus about the water main break and the need to use bottled water. I was able to quickly record a message and send it to the campus from my office at home. Our students commented how effective this was in letting them know what was going on.
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— John Turner, Director of Networks and Systems, Brandeis University —
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… InformaCast is really the glue for our notification - it can pull in email, our phone system, our speaker system, our visible security system, locks, and make it all work together.
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— Shandor Simon, Director of Information Technology, Latin School of Chicago —
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[InformaCast] is one of our most critical services. Bells and paging are one of the most important things for schools.
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— David Massaro, Coordinator of Technology Services, Redlands Unified School District —
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It worked very successfully. We were able to do a complete lockdown on our whole campus within about five minutes of initiating the alert to people.
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— Rob Crockett, Network Administrator, Ouachita Baptist University —
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…It provides a consistent means of communicating and informing regarding an incident to, not just our first responders in those multiple agencies, but also to our staff and parents who are in multiple buildings, and our students in multiple buildings.
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— Tom Wohlleber, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, MCPASD —
