InformaCast Service Levels

InformaCast Advanced

Send a mass notification to on-premises devices throughout your building or campus.

InformaCast Mobile

Use a mobile app or web console to distribute a mass notification to mobile devices that reach people away from their desks or outside the building.

Explore Mobile

InformaCast Fusion

Provide the most complete coverage with IT alerting notifications that reach people on-premises and on mobile devices.

Explore Fusion

Find the Right Solution

InformaCast offers three service levels beyond Basic Paging to enhance the speed and reach of your communications. InformaCast Advanced reaches devices within a building or campus. InformaCast Mobile utilizes a mobile app and web console to reach people on their mobile devices, and InformaCast Fusion provides the best of both worlds, bringing together the ability to reach mobile and on-premises devices from a single interface. See the capabilities of each emergency notification system below to determine which is the best fit for you.

	Basic	Mobile	Advanced	Fusion
Send Text and/or Audio From:
Desk phones	X¹		X	X
Web console		X	X	X
iOS or Android mobile app		X		X
Other systems			X	X

Send Text and/or Audio To:
Desk phones	X¹		X	X
Mobile phones		X		X
SMS text		X		X
Phone calls		X		X
Push notifications		X		X
Email		X	X	X
IP speakers and clocks			X	X
Analog paging system			X	X
Computer desktops			X	X
Twitter			X	²
Facebook		X		X
Digital signage			X	X
Internet of Things			X	X

Automatically Broadcast Notifications for:
Outbound calls to 911			X	X
Incoming severe weather (via CAP)		X	X	X
Conference call collaboration		X	X	X
Cisco Spark spaces		X	X	X
Message confirmation and escalation		X	X	X
Night bell			X	X
School bells			X	X

Architecture Type
Onsite virtual appliance	X		X
Cloud server		X
Hybrid cloud architecture				X
Internet survivability		X		X
Hardware appliance				X
WAN survivability				X

¹Live audio paging only, no text
²Available in future release

… 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.

— Shandor Simon, Director of Information Technology, Latin School of Chicago —

…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.

— Tom Wohlleber, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, MCPASD —

The fact that we can use [InformaCast] for both audio alerting and visual alerting, that was great.

— Dan Carrion, Senior Voice Engineer, JOY Global —

I like using it, because it’s a simple product to use. You can see behind it that it is a quality product; professionally-built and well-designed.

— Terry Oakley, Telecommunications Coordinator, Red Deer College —

InformaCast provided us with a unified system with ease of management that allows us to even communicate with the baseball field and the weightlifting room wirelessly.

— Elena Alvarez, Technology Director, Christopher Columbus High School —