Integrates easily, reduces response times, and helps in delivering the right communication to the right people in the format they wantFor our major incident management, it has expanded what we can do in terms of the format of the communication. People can subscribe, and they can receive delivery on multiple platforms, whether it's a voice message, email, or mobile app message. It enables us to deliver the right communication to the right people in the format they want. We've integrated it with the Interlink software event management solution. Just recently, we have integrated it with Microsoft Teams, and we've also integrated it with a number of internal IT operations systems. They have made massive improvements over the last few years in terms of integration. Previously, we would've had to engage xMatters formally to get an integration built, but now, they just appear out of the box. The integration possibilities that xMatters offers are very good. There are a lot of integrations that are built within the applications and are just plug and play, which is massively beneficial for us. xMatters can easily integrate with the main IT operations solutions provided by the key vendors in the IT operations world, such as Splunk, Slack, and Microsoft solutions. It has got out-of-the-box integrations to all of those. xMatters is very good at quickly rolling out out-of-the-box integrations for new software, which has enabled us to onboard applications quicker than before. Every six months, a new application comes out that trumps the previous one. They have been very good at being proactive themselves and making sure that they are on top of the market. They're very good at understanding what the key applications are and making sure that they have integrations built for those. We use xMatters’ REST API. It is very easy to use. Utilizing xMatters' REST API makes things a lot slicker and a lot simpler. It has helped us to automate our incident notification process via subscription. We've been able to integrate it with our incident reports. From those incident reports, we can ping a request into xMatters to create a notification that can then be automatically sent out to subscribers. It quickly gets the communication out to a targeted set of users. So, we're not spamming people. By getting the messages out, people can engage with us if needed. They can read valid updates, and if they need to engage with us, they can engage quickly. It has helped us to build workflows that meet our needs. I've taken a step away for a few months to understand exactly how any of that works, but we've been able to build workflows for our organization with minimal help from xMatters' technical services. It requires minimal coding. The benefit of xMatters is that you don't need to do so much coding. A lot of their integrations are out of the box. We have made use of coding, but the amount of coding we need to do to build successful integrations and workflows has reduced significantly, which is a positive thing. We made use of coding when we needed major-incident management communication, specifically for our cloud providers. We had to build workflows specifically to notify people about issues with cloud services. So, we had to do some custom coding to alert our internal cloud consumers. The expanded flexibility or functionality due to coding workflows has affected our operations in a positive way. It has enabled us to create different communications for different communities and expand our portfolio for not just internal communication but also external communication. The targeted, content-rich notifications have helped to reduce response times in our organization. We're now able to deliver the content on different platforms. Previously, we were able to send or receive voice and SMS communication, and we've always been able to receive notifications via email, but with the mobile app, we're able to send better information within our alerts. We're not restricted to so many characters within the notifications, and the format has improved. People can respond with different responses to different types of alerts. So, they're not just acknowledging an alert; they can now acknowledge alerts and send them to another person or send them to another group. It has enabled us to get notifications out with more information. We can enrich our notifications with better information and better response options. If they need to be escalated, we can escalate things quicker.
