We performed a comparison between Everbridge Mass Notification and OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Everbridge, OnSolve, AlertMedia and others in Mass Notification Software."The ability to text all our staff and categorize by specific fields, such as department or position, are valuable features. We can gear messages to specific people or target a particular office, such as the New York office or Washington DC office only. We can target specific departments, such as corporate or litigation, which is very useful for us. Once, we had an active shooter near our Washington, DC, office, and we could send out a message to all the staff in that office. On another occasion, there was a Long Island railroad strike so we could contact all our staff who lived there."
"We like the ability to integrate geolocation data from our HR system that tells us where teammates work or live. That information helps us calibrate the notification. If we know a storm or a tornado will hit a specific area, we can look at the map view within Everbridge. The feature is called the Universe View, and it's a section of the tool that lets us notify those folks based on the location data we have for them."
"We find the templates useful. We can pre-write them, save them, and reuse them over and over. For instance, we get snow and ice storms in the Northeast, so we have school delays and cancellations. Instead of drafting a new message for distribution each time, you create a template and deploy it. You can change the date of the event and specific information. It might say that class times will be delayed or we'll be closed for a day."
"Everbridge is a dynamic tool that integrates well with our other systems. We can trigger messages from one platform to multiple places. The messages are sent to campus TVs and our website. We've been able to connect it through a lot of different options."
"The reporting we have is very intuitive and provides good insight into the results when we send out a mass notification."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use and the ability to set up templates for similar events, which helps streamline and makes it faster to get the message out, especially during a crisis."
"It will call and leave me a message, letting me know what's going on... That capability is valuable because people now tend to keep their phones with them, more so than anything else. They're more prone to listen to or see an alert coming through their telephone rather than via email."
"SAME and polygonal geographic targeting allow for localized mass notification which reduces communication volume."
"The placeholder dropdowns for message templates are useful."
"It allows for a systematic and uniform method of alerting personnel in every location."
"I've been working with them literally for years to get certain things resolved, and there are always issues and problems. One of the issues that we've been dealing with recently and for some time now is that some people don't get the message. It goes out to 27,000 people, and afterward, I hear from people that they did not get the message, or their phone didn't ring, and it didn't go to voicemail. Nothing happened, and they were just dropped. This seems to be an ongoing issue."
"We have some issues regarding the template layout; we have about 80 templates and must scroll through a long list to find the one we want. It would be good to see subcategories or the ability to filter through the templates somehow."
"Reporting is something Everbridge should improve. It's pretty weak. The tool has some reports, but you often need to go down to the Excel level and do it yourself. It would help if the solution had more robust in-app reporting tools and technology that offer an analysis of what you've sent out and some more details."
"The technical support is inconsistent."
"Regarding improvement, it could be clearer around selecting groups of users to notify; it could be more intuitive to pick who we want to send messages to."
"Everbridge has a huge amount of documentation, which is great. I think they've done a wonderful job on that. However, it can be difficult to sort through all of that to find what you need."
"There are a few quirks in the interface that drive me nuts. It seems trivial, but when you have thousands of records, you want to see more than 25 results per page. I have to change the settings for results per page each time I switch between one of our 17 institutions. It's a bit irritating to do that 17 times in an hour. I should be able to change that default setting and permanently store it. They also changed the search query to search by phone instead of name. Who looks for somebody using a phone number? It's just kind of little silly things that I don't think they're using in a large-scale environment like I am."
"The product is lacking in the area of language support."
"Conference calling requires a complicated syntax formula."
"The user interface is too complicated and aspects that should be offered, such as email subject line editing, are not."
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Everbridge Mass Notification is ranked 1st in Mass Notification Software with 14 reviews while OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management is ranked 2nd in Mass Notification Software. Everbridge Mass Notification is rated 9.0, while OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Everbridge Mass Notification writes "We can pre-write templates, save them, and reuse them over and over". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management writes "Allows for a systematic and uniform method of alerting personnel in every location, but the user interface is too complicated". Everbridge Mass Notification is most compared with AlertMedia, Alertus Mass Notification, InformaCast and Rave Alert, whereas OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management is most compared with Everbridge IT Alerting, PagerDuty Operations Cloud, AlertMedia, Rave Alert and xMatters .
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