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Toronto, ON - VoiceGate Corporation, a leader in Mass Message and Business Continuity Planning Notification Systems, and ESRI Canada a leading provider of geographic information systems (GIS) solutions, are pleased to announce their partnership to provide a complete Emergency e-Response solution for the Canadian public and private sectors. The partnership was announced at the World Conference on Disaster Management earlier today.
VoiceGate's Emergency e-Response is a powerful multi-modal, mass-message notification system designed using open industry standards, capable of delivering messages to thousands of people simultaneously, on multiple devices: phone, answering machine, voice mail, fax, SMS, pager or any internet ready device. ESRI's GIS tools are used to help manage spatial information (data and maps) for emergency planning and response. Combined, VoiceGate's Emergency e-Response and ESRI Canada's GIS will provide municipalities, power and water utilities, medical, military, and police forces with an intuitive, powerful spatially managed, mass message notification system. Designed specifically to plan, rapidly identify, and select an affected area by location, the GIS powered Emergency e-Response system provides emergency managers and business continuity planners the ability to launch and manage in real time, targeted, bi-directional mass messaging notification campaigns. "The VoiceGate and ESRI Canada solution will enable business continuity officers and emergency response managers to communicate quickly and accurately in the event of an emergency," said Alex Miller, President, ESRI Canada. "This will enable emergency personnel to spend their valuable time managing and responding to the crisis, rather than engaging in time consuming and ineffective manual management functions." The real power in this union is providing ESRI users with the ability to identify emergency locations on a map and notify the appropriate stakeholders. "A good example of this is a municipality with a flood plain within its boundaries," said Paul Perryman, President and COO of VoiceGate Corporation. "Municipal ESRI users can now identify houses on the plain that could be affected by a flood and push the data seamlessly to the Emergency e-Response system. It calls the targeted houses and elicits responses. For houses that don't respond, the system streams a report, in real time, back to the GIS. Once this happens, the map changes the colour of the dwellings with which the system failed to make contact, identifying to the police or first responders the houses that need to be visited to complete the evacuation." About VoiceGate Corporation About ESRI Canada: Media Contacts: | |