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With a strong commitment to the communications needs of higher education and K-12 organizations, BlazeCast® Intelligent Mass Notification solution and BlazePoint® IP Speakers enable institutions to improve daily and crisis communications by broadcasting fast and reliable notifications to thousands of people – anywhere, over any channel, on any device.

Enhance Daily, Crisis and Mass Notification

Whether you need to issue notifications and warnings, broadcast news and updates, or ensure the continuity of your campus operations, BlazeCast and BlazePoint delivers a fast and effective solution to reach the campus community.

Notify Stakeholders Using their Channel of Choice

Through feature-rich, multi-modal notifications, BlazeCast helps institutions to greatly improve daily and crisis communications by enabling non-technical staff to easily and quickly notify key stakeholders using their channel of choice.

Solution Benefits

  • Multi-channel Notification – broadcast messages via landline, mobile phone, IP phone, text, email or other customized channels to reach the widest audience
  • Proactive Protection and Safety – before an event occurs, prepare pre-recorded or pre-scripted messages; define chains of escalations with first responders; and rapidly notify students, faculty, staff, family
  • Automate End-to-End Communication – streamline communication among key stakeholders via a wide range of channels and devices; ensure notification delivery via active message acknowledgement
  • Expedite Incident Response – quickly notify and deploy incident response teams; immediately collaborate and respond to emergency situations with instant live conference calling
  • Improve Transparency and Accountability – generate real-time and historical reports of message delivery and confirmation; improve visibility into communication effectiveness
  • Increase Student Engagement – foster student retention and recruitment programs by effectively communicating with current and prospective students regarding campus activities, programs, community events, cancellations, billing reminders, etc.

Features

  • Multi-Point Activation

    Flexibly initiate an alert or a page from a landline phone, IP phone, computer or mobile device

  • Advanced Text Notification (SMS)

    Send text alerts to mobile phones with the option to request acknowledgement from recipient

  • Auto Dialer

    Automate outbound calling to a mass audience

  • Computer Desktop Notification

    Fast, reliable and intrusive messages to computers, laptops, and digital screens across the campus

  • Precision IP Paging

    Web-based map view to page and broadcast customized messages to speakers and phones with granularity on a campus, building, hallway or room basis

  • Talkback IP Speaker

    Enable two-way conversation via on-board microphone in the speaker

  • Advanced HTML Texting

    Broadcast text and HTML messages to phones, computers and mobile devices

  • Find-Me, Live Conferencing

    Ensures stakeholders are reached through sequential phone numbers and connected to a live conference call for group discussion and instruction

  • Text-to-Speech

    Send live or pre-recorded text-to-speech messages via SMS, phone, mobile, and overhead paging

  • Email

    Coordinate email alerts with other mediums as part of a layered notification plan

  • Common Alerting Protocol

    Exchange emergency information between CAP-compliant devices and services