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Crisis Management Software an Alternative

Another solution for crisis response.

There are any number of crisis management software solutions available. If you are looking for something, you can take a look at Priority 5.

I think of them primarily as a response-oriented platform. To their credit, they have been used in the National Capitol Region (since 2012) and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention EOC.  

Note that they have a notifications application built into the software, but it is more for responders and not a general public messaging system.

The price for the software is by seat. For planning purposes only, you can perhaps get the software for 100 seats/people at an annual rate of around $150,000. Check them out if you are looking for different solutions other than the one you use now. 

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
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