Everbridge, Inc. is an American
enterprise software
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company that offers applications which provide information about critical events to help with personal safety and
business continuity
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. Formerly known as 3n Global and the National Notification Network, Everbridge began operations in 2002.
In an emergency, Everbridge sends messages via telephone, text message and email,
[ but stop once they know that a person has read a message.]["Remembering Hurricane Sandy: One Year Later." 28 Oct. 2013: http://www.wcvb.com/page/search/htv-bos/news/local/boston-south/Remembering-Hurricane-Sandy-One-year-later/-/9848842/22679114/-/j7k0jsz/-/index.html ] An app allows emergency managers to track geotagged
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tweets that contain specific hashtag
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s and use this information to respond to incidents as they occur.[
Their system was used in 2012 to send over 10 million messages to residents during ]Hurricane Sandy
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.[ During the ]Boston Marathon bombings
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in April 2013, the city of Boston used Everbridge for its critical communications. Everbridge relayed information to business operators, employees, firefighters, hospital staff, police and residents after the explosions and during the lockdown of Boston, Watertown Watertown may refer to:
Places in China
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Places in the United States
*Watertown, Connecticut, a New England town
**Watertown (CDP), Connecticut, the central village ...
, Waltham and surrounding areas. It was also used during the COVID-19 pandemic
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to provide updates to Boston residents.
In 2016, Everbridge raised $90 million in an IPO
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, becoming a publicly traded company (EVBG) on the Nasdaq
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stock exchange. In 2017, its revenues totaled $104 million. Three years later, that figure rose to $271 million.
The company's customers include the University of Mississippi
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...
, the U.S. Army
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,West Virginia
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, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport,Norway
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, Peru
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, and Australia
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.
History
Formerly known as 3n Global, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Notification Network, the company was founded in 2002 in response to the September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercia ...
to assist with crisis coordination.COVID-19 pandemic
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.social media
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, traffic cameras
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,9-1-1
, usually written 911, is an emergency telephone number for the United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Palau, Argentina, Philippines, Jordan, as well as the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), one of eight N11 codes. Like other emergency nu ...
data.
Acquisitions
The following is a list of acquisitions by Everbridge:
* Nixle (2015)
* IDV Solutions (2017)
Leadership
Everbridge is led by David Wagner as new CEO, successor to David Meredith, Other notable executives include chief customer experience officer John Maeda
John Maeda (born 1966) is a Vice President of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft. He is an American technologist and designer whose work explores where business, design, and technology merge to make space for the "humanist technolo ...
, chief communications Jessica Deckinger, chief security officer Tracy Reinhold, and chief technology officer Imad Mouline.
See also
* Emergency management
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References
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Public safety networks
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Health care companies established in 2002
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