FAIR LAWN, N.J., --[Emergency Notification News] -- March 28, 2007 - Henry Bros. Electronics, Inc., (Amex: HBE) a turnkey provider of technology-based integrated electronic security solutions, today announced an agreement between Diversified Security Solutions Inc., a subsidiary of Henry Bros. Electronics, and Workspeed Notifications, LLC, a leading provider of Web-based and wireless applications that optimize real estate enterprise performance.
Diversified Security Solutions has been engaged in the business of creating Emergency Action Plans for high-rise buildings since 2002. In 2006, New York City passed Local Law 26, which requires all commercial high-rise buildings to have an Emergency Action Plan. The law also requires all tenants to "establish and maintain a system of assigning responsibility for accounting for employees present in the building so that accounting can be made in the event of an in-building relocation, partial evacuation or full evacuation."
Working with Diversified Security Solutions, Workspeed Notifications developed an electronic solution (known as Workspeed Notify) that sends information to thousands of employees instantly while those employees can respond electronically for the purpose of accountability tailored for building evacuation and disaster recovery. Diversified Security will market Workspeed Notifications product exclusively to its New York customers and sell the product nationwide as part of its emergency preparedness solution.
Mark Novak, Director of Emergency Planning, of Diversified Security Solutions, said, "As one of the leaders in creating emergency action plans in New York City, coupled with the passage of Local Law 26 and the agreement with Workspeed, we are now positioned to capitalize on this growing and important market. Human Resource departments need to implement new strategies for employee communications during times of crisis, and our solution will help resolve accountability issues and meet the requirements of the law."
Derrick Chen, CEO of Workspeed, said, "Workspeed is proud that Diversified Security, New York's leading provider of emergency action plan development to the commercial real estate industry, has agreed to distribute Workspeed Notify. Diversified's vision of using the Workspeed Notify tool to enable not only compliance with Local Law 26, but also the development of truly workable emergency plans, will make a major difference when a crisis occurs."
About Henry Bros. Electronics, Inc.
Henry Bros. Electronics (Amex: HBE) provides technology-based integrated electronic security systems, services and emergency preparedness consultation to commercial enterprises and government agencies. The Company has offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia. For more information, visit http://www.hbe-inc.com.
Source: Vendor Press Release
Henry Bros. Electronics, Inc. Announces Agreement With Workspeed To Provide Emergency Preparedness Solutions For High-Rise Buildings
MIR3 Intelligent Notification Unveils Industry-first Global Emergency Notification System
- 'Anywhere Enterprise' features Preferred Call Routing, Incident Management and Topic Subscription.
- MIR3 Accelerates inWebServices Powered by MIR3 Intelligent Notification™ Initiative with PHP Toolkit.
San Diego, California --[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- March 27, 2007 – MIR3™, the technology leader in Intelligent Notification™ (IN®) solutions for global enterprises, today introduced a first-of-a-kind global emergency notification system at this week's Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) Spring World 2007 conference in Orlando, Florida. MIR3's new Intelligent Notification v2.8 introduces technologies developed directly for the global outbound notification requirements of Global 500 petroleum, financial and consumer-product companies. Designed to make critical emergency and non-emergency communications of multi-national companies private, more efficient and cost effective, MIR3’s Intelligent Notification v2.8 now includes preferred routing, incident management, topic subscription and multi- language support, among others.- The preferred routing feature works in concert with geo-dispersed MIR3 telephony and application servers to reduce operating costs and protect data privacy via tighter control over global telephony routes.
- Incident management offers better visibility into events that threaten continuity of operations throughout all business units of the company, no matter where they are located.
- Topic subscription increases productivity and information sharing by enabling individuals to easily keep abreast of job-relevant, critical events outside their local sphere of operation.
- Integrated multi-language features enable Global 500 companies to meet the communication challenges of international operations and government agencies to communicate with non-English speaking employees, customers, partners and citizens during emergency situations in their native language.
“The largest corporations in the world have driven the latest developments of version 2.8,” said Amir Moussavian, president and CEO at MIR3. “This represents an important step toward a complete set of global emergency and non-emergency notification and management tools.”
According to Ken Landoline, program manager for Yankee Group's enterprise research group, “We believe that the next two to three years will bring an explosion of growth in the intelligent notification segment of the enterprise market. MIR3’s technology platform, already proven in many Global 100 companies in terms of scalability, reliability and protocol independence, makes it an ideal offering for enabling the vision of an 'anywhere enterprise' requiring ubiquitous connectivity.”
MIR3’s enterprise-grade technology bridges the gap between all standard forms of communication to enable high-speed two-way communications to tens of thousands of users and devices across all modalities, including email, wireless pager, PDA, landline, mobile phone, satellite phone, TTY, fax and two-way SMS. MIR3's notification capabilities can also be used for routine high-volume messaging and all-purpose broadcasting such as administrative notices to employees, messages for coordinating staffing and schedules, and delivering important, auditable information to customers.
New PHP Toolkit Demonstration Accelerates inWebServices Powered by MIR3 Intelligent Notification Initiative
“Our new multi-language online demonstration created with our inWebServices PHP Toolkit brilliantly shows the unlimited deployment possibilities for Intelligent Notification by Web developers worldwide,” Moussavian added. “Our inWebServices Powered by MIR3 Intelligent Notification initiative has been received enthusiastically by the OEM and system integration communities. With the release of our inWebServices PHP Toolkit to Web developers, we have accelerated the adoption of two-way, interactive, multi-modal communication into every business unit all over the globe.”
The MIR3 IN platform is powered by inWebServices, an advanced technology built on the SOAP 1.2 compliant XML J2EE standard. This API, which is also available for downloading from the MIR3 Web site, allows the MIR3 IN platform to integrate with a wide variety of third-party enterprise systems supporting Web Services and Service Open Architecture. For complete information on integration with the MIR3 IN platform and the inWebServices Powered by MIR3 Intelligent Notification™ initiative, please click here.
Source: Vendor Press Release
Wilford Hall Medical Center Deploys AtHoc on 5,000 Computer Network
AtHoc to Provide Medical Center with the Emergency Network-Notification to Quickly Alert Personnel Regarding Emergency Situations and Provide Instructions for Action 
BURLINGAME, Ca. --[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- March 27, 2007 – AtHoc, Inc. today announced Wilford Hall Medical Center has deployed AtHoc IWSAlerts to quickly reach personnel regarding emergency situations.
The Medical Control Center at Wilford Hall fills the critical role of keeping in touch with Lackland’s base command center to track emergency situations. The Medical Control Center serves as the eyes and ears for the medical community, and if an emergency situation arises, the group is responsible for alerting Wilford Hall personnel. When an emergency situation arises, the Medical Control Center uses AtHoc IWSAlerts to alert the more than 5,000 computers distributed across the five-building medical facility.
AtHoc worked with the Wilford Hall team to help tailor custom alerts for the hospital. Now the Medical Control Center team can create alerts for any type of scenario and determine which personnel should be alerted with instructions for action. The team continues to actively build its library of emergency scenarios for situations ranging from water contamination to pending weather conditions.
In addition to providing the ability for Wilford Hall to alert personnel with information regarding emergencies identified by the base command center, AtHoc IWSAlerts can be configured to pull feeds from numerous data sources, including the Center for Disease Control and the National Weather Service. Wilford Hall can elect to use these feeds to enhance its emergency notification capabilities further in the future.
“Wilford Hall fulfills an incredibly important mission for the Air Force. Effectively protecting the medical center, its personnel and patients depends heavily on situational awareness,” said Guy Miasnik, president and CEO of AtHoc. “Regardless of the type of emergency scenario – whether military or medical – Wilford Hall can provide alerts to its staff with specific instructions for action based upon the scenario and the recipient’s role within the organization. This level of granularity in the alerting process can help Wilford Hall contain and combat emergency situations.”
About Wilford Hall Medical Center
Wilford Hall Medical Center, the Air Force’s largest medical facility, is a national resource, providing complete medical care to military healthcare beneficiaries in the south central United States as well as specialized care to patients referred from all over the world.
Newly Formed 2ndWave Software Acquires Amcom
Chris Heim and Dan Mayleben Take the Reins of $12Million Software Company
With Blue Chip Accounts in Healthcare, Government and Education
Minneapolis --[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- March 9, 2007 - 2ndWave Software announced today it has acquired Amcom Software, a provider of enterprise software systems for mission critical communications. The recently formed 2ndWave Software, led by former HighJump Software executives Chris Heim and Dan Mayleben, chose Amcom as their first acquisition based on the company’s reputation in the markets it serves, a solid technology platform and a prestigious client roster.
Founded nearly 25 years ago by Jack Collins, Amcom has over 400 customers including Duke University, Stanford Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, New York Presbyterian, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Intel Corporation and the U.S. Army. Amcom’s software solutions are used to automate mission critical communications and improve enterprise-wide communications. Customers benefit with a central, standards-based communication platform that reduces costs and increases efficiencies by providing self-service and faster more accurate call routing.
According to a U.S. News and World report ranking, over 70-percent of “America’s Best Hospitals” use Amcom to improve enterprise-wide communications.
Following the planned retirement of Amcom CEO and Founder, Jack Collins, Heim will take on the role of CEO and Mayleben will be appointed CFO of Amcom. The company will retain its name, company headquarters, management team and employee base.
"Over the years, Amcom has achieved fantastic business results by providing great solutions to meet growing customer demand for advanced communications," said Chris Heim, CEO, 2ndWave Software. "Many customers reported improved performance and reliability by eliminating manual processes, avoiding costly errors and reducing risk. By saving millions in liabilities and increased efficiencies, the results speak for themselves."
2ndWave Software was formed to address the new reality of slower yet, steady growth in many business-to-business software markets. Despite niche market leadership, many well-run small and mid-sized enterprise software companies have been unable to attract outside acquirers or exit via a public offering. To address this need, 2ndWave Software will seek to acquire quality companies, help management teams improve their business operations, and potentially combine them with other complimentary businesses.
"2ndWave Software is an ideal fit for Amcom at a time when we need to focus on operational growth and business development. Amcom and 2ndWave share similar core values and goals and now we have the leadership and funding we need to continue to grow our customer base and improve and expand our solution portfolio. With Chris and Dan at the helm, we are all very excited about the future of Amcom,” said Jack Collins, Founder of Amcom Software.
2ndWave is very focused and committed to the future success of Amcom," said Dan Mayleben, Chief Financial and Chief Operating Officer, 2ndWave Software. "We intend to make Amcom the leader in its software category while bringing additional product ands service offerings into their core verticals to support customer demand for better enterprise communications."
About 2ndWave Software
Formed in early 2007, 2ndWave Software was created by Minneapolis-based technology veterans Chris Heim and Dan Mayleben. Formed in partnership with CIBC Capital Partners, the company targets stable small to mid-sized software companies with niche market leadership and room for operational improvement and growth. 2ndWave Software will assist management teams in growing the business while evaluating opportunities to combine complimentary software businesses. For more information go to www.2ndwavesoftware.com.
Port of Seattle Expands Use of Send Word Now for Crisis and Security-Related Communication at Airport and Seaport
Treos, BlackBerrys, Mobile Phones and Pagers are Critical Communications Devices for both Crisis Situations and Everyday Issues
New York, NY, --[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- March 5, 2007 - Send Word Now™, a provider of on-demand alerting and response services, today announced that the Port of Seattle has expanded its relationship with Send Word Now to encompass over 750 users. Initially provisioned last year for the executive crisis team, in 2007 the Port of Seattle will increase Send Word Now’s alerting and response service to communicate with over 80 different groups within the airport and seaport – including the Airport Communications Center, the Transportation Security Administration, airline representatives, fire and police.
Nick Milos, who manages corporate emergency operations for the Port of Seattle, states, “We saw the value of Send Word Now and have been able to use it as a means of reliably activating our policy room should an emergency be declared. We now have a very easy, quick way to get in touch with all the members of the corporate emergency team. The primary value of Send Word Now is the absolute swiftness of notification. In a recent test we sent an announcement out to twenty top executives, and nineteen of the twenty responded within fifteen minutes.”
Milos contrasted this to the older system where a dispatcher would be called to notify a duty chief. The duty chief would then pull out a spreadsheet and manually start calling numbers, often not getting through and having to leave messages. He describes this as a very time-consuming, cumbersome and stressful process, and lauds the vast improvement with Send Word Now’s Smart Alerts.
Ernie Hayden, chief information security officer, adds, “I was given the task to implement Send Word Now at our 24- hour airport operations facility – the Airport Communications Center (ACC) – to replace our less than reliable paging system. The ACC uses Send Word Now to notify people of emergencies such as a fuel spill or a security breach, and for routine alerts such as minor flooding and snow removal. Send Word Now is becoming a very nice, layered communications tool for us. Now the police and fire department are starting to use it, and seaport security wants to implement Send Word Now. So, it’s rapidly moving out into the organization.”
Hayden continues, “With Send Word Now, you have many options on how to initiate messages. You can use the web-based capability, the quick send code, you can do it by email, use a Treo, or by calling the operator. Those are pretty impressive capabilities someone thought through the idea ‘How in the world can I get a hold of everyone and get this message sent out when it’s really urgent?’”
Send Word Now’s SWN Alert Service is redefining the way organizations mobilize people during an emergency or in everyday, time-sensitive business situations. This is especially important for airports and seaports and other organizations that deal with critical security and homeland protection issues.
PlantCML Acquires TCI (Tel Control, Inc.)
North America’s top provider of emergency response solutions acquires innovative NG911 company
Temecula, CA/Huntsville, AL --[Emergency Notification News]-- March 5, 2007 - PlantCML, North America’s leader in mission-critical communications systems for emergency contact centers, announced today the closing of the acquisition of TCI (Tel Control, Inc.), a leading provider of networked and hosted E911 solutions. The acquisition adds another important element to PlantCML’s portfolio of communications products, further solidifying its position as the country’s leading vendor of emergency response management solutions. The transaction is funded by Golden Gate Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm with $3.3 billion of capital under management. PlantCML is a portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital.
The acquisition combines PlantCML’s strengths in on-premise 911 solutions with TCI’s strengths in hosted 911 solutions. These hosted applications provide 911 centers with a broader choice of 9-1-1 call-taking and dispatching systems as they also allow dispatchers to access call control functionality from virtually anywhere through a secure public safety data network. TCI was awarded a patent in June of 2004 which outlines a method for delivering Voice-over-IP (VOIP) 911 calls in combination with ANI/ALI directly to the PSAP using next generation IP networks.
Timothy Fuller – President and Chief Executive Officer of PlantCML stated, “This acquisition combines the innovation and flexibility of TCI’s hosting services with PlantCML’s significant on-premise customer base and strong distribution channels. With the combined resources of PlantCML and TCI, no company is better positioned to deliver critical communications solutions--particularly those related to Next Generation 911 technology.” Fuller further stated, “Existing agreements between each company, its customers, partners and service providers will be honored. “It’s very much business as usual for customers, partners and others who have dealings with PlantCML and TCI.”
“We are excited to continue to support PlantCML as it further consolidates the emergency response solutions space,” said David Dominik, Managing Director at Golden Gate Capital. “With the acquisition of TCI, PlantCML will add another strategic element to its core suite of products, enhancing PlantCML’s leadership position in its industry.”
“Customers within the 911 industry will benefit the most from this acquisition,” said Jeff Robertson, President and CEO of TCI. “Being part of the PlantCML family allows TCI’s innovative products to have the backing and support structure to help keep the momentum going in making next generation 9-1-1 a reality.”
About TCI:
Established in 1969 with headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama, TCI is an industry leader in designing and manufacturing world class public safety systems. TCI is a key provider of 911 solutions, enabling Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) to effectively manage 911 communications at the city, county, and state level. TCI’s modular solutions meet the needs of the smallest 2-position PSAP as well as the robust requirements of centralized, networked metropolitan applications. TCI’s newest offering, Synapse™, based on the Avaya Communication Manager Platform, is the industry’s first, fully-integrated, Voice over IP (VoIP) solution for 911 communications. For more information, please visit www.tci911.com.
About Golden Gate Capital:
Golden Gate Capital is a San Francisco-based private equity investment firm with approximately $3.3 billion of capital under management. The firm is dedicated to partnering with world-class management teams to invest in change-intensive, growth businesses. Golden Gate targets investments in situations where there is a demonstrable opportunity to significantly enhance a company's value. The principals of Golden Gate Capital have a long and successful history of investing with management partners across a wide rage of industries and transaction types. For more information, please visit www.goldengatecap.com.