Alertus Unified Mass Notification vs CrisisGo

Alertus Unified Mass Notification brings facility, network, outdoor, and personal or mobile alerts into one platform. Organizations can reach endpoints such as IP speakers, Alert Beacons, strobes, desktops, VoIP phones, digital signage, and mobile apps, alongside text and email integrations. Alerts can be targeted by map location, preset groups, directory membership, subscribed mobile lists, buildings, or functional areas. Activation options include panic buttons, desktop activators, VoIP phones, and mobile applications. The system provides alert histories, recipient acknowledgements, device status, membership reports, daily system health digests, and event dashboards. Alertus lists integrations with Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat, and existing facility and notification systems. It provides SOAP and REST APIs and supports inbound CAP and FEMA IPAWS alerts. Deployment can be on-premise or cloud-hosted. Alertus says it does not provide its own text or email service; those distributions use third-party providers or a customer's SMTP server. Pricing is on request. The product serves education, industrial, corporate, healthcare, government, and military sectors.

CrisisGo is a safety platform for emergency preparedness, response, communication, and community coordination. Its coverage spans prevention, preparedness, response, accountability, recovery, and continuous improvement. Safety iResponse provides multi-channel alerts, panic button and ECHO Badge activation, live maps, and accountability. Safety Intervention Manager and Tipline support reporting, case management, and assigned follow-up workflows. Safety iPass handles visitor screening, secure check-in, event access, hall passes, and student movement. During emergencies, Emergency Mustering Manager tracks employees, contractors, and visitors, showing reported, unreported, and manually accounted people on one dashboard. Its Open API can connect to HR systems, access control, student information systems, dispatch software, IoT devices, and other applications supporting modern web services. CrisisGo says access to personal data is limited to people with a business need to know and that it has procedures for suspected data breaches. Downloads are listed for iOS, Android, Chrome, Windows PCs, Macs, and Chromebooks. Community members can create a free account and subscribe to message groups. The independent-schools Safety iResponse plan costs $2,520 a year per school and covers up to 500 students; each additional student is billed at $5 per year.