CASE STUDIES

“DeskAlerts is a vital component of our customer communication strategy. It preempts unnecessary helpdesk calls by keeping our customers informed and is quick and easy to set up, use and deploy. It represents great value for money.”

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ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (EDUCATION, GREAT BRITAIN)

"DeskAlerts provided a reliable communications channel which proved to be essential during the state of emergency caused by the terror attack, while the hospital's usual channels were overloaded and inaccessible."

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CHU SAINT-PIERRE (HEALTHCARE, BELGIUM)

Healthcare

“The DeskAlerts notification system showed itself to be a cost-efficient solution, providing all the functionality required to keep employees informed. It is our main communications system for urgent messaging to all staff.”

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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals (Healthcare, Great Britain)

“It’s easy to use and the message delivery is quite fast. The scope of alert is easy to configure via Active Directory groups and organisational units. All working users have the right information at the right time via Broadcast feature. This is an easy to use and cost effective alerting tool.”

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Hôpital du Valais (Healthcare, Switzerland)

“For us, DeskAlerts’ most valuable features are its integration with Active Directory, message templates, delivery statistics, ease of translation to other languages and the ability to limit a message lifetime.”

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Centre de santé et de services sociaux de la Pointe-de-I'Île (Healthcare, Canada)

“The DeskAlerts notification system showed itself to be a cost-efficient solution, providing all the functionality required to keep employees informed. It is our main communications system for urgent messaging to all staff.”

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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals (Healthcare, Great Britain)

“Any communication to a large group of users must be well prepared. A tool like DeskAlerts will ease the publication and will give you the flexibility to interact with the message to communicate and send just before is it delivered to the consumer.”

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HFR (Healthcare, Switzerland)

“We use DeskAlerts for IT Services notices and general organisation notices.”

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University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Healthcare, Great Britain)

“DeskAlers is the most customizable solution that offers a number of useful add-ons you can choose from.”

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MedAmerica, Inc. (Healthcare, USA)

“The DeskAlerts notification system showed itself to be a cost-efficient solution, providing all the functionality required to keep employees informed. It is our main communications system for urgent messaging to all staff.”

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Australian Healthcare Company (Healthcare, Australia)

Pharmaceuticals

“With DeskAlerts notifications in place, Baxalta has a robust channel for communicating the critical information to their employees. IT department uses it to deliver targeted notifications about system outages/recoveries and planned downtimes, making sure that messages will only be delivered to departments affected.”

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Shire (Pharmaceuticals, Austria)

“DeskAlerts software was integrated with the KRKA intranet and the usage of its alerts has helped to decrease a number of calls to the tech support department.”

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KRKA (Pharmaceutical, Slovenia)

Government

“With DeskAlerts notifications in place, Company House got a reliable channel of cascading notifications down to satellite offices, informing employees about various office issues, thus decreasing the load on a tech support and improving their internal workflow.”

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Companies House (Government, Great Britain)

“We use DeskAlerts in-house to broadcast announcements, such as software update alerts. Examples would be Quicktime software removal from desktops. Facilities utilise DeskAlerts for building outages and parking notices.”

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BBG (Government, USA)

“The IT team realized they needed to implement a fully-automated state-ofthe-art alert system. The organization chose DeskAlerts, a powerful desktop notification solution that enables faster, more effective and more cost-efficient communication.”

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City of Lenexa (Government, USA)

“Catapult Systems’ client had been using Novell’s Notification service. They were migrating away from the Novell solution to a Microsoft solution and did not have an alternative on the Microsoft platform that could meet their requirements.”

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Catapult Systems (Government, USA)

“We feel the our experience with DeskAlerts was successful because they have a product roadmap and they listen to customers, getting their feature requests into development. If you are on the fence of working with DeskAlerts or a different solution, just try and see – the DeskAlerts team will do their best to meet your specific company needs.”

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IE Singapore (Government, Singapore)

Hedemora kommun, a municipality in Dalarna County, central Sweden, faced a communication challenge: the need for a swift and reliable method to disseminate important information to its users. This necessity became evident when dealing with unforeseen application downtimes or scheduling service windows that could potentially affect their operations.

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Government, Sweden

Education

“DeskAlerts software succeeded the homemade solution and provided the missing capabilities of detailed reporting, policy delegation and others.”

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Université catholique de Louvain (Education, Belgium)

“We use DeskAlerts in-house to broadcast announcements, such as software update alerts. Examples would be Quicktime software removal from desktops. Facilities utilise DeskAlerts for building outages and parking notices.”

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BBG (Government, USA)

“The IT team realized they needed to implement a fully-automated state-ofthe-art alert system. The organization chose DeskAlerts, a powerful desktop notification solution that enables faster, more effective and more cost-efficient communication.”

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Henry Ford Community College (Education, USA)

“We tend not to use it for “informational” messages simply so that users get used to the fact that if a DeskAlert appears they know it’s something important and directly relevant to them and they should read it. ”

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University of Southampton (Higher Education, Great Britain)

Manufacture

“DeskAlerts is used by Mill Security, Safety and IT departments for event notifications. It has drastically sped up the time it takes to get event notifications out to our employees”

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Verso Corporation (Papermaking, USA)

“Now in case of the system issue, there is no need to make several calls to HR department, DeskAlerts notification system is working much faster and provides reliable channel of communications.”

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NewPage Corporation (Papermaking, USA)

“At Catalyst Papers, we have used DeskAlerts for a variety of functions, one of which is leveraging the API to send Critical Safety messages out of our Data Historian systems."

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Catalyst Papers (Papermaking, Canada)

Others

“DeskAlerts exceeded the customer’s expectations and gives them more scope to expand on their current services. Afristoricals Calendars Ltd greatly benefited from being able to inform their subscribers easily.”

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Afristorical Calendars LTD (Web, Great Britain)

“DeskAlerts is a great tool that will definitely improve your communication strategy to users as well as allow you to do many other functions to delivery great service to your organization in terms of enterprise-wide communications.”

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Massanutten Resort (Hospitality, USA)

“DeskAlerts enabled us to deploy emergency notifications to our employees’ desktops without relying on any of the existing platforms. It was important for us to have a pop-up notification that would be in the user’s face, no matter what they were working on at the time.”

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Littelfuse (Electronics, USA)

“All departments use DeskAlerts to send communication that would ordinarily be missed via email communication.”

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Deloitte (Accounting, East Africa)

“DeskAlerts lets us broadcast system information to users. We have placed information monitors in several positions in our building where we broadcast systems alerts and news to share information about system breakdowns or other significant information that can affect peoples’ daily work.”

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Topdanmark (Insurance, Denmark)

“DeskAlerts solution was set up globally for Australian retail sites and is currently used by Technical Services and Support divisions.”

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Fujifilm (Digital imaging, Australia)

“We choose DeskAlerts for us to send all HSE alerts and information to all our employees easily and even they are on leave or at site when they open their PC after coming back still it will show to them all information we send through DeskAlerts when they are away.”

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Special Technical Services LLC (Oil&Energy, Oman)

“DeskAlerts is the most customizable solution and basic possibilities fully meet our needs.”

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Twynstra Gudde (Consultancy, Netherlands)

“Immediate response of issues when Desk Alert system is used. Whether it’s notifying of a delay in a meeting start time, or even just a reminder it’s time to head out for a team lunch. The pop-up feature is very worthwhile…nice that screen placement and size can be set.”

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InfoTech, Inc. (Computer Software, USA)

“It's very important when we send a message about maintenance or downtime and that type of thing that people will read it, will acknowledge it, and that there will be no excuse like "I didn't see the email". DeskAlerts software is pretty simple to use and can be learned quickly. And it's natively easy.”

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Weizmann Institute of Science (Research institution, Israel)

What our customers say about DeskAlerts

Decrease calls to the helpdesk

“DeskAlerts gave our company a tool to instantly inform users about all types of events. It was easy to configure and deploy and has helped to decrease the call volume to our helpdesk.”

Juan C Rosique
Corporate Information Technology, Masanutteng Resort
Juan C Rosique

“We have information monitors in several locations throughout our building where we broadcast system alerts and other important information that affect our peoples’ daily work.”

Bo B. Jørgensen
Service Desk, Topdanmark
Service Desk, Topdanmark

“Whether its notifying about a delay to a meeting start time or a reminder that its time to head out for a team lunch, desk alert software pop up messages on screen and action is taken by employees.”

Fern Schweitzer
Network-Services Specialist, Info Tech, Inc.
Communicate Across Geographic Regions

“The perfect choice for a company needing a centralized alert solution spread across different locations. We use it to inform in-store labs in retail sites across Australia and New Zealand about updates and issues.”

Arash Rostami
Solution Delivery Manager, Fujifilm Australia