How Noggin’s Emergency Management Software Compares to the Competition

Introduction

Disasters, from severe weather events to cyber attacks, are increasing in kind. This year’s BCI Emergency & Crisis Communications 2024, for instance, charts a staggering 30% increase in the number of organizations requiring activation of their plans between one and five times a year between the years 2015 and 2024.

According to the same report, nearly two thirds of organizations had to activate their plans between one and five times in 2024, up from 60% the year prior.

To deal with the sharp uptick in disasters, emergency management software providers like Noggin provide digital tools to manage any incident effectively through its entire lifecycle of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.

Noggin, in particular, lets organizations and agencies report and manage all alerts, emergencies, incidents, intelligence, and issues in a single, flexible platform.

Differences in the Emergency Management Software Market

But Noggin’s not the only player in the emergency management and critical event management markets. What’s more, shrewd software buyers might want to know the differences. So, how does Noggin compare to the competition?

Here is how Noggin compares:

Better configurability and flexibility

A traditional frustration with deploying emergency management software is the lengthy implementation cycle. It’s not unheard of that cycles take upwards of a year before users can finally deploy. And those systems already come with hefty price tags.

Add to that, the development resources they pull from overburdened IT, and the ROI starts to point in the wrong direction.

Noggin’s not like that. We offer intuitive drag-and-drop designer tools that enable easy customization of the Noggin platform without the need for extensive technical expertise or external assistance.

We adapt our tech to your operations; where with some of our competitors, it often feels like the other way around. And that difference matters when you are trying to get staff out in the field faster.

Integrated communications

The precipitous rise in disasters means you need to be empowering stakeholders to make better informed decisions before, during, and after catastrophic events. That’s where robust emergency communications come in.

But not all of our competitors come equipped with integrated communications. That won’t help you.

Our platform does, enabling streamlined communications with automated notifications via customizable workflows to respond more quickly and efficiently to disruptive events, reduce manual effort and human intervention, and ensure consistency and reliability in critical tasks and processes.

Not just streamlined but targeted, too. Our platform enables teams to target communications to specific roles, teams, groups, locations, or any contact attribute, to ensure the right messages get to the right people at the right time and include links back to any object in the system in the message content.

Includes plans and workflows

Organizations and agencies don’t just need to communicate more efficiently; they need to act more quickly, as well. And they need to act with best practice in mind. Not all of our competitors can help.

We can. Noggin helps you manage emergencies in your Emergency Operations Center with tailored workflows, collaboration, capabilities, and communication to relevant stakeholders.

In fact, we’re designed to support a variety of EOC structures not just one or two. Add to that, Noggin is built off relevant industry standards like ISO 22320, NIMS/ICS, AIIMS, and JESIP.

Manages business as usual and safety

Disasters may be becoming more prolific, but they aren’t happening every day.

What to use for business-as-usual and safety management? Many of our competitors haven’t answered that question.

We have. Our emergency management software offering is part of a fully integrated resilience management workspace. This ten-in-one setup enables you to streamline your software providers, by offering a centrally governed platform that consolidates diverse data sources.

Ultimately, enhancing the ROI of our emergency management offering is the fact that you can manage BAU procedures in Noggin, too.

Modern and mobile

In this day and age where anyone can work from anywhere and everyone needs to be everywhere, some of our competitors have still not mastered mobile.

Indeed, some of our competitors have limited mobile functionality, compared to their desktop version. That means some features aren’t accessible or user-friendly on mobile devices. For example, critical workspaces have to be designed twice – once for desktop and once for mobile.

Meanwhile, Noggin, a next-generation, modern emergency management solution, is fully mobile responsive, available on any device; and you only need to design your workspaces once.

Superior vision and innovation

All these differentiators speak to Noggin’s superior vision and innovation.

And we’re not just talking idly. We’ve garnered highly-coveted, analyst recognition in the critical event management space for vision, innovation, orchestration and automation, physical event management and incident response, and many other categories.

Not all Emergency Management Software Providers are Created Equal

Finally, with critical events on the rise, end-to-end, emergency management software is more needed than ever, to keep entire incident management teams, from the emergency manager to untrained field staff, following the same plans, communicating on the same platform, and viewing the same operating picture.

But as we critically survey the emergency management and critical event management software markets, it becomes clear that not all software providers will do.

From innovation to configurability to user experience and more, we outstrip the competition and have the accolades to prove it. But you don’t have to take our word for it. Demo our product for yourself.

Request a demo and one of our Solutions Experts will walk you through the Noggin Emergency Management Platform.