Hospitals require a solution to streamline after-hours communication between patients and medical professionals. Exceptional after-hours care helps enhance the patient experience in critical situations. In this blog, we’ll discuss the importance of dedicated lines and after-hour live calls.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual (say that five times fast) was held online, November 18th to 20th. It was the second virtual KubeCon, due to the Coronavirus pandemic. I had a lot of fun attending and saw a lot of great talks. If you weren’t able to participate in real-time, the CNCF will post the talks soon to its YouTube channel.

Chicago, Illinois — November 23, 2020 — AlertOps has integrated its major incident management platform with the ConnectWise Manage professional services automation (PSA) software. The integration empowers end-users to forward ConnectWise Manage tickets to AlertOps as alerts and increase visibility across the ticket lifecycle. With the integration, users can automatically create an alert in AlertOps and a ticket in ConnectWise Manage at the same time.

We’re excited to announce a new set of product updates and enhancements to the PagerDuty platform! Our latest release expands Change Impact Mapping integrations and experiences, gives access to the Visibility dashboard for Business plans, improves on-call processes and analytics, and advances incident response automation so teams can work more efficiently during the moments that matter.

Black Friday—we all know what it looks like. Hundreds of people swarming stores after Thanksgiving, jostling for the best deals. But in light of COVID-19, this arrangement could be dangerous. Over the last few years, Black Friday has become a digital event, and this year should be even moreso. According to Forbes writer Richard Kestenbaum, “88% of global consumers told a Visa study they’re planning to buy gifts this holiday season.” Yet “only 20% of U.S.

With the winter holidays fast approaching, many retail businesses are turning their focus to hypercare as they prepare to move goods and services at peak levels. But what is hypercare? Here at PagerDuty, we use the following working definition: Hypercare is the period of time where an elevated level of support is available to ensure the seamless adoption or operation of a system.

In a recent fireside chat with Mohan Bhatkar, Head of Engineering for the Customer Reliability Platform at Mercari, Inc. sat down with Blameless Co-Founder Ashar Rizqi. They talked about scaling while avoiding silos, exciting day-to-day challenges, instilling a culture of empowerment, and more. Here are their top insights and the lightly edited transcript of their conversation.