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The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.

SRE Thought Leader Panel: SRE Adoption as Organizational Transformation

SRE adoption can be difficult. It’s more than just new tooling; it requires a change of process and mindset as well. So how can we go about convincing our organizations that SRE is worthwhile? How can we drive this change? Learn from experts who have done this in our latest SRE Thought Leader Panel “SRE Adoption as Organizational Transformation.” Panelists include: Kurt Andersen, SRE Architect at Blameless Vanessa Yiu, Executive Director, Enterprise Architecture at Goldman Sachs Tony Hansmann, Former Global CTO at Pivotal Software, Inc. Chris Hendrix (Host), Staff Software Engineer at Blameless.

Adding Rich Content to Alerts, Work Orders or Service Requests

When you send alerts, work orders or service requests to your workers in the field, on the shop floor or campus it is essential to provide them with all relevant information necessary to solve the task. This prevents misunderstandings, avoids waste work, time for searching information and thus increases productivity and facilities an effective, timely incident resolution.

Import and Export for OnCall Times

On-call planning is one of the most popular features in Enterprise Alert and is widely used by users, team managers and administrators. However, in our discussions we keep finding that it is not simply done with 5 minutes of planning. Scheduling often depend on external systems. This can range from a simple excel form provided to HR all the way to a comprehensive billing system such as SAP. As a result, it takes a quite a bit of time to transfer the planned shifts to third-party systems.

Why do I need to switch to Firebase?

Apple announced some time ago that the Apple Push Notification (APN) will be deactivated for sending push messages as of March 31, 2021. To continue to ensure the sending of push messages to iOS devices, we have already implemented push shipping via Firebase in Enterprise Alert 2019. Unfortunately, the change could not be done automatically and requires manual intervention.

Global bank transforms incident alert management & communications

Customer Profile One of the top 10 largest financial services companies in the world 200,000+ employees worldwide. Serving tens of millions of customers. With operations in more than 60 countries, the Interlink Incident Alert Management app serves an audience of thousands of service owners and business stakeholders - across 20+ global markets

What's New: Improvements to On-Call Schedule Exceptions

We’re excited to present a feature update to the OnPage platform. The new update will bring more flexibility and resiliency to a team’s on-call management workflow. With the new scheduling capabilities, OnPage system administrators can create exceptions to configured, recurring on-call schedules.

How to Scale for Reliability and Trust

As more people depend on your product, reliability expectations tend to grow. For a service to continue succeeding, it has to be one customers can rely upon. At the same time, as you bring on more customers, the technical demands put on your service increase as well. Dealing with both the increased expectations and challenges of reliability as you scale is difficult. You’ll need to maintain your development velocity and build customer trust through transparency.