Every interaction with our customers, partners, and employees is special – but this year’s PagerDuty Summit went far beyond my wildest dreams. Together we committed to helping you learn and grow in how you manage business critical operations – in other words, getting you ready for anything in a world of Digital Everything.

It’s day one of PagerDuty Summit, and we are looking forward to a full day of expert presenters, actionable content, and educational sessions to boost your PagerDuty IQ and show you new ways to improve your team’s operational excellence.

We know our customers rely on PagerDuty as the backbone of critical real-time operations, so we want to make sure each and every enhancement helps streamline incident response. How can we help our customers spend less time firefighting and more time innovating? One of PagerDuty’s values is Champion the Customer – and we take this very seriously. When building and improving features, we aim to keep a pulse on what’s going on with our customers: what’s keeping them up at night?

In a world of digital everything, teams face increasing complexity. Ever-growing dependencies across systems and processes put customer and employee experience, not to mention revenue, at risk. There is simply too much data to sift through and correlate for humans to understand what is important and know when something is going wrong.

Customer-facing teams have their hands full doing whatever they can to address customer issues quickly. At PagerDuty, our goal is to ease the burden of these teams by giving them the tools and access they need to deliver excellent customer experiences. Over the last year, we have deepened our integration with Salesforce Service Cloud, allowing users to work directly within the platform, reducing the need to context switch.

A lot of people in technology talk about the cost of an incident solely from the perspective of downtime, or the number of customers and employees impacted. And from the surface, oftentimes that is a fair angle to take. It makes the headlines, and customer reputation and trust are critical to the success of any business—obviously.

Summit’s right around the corner (have you registered yet?) but the shipping doesn’t stop! We’re excited to announce a new set of updates and enhancements to PagerDuty’s Digital Operations Platform. Recent updates from the product team include On-Call Management, Incident Response, Process Automation, and Integrations, to PagerDuty Community & Advocacy Events. New capabilities enable users and customers to resolve incidents faster, do the following, and more.

From a single on-call engineer hopping online to resolve a problem, to a massive cross-team effort that brings in even the most senior technical leadership (CTO, CISO, or CIO), incident response teams are lucky when they’re able to resolve issues before a customer is aware. But in the cases where there is customer impact, other stakeholders like sales and customer service need to be informed and updated as well.