How Noggin’s Emergency Management Software Prepares Your Organization for Disruption

Introduction

In this age of escalating crises and finite assets, organizations and agencies must get serious about the digital tools they invest in to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies, crises, and disasters in real-time.

That’s where emergency management software comes in.

But given the threat profile that we all face now, not all emergency management technology is fit for purpose. The most mature emergency management teams, programs, and agencies have cottoned on to this fact, procuring digital technology to significantly transform their resilience and preparedness efforts, from training and simulation to response and recovery.

To drive ongoing improvements, these programs have been seeking out innovations that enable their organizations to anticipate, monitor, and respond to both natural and man-made risks with heightened precision and swiftness.

For that reason, they’ve been turning to Noggin. So, what exactly is the Noggin difference when it comes to preparing companies for any type of disruption? Read on to find out.

What’s the Noggin Difference?

For starters, Noggin provides all the information and tools needed to manage any incident effectively through its entire lifecycle of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.

Noggin’s emergency management software keeps your whole incident management team, from the emergency manager to untrained field staff, following the same plans, communicating on the same platform, and viewing the same operating picture.

What You Get with Noggin’s Emergency Management Software

Here are the other Noggin emergency management and emergency planning software capabilities your organization needs to prepare for disruption:

Respond swiftly and confidently to all hazards

When every minute counts, Noggin helps you respond quickly and confidently to all-hazards. Leverage Noggin’s capabilities for swift team activation, resource assignments, and notification workflows to ensure your response teams are well equipped, informed, and up to date with the latest available information as any situation unfolds.

Centralized emergency response to recover faster

With Noggin, you can deploy plans and checklists in an instant. Depending on the task at hand, Noggin helps you save time by using pre-prepared tasks and checklists to begin your response sooner and recover faster. Use Noggin incident logs and timelines documenting key decisions to maintain a high-level of visibility and accountability during and after the response.

Boost situational awareness through collaboration

Using Noggin as a single source of truth for data and information gathering increases the situational awareness of the Emergency Operations Center and responders alike. With Noggin, you receive updates directly from responders or the public through simple data collection methods, including public forms and offline forms.

Communicate effectively when moments matter

With Noggin, you can communicate important information quickly and easily, whether via email, SMS, voice message, push notifications, or within the app itself.

Noggin’s emergency notification system software allows for single or bidirectional communication, ensuring command has full control of the flow of information during an emergency.

Key Noggin Emergency Management Software Features

There’s never enough time when a disruption happens, particularly in this era of compounding crises. That’s why Noggin gets your staff up to date on a situation as soon as it happens, not just when you have time for a briefing.

Noggin also empowers your field staff and other agencies to share in and instantly contribute to your common operating picture.

Here are the Noggin emergency management software features that help:

All-hazards incident management

Streamline your incident response using best practice all-hazard incident management standards from around the world, including AIIMS, NIMS / ICS, and JESIP.

Situational awareness

Create a common operating picture to maintain situational awareness via field personnel updates, GIS feeds, data import, email, and social media. Display critical information on comprehensive dashboards and incorporate external data feeds from across the web.

EOC management

Stand up Emergency Operations Centers at the local, regional, state, and/or national levels. Wrap up multiple related local incidents into a single regional one. Provide interfaces fully tailored to the role and level of the user.

Team activation, roles, and collaboration

Synchronize and align your emergency response efforts with team activation notifications, defined roles and responsibilities, and a centralized location to collaborate, share information, and record event critical information.

Mapping

Incorporate Esri ArcGIS, WMS, KML, GeoJSON, or other sources to view asset locations in the context of weather threats and critical infrastructure protection. Update feature layers on your own ArcGIS server with Noggin data.

Emergency messaging

Communicate crucial information easily, whether via email, SMS, voice message, push notifications, or within the app itself. Noggin’s emergency messaging lets you include automated response links for requests for assistance that workflows follow up on.

Response plans and checklists

Request, activate, and automate response plans and checklists to ensure your response teams are following the same playbook. Make use of Noggin’s best-practice templates or design your own. Noggin’s emergency management software makes each step assignable and rolls up to easily view progress during an incident.

Documentation and forms

Prepare custom sitreps, briefings, objectives, incident action plans, or use built-in Incident Command System forms. Automatic population of fields with default or calculated values reduces error and saves time.

Finally, with disruption a matter of when not if, organizations need to empower their field staff and other agencies to share in and constantly contribute to the common operating picture. However, they must do so without bogging anyone down with information overload.

That’s why organizations and agencies come to Noggin; so that their information is intelligently filtered into a central place, with a platform that automates processes to keep staff focused on the response, instead of the paperwork.

Keen to see what else we can do for you? Request a demonstration to see Noggin in action for yourself.