The following report is a review of notification/crisis communication system adoption and use, to better understand its technology, applications and provide comparison data to guide future company plans. Notification Systems for the purposes of this study is the technology that provides for the simultaneous and efficient communication of important information (i.e. phone, mobile, pager, PDA, email, fax, etc) to great numbers of people in order to protect lives, mitigate loss, disseminate critical information, and secure the enterprise.

Online invitations to participate in this study were sent to readers of Continuity Insights magazine on June 3, 2008. The study was closed on June 30, 2008, with 581 completed and usable responses. This study took an average of 8.02 minutes to complete. Study participants, upon request, will receive a complimentary copy of the study results.