Oakville, ON, June 29, 2010 -- ERMS Corporation, a leading provider of Emergency Notification services is pleased to announce a technology alliance that includes three of the industry’s most innovative software companies: ERMS, PPM 2000 and Black Coral.  

The goal of this technology alliance is to provide government organizations and private sector companies with the most comprehensive Crisis and Incident Management solution on the market.  The integrated solution—combining the features and functionality of all three applications— captures and manages the flow of information from the initial incident, through notification and communication, to post incident reporting and investigation.

With the integrated solution, end users can eliminate the errors caused when information is moved manually from one system to another throughout the lifecycle of an incident.  The organization’s responsiveness to the emergency is improved, and the timeframe to manage the lifecycle of the incident (including post-incident investigation management) is shortened.

Brian McIlravey, CPP, Co-CEO of PPM, comments, “Integrating overall Incident Management and initial Emergency Notification information into Perspective’s Incident, Investigation and Case Management platform accelerates an organization’s ability to more accurately and effectively assess, manage and mitigate risk in accordance with their risk reduction objectives and the prevention of future incidents.”

“Black Coral is always looking for ways to extend capabilities to our customers in the emergency management marketplace,” said Douglas Duncan, CEO of Black Coral. Duncan added, “Expanding the integration of Black Coral’s products down stream to notification and then to incident reporting and investigation is something that’s of interest to our customers, who are looking for ways to capture information and shorten the incident lifecycle.”

Sylvain Rollin, President of ERMS added, “We are thrilled to provide customers with an integrated solution that eliminates any technical steps in an emergency situation. We believe that this integrated solution will be well received by our customers.” 

Both government organizations and private sector companies are under pressure to enhance their response capability during emergency situations including the three phases of: Incident Management, Emergency Notification, and Incident Reporting and Investigation Management.  The integrated solution from the ERMS, PPM 2000 and Black Cora technology alliance provides a unique offering in the market for customers to improve their response capabilities without having to put time and effort into integrating the information themselves.

About ERMS Corporation www.ermscorp.com
ERMS (Emergency Response Management Services Corporation) Emergency Notification services enable organizations to manage vital emergency processes and effective communication and response, to organizational crises. The ERMS service is delivered through a SaaS model, providing clients with access to secure, fully hosted, web-based, integrated modules that allow organizations to support: life safety, brand image protection, and business resiliency programs. ERMS was built based on 25 years of Crisis Management, Emergency Management, BCP and DRP experience and expertise.

About PPM 2000 Inc.
PPM 2000 (www.ppm2000.com) develops enterprise-level Incident Reporting and Investigation Management software that helps organizations manage their security, risk management and compliance objectives. With Perspective by PPM 2000, users can intelligently action and query their data for trending, risk mitigation and planning activities. Then, with the ability to accurately assess what is happening and its potential impact, management can make informed decisions that optimize performance and illustrate the effectiveness of their security operation. Since 1988, thousands of organizations have implemented a PPM 2000 solution, and the company’s clients span all industries and include many of the Fortune 1000. PPM 2000 is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

About Black Coral Inc. Black Coral (www.BlackCoral.net), a privately-held, Ottawa, Ontario, company, is the industry leader in software solutions that facilitate information exchange and collaboration at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels during emergencies. Their leading-edge solutions provide enhanced situational awareness, incident management capabilities, and ultimately the ability to make informed decisions. 

Media Contacts

ERMS Corporation
Derek Hemington
Phone: 905-829-8216 x232
Derek.Hemington@ermscorp.com

Black Coral, Inc.
Sammy Sampson
Phone: 613-216-8833 x260
Sammy.Sampson@blackcoral.net

PPM 2000 Inc.
Cora Bolianatz
Phone: 780-448-0616 X4054
cora.bolianatz@ppm2000.com

ERMS and Tamp Systems renew the two year partnership to provide Emergency Notification, and Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning (DR/BCP) services for clients.

Oakville, ON (PRWEB) June 9, 2010 -- ERMS Corporation, a leading provider of emergency notification and crisis management services, announced the renewal of the two year partnership with TAMP Systems, experts in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning (DR/BCP). TAMP Systems continues to offer the ‘ERMS Advantage' Emergency Notification service to its customers. The continuing relationship with ERMS helps round out TAMP's DR/BCP software and consulting services, adding full crisis emergency notification and communications capability to their portfolio.

The subscription-based, "software as a service" (SaaS) offering assists large and mid-sized organizations in managing their vital emergency processes, including "employee roll call", event and incident management, and traditional mass notification. The ERMS Advantage service assists BCP and Security teams in preparing for and responding to crisis situations and day-to-day operational emergencies.

Sylvain Rollin, President of ERMS, commented, "Emergency communications continues to grow as one of the top concerns for business, government and education customers. More organizations are looking for Emergency Notification services and communications tools to enhance their organization's response in an emergency. We are pleased to extend our partnership with TAMP Systems, whose DR/BCP consultancy practice and software, enables ERMS to offer greater value for customers in North America."

Tom Abruzzo, CEO of TAMP Systems added, "The size of an organization does not matter. In an emergency, organizations need to communicate with their employees quickly and efficiently, or life safety and the business will be impacted. TAMP is known for providing clients with outstanding disaster recovery and business continuity planning solutions, regardless of size and sophistication of requirements, so it makes sense for us to continue to offer ERMS' Emergency Notification services to meet the more demanding Emergency Notification requirements from our clients."

About ERMS Corporation
ERMS (Emergency Response Management Services Corporation) Emergency Notification services enable organizations to manage vital emergency processes and effective communication and response, to organizational crises. The ERMS service is delivered through a SaaS model, providing clients with access to secure, fully hosted, web-based, integrated modules that allow organizations to support: life safety, brand image protection, and business resiliency programs. ERMS was built based on 25 years of Crisis Management, Emergency Management, BCP and DRP experience and expertise. For more information about ERMS, visit www.ermscorp.com, or call 905-829-8216 X232.

About TAMP Systems
TAMP Systems is a leading provider of business continuity management (BCM) solutions for organizations spanning a wide variety of industries. TAMP provides BCM web-based software and consulting services. TAMP's popular software is entitled the Disaster Recovery System (DRS), which significantly reduces the manual efforts to create plans, keep plans up-to-date and manage BCM data. TAMP's consulting services include the development of BIAs and resulting plans, as well as disaster recovery, pandemic incident response and continuity of operations plans. TAMP has earned the reputation as a leading BCM consulting and software organization - evidenced by the honor of being inducted into the Contingency Planning & Management (CPM) Hall of Fame and is a DRII Certified Business Continuity Vendor (CBCV). For more information about TAMP's business continuity planning solutions, visit www.tampsystems.com, or call 800-252-4080.

Oakville, ON, April 6, 2010 - ERMS Corporation, a leading provider of Emergency Notification solutions has engaged in a partnership with the Chelsea Consulting Group for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning services.

Darrel C. Berry, COO and Managing Partner at Chelsea referred to Chelsea's Global experience including Europe, The Middle East, South America and the United States - as a solid foundation to deliver Chelsea's services including Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning services.

More information about the Chelsea Consulting Group and their range of services can be found at http://www.chelseaconsulting.ca/

Information on how ERMS provides Emergency Notification tailored for Business Continuity can be found at Emergency Notification for BC.

Oakville, Ontario, March 31, 2010...ERMS, one of the leading emergency notification services providers for business continuity, announces the launch of its ERMS Web Services API for customers and partners.  This web-based application provides ERMS Partners with a secure, yet extremely flexible interface between their products or services and the ERMS business continuity platform.  With the ERMS web services API, customers and partners are able to develop secure applications to efficiently manage their ERMS account, send campaigns and report on the status of participants over the Internet.

The ERMS Web Services API provides seamless connectivity and inter-operability between applications and does so via standard web-based protocols, including XML and SSL. Access to the API is available 24/7/365 and is achieved by secure communication with data encrypted throughout all processes.

Some of the functionality provided by the ERMS Web Services API includes:

• Automatically manage and update the contact database from HR and contact management applications.
• Create and maintain team and site-specific groupings, as well as individual stakeholders.
• Send a broadcast message campaign directly from user application to thousands of contacts using the ERMS Campaign Broadcast feature.
• Receipt of Campaign Broadcast results with detailed, real-time status of stakeholder activity.

Although ERMS markets directly to the business and public sector communities, it also relies on its established network of partners to provide enhanced emergency notification and incident management services. The ERMS Web Services API is particularly relevant to ERMS Partners, as it extends their capability to provide simple, yet robust support of their customers' requirements.

For more information about the ERMS Web Services API or for information about becoming an ERMS Partner or client, please contact Sylvain Rollin by email at sylvain.rollin@ermscorp.com or call 905-829-8216, ext. 235.

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Founded in 2002 by leaders in crisis management and business contingency management, ERMS provides Emergency Notification solutions to many of today's largest organizations. Customers span both the private and public sectors, including businesses such as financial institutions - and universities and government organizations. ERMS has developed industry leading emergency management software that extends the functionality of Emergency Notification for Business Continuity and other emergency management professional.  ERMS and its partners deliver an on-demand, web-based crisis management service which leverages an emergency management software infrastructure that is engineered to meet the highest security, reliability and resiliency standards. ERMS is a privately held company headquartered in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

Oakville, ON, December 16, 2009 - ERMS Corporation, a leading provider of emergency notification solutions has engaged in a partnership with Readysmith Advisers Limited, providers of wiki-based web-hosted business continuity planning services. Readysmith services are specifically designed to meet the needs of small and medium sized businesses, guiding SMB companies through planning and recovery from sudden business interruptions such as fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, power failures, bomb threats, supplier failures, pandemics... any bad thing that threatens the survival of the business.

Each Readysmith customer is assigned an experienced "Adviser" to support the Ready Plan development.  Readysmith Advisers are available by e-mail, Skype, web meeting, or phone and guide customers through learning modules and development of the Ready Plan. "Our Advisers put years of experience in emergency, crisis and disaster planning to work so you can customize our comprehensive Internet based Ready Plan such as emergency procedures, crisis management procedures, business continuity procedures, IT recovery procedures, and all the data needed to execute your Ready Plan," said Michael Smith, President of Readysmith.

Once the Ready Plan is finished, Advisers lead customers through a scenario based exercise, designed to train staff in the execution of the Ready Plan and to validate its completeness. "ERMS emergency notification services are a great complement to the Readysmith planning tools; if you must really use your Ready Plan to respond to an emergency situation, the ERMS Advantage notification service enables us to get the right communications out to the right people quickly and efficiently.　 We know your Ready Plan and we can help you respond," said Smith.

Oakville, ON, August 7, 2009 - ERMS Corporation, a leading provider of emergency notification and management services is pleased to announce Manitoba Health and Healthy Living has selected and implemented ERMS to manage their crisis and incident management requirements.

The primary mission of Manitoba Health's Office of Disaster Management (ODM) is to ensure the health sector is capable of providing a coordinated and effective response to the health needs of Manitobans during a disaster.  During a disaster, the ODM facilitates the coordination of the health sector's activities with other levels of government, agencies and organizations involved in the response.  The first phase of the ERMS implementation addresses the communications and collaboration requirements of the ODM staff, Regional Health Authority operational response teams, and executive and senior management teams. 

The ability to share information and rapidly collaborate across teams and regions is critical in providing a swift and effective response effort to emergency situations.  The ODM was impressed with the ease of use, speed and reliability of the ERMS system. In addition, the system's GIS-enabled notification functionality allows the ODM to rapidly target areas that have been impacted by floods, forest fires, pandemic outbreaks and other disasters, enhancing response efforts.

"We are happy to have Manitoba Health on board as a customer and are committed to ensuring the Office of Disaster Management is able to fully leverage the communications and collaboration power of the ERMS solution," says Janet Thompson, President of ERMS. 

About ERMS Corporation

ERMS (Emergency Response Management Services Corporation) is a global leader in emergency management and emergency notification services.  Our industry leading ERMS Advantage Services software suite allows organizations to manage vital emergency processes, enabling effective communications and response to crisis situations and incidents.  ERMS Advantage Services are delivered through a SaaS model, providing clients with access to secure, fully hosted, web-based integrated solution that allow organizations to support life safety, brand image protection and business resiliency programs.  ERMS was built based on 25 years of Crisis Management, Emergency Management, BCP and DRP experience and expertise.  For more information, please visit http://www.ermscorp.com/ or call 866-382-1477.

Manitoba Health and Healthy Living, Office of Disaster Management

Manitoba Health
Office of Disaster Management
Unit 7 - 1680 Ellice Ave.
Winnipeg, Manitoba  R3H 0Z2
CANADA
Phone:  (204) 945-1444
FAX:  (204) 948-2531
E-mail:  dms@gov.mb.ca

American Express Company has selected ERMS Advantage Services for world-wide implementation in support of their Global Crisis Management Program and life safety initiatives.

Under the direction of the Global Security Services team, all five principal ERMS service modules will be used to support multiple in-crisis processes including:

• Mass and targeted communications
• Event management
• Accounting for employees through roll-call
• Emergency Management, and
• Business / Technology Continuity Management. 

The Bell Emergency Management Organization (EMO) has selected ERMS for its emergency notification and management requirements.  The EMO team - responsible for management of Bell facilities across Canada - will utilize ERMS services for communication and collaboration amongst its internal team members. The system will be used for two way emergency notification and in-crisis response.

Oakville, ON, February 24, 2009 - Ottawa-based Black Coral, Inc. has partnered with ERMS Corporation to provide emergency notification solutions to Government agencies, providing enhanced communication, collaboration and coordination of emergency operations.  Black Coral Notification ^TM powered by ERMS Advantage is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution hosted within highly secured, geographically redundant data centres in Canada.

Black Coral, a privately-held company is a leading-edge software and services company that has developed a proprietary suite of integrated products for incident management, data exchange, and geo-spatial collaboration.  The addition of the ERMS Advantage Services to the Black Coral portfolio adds two-way crisis communications capability to their offerings, enhancing their ability to provide complete communication, collaboration and coordination solutions to customers.

"We are very happy to have Black Coral in the ERMS Advantage Service Partner Program.  Black Coral has extensive experience providing emergency management solutions to federal, state/provincial and local government agencies in Canada and the United States.  This partnership enhances our ability to reach these target markets with an offering that addresses all phases of Emergency Management including risk mitigation, preparedness and in-crisis response and recovery," said Dennis Hamilton, CEO of ERMS.

"Black Coral is pleased to be able to extend ERMS' notification capability to our customers in the emergency manaqement marketplace," said Douglas Duncan, CEO of Black Coral.  Duncan added, "Adding ERMS' services to our suite of products will be of great benefit to our customers, due to their ease-of-use, cost-effectiveness and reliability; this is a fit."

About ERMS Corporation

ERMS (Emergency Response Management Services Corporation) is a global leader in emergency management and emergency notification services. Our industry leading ERMS Advantage Services software suite allows organizations to manage vital emergency processes, enabling effective communications and response to crisis situations and incidents. ERMS Advantage Services are delivered through a SaaS model, providing clients with access to secure, fully hosted, web-based integrated modules that allow organizations to support life safety, brand image protection and business resiliency programs. ERMS was built based on 25 years of Crisis Management, Emergency Management, BCP and DRP experience and expertise. For more information, please visit www.ermscorp.com or call 866-382-1477.

About Black Coral Inc.

Black Coral, a privately-held, Ottawa, Ontario, company, is the industry leader in software solutions that facilitate information exchange and collaboration at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels during emergencies. Their leading-edge solutions provide enhanced situational awareness, incident management capabilities, and ultimately the ability to make informed decisions that lead to successful outcomes.

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