The Enterprise Needs to Prepare for Disasters, New Innovation Gives us Better Tools

Today Kaazing announced DisasterAWARE ENTERPRISE™, a real-time risk and disaster preparedness platform for businesses across industry globally. I was honored to get a sneak peek by the Kaazing team (led by CEO Bob Miller) and learn more about how this supports and better prepares businesses. A disaster can mean downtime, loss of revenue, shipping delays, destroying of inventory, risk and loss of employees, and more. It is imperative that companies plan and prepare and have the right tools in place with real-time alerting and information that can be integrated with existing operational systems to not just react but to know in advance and have a strategic plan in place no matter where their assets are. While I sat through the audio/video conference I took a few notes that I believe were important to point out about DisasterAWARE ENTERPRISE:

• Data deliver is super fast! - 80% of the data is being delivered to the mobile devices for less than 2ms for something that was taking 200ms for a query
• Platform is very intuitive and full of capabilities
  • Visualize Hazards - dots represents hazards, monitored by PDC (Pacific Disaster Center (Univ of Hawaii)), avalanches, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, mudslides, man-made hazards, and more
  • Familiar Tools - Uses Google Maps overlay
  • User friendly Icons - icons on left hand side allow for easy navigation and exploration
  • Layering of Information - users can look at different things like population density, lightening strikes, winds, velocity, global surface winds, wind speed (color coded) and users can bookmark locations
  • Social Sharing - social media icons are available and have feeds, a heat map of where tweets are coming from, types of tweets, searchable by type of disaster
  • Camera Icons - can turn on traffic cameras in areas and view multiple cameras, 
  • Further Data - other data available include historical data, business continuity, disaster recovery plans - ability to look at expired events, tropical cyclones for example (Maria)
  • Products - product are produced as a result of an event, response efforts broken down by geographies

Kaazing is targeting companies in insurance Companies, large supply chain companies (MNCs), logistics companies, and those large corporations who have remote offices.  Although Kazzing believes this platform and its disaster planning resources are industry agnostic, "Even more noteworthy, DisasterAWARE Enterprise is industry agnostic. It can be vertically integrated into the supply chain and logistics, and is well suited to protect a multitude of industries including travel, insurance, education, healthcare, utilities, finance, airports, mining, ports, retail, and other global enterprises," stated in the press release.

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