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AtHoc Named as Finalist in 2008 American Business Awards for Most Innovative Company
6th Annual Stevie Awards Will Be Presented June 12 in New York City
| Source: AtHoc
BURLINGAME, CA--(Marketwire - May 14, 2008) - AtHoc, Inc., the pioneer and leader in
network-centric emergency notification systems, today announced that it was
named a finalist in the Most Innovative Company category in The 2008
American Business Awards(SM). Hailed as "the business world's own Oscars"
(New York Post, April 27, 2005), The American Business Awards is the only
national, all-encompassing awards program honoring great performances in
business.
Stevie® Award winners will be announced during the annual gala on Thursday,
June 12 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. AtHoc will be
competing in the Most Innovative Company category. More than 2,600 entries
from companies of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted
for consideration in more than 40 categories, including Best Overall
Company, Best Executive, Best New Product or Service, Best Corporate Social
Responsibility Program, and new categories including Best Management Team
and Best Corporate Environmental Responsibility Program.
"Our team has worked diligently to bring next-generation emergency alerting
systems to market to transform how an organization with thousands of
geographically dispersed personnel can rapidly alert people about a threat
and inform them of appropriate actions to take," said Simon Berman, vice
president of product marketing for AtHoc. "The American Business Awards
recognizes the organizations making a real difference in the industry, and
it's truly an honor to be among the finalists for the Most Innovative
Company award."
AtHoc pioneered the use of the IP network as the most effective channel for
disseminating alerts and managing the emergency notification process.
AtHoc's alert management capabilities unify and manage emergency
notifications across all types of delivery channels and devices, including
alerts to computers, desk phones, mobile phones, pagers, PDAs and e-mail.
The Web-based system also integrates with sirens and public address systems
as well as the national Emergency Alert System (EAS).
By creating a unified and redundant multichannel alerting system, emergency
operators drastically reduce the time to disseminate alerts and provide a
consistent message across all channels. With its enterprise capabilities,
AtHoc IWSAlerts provides a management system that controls all
capabilities across the underlying delivery systems from notification,
scenarios, permissions, user contact information and alert tracking.
"ABA entries grew more than 30% this year, so being named a finalist is
more of an accomplishment than ever before," said Michael Gallagher,
founder and president of The Stevie Awards. "It means that independent
business executives have agreed that the nominee is worthy of national
recognition. We congratulate all of the finalists on their achievement and
wish them well in the competition."
Details about The American Business Awards and the list of finalists in all
categories are available at www.stevieawards.com/aba.
About AtHoc
AtHoc is a recognized leader in providing enterprise-class, network-centric
emergency notification systems to military, government and commercial
organizations for physical security, force protection and personnel
accountability. Millions of end users worldwide, in organizations such as
the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Hawaii State Civil Defense, U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office, Boeing, PricewaterhouseCoopers and eBay, rely
on AtHoc's unified management systems for their emergency alerting and
critical communication needs. AtHoc has partnered with market leaders
including Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, Cisco, Siemens, Avaya, Unisys and
others to bring these notification solutions to the public and commercial
markets.
For more information on AtHoc, please visit http://www.athoc.com.
About The Stevie Awards
Hailed as "the business world's own Oscars," Stevie Awards are conferred in
four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business
Awards, The Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for
Sales & Customer Service. Honoring companies of all types and sizes and the
people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the
workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at
www.stevieawards.com.
Global Sponsor of the 2008 Stevie Awards is Dow Jones. Supporting sponsors
of The 2008 American Business Awards include FIS Softpro, High Performance
Technologies Inc., John Hancock, RCN Corporation, Richardson, and Ultimate
Software. Media sponsors include the Business TalkRadio Network, CRM
Advocate, and Human Resource Executive.