FrontWorks Group

Asset Protection System (APS)

FrontWorks Asset Protection System provides the facility to contact your staff or clients rapidly over a number of communications channels and devices:

  • Telephone: Land Line
  • Telephone: Mobile/Cell
  • SMS: Short Messaging System
  • MMS: Media Messaging System
  • PDA
  • XDA
  • Blackberry
  • Pocket PC
  • Press Channel (announcing soon)
  • Chat Room (announcing soon)
  • Fax
  • Pager

Product Description

Asset Protection System (APS) is specifically designed to add value and 'compliment' Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity strategies, by ensuring critical information is distributed reliably, quickly and consistently to any individual or group necessary in the event of any incident or disaster that has taken place. There are no limits to the number of people it can contact, which it does simultaneously via multiple different means of communication. Today these communication channels include telephone, mobile phone, sms, email, pda, xda, pager and fax. Future solutions will include support for digital TV.

APS is a Web-based software solution that enables organisations or communities to deliver dynamic or predefined messages to predefined or dynamic distribution lists of people, via voice and text communications devices. The solution covers a worldwide basis and can be activated via the internet through a PC, laptop or internet cafe (anywhere a internet connection can be found.) It can also be activated through a landline or mobile telephone meaning you can use it no matter where you find yourself.

Product Purpose

Add value and compliment an organisations, local govt's or community's business continuity plans by improving business resumption times in any incident or disaster that directly effects and impacts businesses profits, revenue streams, reputation and employee or residential safety in a harmful manner.

Benefits of APS

  • Adds value to BCP's by complimenting them.
  • User friendly
  • Global solution
  • Guaranteed dissemination of key information 'quick time' ensuring eradicating communication breakdown through manual cascading. (Human error)
  • Frees-up resources (key personnel) to resolve the situation.
  • Speed
  • Consistency of message, giving confidence of no Chinese whisper messaging.
  • Reliable
  • ROI (can be used not just for BD / DR but by all parts of the business as a 'general communications tool'.
  • Testing of BCP's is far easier. Time taken is greatly reduced due to automated process. Ability to view management reports of the invocation.

This is where incidents become emergencies or disasters.

Fire fighters battle smouldering fires and clean up the wreckage at the World Trade Center
Fire fighters battle smouldering fires and clean up the wreckage at the World Trade Center
Disasters are devastating to the natural and man-made environment
House, building and office fires are devastating to businesses, life and the environment

Photos courtesy of FEMA.gov (Federal Emergenct Management Agency)

By automating the process and by providing contact reports an Emergency Planner or Disaster Recovery Manager can focus on dealing with the incident. Saving lives and protecting your business is the issue not making a telephone call.

For a live demonstration, please take a look at one of our two live APS sites: