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New Website & Software Appearance Update Launched!

by Nathan September 19, 2022

We're excited to announce our new website has gone live!

The latest update reflects a number of our new solutions and enhancements, as well as specific use case information, and details around many of our integrations with common problems and our solutions to them.

Perhaps most exciting are our new tools to help you easily determine exactly what's needed to build your ideal solution.

Give our new solution designer a try! Genesis Solution Designer

Additionally, we've been working hard on our new solutions over the past 2 years, and have a lot of updates which will be posted to our news section in the coming months. Stay up-to-date by bookmarking this page!

We at Genesis are committed to providing a superior customer experience. Give us a call at 1-888-993-2288 to see for yourself.

Join us on May 26th at 10:00 PT!

by Nathan May 24, 2022

Join us on May 26th at 10:00am PT to hear our story building an alerting solution on top of RingCentral's extensive collection of APIs. With our background in call recording and SMS alerting, it was a natural fit to add Team Messaging support to post alerts within the RC App and protect the privacy of emergency calls by adding on-demand call recording.
Read our story here or join the discussion here!

E911 Alerting for All Telephone Systems!

by Nathan March 31, 2022

We're excited to announce our latest enhancement to E911, lockdown and evacuation alerting.. Support for ALL on-premises and cloud telephone solutions!

Now, users of nearly any telephone solution can benefit from our full alerting capabilities, which include (but are not limited to):

- In-App push notifications via our native Android & iOS app (available in the Google & Apple App Stores)

- Email & native SMS

- Desktop screen pops

- Overhead pages

- Audible alerts on telephone sets

- Visual alerting hardware

- Team Messaging Solutions (Teams, RingCentral MVP, etc.)

- and more!

Not only can you send your staff alerts via all these paths, but you can also flexibly choose when, where and how to alert certain staff based on what best fits your needs. You can choose to selectively alert any on-site or off-site staff, or specify groups to notify depending on the type of incident. You can track staff responses and compel responses to ensure safety, and see in real-time if any staff left in the building, and where... and more.

The best part is that Genesis uses your existing telephone system(s), paging equipment, and smart devices to provide a total safety and alerting solution! No additional hardware to buy and no retrofits or replacement equipment or phone system upgrades are required. There is simply no easier or more cost effective solution available to you today!

Call us at 1-888-993-2288 to talk to someone now, or email us at sales@buygenesis.com for more information. Whether you're a prospective or current Genesis user, we're excited to show you how we can improve your organization's safety quickly, easily and cost effectively.

Improve your Real-Time Emergency Alerts with Interactive Adaptive Cards!

by Nathan March 4, 2022

Genesis alerts are now available in both standard text and adaptive card formats! Now users can choose easier to read, interactive alerts that allow responders to collaborate in real-time, track acknowledgments , and more. In addition to our mobile app solution Incident Aware, the addition of the new adaptive card features allows Genesis users to better collaborate and manage emergencies quickly and effectively.

Genesis has provided some of the most safety-forward 911 and other emergency alerting solutions for businesses for over 15 years. GenAlert started as a solution for providing simple notifications in the event someone dialed an emergency number, with options for including additional information related to location and personal details.

Genesis added a significant number of additional features in 2017, leveraging more telephone system features and capabilities to enhance the quality & visibility of emergency notifications, as well as providing additional tools for evaluating and archiving critical information for post-call analysis. GenAlert now gives users the ability to not only receive alerts in real-time when 911 is dialed, but also provides selective call audio recording, security staff call monitoring, dynamic location lookups, overhead & telephone-based paging capabilities, and much more.

Contact Genesis Systems at 1-888-993-2288 for more information on how we can help you solve all your alerting and emergency collaboration needs with our cost effective, easy-to-implement solution.

Genesis Call Tracking and Analytics Works With MiCloud Connect!

by Nathan January 12, 2022

Genesis is proud to announce support for Mitel's MiCloud Connect solution!

In addition to supporting both legacy and all current on-premises Mitel systems, Genesis's support for for MiCloud Connect extends our in-depth call analytics and reporting to businesses using the latest Mitel cloud-based solution.

Users can expect the same quality of reporting, analytics, and alerts as our other solutions, and can additionally benefit from our flexible cloud hosting options for a fully cloud-based, managed solution.

Genesis Systems has been an industry leader in call reporting & analytics for over 35 years. Contact us at 1-888-993-2288 to find out how we can help you gain the most insight into your business.

 

Incident Aware - Our Latest Solution for Guided Incident Tracking & Alerting

by Nathan December 3, 2021

Nearly all businesses face challenges with internal collaboration, procedure management and auditing, and effective communication... Especially when it comes to incidents or emergencies. We've designed our latest solution, Incident Aware, to solve several of the most common issues your organization faces.

Information is often located in multiple places, separate email chains & text messages, and in productivitity tool groups, which makes it difficult to keep track of all the details and to ultimately see the big picture. It can be a huge undertaking to compile and organize everything, to remove duplicate information, and to create a timeline of events to understand exactly what happened, and when. Additionally, since this all happens in the days, weeks or even months following incidents, any missing details aren't discovered until it's too late for staff to recall them.

Incident Aware captures all communications (including emails, sms and app user input) and provides you with a complete, overall picture of everything related to an incident. You can review the timeline of events, see all the multimedia and related staff-attached content (audio, photos, video, chat), review locations of incidents and staff. You can easily see if any important or useful details are missing, and ensure they are collected before it's too late. 

Managing ever-changing procedures can also be a struggle, especially when new policies, changes or different reporting requirements are put into place. It takes staff and management considerable time to keep current with procedures, to update documents and forms with changes, and to communicate new policies to everyone within the organization.

Incident Aware provides guided incident tracking, which uses your pre-configured templates to ensure the correct steps and policies are followed and the important details are collected. Changing a procedure or policy? Just update the template, and in a matter of seconds your organization's new policy is in-place and enforced. Management can receive status updates as items are completed, and outstanding details and actions are clear and obvious to ensure nothing is missed.

 

Ensuring staff are alerted to incidents and emergencies is important, especially in time-sensitive situations. "The office" for many has changed forever, and staff working locations are now unpredictable. Determining who's on-site during evacuations and lockdowns, for instance, is now a serious concern since you need to ensure staff are all safe and accounted for.

Incident Aware not only provides simultaneous alerting via app push notifications, email, sms and several different on-site hardware paths (overhead paging, strobes, on deskphones, and more) to ensure your staff are alerted regardless of location, but also allows you to see who's on-site, when they arrived and left, and their real-time locations. Alerts can require actively respond or check-in, and can report whether they are safe or need assistance.

These are just three of the many problems Incident Aware solves. Contact us at 888-993-2288 or sales@buygenesis.com for more information on our latest solution, and find out how we can help you solve these common issues, and many more.

 

Genesis Systems Corporation Expands Partnership with RingCentral to Advance Emergency Notifications

by Nathan May 26, 2021

APRIL 30 2021 — Genesis Systems Corporation, a leading communications management software developer, today announced an expanded partnership with RingCentral, a leading provider of global enterprise cloud communications, video meetings, collaboration, and contact center solutions. The expanded partnership includes RingCentral support for Genesis’ GenAlert Emergency Notification solution, delivering enhanced on-site emergency response and awareness capabilities for mutual customers. 

 "The GenAlert solution provides RingCentral users with unparalleled emergency visibility and greatly enhances response time - critical in emergencies, where every second counts. When combined with built-in RingCentral features, GenAlert gives you the ultimate solution for detecting, alerting and recording emergencies.” – Randy Mennear, CEO Genesis Systems

 GenAlert helps businesses to immediately recognize in-progress emergencies and alerts staff via on-screen messages, voice alerts, emails, SMS text messages, and more. GenAlert also records each call’s audio and details, and conferences in security staff to listen to and validate each call in real-time, improving detection of accidental calls and improving on-site response. GenAlert for RingCentral is a fully managed, cloud hosted solution.

“As a RingCentral Partner, we’ve had access to unparalleled developer support and resources which have enabled us to quickly adapt GenAlert’s capabilities to meet the needs of users” – Nathan Mennear, Sales Manager Genesis Systems

"Reliability, security, and scalability are the core components of RingCentral's cloud communications platform," said David Lee, vice president, product management at RingCentral. "The integration of GenAlert with RingCentral will offer customers a scalable platform that provides them with greater on-site emergency response and awareness.” 

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 Genesis Systems specializes in telecommunications-related software products for leading UC solutions. The first Genesis software was installed in 1984 and today there are thousands in use worldwide managing from a few to tens of thousands of phones. Over our long history, Genesis has established and maintained an excellent reputation for outstanding customer service and satisfaction, product flexibility, ease of use, and reliability. This combined with our expert Technical Support services and constant product development has resulted in Genesis becoming an industry leader in communication management solutions for businesses of all sizes.

 Media Contact:

Nathan Mennear

1-888-993-2288

info@buygenesis.com

Building on RingCentral: Developing GenAlert's Real-time 911 Alerting & Reporting Capabilities to Improve RingCentral Users' Safety

by Nathan May 10, 2021

In today’s world where public safety is a major concern, it is important that all possible tools are available to assist the respondents when managing emergency situations.

Genesis for RingCentral

In today’s world where public safety is a major concern for all organizations, it is important that all possible tools are available to assist the respondents when managing emergency situations. Genesis developed GenAlert, a Ring Central solution that not only notifies the pertinent individuals when a 911 emergency call has been placed, in real-time, but also allows customizable additional actions to be taken such as Glip instant messaging, generating emails, sending SMS or text messages, triggering custom alarms like strobes, etc., plus many more…

The decision to begin developing GenAlert for RingCentral was a easy. Our development cycle typically begins with evaluating the available integration points, APIs and any other accesses to the necessary data. Typically, access to the necessary data is the difficult part; APIs are often not available or accessible externally, system design isn't condusive to integrating third-party solutions, data isn't available in a timely manner, etc. During the evaluation phase it was apparent we'd be able to work with RingCentral due to the extensive catalog of APIs, and additionally be able to provide features that were not possible on other systems. This gave us the confidence to engage deeper and start planning the addition of these features uniquely for RingCentral users.

During the development of GenAlert, Genesis recognized the requirement to perform many different tasks when a 911 call is placed. Genesis utilized many of Ring Central APIs such as Events & Notifications Subscriptions, Call Control, Call Recording, User Settings, Device, Call Log, GLIP, etc. to determine when calls happen, where the caller is, who to add to the audio stream, whether to record the call, etc. Since these requirements are fairly comprehensive, there are a variety of events occurring at the time a call is detected, during the call, and even after the call that need to be considered, monitored and recorded.

While developing GenAlert we were impressed with the knowledge and responsiveness of the Ring Central development team to our questions and concerns. The Ring Central development team added features and enhancements to APIs which helped both us and the customer in accomplishing what was required. They also explained in detail some caveats and issues that were not as well documented and the side effects or real-world implications of these. Initially in the early development stage of GenAlert we had almost daily email & voice communications with them to better understand the features and capabilities of the API’s. Also, the Community Pages were of great assistance in resolving some of issues we encountered during development.

In short with Genesis’ vast Telecom knowledge and experience combined with the exceptional help and support of the Ring Central development team and the development API tools available to us, the development of GenAlert went quite smoothly. Genesis GenAlert is our latest hosted solution available as a monthly service add-on for Ring Central users.

GenAlert Real-Time 911 Alerting Now Supports Mitel!

by Nathan April 21, 2021

Genesis is excited to announce our GenAlert real-time 911 alerting solution is now compatible with Mitel Phone Systems!

Many Mitel users already use our Call Tracking solution for managing staffing resources and telephone use (and misuse), and can now add real-time alerting to greatly improve on-site awareness and emergency response time. The issue with standard call-accounting-based alerting solutions is that they only notify you once the call has completed (hung up).

Since real emergency calls are rarely terminated prior to emergency services arriving on-site, staff often have no idea anything is happening until help is already on-site. Since staff are the closest responders - and are certainly more familiar with the premises - they need to be the first people to know when there's an issue requiring emergency help. Response can then start immediately, staff can coordinate and both attend to the emergency and be ready to direct Fire, Police and EMS services prior to their arrival. 

Mitel users can receive alerts via a combination of desktop-based alerts, in-app notifications on Android & iOS devices, emails, SMS messages, and custom integrations with strobe lights and other equipment. Combining all these paths, it's nearly impossible for your staff to not be immediately aware there's an emergency in progress that requires their help.

 

When adding in our call tracking & reporting solution and our app-based incident tracking & mass notifications, the overall solution provides the most comprehensive reporting, tracking, and alerting solution for Mitel users of any size.

Contact Genesis for more information on our Mitel-compatible solutions and how we can help you meet your custom requirements! 

Genesis Supports Microsoft Teams 9-1-1 Notifications + Call Tracking & Reporting

by Nathan April 16, 2021

Genesis Systems has recently added support for Teams in both our GenAlert 911 Alerting and Call Tracking & Reporting solutions!

Now, locations using Microsoft Teams (either solely, or as a component in their telephony environment) can extend their real-time emergency awareness and greatly improve on-site emergency response time.

You simply cannot be too informed in the event of emergencies, and this is why GenAlert provides flexible, real-time multi-path alerting which includes emails, SMS, desktop alerts, triggering on-site physical equipment, in-app alerts, and even integrations with social media platforms.

Likewise with call tracking; many Teams users complain about the reporting and data natively available, especially when attempting to generate consolidated reports for business units and specialized reports, not to mention users who rely on call analytics in day-to-day operations.

Genesis Call Accounting & Tracking provides Teams users with flexible, easy-to-use reporting that can be customized to your requirements, delivered on any schedule you need, and can even alert you to misuse or account compromises. Genesis has been the standard for many of the largest organizations for over 35 years, and this legacy continues now for Teams users.

Contact Genesis Sales for more information!

1-888-993-2288

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