Emergency Notification and Crisis Management Service

The F24 Alert! app is the first milestone in F24 AG's innovation drive for 2013

F24 AG announces the release of F24 Alert! a native app for iOS, available for FACT24 users as from 1st September, 2013. The app can be downloaded free from the App Store. The F24 Alert! app enables users to undertake professional alarm management when on the move. Alarms can be activated via the app using a smartphone or tablet device, allowing FACT24 users to respond rapidly to incidents and emergencies even when traveling.

The F24 Alert! app focuses on key alarm management system functions to enable rapid alarm activation, flexible adaptation of alarm scenarios and the Alarm Monitor tracks the progress of all activated alarms in real time.

Rapid and simple operation was the primary focus for consideration in the design of the app, providing a clear, easy-to-follow layout. The app will be available in German and English.

The F24 Alert! app will also be available for Android from October 1, 2013. It can be downloaded free from Google Play.

Jochen Schütte, Corporate IT and Product Management Officer at F24 AG, says: "By releasing our F24 Alert! app we have responded closely to the requirements of our customers, who need the ability to act in a flexible yet fast manner. Today many processes are managed on the move. Our app shows we are at the forefront of trends. Further exciting functions are set to follow in 2014."

About F24:
Software-as-a-service provider F24 develops and operates highly secure notification, alerting and crisis management solutions. Together with its international subsidiaries and sales partners, the globally operating company is a worldwide leader in its field. Founded in 2000 and based in Munich, Germany, F24 has subsidiaries in the UK, France, Spain, the Czech Republic and the USA.

Over 500 companies and organizations in over 70 countries currently use FACT24 for their notification, alerting and crisis management needs. Reference clients include Airbus, AXA, Beiersdorf, BMW, BP, Cepsa, Daimler, DHL, DOW, EADS, ExxonMobil, HSBC, IBM, Jumeirah, Lufthansa, Repsol, SAP, Shell, Swiss, Téléfonica, Total und Volkswagen.

FACT24 notification, alerting and crisis management service:
When an incident occurs, FACT24 is the key notification, alerting and crisis management tool for F24's clients – from the onset of a crisis and its successful solution to follow-up review and analysis. Management and emergency team members are alerted, decision-makers are called together in ad-hoc telephone conferences and information hotlines for staff or site neighbours are established at short notice.  During an incident, the online collaboration platform FACT24 Case Manager serves as the center of all real-time communication and data exchange with all key stakeholders.  The course of events is tracked and documented in a tamper-proof crisis log. To find out more about FACT24, please click here.