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The Derdack SIGNL4 blog is an essential hub for professionals aiming to boost their alert management and operational response. It delivers expert insights and tips on maximizing SIGNL4 for efficient alerting, team collaboration, and incident management. Ideal for IT, operations, and security teams, this blog offers practical guidance for enhancing response times and operational workflows.
Mobile Business Notifications with Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM
Managers and executives are always interested in current company data and KPIs ("key performance indicators"). This includes information about the current monthly and annual turnover. But also promising customer requests (A leads) that may require the collaboration of...
Amazon Alexa – Send Alerts and Notify your Response Team
With Amazon Alexa, the Internet giant, Amazon, has quickly established itself as a leading company in the field of digital assistants with speech recognition. We here at Derdack SIGNL4 believe that speech recognition will play an enormously important role in the near...
Emergency Notifications for Patient Bedside Monitoring using mobile Apps
Modern alerting systems based on mobile apps can achieve significant efficiency gains in healthcare and reduce the working pressure on nursing staff. Here we describe how such a solution is used for patient and bedside monitoring. Challenges in patient bedside...
Mobile Alerting complements SCADA systems in the Utilities Sector
Utilities companies represent a particular challenge for modern alarm solutions complementing SCADA systems. Due to the decentralised distribution of installations and plants in rural and urban areas, operation, maintenance and repair are already associated with...
Machine Breakdown Maintenance Call using the AWS IoT Button
Urgent breakdown maintenance calls are a common scenario on a shop floor, e.g. in manufacturing or logistics. Response is a critical matter as equipment breakdowns bring your operations to a grinding halt. When a machine breaks down or malfunctions, a maintenance...
AWS CloudWatch Alarms to your mobile phone during after-business hours
If you are using AWS CloudWatch for monitoring your AWS assets 24/7, an effective routing of alarms to IT personnel during after-business-hours is essential for a swift handling of any problems and incidents occurring any given time of the day. This post explains how...
Sending Alerts from a Desktop Browser with zapier
How can you quickly send an urgent alert to a response team from your desktop browser? Here is a pretty slick example for Google Chrome implemented with zapier and SIGNL4. SIGNL4 is for sending persistent mobile alerts to your response team. It provides for simple...
How reliably is your IT team notified when your website is down?
Nowadays most IT admins will get an email if their website monitoring solution detects a health issue or a website down. Maybe your entire team gets an email. But how likely are you to check your inbox every minute. And don't you want share on-call duty across your...
Azure Application Insights
Are you using Azure Application Insights for health monitoring of your website or web app? If so, I bet you have alerts setup to get notified in case of service health issues. By default, you or your whole team will get an email. But how do you know who took...
SCOM – Mobile Alert Notifications via mobile app, text and voice calls
SIGNL4 provides a convenient, out-of-the-box solution to send mobile SCOM alerts to your ops teams. With SIGNL4 you can build subject expert teams and send SCOM alerts to team members on duty. With the SIGNL4 mobile app, teams easily check-in and check-out to receive...
Microsoft Flow – send mobile Alert Notifications to your Team
Microsoft Flow is a great intuitive workflow and process automation app. It provides a simplified graphic workflow orchestration approach. One of the most used actions in flows is sending or forwarding notifications upon events in your business process. Common...
Mobile alerts for Cumulocity-managed IoT devices
IoT platforms such as Cumulocity by Software AG are a crucial part in a proper "Industry 4.0" implementation. The Deutsche Telekom AG is using Cumulocity for their new IoT products like "Predictive Maintenance" and the "Cloud der Dinge Starterkit". They are used to...
DevOps – Boost Responsiveness with Alerts
The key to efficient devops procedures lies in responsiveness, clear responsibility and incident ownership. Alerts and notifications are effective tools to increase these key factors. In today's agile environments with a demanding customer landscape, a rapid response...
Mobile Push for B2B Communication
SIGNL4 provides a simple way to use mobile push notification to effectively communicate with closed client and customer communities. It opens an excellent channel in B2B communication. Generally, mobile push is an effective mean of communication. Attention level is...
C# code for the SIGNL4 webhook
When I started with my first Raspberry mini computer, I selected Windows 10 IoT Core as the operating system. This allowed for using Visual Studio and C#. It is not that difficult to call a webhook from your C# code, though a couple of pitfalls await you when your...
