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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.
Boost Agility of Shop Floor Teams for Industry 4.0 with Mobile Alerting
*This article was first published on Microsoft's Manufacturing Industry Blog on July 17, 2018. The fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, is happening today. Recent progress in manufacturing automation requires fewer individuals on a shop floor to do manual work...
Four Cool IoT Devices Paving the Way for IoT Market Growth
The development and rise of cool, tiny and smart devices of all shapes and functions is the foundation of the Internet of Things (IoT). Many of these mechanisms shared below are relatively small in size, but do not let that fool you. These are powerful products that...
The Internet of Things is Driving our Future
We live in an age of hyper-connectedness. Specific-function devices are now able to relay information to networks in real-time with ease. To put it simply, we live among the Internet of Things (IoT). In this article, we will dive into what IoT is, where it is headed,...
Mobile Apps, and the Future of Field Service Management and Dispatching
Field service management (FSM) is the business-official way of mentioning all the operational and administrative work that goes into on-location service delivery. In other words, FSM is the juggling act that involves everything from accounting and customer...
Separating Alert Signals from Notification Overload
On our smart phones, we receive an abundance of personal and business push notifications every day. Business and business-critical push notifications are meant to be read, ideally acknowledged, and acted on in an attentive manner. The problem is that people cannot...
June 2018 Update: Team Acknowledgements and Sending of Alerts from a Web Browser
June 2018 update brings two cool features: Acknowledgement of alerts by all team members (on duty) Sending of alerts to the team from a Web Browser Happy exploring! Group alerting with multiple acknowledgements There are multiple models of how many people are required...
Get a mobile alert when your Internet link is down
The app-based alerting service SIGNL4, enables you to send alerts from your corporate infrastructure via e-mail or webhook. Your team will then receive the notifications by push, SMS or phone call. But what if the Internet connection is no longer available and you...
Five SaaS Tools to Optimize Team Productivity
In the digital age, it is extremely helpful to have Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tools in place to maximize team productivity. SaaS tools are great because they take essential work tasks, and slim them down into user-friendly web and mobile applications. Below I have...
Push, text and voice notifications from Google Forms
SIGNL4 offers easy-to-use interfaces for triggering notifications, e.g. email and Webhook. In some scenarios you might want to send signals manually from a Web portal. Google Forms is one option to add this feature to SIGNL4. The following steps show you how to setup...
May 2018 Update: Text and Voice Calls, Geo Location, Flood Protection, AppConfig enhancements
We are incredibly proud to announce the May 2018 update, which adds the following new features to SIGNL4: Persistent alert notifications via text and voice call In-app triggered alerts transmit current geographic location Alerts can be enriched with maps and...
April 2018 Update: API Enhancements, Duty Length, Countries, Splunk
The April 2018 update adds the following new features to SIGNL4: New methods and method enhancements for the REST API and webhook A new duty & shift length of 14 days Availability in new countries Happy exploring! Outbound webhooks: Correlate alert-status changes...
Mobile ChatOps built-in
When a critical problem needs attention, advice from peers and experts is often valuable. While a phone call might be the fastest way to communicate, there can be circumstances where it doesn't work or isn't appropriate. That is why we built a chat feature into...
Android settings for making SIGNL4 an even better paging app
The problem with push notifications as an alarm channel is that they don't really alert you when the phone is set to "Do not disturb". The mobile phone will vibrate only, if at all. Important alarms will be missed. That might turn into a true disaster for critical...
February 18 Update: Alert Audit Trail, Management of 3rd Party Apps
The February 2018 update adds the following new features to SIGNL4: CSV alert protocols, e.g. for Excel import and analytics Management of linked third-party applications, e. g. Alexa Skill CSV audit trail log of all alarms and notifications With the help of the CSV...
Shift Scheduling with StaffHub – Alerting with SIGNL4
Microsoft StaffHub is deprecated. You can use SIGNL4’s built-in scheduling for your shifts and on-call planning. Or, you can also use the REST API (e.g. with Microsoft Power Automate) for integrating with your own scheduling tools. We live in a somewhat paradoxical...
