January
Businesses Should be More Aware of Norovirus as Health Protection Agency Launches Monitoring Service.
Businesses should be aware of the virulence of the Norovirus in planning business continuity. The Health Protection Agency launched a web based Norovirus outbreak monitoring service in January indicating which NHS trusts were suffering outbreaks and consequently closing wards. In the first 6 months of 2009 350 outbreaks were reported. Cases of Norovirus are not diminishing year on year, and with the new reporting system, appear to be increasing. Read More…
February
Flexible Working Enables Business Continuity for HCL During Heavy Snow in February.
Flexible Working preparations enabled employees from GemaTech’s customer, HCL (Healthcare Locums) to provide business continuity during the very heavy snow in February this year. Read More…
April
Flexible Working Technology Enables Business Continuity for City Firm During G20 Summit Protests.
GemaTech’s flexible working technology enabled a city based firm to continue operating business as usual during the G20 Summit by equipping employees with the ability to take their phone calls from home rather than battling to get into the office, by re-routing their incoming calls to a home phone or mobile number. Read More…
Businesses Disrupted as Tooley Street Floods For Second Year in a Row.
A number of businesses were disrupted when a burst water main caused a major flood in Tooley Street, London affected the same spot it did the previous year. It caused the same devestating damage as the previous year and affected major corporates and local retail outlets alike. Read More…
May
Business Continuity Awards Results – Entries up 20%.
27th May saw the presentation of this year’s Business Continuity Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London. Read More…
June
Swine Flu Pandemic Accelerates Business Continuity Plans.
Many Businesses reviewed, updated and implemented their business continuity plans in light of the declaration on the 11th June this year that the world had entered a global swine flu pandemic. Read More…
Pandemic Planning for Swine Flu a Priority at Emergency Planning Society’s Conference.
Planning for the Swine Flu pandemic was the key subject at the EPS annual conference in Coventry last June. Read More…
PRU Shortlisted For Most Innovative Product Of The Year At EPS Conference.
GemaTech introduced the Portable Recovery Unit at a soft launch during the Emergency Planning Society’s (EPS) Annual Conference in June this year. The PRU was shortlisted in the category of most Innovative Product of The Year, missing out on an award purely because the product was not yet available to the market and had no existing customers. Read More…
July
Fire Breaks Out in Soho Office
At around 2pm a major fire broke out in the offices of Future Capital in Dean Street, Soho. Around 10 per cent of the building was said to be ablaze and 60 fire fighters were sent to the scene. It is believed that the fire started within an air conditioning duct. Read More…
August
PageOne Launches VoiceBlast, but is it a Restrictive Solution?
This summer PageOne launched a call cascade product called VoiceBlast. A messaging system which can simultaneously send a personalised voice message to the landline or mobile number of thousands of people within an organisation. But does this kind of very specific solution a little restrictive? Read More…
September
GemaTech launches their enhanced Rapid Call Out solution.
Gematech’s Rapid Call Out module is a rapid notification system that can simultaneously send any number of messages via SMS, voice message, email, fax, instant message, Twitter, web status page or pre-recorded announcement to any number of recipients in any global location. Read More…
November
999 Calls at Risk as Calva Bridge in Workington is Condemned.
During the major floods in Cumbria in November the town of Workington was physically cut in half by extreme amounts of flood water. 6 bridges collapsed and the last remaining, Calva Bridge carrying utilities including telecoms cables, was condemned, putting lives at risk as 999 calls relied upon this link. Read More…
BCI Conference: a Surprising Success!
As planned we exhibited at the BCi run global conference this week in the Hammersmith Novotel. This was the first year of the BCi conference and I didn’t know quite what to expect in terms of attending delegates. Read More…
GemaTech officially launches the Portable Recovery Unit OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
UK company GemaTech launches a new approach to re-routing incoming phone calls to other phones or mobiles to facilitate business continuity in an emergency. Read More…
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