| Oct. 21, 2009 CONTACT: James Webb, chief information officer, 806-651-1240, jwebb@wtamu.edu
Rodger Melchiori, SpectraRep, Inc., 703-802-2979, rmelchiori@spectrarep.com WTAMU Chooses ActiveCrawl RSS for Emergency Alerting to Desktop CANYON, Texas—SpectraRep®, LLC announced today that West Texas A&M University has selected ActiveCrawl RSS as its campus-wide desktop solution for emergency notifications. Deployed through e2Campus, the leading unified emergency notification system for education, ActiveCrawl RSS allows campus officials to send emergency alerts to the computer desktops of all students, faculty and staff via text crawls that scroll along the bottom of the screen. “With more than 8,600 students, faculty and staff on our campus, security and safety is very important to West Texas A&M,” said James Webb, WTAMU's chief information officer. “We believe desktop alerting is an efficient method to reach people during any type of situation since the campus population uses and tends to be near their computers and laptops for extended periods of time. Through its integration with e2Campus, ActiveCrawl RSS provides us with an automatic way to send out desktop alerts simultaneously with other platform alerts. It’s a major part of our multimodal approach to campus alerting and security.”
ActiveCrawl RSS is part of SpectraRep’s ActiveAccessTM suite of solutions for emergency alerting to the computer desktop. As a Certified Endpoint Provider of e2Campus, ActiveCrawl RSS is easily accessed through the e2Campus administrative interface to initiate and send alerts to the desktop. Text crawls are delivered within seconds of being issued. On the desktop, ActiveCrawl RSS sits in the desktop tray. When an event does occur, text alerts appear as text scrolls along the bottom of the screen. Alerts appear in front of any other open programs so they are not missed. “At one point, we had considered implementing an in-house solution for desktop alerting, but with ActiveCrawl RSS included in the e2Campus suite we overcame many of the problems we encountered with bandwidth and functionality,” commented Webb. “It has enabled us to rapidly deploy the solution before school began and now we feel we are fully prepared should an event arise that we need to notify people about.” For more information on the suite of ActiveAccess solutions for emergency alerting, visit www.spectrarep.com/product/activeaccess or email sales@activeaccess.com to request a personal demonstration. —WTAMU— | 
