University of California Irvine Health
Healthcare
California, United States
7,000
UC Irvine Health introduced SnapComms in February 2014, using three channels perfectly aligned to address their key communication challenges.
Desktop alerts ensure high impact to get employee attention immediately, whether via desktop, mobile or digital signage.
Desktop tickers newsfeed-style text scroll across the bottom of employees’ computer screens to provide fast updates of information at-a-glance, with low staff intrusion.
Screensavers are powerful visual tools for staff reminders or promoting the organization’s values, events and initiatives.
UC Irvine Health are proactive in letting staff know when there is going to be scheduled maintenance on any of the systems they use. An alert is sent to affected users giving them time to save or complete work before the system is taken offline.
When a system goes down unexpectedly, an unscheduled outage notification is sent out as soon as the IT department are aware of the issue. This greatly reduces the amount of calls into the IT Service Desk, allowing them to get the system back online as soon as possible.
Along with real time notification, the Desktop Alerts can also appear over the top of screensavers and other full-screen applications in cases of urgent and emergency messages.
In one unique case, a fire took out one of UC Irvine’s data centers for over 12 hours. Rather than sending an alert out for each system that was taken out, and when they were subsequently restored, the scrolling ticker was used to keep everybody abreast of the situation.
Using screensaver messages and scrolling tickers, in addition to alerts, allowed them to layer their communications based on relevance and urgency.
UC Irvine Health integrated the SnapComms tool into their internal website using the SnapComms API. This meant that the IT department could setup custom interfaces for specific administrators, enabling them to only perform certain tasks in the system. For example, sending unscheduled outage notifications to only specific departments.