Mass Notification | Catalis
Catalis offers a comprehensive mass notification platform leveraging 20 years of municipal experience to enable municipalities to efficiently communicate with residents through automated multi-channel alerts—including live emergency alerts from Alert Ready, mass emails, SMS, smartphone push notifications, audio phone messages, and website integration—thereby enhancing community connectivity and emergency responsiveness.
Connecting Your Community One Message at a Time
At Catalis, we understand the importance of efficient communication with residents. This is why we offer robust mass notification solutions designed to streamline the dissemination of messages to all a municipality’s residents. Our platform incorporates 20 years of municipal experience and allows easy management and distribution of messages via e-mail, text messages, social media, and voice phone lines.
With our integrated system, municipal administrators can automate alert messages from Alert Ready, NOAA, and IPAWS, providing broadcasts on residents’ devices without any local effort. Our mass notification solutions furnish a means of delivering information across multiple channels. Partner with our Mass Notification solution and enhance your municipality’s communication capabilities.
Our Most Popular Program Features
- Live emergency alerting: A direct feed into Canada’s emergency alerting system (Alert Ready) to disseminate emergency messages from all levels of government, Environment Canada, and RCMP.
- Mass E-mail messaging: Send unlimited e-mail messages to your residents along with the ability to refine your messages to only be sent to users requesting information based on specified topics.
- SMS text messaging: Send SMS text messages using the Connect portal to residents who prefer to be informed of local information on their mobile phone.
- Smartphone push messaging: Send messages to your residents via smartphone app push messaging. Send immediate messages or schedule push messages for a future date.
- Audio Phone messages: Upload recorded messages or type messages to be converted to sound to send by phone. Emergency alerts can also be sent to residents’ home phones with one click.
- Website Integration: Integrate your public submission form into any website or app with no additional charge in both official languages.
- Account management: Manage all your resident accounts as well as create communication groups for people to select and receive information.
- Mobile Management: Manage and disseminate messages using the Connect portal from any device. The portal is completely responsive to any mobile device.
Product Guided Tour
Catalis Mass Notification helps municipalities reach residents when communication matters most. From routine community updates to urgent public alerts, the solution supports email, text, voice, social media, and mobile push notifications through one responsive portal. Integrated emergency alerting connections also help administrators share critical information quickly without adding extra manual effort.
Take the guided tour to see how Catalis Mass Notification keeps communities connected, informed, and prepared.
Stay Alert
Emergency alert integrations with Catalis’ Mass Notification system are powered by:
Alert Ready
Alert Ready is Canada’s National Emergency Alerting System and is governed by the Government of Canada.
The Alert Ready emergency alerts are issued by:
- Federal government authorities
- Environment and Climate Change Canada
- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
- Municipal police agencies
- Provincial government officials
- Municipal officials as coordinated by each provincial government
Wireless Emergency Alerts
The Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS) is FEMA's national system for local alerting that provides authenticated emergency and life-saving information to the public. These alerts are provided through mobile phones using Wireless Emergency Alerts, to radio and television via the Emergency Alert System, and on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather Radio and Weatheradio Canada.
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