Critical Event Management

Critical Event Management That Connects People, Operations, and Communications

CampanaOne gives your organisation a unified command centre to detect critical events, coordinate your response, and communicate with everyone affected, before, during, and after the event.

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What Is Critical Event Management?

Critical Event Management (CEM) is the practice of identifying, assessing, and responding to events that threaten an organisation's people, assets, or operations, and communicating about those events in real time to the right people, via the right channels.

CEM software like CampanaOne sits at the intersection of three disciplines: situational awareness (knowing what's happening), incident management (coordinating the response), and mass notification (communicating with affected people). Organisations that manage all three from a single platform respond faster, make fewer errors, and recover quicker.

Legacy CEM platforms like Everbridge and Rave Mobile Safety were built for specific use cases, public alerting or IT incident management, and then expanded. CampanaOne was designed from day one to unify all three disciplines across all industries, without the complexity or cost of legacy enterprise platforms.

The Three Pillars of CampanaOne CEM

Situational Awareness

Ingest threat data from IoT sensors, PLCs, weather APIs, and third-party risk intelligence feeds. Visualise asset locations and threat vectors on a live operational map. Know what's happening before your staff do.

Incident Management

Declare an incident with a single click. Assign response tasks, track progress, log decisions, and maintain a real-time incident log. Full post-incident timeline for review, compliance reporting, and lessons learned.

Mass Notification

Send coordinated alerts to all affected people simultaneously across voice, SMS, email, WhatsApp, and desktop. Two-way response capture. Auto-resend to non-responders. Real-time delivery dashboard.

CEM Use Cases by Industry

Industry Common Critical Events CampanaOne Response
HealthcareCode Blue, mass casualty incident, supply chain disruptionInstant staff mobilisation, patient communication, resource coordination
GovernmentNatural disaster, public health emergency, infrastructure failurePopulation alerting, multi-agency coordination, media communications
Energy & UtilitiesGrid outage, pipeline incident, SCADA anomalyIoT-triggered alerts, field crew dispatch, public notification
ManufacturingProduction line failure, safety incident, hazmat eventEvacuation orders, contractor notification, regulatory reporting
Financial ServicesTrading halt, cyber attack, branch closureStaff notification, customer communication, regulator briefing
EducationLockdown, severe weather, missing personCampus-wide alert, parent communication, authority notification

CEM FAQ

How does CampanaOne compare to Everbridge as a CEM platform?

CampanaOne delivers equivalent core CEM capabilities, mass notification, incident management, situational awareness, and real-time reporting, at a significantly lower total cost of ownership. We additionally offer desktop alerting (without phone dependency), industrial IoT integration via MQTT, and full on-premise deployment options that Everbridge does not provide. Our interface is designed for non-technical crisis managers, not IT administrators.

What is the difference between CEM and incident management?

Incident management focuses on the internal response process, tasks, workflows, roles, and documentation. Critical Event Management is broader: it encompasses threat detection, situational awareness, multi-stakeholder communication (including people outside your organisation), and post-event reporting. CampanaOne covers both disciplines from a single platform.

Can CampanaOne integrate with our existing SIEM or risk intelligence platform?

Yes. CampanaOne provides REST API and webhook integrations with major SIEM platforms (Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar), risk intelligence feeds, and IoT data sources. Triggered events from any connected system can automatically initiate a CampanaOne notification campaign or incident response workflow.

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