Desktop Notification and Alerting Solution Now Available for School Networks

PRLog (Press Release) – Jan 23, 2008 – Leading technology developer, NetSupport, today announced the public availability of NetSupport Notify, the latest addition to their portfolio of desktop and network management solutions.  

Building on the success of their market-leading classroom management solution, NetSupport School, and recently updated NetSupport Protect desktop security solution, NetSupport Notify has been produced to deliver a cost-effective, secure and powerful desktop notification and alerting solution for both school and corporate networks.

The philosophy behind NetSupport Notify is quite simple – namely to provide a method for delivering key information (notifications) to all desktop users across a LAN or WAN instantly.  The beauty of NetSupport Notify is its ease of use, installation and ability to be deployed across any environment without the need for configuration changes to an existing network.

At the core of NetSupport Notify is a unique notification gateway which maintains connectivity with all desktop agents, irrespective of their location, and delivers notifications automatically to all connected agents immediately on receipt. NetSupport Notify supports both Windows and Mac desktops, including Windows Vista.

The product includes as standard support for multiple notification gateways, as well as inbuilt redundancy should a specific gateway become unavailable.  An administrator installs a simple notification console as a desktop application, or accesses the technology via a local web page, and within seconds can deliver both a notification and accompanying instructions, select the level of visual priority for each message and enable an audible alert if required.  All alerts received by desktop users have both the receipt and acknowledgement recorded in the system log file for future review.

Pricing for NetSupport Notify starts from as little as £250 ($450 / €350) for a 250 user pack, which allows for up to 250 desktop agents and unlimited notification consoles and gateways.  Unlike alternative solutions, NetSupport Notify does not rely on external hosted servers or charge annually for usage.

A fully operational 50-user evaluation can be downloaded from www.netsupportnotify.com.

NetSupport was recently awarded the Technology & Learning legacy award for excellence, honouring best-of-breed examples that demonstrate clear superiority over similar products in the market, and was a winning recipient of a BESSIE in the 2007 Best Educational Software Awards hosted by ComputED.