Black Coral Customers

Black Coral LIVE™ is being used by PS to increase the level of situational awareness in its operations centre. PS has a mandate to monitor and coordinate federal incident response, and Black Coral is proud to be part of its operations. Increasingly, PS is realizing the benefit of sharing information, especially with non-geospatially enabled groups.

"The Geomatics section at PSEPC provides support to the Government of Canada Operations Centre using a variety of commercial, off the shelf software solutions. Black Coral LIVE™ allows us to rapidly fuse all types of geospatial data from a variety of sources and has been a great help to us in improving the overall situational awareness of the Centre."

Ian Becking
Manager, Geomatics
Public Safety Canada
Securite publique et protection civile Canada

Black Coral created an Incident Management System (IMS) for the National Defence Command Centre (NDCC) at the Department of National Defence. As incident management technology experts, the Black Coral team was contracted to create the NDCC IMS from scratch, running on a classified network. This system was used as the genesis of a new generation of web-based applications that are being developed and deployed in the Canadian Forces. The NDCC IMS provides a constant level of awareness of incidents, logging capabilities, and automated SOPs that NDCC uses to run its mission critical operations.

Global Rescue is an emergency services company based in Boston, Massachusetts that provides best-in-class medical, aeromedical evacuation, search and rescue and security services to individuals, corporations, travelers and expeditions worldwide. Global Rescue utilizes over 180 medically equipped aircraft in 40 countries and will fly full members to the home country hospital of their choice in the event of an illness or injury requiring hospitalization. Global Rescue uses Black Coral SoftRisk^®, incident management software-as-a-service delivered via the Web, with multiple users managing multiple incidents on a day-to-day basis. For more information, visit www.globalrescue.com.

The Florida State University (FSU) Emergency Management Team in Tallahassee, Florida, is responsible for preparing, responding, recovering, and mitigating the effects of a wide variety of incidents and disasters that could adversely affect the health, safety, and general welfare of its more than 41,000 students, faculty, staff, visitors, and families. Life safety is the primary mission of this team and the protection of property is an important, but secondary goal.

The FSU Emergency Management Team was awarded the 2008 Davis Productivity Award for its innovation, dedication and commitment to excellence and was the first university in Florida to be designated StormReady by the National Weather Service. As one of its most important tools, the team uses Black Coral SoftRisk®, a leading-edge, Web-based incident management solution that integrates mission-critical resource and mapping data into one incident-centric application. Utilization of SoftRisk® is an important step for FSU's emergency management program as it seeks EMAP accreditation.