xMatters Announces Updated Intelligent Communications Solution; Availability of New Analyst Research on Optimizing Business Operations

SAN RAMON, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 31, 2015) - xMatters, inc., a leader in communication-enabled business processes, today announced a major new release of the industry's most advanced communications system for managing, deploying and rapidly resolving IT incidents.

The xMatters On-Demand platform is award-winning technology that automates pinpointing and alerting for the individuals, IT teams and external service providers who need to work together to quickly rectify critical business disruptions.

The communications market is undergoing a seismic shift. After decades of declining revenue and stagnant innovation, a new market is ascendant. This market is being driven in part by cloud economics. IDC forecasts the cloud communications platforms market will grow from global revenue of $123.4 million in 2013 to reach $7.5 billion in 2018 at a 127.5% CAGR⁽¹⁾.

New IDC Vendor Spotlight Report
According to a new IDC Vendor Spotlight report, sponsored by xMatters and titled "New Approaches to Optimizing Business Operations With Cloud Communications," cloud communications platforms are on a course to undermine telephony system equipment markets which will significantly devalue traditional carrier voice and messaging markets as well. These platforms are changing ideas about how customers, end users and subscribers can communicate with enterprises. A simpler, more flexible platform approach is fueling a new convergence of communications and business processes. This makes it easy to blend real-time communications into business-critical workflows.

The report states a new cloud communications approach, layered with the flexibility of a software-defined architecture, solves traditional business communications problems by delivering personalization, timeliness, multi-channel use and integration and automation.

For companies to assure their environment and business operations in the event of disruptions, a new communications approach that automates the directory and staff schedule to simplify stakeholder whereabouts, ensures multi-modal communications to reach stakeholders via preferred channels and integrates easily with other systems for coordinated efficient and agile operations is needed. To the extent that xMatters technology can address the challenges described in this paper, IDC believes the company is well positioned for success.

"In the event of an interruption to the business, which is inevitable at some point, companies need to keep ahead of the game to assure their business operations run smoothly and downtime is minimized. We're pleased to offer the market a modern and intelligent cloud communications platform that automates the directory and staff schedule to ensure communications reach stakeholders via preferred channels and also integrates easily with other systems for coordinated efficient and agile operations," said Troy McAlpin, CEO of xMatters. "IDC is aware of today's communications challenges in the marketplace and we're thrilled they recognize xMatters is well-positioned for success."

New xMatters On-Demand Release Features
Highlighted new features and functionality for the latest xMatters On-Demand cloud release, available today, include:

• Vastly Improved Scheduling: The new On-Call Scheduling module and associated functionality make it easier to automatically manage all facets of scheduling, such as schedule recurrences, holiday schedules, automated rotations and temporary replacements. The xMatters On-Demand technology also proactively reveals "hollow shifts" -- those lacking on-call resources -- and dynamically resolves rotations, temporary replacements and holiday schedules to immediately show on-call information.
  
  
• Group Overview: The new Group Overview is the 'home page' for the assigned group. It allows users to quickly identify on-call gaps, to understand who is currently on call, the escalation process in place, identifies the group supervisors and also includes full team contact information.
  
  
• Improved Calendaring: The new calendar function shows a complete view of team shifts and supports adding new shifts and changing existing ones with drag-and-drop interactions based on common calendaring tools, such as Outlook and Mac Calendar. Users can easily view the scheduled shifts for the week and click on them to see the team members scheduled on duty and their contact information, the escalation process in place for the shift and other key details.
  
  
• Improved Roster: The redesigned, single view of resources can more easily pinpoint for team's who is available and move them into shifts.
  
  
• Enhanced Conferencing: Conference bridges remain an effective mechanism to mobilize multiple people for sharing information and deciding on action steps. The new On-Demand release includes a redesigned conferencing report, which makes it easier to identify all of the attendees on the call. Also, the conference administrator now has the ability to edit phone numbers to people's names to ensure everyone is accounted for. This new ability makes for easier reporting after the incident has been closed.
  
  
• Strengthened Mobility Capabilities: The new release also brings multi-login support, allowing those users that are responsible for different use cases or multiple xMatters environments to be able to log into all of them via their iOS device. 
  
  

For a personal demo of the xMatters On-Demand solution and for more information, go to: http://www.xmatters.com/product-releases/more-on-call-scheduling-and-conferencing-enhancements/.

To access a free copy of the IDC New Approaches to Optimizing Business Operations With Cloud Communications Spotlight report, visit: http://tinyurl.com/ocxvqst.

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About xMatters, inc.
xMatters' cloud-based communications solutions enable any business process or application to trigger two-way communications (text, voice, email, SMS, etc.) throughout the extended enterprise during time-sensitive events. With over a decade of experience in rapid communication, xMatters serves more than 1,000 leading global firms to ensure business operations run smoothly and effectively during incidents such as IT failures, product recalls, natural disasters, dynamic staffing, service outages, medical emergencies and supply-chain disruption. xMatters is headquartered in San Ramon, CA with additional offices in London and Sydney.

⁽¹⁾ IDC Vendor Spotlight, sponsored by xMatters, "New Approaches to Optimizing Business Operations With Cloud Communications," March 2015