Providing essential COVID-19 communications
The COVID-19 crisis has created the need for businesses to provide the most up-to-date operating information about customers, partners and internal stakeholders. Organisations of any type and any size, including government agencies, private sector enterprises, nonprofit groups and academia, can accelerate engagement, communication, collaboration and data sharing using a business continuity information portal approach. By deploying a communications hub, organisations can leverage their existing data and work with internal and external stakeholders to adapt and ensure business continuity.
Sharing operations status, quickly and broadly
Up-to-date information is vital to decision making for businesses managers and customers during the crisis. With a single portal for all stakeholders, internal and external, organisations can rapidly communicate trustworthy information in near real time. For workforces, facilities, partners and customers, this can improve awareness of essential information and maintain well-being and productivity. Additionally, customers and local communities can access current data about the availability of products and services for safe, timely engagement.
Enabling fast, accurate collaboration
Especially during times of crisis, it can be difficult to get teams to share and unify critical data needed to make urgent decisions as conditions change. With an open information portal, organisations can easily create teams made up of staff, external community members or both. Trusted members of the community can be invited to collaborate with the organisation, which can increase a staff's ability to respond to incidents quickly. This can reduce business disruptions and help reestablish business levels as safely and quickly as possible.
Configuring an easy-to-use communications hub
Organisations need to take fast action to keep pace with the impacts of COVID-19. The Coronavirus Business Continuity template includes a site that organisations can configure with their own branding, then use to share authoritative information with customers and stakeholders. This template allows organisations to include dynamic links to social media feeds, apps to collect workforce and facility status surveys and variable access rights to open tailored content for different audiences across the business.
Requirements
Recommended software
ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Hub
Solution template
Coronavirus Business Continuity Template
CASE STUDY
Improving decision making and service delivery
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Esri products for a communications hub
ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Online is a complete cloud-based GIS mapping software that connects people, locations and data using interactive maps.
ArcGIS Hub
ArcGIS Hub is an easy-to-configure community engagement and communications software that organises people, data and tools.
