NotiFind from SunGard Availability Services Wins Notification System of the Year Award at DRI International 2012 Conference

WAYNE, Pa., May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  SunGard Availability Services today announced its crisis communications tool NotiFind® was named Notification System of the Year by the DRI International Commission.  Winning this prestigious award demonstrates industry recognition of NotiFind as a tested, proven emergency and incident notification system.

SunGard's NotiFind provides fast and effective communication targeting a variety of devices including phone, email and text messages to reach and interact with employees, customers and other stakeholders during a crisis or unplanned event.  NotiFind delivers a comprehensive, automated approach that significantly improves operational efficiency and response times by effectively managing communications during the chaos and confusion experienced when a disruption or disaster occurs.  This approach helps to increase the speed of recovery and to mitigate the financial impacts associated with business disruptions and other threats companies face. 

"This award provides industry validation that NotiFind helps ensure organizations can deliver and maintain clear and concise communication during a crisis," said Tracey Forbes, vice president of software business development, SunGard Availability Services.  "Effective business contingency planning depends on a comprehensive emergency notification system.  NotiFind enables our customers to keep in touch with key personnel, deliver critical messages to a wide audience, and send and receive vital information quickly."

NotiFind, powered by SunGard's technology partner the Varolii® Corporation, is completely scalable, supporting a business contingency plan whether customers need to notify tens or hundreds of contacts or hundreds of thousands of contacts.  The system can be purchased standalone or as part of the SunGard Continuity Management Solution.  SunGard provides contractually guaranteed SLAs for system availability and delivery, including uptime and minimum throughput in customer-selected timeframes.

SunGard received the award at the Disaster Recovery Institute International's 2012 Conference, which took place last week in New Orleans.

About SunGard Availability Services
SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.  With approximately five million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard Availability Services helps customers improve the resilience of their mission critical systems by designing, implementing and managing cost-effective solutions using people, process and technology to address enterprise IT availability needs. Through direct sales and channel partners, we help organizations ensure their people and customers have uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do business. To learn more, visit www.sungardas.com or call 1-800-468-7483.  Connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world's leading software and technology services companies.  SunGard has more than 17,000 employees and serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries.  SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education and the public sector.  SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.  With annual revenue of about $4.5 billion, SunGard is the largest privately held software and services company and was ranked 480 on the Fortune 500 in 2011. For more information, please visit www.sungard.com.

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