Taking a closer look at The Forrester Wave™: Critical Event Management Platforms, Q4 2023

Everbridge is recognized as a leader

We’re proud to announce that Everbridge has been recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Critical Event Management Platforms, Q4 2023 report. Everbridge received the highest possible score in what we consider to be an impressive fifteen criteria including: vision, innovation, partner ecosystem, as well as criteria within the current offering category, including employee mass communication, physical threat intelligence, travel risk management, orchestration and automation, and reporting and analytics, among others.

Everbridge provides a competitive advantage to organizations with the only end-to-end resilience platform solution that enables organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and ultimately emerge stronger from critical events. The Everbridge organizational resilience platform delivers better reliability, security, and compliance on a broader scale than any competitor, keeping people safe and organizations running while creating a measurable business advantage for our customers. 

In this blog post, we’ll dive into the significance of the Forrester Wave™: Critical Event Management Platforms, Q4 2023 and why it matters. How can leaders use it to ease their purchasing journeys? Finally, how can it help decision-makers select solutions that strengthen organizational resilience? 

What is the Forrester Wave™?   

According to Forrester, “A Forrester Wave™ is a guide for buyers considering their purchasing options in a technology marketplace.” It is a powerful tool for technology leaders in search of new solutions.   

Each Forrester Wave evaluates and compares vendors in a specific market segment—those with a viable and growing market size and based on customer interest—providing a comprehensive view of their capabilities. Forrester takes a unique perspective in evaluating how technology relates to business challenges by evaluating participants on categories such as Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. The Forrester Wave™: Critical Event Management (CEM) Platforms, Q4 2023, evaluated Everbridge along with nine other vendors and named Everbridge as a leader.  

Why does the Forrester Wave™ matter to leaders?  

For C-suite executives, operations leaders, and other organizational stakeholders the Forrester Wave™ provides invaluable, third-party analyses of comparable vendors and solutions. The ability to rely on unbiased, analyst opinions during research and deliberation can be pivotal in finding the right solution that builds organizational resilience and drives success. The Forrester Wave™: Critical Event Management Platforms, Q4 2023 states that “Everbridge is ideally suited for any national or global enterprise that needs to satisfy a broad array of CEM use cases,” making it, in our opinion, the preferred solutions for leaders across the globe. The importance of building organizational resilience has never been more vital.   

As stated in the report, “Everbridge’s crisp and clean vision drives its ambition to be synonymous with organizational resilience. In addition to over 400 different technology partners, Everbridge maintains global industry, government, and academia relationships including services and data providers to strengthen its broad portfolio. Everbridge provides tailored customer journey roadmaps to drive customer success and enable the right adoption over time. Everbridge has a strong reputation and foothold in the industry with more than twice the revenue of the next highest competitor.”  

Leaders today must contend with more intense and more frequent critical events than ever before. From inclement weather to active shooter situations, critical event management technology can help organizations proactively prepare for risk and protect their people and assets from harm. The Forrester Wave™: Critical Event Management (CEM) Platforms, Q4 2023, provides leaders an unbiased, comprehensive analysis of the top CEM vendors in the marketplace. If you are ready to dive right into the report, you can access a complimentary copy below.   

Learn about the Forrester Wave™: Critical Event Management Platforms, Q4 2023 from an expert

If you’d like to learn from the Forrester Principal Analyst directly, watch our on-demand webinar, “Prepare for emerging threats: Strategies for enabling business continuity,” where guest speaker Brian Wrozek discusses the Forrester Wave™ in more detail.