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Engadget is reporting that Google is closing their Google Maps Coordinate service. From Engadget’s original posting about the service back in 2012: If you’re a mobile / field worker, and are tired of getting hauled across town to jobs, when there are others nearer by, you might want to point your senior in the direction …
Today Resgrid is one of Microsoft’s featured BizSpark Startups, this is an amazing achievement for a us and our customers. Resgrid is a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform for first responders (fire, police, ems, search and rescue, disaster response, etc) that allows them to coordinate personnel, vehicles, work, emergencies and much more. Utilizing Microsoft’s …
Today we released the beta of our Text Command Interface (TCI) for Resgrid. This allows your personnel to interact with Resgrid completely via Text Messages. Allowing all your personnel to get access to complex features and perform actions by sending simple commands to a private number. In addition to allowing personnel without smartphones to use …
In the personnel logistics space for first responders there are some options out there. A number of those options are cloud based offerings with mobile applications. A question we get is why a first responder organization should choose Resgrid over anyone else? Below are some of the reasons we feel that you should use our …
We originally started working on Resgrid in July 2012, with our first usable system deployed to the web (and Apple’s App Store) in October 2012. Since that time we have over 500 departments signed up and utilizing the system, submitting feedback and helping make Resgrid better. Resgrid is a complete cloud based logistics solution for …
Even though Resgrid is barely a year old it’s a pretty complex system. Our goal it to make it as easy as possible as we iterate on functionality and features. But through this guide series we will strive to create some easy to read and understand guides to the Resgrid system. One of the more …
One of your very first experiences with Resgrid will be signing up a new department in the Resgrid system. Only one person in your department needs to set up the department initially. When they do they will create the department that everyone else will join into. This guide will walk you through setting up a …