Passion, Proven Success, Unrivaled Feature Capability and Price

Do a search on the internet using these keywords and you will most likely find a plethora of sites using them as a self-serving endorsement.  So how to know if there is any punch to the claim?  We will attempt to express our meaning below to the best of our ability.

Passion

Desktop Alert arrived to the market based on predecessor technology and prior first-to-market products which are now part of what makes Desktop Alert all that it claims to be.  That is to say that Desktop Alert was a culmination of several products which preceded it as opposed to a business plan for a new emerging widget/technology slated for commercial opportunity. 

In 1998 our founder founded the first-to-market SDK for the customization of affinity based internet browser applications via Custom Browser Inc.  This was an exciting product and at the time many ISP's and corporations utilized our custom browsers to exact control of the browsing session as opposed to utilizing the common internet browser.  Results were spectacular for about 3 years and we created and sold dozens of hybrid internet/intranet-based internet browsers for both Internet Explorer and Mozilla based-browser requirements.  In 1998 Microsoft awarded Custom Browser its' Business Advantage Award.  An archive of that event can be seen here.  A sample of one of the many custom browsers shipped can be seen here.

In time, industry gave way to a preference for highly advanced web-based applications which removed the need for a client application installation and custom web-browsers were suddenly hard to substantiate from a price point perspective.  A usage of the CustomBrowser.com domain now points to Desktop Alerts website.  One of the most notable provisions of the customized browser was that of the dynamically managed custom browser TOOLBAR.  Thus, once the custom browser market became quiet our founders launched Custom Toolbar Inc.  

Usage of the Custom Toolbar domain now points to the Desktop Alert website.  Again, Custom Toolbar was a first-to-market SDK whereby anyone could quickly manufacture a dynamically managed Internet Explorer and/or Mozilla-based toolbar by simply offering a opt-in download/install link on a website.  If you are familiar with companies offering  toolbars in a browser, you can thank or yell at Custom Toolbar for the offering.  At the time we were contacted by the Microsoft Toolbar Division in Texas and told, "Your SDK for toolbars has created quite a stir with our engineers.  We are calling your toolbar Custom COOLBAR".  WOW!  We were absolutely astounded that Microsoft had called us and said such a thing!  Maybe we'd finally found the product that would bring in the revenue!  NOPE.  In short order, nefarious toolbars were proliferating the market place and secretly deploying trojans, adware, malware, spyware and keystroke loggers.  Suddenly, toolbars were on every spyware and virus list on earth.  That was the end of Custom Toolbar Inc. 

While we were never heaped into the spyware category, people avoided affinity toolbars at any cost and with good reason.  That's where things got really interesting.  A toolbar client of ours asked us if we could have a button on a custom toolbar we created for them FLASH in the event that a trigger event had occurred in a back-end database.  i.e.  Something that when clicked would spawn a browser to a web page enumerating the details of the event (offer, news, sponsored advert etc.).  So we quickly added that functionality.  Then a week later the client then asked if it were possible to have a alert window arise from the taskbar rather then rely on the client to click on the flashing toolbar icon.  i.e.  The client wanted a way to guarantee the alert was seen by the end-user! 

BAM!  Desktop Alert was born.  That was then and that is now the passion which carries Desktop Alert into the future.  Based on predecessor technologies developed by our founders over a decade Desktop Alert was discovered.  You'll not find a more passionate and compelling story anywhere as it relates to Desktop Alert Technology then that of our story.  We live, breath and prosper on a set of events and technologies that actually happened, make sense and connect the dots in confirming to YOU who we are, why we are and where we are going.  In addition to the above, our founders also launched the first XMPP DOD approved instant messaging platform worldwide for the Windows platform.  More information at this technology is located here!

Proven Success

Desktop Alert emerged in beta format in 2002.  Our news links provide a chronological list of events which illustrate our growth, innovation and industry gestation and acceptance.  Initially, Desktop Alert was released as a opt-in internet centralized solution.  Sales were slow!  The offering was literally years ahead of the market.  But that all changed in time and with good reason.  Unlike many other first-to-market enterprise-class solutions Desktop Alert was designed embracing a industry-agnostic approach.  As a team we decided early on to conceive and build a solution that would serve all industry with an intuitive Enterprise-Class Cross-Platform alerting Platform.  Initially we had planned on a tremendous corporate response.  But that did not happen.  What did happen was a total surprise. 

The U.S. Military Google'd for a "desktop alert" solution.  Apparently, mass notification to the military desktop became a serious contender and viable enterprise solution.  In 2006 Desktop Alert was quickly procured by McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey and then subsequently by Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.  These were organic leads!  There was no active marketing strategy to target the military.  This corroborates our industry agnostic claim.  We had no lobby groups or retired military consultants pushing our stuff!  Desktop Alert was embraced as the best solution at the best price.  What subsequently took place was that the U.S. Military literally pioneered and became a trendsetter in the gestation and adoption of mass notification to the desktop.  The results have been nothing less then spectacular as accolades stream in from military agencies who have piloted and procured the Desktop Alert Mass Notification Platform.  No longer did the need for GI Joe like enterprise applications take the forefront. The military demanded a solution that was capable of adapting to changing times, changing requirements and limitless extensibility and expansion. 

Desktop Alert was and continues to be the innovative, adaptable and affordable technology which met and continues to meet the needs of the United States Military during the most challenging of times where unified information sharing, accurate, concise and quick information dissemination can literally mean the difference between success and failure of critical communication in a rapid fashion.  Proven success at Desktop Alert is evident by virtue of America's most prestigious military organizations decision to utilize Desktop Alert for mission critical notification and communications.  Desktop Alert has been chosen by more U.S. Military installations then any other mass notification-to-desktop technology industry-wide.

Unrivaled Feature Capability

Desktop Alert offers bar none the most advanced and most intense set of features available for mass notification to the desktop industry-wide.  Aside of all of the usual and customary requirements of sending alerts to Desktops ( AD integration, audit trails, reports, alert cancellation, alert scheduling, audio-visual alerting, centralized and/or decentralized administration, unified command and control structure) Desktop Alert has upped the ante by providing the absolute first to market streaming video, XMPP DOD secure Instant Messaging and cross platform extensibility to the Windows, MAC and Linux market share.  i.e.  Nobody is left out.  Search high and wide and you will not find another Enterprise-Class mass notification solution that can make this claim.  As a team we are innovative, poised for any challenges and staffed with a management team which can meet and exceed the requirements to do so.

Price

Desktop Alert is no different then that of our past.  Examine our testimonial above and you will see a vision, growth process, design architecture and drive for providing Enterprise-Class applications that are not only state-of-the-art and industry agnostic offerings but always designed and sold affordably.  Our offerings are not targeted for BIG-HIT deals accompanied by prohibitive support and maintenance contracts.  Smart customers are always the best customers!  Provide the best solution, at the best price, with the best support to the best and smartest customers and you will always succeed.  Its not a mantra we invented.  Its been around since the beginning of  time.  Its called Happy Customers!  All of our customers are happy and references are available on request of course.

Listen to the Podcast located at the bottom of our Home Page for more on Happy Customers!

Conclusion

At Desktop Alert we are passionate about our product.  We are self-funded.  Desktop Alert is not beholden to anyone including overseas venture capital companies.  We have a serious, proven, logical and touted past to prove and compel your organization to seriously consider our offerings.