Desktop Alerts' client application is built on Microsoft's Internet Explorer Browser and as such the client application never needs updating now or in the future by Desktop Alert in order to sustain functionality.

This is crucial as the alert system is only as good as the client application which delivers the alert to a workstation or laptop.

Microsoft handles all browser updates and a such to date AND in its entire company history Desktop Alert has never had to update its client applications browser technology for military networks.

For example: McGuire Air Force Base has never ever needed an update to to the Desktop Alert client application by Desktop Alert.

The whole process is managed automatically by Microsoft automatically at no charge!

Most if not all other products on the market require updates to sustain operation of proprietary desktop alert client applications.  Further, Desktop Alert provides all source code of the client application to its clients. The client is a mere wrapper application which has Microsoft Internet Explorer embedded.

This approach avoided equates to additional support costs AND puts at risk the operational capability of the client application itself.

The lack of update requirements with the Desktop Alert client application has sustained our companies values and vision which state that the best software is software that always works without any additional cost(s).

Our track record with the U.S. Military corroborates these views.  McGuire Air Force Base and other military installations have never spent a single dollar on client application upgrades since day one of our first DoD contract.

Our client application being based entirely (100%) on Microsoft Internet Explorer insures to the customer that the Windows Platforms works with the Desktop Alert client application from an authentication and integration standpoint.  This benefits the customer as new emerging technologies will work within the client application as Microsoft updates the machines browser.  Recently, Microsoft Silverlight was used in a Desktop Alert client.  Because Microsoft manages the browser updates. The functionality was automatic.  All without an update from our company.

Additional benefits to the customer include the fact that clients can utilize website scripts that have already been created for use on the clients website.  Those scripts can be incorporated into the desktop alert itself since the desktop alert client is in essence Microsoft Internet Explorer.

An example of this might be a data collection page on a website such as a comments page/form submission.

That page and script could be cut and pasted directly into Desktop Alerts WYSIWYG html-enabled editor for publication to end-users resulting in data collection from end-users to data repositories, Blackberry's or other data storage mediums.



Because of the Desktop Alert client applications IE architecture, the following list is a mere sampling of the applications capability:
 

  1. send video alerts
  2. embed flash objects
  3. embed Microsoft Excel documents
  4. embed Microsoft Word documents
  5. embed Microsoft PowerPoint documents
  6. embed jpeg, gif, png and other image formats
  7. embed animated gif formats
  8. embed data collection web pages with custom java/vb scripts
  9. embed Microsoft Virtual Earth GIS Technology!
  10. embed html-enabled chat platforms
  11. embed audio alerts, GIANT VOICE ALERTS
  12. and much much more
     

If you can do it in a web browser, you can do it in Desktop Alert!

This is the value proposition.