My little town gets some big crowds. The weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, and the big event itself. A week later our annual Gasparilla parade. Now the Yankees are in town for spring training, as are several other MLB teams in nearby towns. Soon we will be into hurricane seasons. We are home to MacDill Air Force Base and US CENTCOM.
All these require a constant level of emergency preparedness and management.
During the recent Super Bowl, three primary geographic branches reported into the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), along with multiple city, state and federal agencies that helped the EOC. SAP BusinessObjects was the core of its information-sharing infrastructure. This, along with video conferencing and NC4’s E Team application for situational readiness, connected team members and ensured they had access to the information needed to help address potential emergencies in a more coordinated, centralized way.
Xcelsius (part of the SAP BI solution) dashboards helped teams visualize information like incidents in chronological order, logistics requests, local hospital statuses and local hospital bed counts. These interactive dashboards also allow the EOC staff to perform important “what if” analysis , to pose hypothetical scenarios and practice appropriate responses.
Picture credit Civic Heraldry.com
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