LizaAlert has renewed its subscription to 15 Cisco licenses WebEx

2022: Renewal of 15 licenses and addition of 10 more

The Lisa Alert search and rescue squad expanded the number of Cisco Webex hybrid platform licenses. The organization uses the solution to remotely interact with volunteers and coordinate the search for missing people throughout the country. The detachment as of February 2022 has more than 30,000 people in 63 regions of Russia.

Licenses on preferential terms provided by an international company, Cisco the company Sissoft"," took over all expenses. The charity initiative supported distributor design solutions. OCS This is not the first stage of cooperation between organizations. At the end of 2020, Sissoft and OCS provided 15 Cisco Webex licenses for the needs of the detachment. In 2022, the organization renewed its subscription for 15 licenses and added 10 new ones.

Using the Webex software, LisaAlert conducts training for squad members: lectures and seminars on search techniques, cartography and other areas, in-house meetings, as well as online classes on child safety for parents and children throughout Russia. Modern digital tools facilitate communication between volunteers, helping to make searches more effective.

The LizaAlert squad has 24 directions: coordinators, dog handlers, signalmen, equestrians, registrars and other specialists. The activities of LizaAlert are aimed at responding as quickly as possible for each application for the search for a missing person. In its history, the detachment participated in the search and rescue of more than 107,000 people alive, in total more than 147,000 applications were accepted and worked out.

2020: Using Cisco WebEx

Cisco and Syssoft help members of the LisaAlert search and rescue squad stay in touch during the pandemic. This was announced by Syssoft on January 12, 2021.

The LizaAlert search and rescue organization began using the Cisco WebEx platform for remote interaction in the context of the coronavirus pandemic and coordinating the search for missing people. This became part of the Cisco program, in which the company provides Webex to Russian enterprises and organizations on preferential terms.

The LizaAlert squad accepts applications around the clock to search for missing people, without weekends and holidays. Your organization's resources are always limited. The detachment does not accept monetary assistance (this is a principled position), but is ready to accept as a gift equipment that will help search engines in their work. Our team always needs standard search equipment: navigators, lights, but in addition, we need drones, laptops, tablets and specialized software, "said Sergey Chumak, head of the support group of the LizaAlert detachment.

To find missing people, members of the search squad need to work closely with each other. In addition, the LizaAlert team needs to hold regular training meetings with various specialists, and in the context of quarantine, the Cisco Webex platform helps organize such webinars online.

We are convinced that technology should not only help business, but also fulfill social, important functions for the whole society. When our Cisco partners offered to help us equip search teams with communication tools, we had no doubt - we definitely need to help. In my opinion, for technology companies such initiatives should become more frequent practice, "said Maxim Tikurkin, CEO of Syssoft.

Issues of remote interaction during the pandemic are especially acute, so we strive to provide Webex to a large number of organizations in Russia, "commented Dmitry Kislitsyn, head of the partner business transformation department, Cisco Russia. "Finding lost people is a mission whose importance cannot be overestimated. It's no exaggeration saving lives. We are proud that together with Syssoft and the search squad 'LizaAlert' we can take part in this mission.