City of Battle Creek selects SCC Communications' Computer-Aided Dispatch system.BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 1996--SCC Communications Corp. today announced that following a competitive procurement process, the police and fire departments for the city of Battle Creek Battle Creek, city (1990 pop. 53,540), Calhoun co., S Mich., at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers; settled 1831, inc. as a city 1859. It is an agricultural trade center known for its cereals. , Mich., have selected SCC's Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) system to provide complete computerized incident processing and status monitoring for the city's police, fire and emergency medical services An Emergency medical service (abbreviated to initialism "EMS" in many countries) is a service providing out-of-hospital acute care and transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient believes constitutes a medical emergency. (EMS) agencies. Serving 45-square miles and a population of 55,000, the city of Battle Creek is the third largest city, in terms of land area, in the state of Michigan. Dispatching for 19 police and fire agencies, the Battle Creek communications center An agency charged with the responsibility for handling and controlling communications traffic. The center normally includes message center, transmitting, and receiving facilities. Also called COMCEN. See also telecommunications center. receives 160,000 9-1-1 calls annually, and that number is projected to reach 200,000 within 5 years. "With SCC SCC - strongly connected component , we are bringing our dispatching efforts into the 20th century," said Jim Zoss, emergency program manager for the city of Battle Creek. "We really did our homework before committing to this system. Over the past four years, we have looked at numerous vendors, talked with many end-users and visited many installations. We were impressed with SCC because of their experience in the industry, financial stability and their compliance with our requirements." SCC Communications Corp. is the world leader in the innovation and delivery of database services and software solutions for the telecommunications and public safety industries throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and the Pacific Rim. The company's National Data Services Center is a first-of-its-kind facility that provides data management services on a national scale for E9-1-1 infrastructure operation. Via the NDSC NDSC National Down Syndrome Congress NDSC Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change NDSC North Dakota Soybean Council , SCC provides technology that manages critical 9-1-1 data integrity and accessibility, enabling its customers to save lives. CONTACT: SCC Communications Corp., Boulder Lynn Cranston, 303/581-5631 |
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