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Everbridge IT Alerting vs OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Everbridge IT Alerting
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
7th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
OnSolve Platform for Critic...
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
16th
Average Rating
6.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Mass Notification Software (2nd), Critical Event Management (CEM) (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Everbridge IT Alerting is 5.7%, down from 11.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management is 1.8%, down from 4.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Everbridge IT Alerting5.7%
OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management1.8%
Other92.5%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1846215 - PeerSpot reviewer
Crisis Management Director at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Helps in identifying potential impact and allows us to see where our assets are in relation to a risk event
I personally love VCC because I just think there needs to be more data to support it so we can be more proactive and easily assess the impact. So, I appreciate the visual aspect, but it has to have the data to support it. It has proved very useful, particularly because we have a GSOC that's not technically 24/7. We do have an 800 number that people call 24/7. If something happens, they can easily send Everbridge a notification to activate the team off hours. It is useful in that respect too. We use it in conjunction with teams, but off-hours and for additional people outside of the core team, we use Everbridge, which is useful.
it_user826692 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Continuity Specialist at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Allows for a systematic and uniform method of alerting personnel in every location, but the user interface is too complicated
Emergency alerting for a global company in 14 countries It allows for a systematic and uniform method of alerting personnel in every location. It has the same general functions as most emergency alerting systems. The placeholder dropdowns for message templates are useful. The user interface is…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"You can program in rotations, shifts, and scenarios of different kinds and it allows you to page multiple people, or people in sequence, or a group of people simultaneously."
"By leveraging Everbridge, with a few clicks of a mouse, we are able to go in and request as many teams as we require to respond to an incident and bring them together to collaborate much faster."
"Our performance showed us that, for major incidents, we spent over 40 minutes just making manual call-outs. That is why we implement the tool in the first place and that time has been cut down to two or three minutes."
"It's mainly for mass notification and pooling of contacts. Pooling of customers is valuable."
"I manage the platform, and I don't really use it. The scheduling aspect of it is valuable where you create your groups and then either manually or via API call, you can initiate an alert. It'll look at the schedule and only contact those people who are on-call. So, it takes the guesswork out."
"A robust solution with multiple modules that can be leveraged."
"The most valuable feature is the support calendars."
"People are able to join a bridge with one press of a button. It gives us the ability to contact the correct people via rules, based on conditions."
"The placeholder dropdowns for message templates are useful.​"
"It allows for a systematic and uniform method of alerting personnel in every location.​"
 

Cons

"You have to create schedules in Everbridge. It would be better if it could tie into an existing solution, such as Microsoft Exchange or Google Calendar, so that you don't have to create it in both places. That's one thing it lacks right now. You can't just say, "Hey, look at this Microsoft calendar. That's what we want to use." You have to create it in Everbridge."
"An incident management feature would be nice because, as it stands now, you select different items when you're filling out a form to launch a notification. If those were more conditional it would help. Right now it just puts out whatever you put into the form, whereas, if you could specify a "yes" or "no" and it would input a different verbiage, that would be nice to have, instead of having to spell out all the verbiage."
"The initial setup was very complex. We did not have a very good experience with our initial deployment. Most of this was due to customizations in our ServiceNow instance."
"The integration with other solutions needs improvement... Due to issues with the libraries provided by Everbridge, we have not been able to integrate IT Alerting with our incident management tool."
"Lacks ability to customize messages."
"The company would like to have super detailed analytics, as we integrate this with our security software."
"Explanations are limited to 500 characters in description fields."
"Their integration capabilities are still progressing, but not quite where we'd like to see them yet. They're moving there with that orchestration capability where they're seeing the potential of an API-first mentality. So instead of trying to build custom connections into everything, you open up APIs to allow other systems to talk to IT Alerting and allow IT Alerting to talk to other systems. There is room for improvement, but they get it."
"Conference calling requires a complicated syntax formula.​"
"The user interface is too complicated and aspects that should be offered, such as email subject line editing, are not."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing was under $25 a month per user. We had about 1,000 defined users."
"As far as I'm aware, there are no costs beyond the standard licensing fees."
"They are one of the cheapest solutions on the market. We looked at all of the major competitors in the space. Everbridge was one of the most affordable for what they are offering."
"I do not know about the licensing costs, but I know they're in groups, and there are permission caps. For example, you can have five admin accounts, and anyone can receive a notification. There's a mobile component too, which I find particularly useful, but it has to be a part of the contract."
"It saves us a lot of time."
"Their pricing is a good value and very reasonable. They are very upfront about their pricing. There is nothing confusing about it."
"The current pricing model is adequate. We feel that the pricing model for our IT Alerting solution is competitive with similar solutions on the market."
"Licensing cost is driven largely by the number of users in the platform including admins, group managers, and message senders, so you want to consider your needs there."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
17%
Healthcare Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
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Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Large Enterprise22
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Everbridge IT Alerting?
The solution's non-targeted communication with external parties could be enhanced.
What advice do you have for others considering Everbridge IT Alerting?
We are using Everbridge IT Alerting for incident and crisis modules. The tool is powerful in itself, but as with any tool, you need to adapt it to the organization to be suitable for managing speci...
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Also Known As

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Send Word Now, OnSolve MIR3, OnSolve CodeRED, OnSolve SmartNotice, OnSolve TelAlert
 

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