How are businesses using Dashboard Visualization and Alerts within the Weather Operations Center?
What can Dashboard Visualization do for your business?
Benefits of Dashboard Visualization within the Weather Operations Center
Enhance weather visibility
See weather forecasts for all service locations at a glance in our weather dashboard and drill down to individual locations that may require action or focused staff attention.
Help improve response times
Quickly determine the safety actions to employ in specific locations in response to severe weather, such as tornadoes or lightning at sporting events.
Optimize weather-driven opportunities
Knowing weather forecasts in advance may present business opportunities for increased sales of specific products or services. Use this data to entice customers with proactive communications.
Dashboard Visualization in action
See weather data in the default view
View a summary of dashboard alerts
Get notifications of forecasted impacts
Access Operations Dashboard mobile functions
What can Alerts for Engagement do for your business?
Alerts for Engagement combine data science, geo-location, and open data with precise weather data, allowing businesses across many industries to deliver timely and customized messages to their customers. This type of meaningful engagement has the power to strengthen customer relationships and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Benefits of Alerts for Engagement within the Weather Operations Center
Increase revenue
According to Gallup Business Journal, fully engaged customers deliver a 23% premium in share of wallet, profitability and revenue.
Create lifetime customers
Weather alerts create meaningful touchpoints with your customers, building trust, brand loyalty and customer retention.
Transform insight into opportunity
Dashboard reports show the impact of your alerts so you can create a strategy that makes future touchpoints increasingly valuable to customers.
What can Alerts for Worker Safety do for your business?
Alerts for Worker Safety combine data science, geo-location and open data with precise weather data so businesses across energy and utilities, telecommunications and ground transportation can deliver timely and customized messages that protect workers on the front line. Read the data sheet to learn how you can protect your field workers and equipment with alerts.
Benefits of Alerts for Worker Safety within the Weather Operations Center
Protect field workers and equipment
Keep your workers on the front line safer by notifying them of weather hazards in advance.
Reduce the cost of manual communications
Having a standardized, timely and automated warning system makes field workers aware of impending weather while cutting costs and reducing downtime.
Improve efficiency over time
Dashboard reports show the details and results of your alerts to field workers so you can fine-tune your system and increase efficiency with each weather danger.
Key features of scalable alerts
Hyperlocal, accurate alerts
Alerts are powered by the most accurate weather data from 26 billion daily forecasts, 250,000 worldwide weather stations, and more than 100 meteorologists. The data provides 100 times greater coverage than public data and is updated every 15 minutes.
Customizable alert messages
Set custom alert triggers from weather perils that you select based on specific weather events and levels of severity. Alerts are sent by email, SMS or through your existing messaging system.
Measurable impact
The dashboard shows who was alerted, where, what kind of alert they received, and when it was sent. Your data can be exported into spreadsheets for further analysis with Watson Analytics or the analytics tool of your choice.
Quick and easy deployment
Cloud-based weather alerts are fast, easy and self-service. Weather alerts do not require specialized hardware, software or IT support, though live help from The Weather Company is always available.
Alerts in action
Choose from various types of alerts
Create groups to target alerts to the appropriate areas
Decide which weather perils trigger alerts
Customize your messages with templates
Track alerts activity on your dashboard