Part One: Achieving More Efficient Health, Safety and Security with a Holistic Platform Approach

Now more than ever, organizations across the country and the world are looking for ways to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs. 

Recent survey data from the World Economic Forum shows that organization leaders are most concerned about ensuring health, safety, and efficiency. From overcoming economic challenges to managing health and safety in the face of environmental risks and security risks, planning for the future requires a holistic approach. 

Kokomo24/7® collaborated with our partner Zebra Technologies to explore how a holistic platform approach makes managing health, safety, and security more efficient - and, show how Kokomo24/7® and Zebra combine to provide integrated technology solutions that organizations want.  

Anyone who’s worked in an organization knows that you often need to use multiple software platforms and solutions to manage everything.

This leads to headaches, inefficiency, and problems where you have to manage multiple logins, share data between separate systems, and pay excess software licensing or subscription costs.

While there is a clear need to manage people, safety, health, wellness, and employee communication digitally, some ways of doing so are better than others.

This is where a holistic platform approach is a far better alternative.

In recent years, software developers have created new, fully integrated, holistic, cloud-based platforms that unify many different workplace management capabilities, including health and safety, visitor and event management, employee communication, and much more.

These platforms are built from the ground up to be a single solution to digitize, streamline, automate, and optimize many different tasks.

Instead of having to piece together fragmented software products that are often slow, don’t integrate with each other, and make work harder, a holistic platform breaks down the barriers. It delivers all the capabilities you need to manage core aspects of your workplace, people, and communication in one holistic, platform-based solution.

An Example of a Holistic Platform in Action

Disparate and disconnected or poorly integrated software solutions are a problem in many different industries. But some of the biggest challenges are in K-12 schools, quick service restaurants (QSRs), hospitality, healthcare organizations, corporate enterprise and other entities where health, safety, security and communication are often more large-scale and complex challenges.

As a perfect example, one suburban K-12 school district spoke with our engineers at Kokomo24/7® about a chaotic and difficult IT landscape where it was using 76 different discrete systems to manage safety, identify verification, access controls, visitor and event management, and other areas of its campus operations.

District staff were not only dealing with basic headaches such as having to enter 76 different passwords to access these systems, but the systems were clunky and inefficient, they weren’t talking to each other, they weren’t synced up, and they weren’t delivering all the features they needed to manage everything more effectively.

Fortunately, since we had already developed our Kokomo24/7® School Safety Cloud™, and it was already in use at many school districts across the U.S., we were able to show this district how our system works and walk them through our platform-based approach. This allowed them to see how they could replace many of those separate systems with a single cloud-based solution that was far more efficient, fully centralized and integrated, and provides interoperability with other solutions.

Schools use our Kokomo24/7® platform and companion Zebra technologies to automate, streamline, and centralize everything from security access controls and visitor screening to emergency notifications, communication with faculty, staff, and students, operations and data management, and event ticketing and check-ins.

All of this happens through one platform that delivers all of the capabilities and tools they need while working together with district computers, digital kiosks, scanning and tracking technologies, student information systems, and integrating with other systems.

Interoperability with leading technologies, like Zebra, makes the Kokomo24/7® platform more valuable for organizations:

• A platform that supports open standards...and doesn’t lock schools into clunky, proprietary technology
• A platform that provides a roadmap of future needs
• A platform that is field-tested at scale (like Kokomo24/7® in Los Angeles Unified School District)

It created a massive improvement in overall efficiency and cost-effectiveness at the school while helping keep its students, faculty, staff and visitors safe, informed, and connected.

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Exploring the Holistic Platform Approach for Your Health, Safety and Security

To learn more about the holistic platform approach and how you can use it to achieve better health, safety and communication with increased operational efficiency, cost management, and interoperability, feel free to reach out to our experts.

We’re always glad to provide tips, insights and recommendations to guide your future solution searches and software evaluations, and if you’re looking for an ideal, cloud-based platform to unify many of your core health, safety and communication requirements, we’d also be glad to give you access to a demo of our Kokomo24/7® platform, to try it for yourself.

To get started, contact us now.

About Kokomo24/7®

Since 2018, Kokomo24/7®’s unique configuration-based platform has helped more than 120 leading national and global organizations respond quickly to complex business and operational challenges. The Kokomo24/7® platform continues to evolve to efficiently meet the unique needs of every organization in the areas of health and safety, wellness, communications, compliance, accountability, and incident management.

Request a demo to see the flexibility of the Kokomo24/7® platform for yourself!