WebEOC is the original web-enabled crisis information management system and provides secure real-time information sharing to help managers make sound decisions quickly. Originally developed for public safety and emergency management officials, WebEOC is now also used for routine operations in private corporations, public utilities, domestic and international airlines, healthcare associations, and universities, as well as by government at every level - city, county and state agencies nationwide and NASA, EPA, and other federal agencies within the Departments of Defense, Energy, Agriculture, and Health & Human Services.

In DOJ’s 2002 evaluation, state and local emergency management agencies indicated that Crisis Information Management Software must meet these criteria, and WebEOC met or exceeded each one:

• Be affordable
• Be user friendly
• Be easy to maintain by existing EMA Staff with access to vendor’s technical support
• Be easy to tailor to the conditions and policies of the agency
• Allow for remote access by authorized users located outside the LAN
• Comply with the provisions and standards for Incident Command System (ICS)
• Comply with the provisions of the Emergency Support Functions (ESF)
• Integrate with other systems such as mapping,other CIMS, and telephonic alert notification systems
• Integrate public health into emergency management. Operate within a variety of network configurations
• Have a wide range of features. Offer help desk support 24/7

EmerGeo Mapping Plug-in for WebEOC®

EmerGeo's optional WebEOC® Interface allows users of the WebEOC® crisis management software to plot any status board data on maps, offering controls to help eliminate the common problem of duplicate or irrelevant data being plotted onto situation maps. WebEOC® customers simply add the EmerGeo plot button to WebEOC® boards and map view buttons dynamically appear as the data is plotted. Users click a map button to immediately zoom in on a selected incident, resource, shelters, and facilities data on EmerGeo web maps. Plotted data represented by one or multiple icons (points), lines or polygons can be set to automatically change size and colour based on status or magnitude changes – a real-time situational status display results.

EmerGeo is a GIS mapping application that "sits between" existing GIS system(s) and the WebEOC® server. It generates WebEOC® map overlays (layers) on GIS data being read directly from customer’s existing ESRI®, Intergraph®, MapInfo®, AutoDesk® or other mapping systems using OpenGIS® interfaces (e.g., WMS). ESRI shape files and dozens of other vector and graphic data can be loaded into EmerGeo without data conversion and "on the fly". The hotlinks feature enables users to link any file (e.g., photo) or URL (e.g., web camera) to any point or area on a map, and share this link with other decision makers.

Spatial queries can integrate customers existing map data and the WebEOC® plotted data to support decision making. For example, you can generate a report on population or infrastructure affected within ‘buffer zones’ around WebEOC® plotted events.