The 2020 cost of data center outages report from the Ponemon Institute quantifies the mean cost of an unplanned data center outage at slightly more than $8,662 per minute. And the biggest opportunity to reduce the overall length of an outage and associated costs is to optimize IT incident communications. Everbridge’s Workflow Designer accelerates the operational response to critical incidents by automating the actions and activities associated with the corresponding business processes. A self-service, drag & drop-based graphical user interface to define and monitor workflows. A wide variety of ready-to-use workflow components such as computer processes, conditional nodes, and human activities. Out-of-the-box best practice packs including incident templates, communication plans, runbook, and batch tasks. Built-in connectors for a wide variety of IT applications system monitoring, SIEM, APM, NPM, DevOps, event correlation tools, BCM, ITSM systems such as ServiceNow.