{"id":9705,"date":"2015-07-28T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T07:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=9705"},"modified":"2015-07-28T15:33:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T07:33:16","slug":"ayala-group-of-companies-launch-mobile-app-disaster-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2015\/07\/28\/ayala-group-of-companies-launch-mobile-app-disaster-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayala Group of Companies launch mobile app for disaster support"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ayala Group of Companies has launched a mobile-based system for emergencies and disasters to ensure a unified, systematic, and efficient response plan for its thousands of employees.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"JAZA\"<\/a>

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, Chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation demonstrates how ASSIST can benefit employees of the Ayala Group of Companies<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Called ASSIST (Ayala Sign-In System for Immediate Support and Tracking), the mobile app for Android and IOS was developed by Yondu, a wholly-owned IT outsourcing and mobile services subsidiary of Globe Telecom, to allow companies to track their employees during disasters and provide assistance, if necessary.<\/p>\n

\u201cCEOs of the Ayala Group of Companies have lent our time and effort to many national initiatives with respect to potential disasters this country would face.\u00a0 But we cannot be involved in helping the country if we haven\u2019t organized ourselves.\u00a0 It is a new reality that disasters would be part of our lives in the Philippines.\u00a0 The most intelligent thing we can do is to prepare for it,\u201d said Ayala Corporation Chairman and CEO Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II during the launch of ASSIST at The Globe Tower in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig.<\/p>\n

He added:\u00a0 \u201cWhen disasters happen, most of us are responsible to a whole range of different services that the public would require.\u00a0 But how can we give those services if our employees are in danger.\u00a0 It is our job to first and foremost help our employees.\u00a0 It is very hard for us to fulfill public or national service in times of emergency if our mind is elsewhere with worry about our position, our families, our situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through ASSIST, employees can immediately report their status and location as well as request for help.\u00a0 They can also receive broadcast alerts, disaster-related information, and details of preparatory activities from the ASSIST Command Center.\u00a0 At the same time, contact information of critical lifelines are made available for easy access while an Information Hub gathers related feeds from Twitter to inform everyone on activities of government agencies.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the app would be made available as a source of help in extreme emergency even outside of a national disaster environment.<\/p>\n

ASSIST is part of Aksyon Klima, a business recommendation for the Ayala Group Disaster Risk and Response Plan initiated by Ayala Corporation together with BPI Globe BanKO in response to issues on unsystematic recovery efforts and scarcity of resources experienced during the wide scale relief and rescue operations following the onslaught of Typhoon Haiyan almost two years ago.<\/p>\n

To address the situation, the Ayala Group of Companies, through Ayala Corporation, came up with a three-pronged strategy designed to enable a systematic and efficient plan for the group.\u00a0 First is to standardize systems, procedures and policies, ensure proper training and preparedness among employees, and assure organized and well-planned disaster relief and recovery operations.\u00a0 Second approach is to ensure involvement, representation and participation of all companies as well as establish a command chain for easier decision-making.\u00a0 The third strategy is the creation of ASSIST as an alert warning app that will serve as a crowdsourcing tool and information hub.<\/p>\n

For its initial phase, ASSIST may already be used by all regular employees of the following organizations: AC Energy and Infra Group; Ayala Theaters Management, Inc.; Ayala Land Sales, Inc.; Aprisa Business Process Solutions, Inc.; Globe Telecom, Ayala Foundation, Inc.; Ayala Corporation; AC Automotive Business Sservices; ACEI-Volkswagen; Ayala Land Hotels and Resorts Corp.; AMAIA Land Corp.; Ayala Property Management Corporation; Avida Land; Cebu Holdings, Inc.; Honda Cars; Philippine Integrated Energy Solutions, Inc.; Isuzu Cebu Inc.; Makati Development Corporation; MDC Buildplus, Inc.; MDC Conqrete Inc.; MDC Equipment Solutions Inc.; Ayala Land International Sales, Inc.; Amicassa Process Solutions, Inc.; El Nido Resorts; and SEDA Hotels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ayala Group of Companies has launched a mobile-based system for emergencies and disasters to ensure a unified, systematic, and efficient response plan for its thousands of employees.   Called ASSIST (Ayala Sign-In System for Immediate Support and Tracking), the mobile app for Android and IOS was developed by Yondu, a wholly-owned IT outsourcing and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[3290,1101],"class_list":["post-9705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps","category-headlines","tag-ayala-group-of-companies","tag-disaster-recovery-and-preparedness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}