According to the Ponemon Institute's 2020 report on the financial impact of data center outages, the average cost of an unexpected data center failure exceeds $8,662 for each passing minute. The greatest potential for minimizing both the duration of outages and the costs incurred lies in enhancing communication regarding IT incidents. Everbridge’s Workflow Designer facilitates a faster operational response to urgent situations by automating the necessary actions tied to relevant business processes. It features a user-friendly, self-service graphical interface that employs a drag-and-drop method for defining and monitoring workflows effectively. Users benefit from a diverse set of readily available workflow components, including computer processes, conditional nodes, and tasks performed by humans. Additionally, it comes equipped with pre-packaged best practices comprising incident templates, communication strategies, runbooks, and batch tasks for immediate use. Furthermore, built-in connectors are compatible with a wide array of IT applications, including system monitoring tools, SIEM, APM, NPM, DevOps utilities, event correlation platforms, BCM, and ITSM systems such as ServiceNow, ensuring seamless integration and enhancing overall operational efficiency.