MS TEAMS INTEGRATION INITIATIVE
Microsoft TEAMS integration into SISE
This initiative was created to address the private sector’s desire to reduce emails and portals during disasters and simplify user access to the SISE by leveraging MS TEAM and SISE credentials.
During disasters, email traffic dramatically increases, and inboxes get flooded with too much mail. During disasters, email is inefficient, requires too much time to search and review emails, and is not a good platform for keeping certain information private to a specific group of users.
Additionally, the use of the portal requires users to remember usernames and passwords (not very secure anymore), and firewall software & upgrades often block users from access to specific portals completely.
When information cannot be shared quickly and effectively, delays occur in the decision-making process, which costs time, money, reputations, and lives.
With many organizations moving to Microsoft TEAMS during the COVID pandemic, the use of MS TEAMS has increased with states, industry, and federal agencies. MS TEAMS provides enhanced security, reduces the reliance upon email, and adds a universal form of identity management by linking every invited user to a verified organization already using MS TEAMS or a verified email address derived from an invitation email.
The AHC’s GIS Working Group, now called the SISE-net Working Group, is integrating MS TEAMS into the SISE framework and its ESRI software platform that shares GIS formatted information.
Once completed, the SISE / MS TEAMS integration will provide:
The operational benefits of this will include:
This initiative was created to address the private sector’s desire to reduce emails and portals during disasters and simplify user access to the SISE by leveraging MS TEAM and SISE credentials.
During disasters, email traffic dramatically increases, and inboxes get flooded with too much mail. During disasters, email is inefficient, requires too much time to search and review emails, and is not a good platform for keeping certain information private to a specific group of users.
Additionally, the use of the portal requires users to remember usernames and passwords (not very secure anymore), and firewall software & upgrades often block users from access to specific portals completely.
When information cannot be shared quickly and effectively, delays occur in the decision-making process, which costs time, money, reputations, and lives.
With many organizations moving to Microsoft TEAMS during the COVID pandemic, the use of MS TEAMS has increased with states, industry, and federal agencies. MS TEAMS provides enhanced security, reduces the reliance upon email, and adds a universal form of identity management by linking every invited user to a verified organization already using MS TEAMS or a verified email address derived from an invitation email.
The AHC’s GIS Working Group, now called the SISE-net Working Group, is integrating MS TEAMS into the SISE framework and its ESRI software platform that shares GIS formatted information.
Once completed, the SISE / MS TEAMS integration will provide:
- A more secure information and identity management framework
- A simple way to onboard people into the SISE to access certain information organized by user privileges and “use case”
- A collaborative platform to provide access to structured and non-structured information
- Structured information is already in a GIS format
- Un-structured information is in text messages, chats, emails, PDFs, spreadsheets, phone calls, situation reports, weblinks, etc.….
- A better platform to connect state and industry emergency operations centers into a network to view cross-sector information for their situational awareness without taking possession of it
- A unified platform that will allow all users to see the same vetted, trusted “use case” information at the same instant. Synchronizing Situational awareness.
The operational benefits of this will include:
- Streamlining information flow during a disaster
- Reduces delays caused by untrusted information
- Access to a platform that will support cross-sector and multi-agency planning and response activities
- Increased trust between industry and government users.