How Did D3 Products Help Cut $10 Million from a Security Budget?

“By analyzing our incident data through the D3 Incident Reporting System and applying appropriate risk based counter measures we were able to reduce incidents significantly and cut the overall security budget by $10 million”

The above statement was made by the Vice President of Corporate Security and Emergency Management at a Fortune 500 company. Given today's economic environment it is vital that Security Operations maximize budgetary resources. In a modern security environment there are several key aspects that every Security Professional needs in order to make the right decisions. Ask yourself the following questions:

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• How are you tracking and analyzing costs associated with incidents?
• How are you tracking and analyzing risk mitigation strategy effectiveness?
• Can you provide comprehensive data to support the current allocation of your Security resources?
• How do you manage the incident and investigation processes to ensure it is comprehensive, complies with company policy and is done as efficiently as possible?
• How do you ensure analysis reports are accurate?
• Can organizational wide reports be generated and if so, done so in a timely manner?
• How do you know you are making the right decisions and how do you prove it to your peers and Superiors?

If your organization has not yet implemented a modern incident reporting system you are potentially not aware of significant cost-cutting measures available within your Security Operations budget. The D3 system is designed to make your job easier: improve security while reducing costs, justify budgetary requests and generate the reports to prove it.

Implementing the D3 system opens the door to organization wide cost analysis of incidents and security coverage, provides predictability modeling and trend reporting, analysis of counter measure effectiveness and key performance indicators. Attractive, fully customizable Executive dashboards and reports provide real-time information designed to improve Security effectiveness and enhance the profile of the Security department throughout the organization.

As the trusted leader in Incident reporting and case management software systems, D3 is used by 100’s of companies with over 10,000 users. Given the systems unlimited scalability, user-customization options and leading access control features it is the preferred solution of many Fortune 500 and Fortune 50 organizations. We ensure your success by delivering a fully customized system and assign a dedicated Business Analyst to work with your team to identify areas of potential cost reductions.

Dramatically Increase Security Operation Efficiency and Cut Costs

Improvements in process efficiencies:

• Implementing the D3 system can result in a 10%-20% reduction in security staff. Most organizations can cover the entire cost of the D3 system with only a 3-4% staff reduction
• The notification process, escalations, control over access to information, forms and procedure documentation for the entire organization become automated, managed from a single application. This circumvents the time consuming, error prone, manual administration of tasks associated with these activities.
• Incident forms provide additional options based on a selection, avoiding collection of unnessary data and streamlineing the information entry process.

Improved decision-making:

• Access to organizational wide, real-time, accurate information provides a clear understanding of budgetary allocation, improves efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity.
• Attractive, fully customizable Executive dashboards, reports and KPI’s provide real-time information designed to improve Security effectiveness and enhance the profile of your department throughout the organization.
• Easily create custom reports that can be saved, published and exported.

Productivity savings:

• Staff no longer wastes time searching through physical records. Retrieve information instantly through an integrated search engine which incorporates information access privileges.
• Track the where abouts of physical security resources in real-time with integrated Guard Tour and Dispatch.
• Pin-Mapping for location based incident analysis to provide visual insight into where Security coverage is needed most.
• Security personnel create incident reports, receive dispatches, log activities and access procedures all from the field via a mobile device.
• Reduced effort implementing new forms, processes or changes to risk mitigation strategy.

Reduced errors:

• Standardized forms with required fields, organizational wide analysis reports and metrics ensure information is accurate and comprehensive.

Reduced development costs

• Reduced costs associated with modifying the software in the future. Thanks to D3’s unique flexibility no consultants or programmers are required to modify the system. Customization is in the hands of the customer.

Contact D3 today for a full ROI analysis of the D3 system for your organization - 1-800-608-0081