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The PowerDMS platform is designed to recruit, train, equip, and protect employees across their careers within public safety agencies and healthcare facilities.
CatapultEMS is built specifically for K-12 schools, including private and charter schools, and districts of any size. We work with school districts across the entire United States.
I use PDMS for accreditation mostly and find it user friendly. The success community is a huge help and when I do have to contact PDMS they are helpful and quick to find an answer.
I think the people who don’t generally work off of a “table of contents” style program may have trouble, there are lots of “levels” when getting deeper into the program.
It is super user friendly. And if you do not understand or are having difficulties you can check out a webinar or reach out to the super responsive and friendly customer service people.
Downloading document in native application is confusing for end users.
I like the ease of uploading the proofs and written documentation. I like being able to track my progress.
As mentioned above, it can be confusing. There isn't a clear, or intuitive way to use this resource.
The search feature and the ability for customization of foldering down to the ability to create specific approval and review templates are great.
Sometime it is a bit hard to get the workflows correct.
Other than that, everyone that I have come into contact with have been amazing and extremely helpful. We are still learning our way to become extremely proficient, but we will get there.
The struggles with the software are that it is still relatively new so there are a few bugs that they are working out.
I think overall we have had a positive experience. The Catapult staff were great to deal with and they tried to answer all of our questions.
I understand many factors were at play along with a strict time-line but I think it presented a bad taste at first for many of the newcomers.
The service received from CatapultEMS staff before the purchase and since the implementation has been an outstanding experience. Kodus to the entire Catapult team.
Very frustrating trying to get the apps to work to talk to other staff members without having to put in passwords every time - how does one remember those in a panicky situation.
For me, I use it the the "back of the house" and the simple fact that it can be at your finger tips when an emergency or drill happens on a school campus is the best win for us.
The cell phone apps did not work right. We couldn't communicate with eachother during drills or actual incidents because password were difficult.
Jason: Hi. My name is Jason. I am a lieutenant. I give PowerDMS a five out of five. For more reviews like this, please click below. I've been using PowerDMS for over 10 years now. Primary uses include policy management, compliance and accreditation, training management, equipment management, inventory, as well as managing our extra duty and scheduling. What I like most about PowerDMS is that it's widely used amongst law enforcement agencies here in the States and nationally. It is a very simple system to use. But despite it being very simple, you can use it in a variety of different ways to help your agency. There is an available phone app for PowerDMS. While it is great for reviewing policy and documents out in the field, I do wish it was a little bit more robust in regards to training and scheduling.
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