International. Motorola Solutions reported that it took control of Noggin, a global provider of cloud-based software for business continuity planning, operational resilience and critical event management (CEM).
The acquired company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and has customers all over the world. Noggin software helps businesses and critical infrastructure effectively anticipate, prepare for, and respond to incidents.
The company's integrated platform offers flexible workflows and checklists, integrated maps, and situational awareness dashboards to help streamline incident management and strengthen business flexibility. With a single, easy-to-use interface, Noggin software allows response teams to communicate directly, follow unified procedures, and see the same operational picture during everyday incidents or emergencies.
"Our investments in technology to connect those in need with those they can help are more critical than ever," said Greg Brown, president and CEO of Motorola Solutions. "Noggin enables the operational resilience and incident management capabilities that are essential as industries globally continue to see threats scale in number and complexity."
The company further indicated that Noggin is an excellent complement to its portfolio of emergency coordination solutions, adding business continuity planning, operational resiliency and CEM software that helps make enterprise security more accessible and actionable. In addition, the acquisition of Noggin further strengthens Motorola Solutions' ability to connect public safety agencies and businesses, enabling the collaboration that is critical to a more proactive approach to safety.
"Together with Motorola Solutions, we will continue to help businesses quickly respond to and manage all types of adverse events and disruptions," said James Boddam-Whetham, CEO of Noggin. "We are excited about this next step in our journey that will allow us to offer our solutions to a wider customer base."
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

