Alastar

Alastar is an online situational awareness software that helps public safety agencies perform their missions more effectively. Put simply, it is about building software for you when nothing off the shelf fits.

Who is it for? Mostly companies with a specific process to automate. They also list Public Safety, so expect those to show up in the feature set. They are a small team, 11 to 50 people, which usually shapes who they work with. You will probably talk to the people who build it, which is great until you need 24/7 support.

Alastar is based in Summerville, South Carolina. Their site is alastar.com.

Things worth asking about: portfolio relevance, who owns the code, and how they handle changes. Ask for a trial on your own data, not a canned demo.

If you have worked with Alastar, tell the next buyer what you paid and what surprised you. That is the part of this page we cannot write.