The Desktop Alert Emergency Mass Notification System utilizes "Actionable Intelligence". The ability to in-place intelligent methods, functions and triggers that interact with and bring crucial data to and from end-users based on end-user and/or managements predefined business rules and settings. The entire platform is written in C# and utilizes web services and SoapXml across port 80. Included is a Active Directory Scanner service which continually updates the Desktop Alert system database with changes that occur in the Active Directory. This is an Enterprise Level Platform currently used by: -SAP -U.S. Military -Intel -KPMG and a number of other fortune 500 firms. The client application includes Windows Client Authentication.