What WIN-911 Software does

WIN-911 Software is a private, for-profit vendor of remote alarm notification software, headquartered in Austin, Texas. According to the firmographic record, the company is the self-described world's most widely-used software in its category, indicating a leadership position within a narrow industrial automation niche — typically SCADA/HMI-adjacent deployments where plant operators need reliable out-of-hours notification of process alarms via voice, SMS, email, or mobile channels. The company was founded in 1974, giving it approximately five decades of continuous operation and one of the longest vendor tenures in industrial software.

The company operates with 51-100 employees, a small footprint consistent with a niche, mature, installed-base-driven business. It is privately held with The CapStreet Group listed as a known institutional investor from a September 2021 funding event (the firm's fourth round); Robert Brooker is recorded as Chairman. Beyond the founding date, leadership, and PE sponsorship, no further corporate disclosures are present in the input — no product catalog, no pricing, no integrations, no named customers, no partnerships, no certifications, and no AI/technology capability statements are documented.

A material data quality flag: the company's primary website at win911.com currently consists only of default WordPress placeholder content (a single "Hello world!" post dated April 21, 2026, and an unedited Sample Page). This is consistent either with a site under reconstruction, a domain transition, or a significant gap in the company's public-facing digital presence. Investors evaluating WIN-911 should treat the absence of product, customer, revenue, and partnership detail as a primary due diligence workstream, not an analytical convenience to be papered over.

Name

WIN-911 Software

Website

https://win911.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1974

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

WIN-911 Software is a privately held Austin, Texas-based vendor of remote alarm notification software for industrial automation environments, founded in 1974 and self-described as the category's most widely deployed solution, with 51-100 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Alarm Notification Software

NAICS

Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) (561621), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Crisis Management & Communications Support (Mass Notification) (BPABANAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Commercial & Industrial Alarm Monitoring (BPAKAFAB), Fire Alarm Monitoring & Dispatch (BPAKAFAC)

Keywords

• Alarm notification software
• Remote monitoring
• Industrial alarm management
• SCADA notifications
• Operational alert systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Core offering

WIN-911 Software develops and sells remote alarm notification software used to deliver operational alerts from industrial control systems (such as HMI/SCADA platforms) to operators via mobile, voice, SMS, and email channels. The company focuses on helping manufacturing and process industries respond to critical equipment and process alarms outside the control room.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• WIN-911 Remote Alarm Notification Software Software that delivers remote alarm notifications from industrial control systems (HMI/SCADA) to operators via mobile devices, voice calls, SMS, and email. Used by manufacturing, process, and infrastructure operators to respond to critical equipment and process alarms outside the control room.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Broad incumbents

• Rockwell Automation (FactoryTalk): Rockwell's FactoryTalk Alarm & Event Management and FactoryTalk Vantagepoint provide native alarm notification in industrial environments, making it a broad incumbent competitor. It serves the same discrete and process manufacturing customer base with a tightly integrated portfolio.
• Siemens (SIMATIC WinCC / SCADA): Siemens WinCC Unified and SIMATIC HMI include built-in alarm notification and mobile alarming. It competes with WIN-911 as a broad industrial automation incumbent with deep penetration in European and global manufacturing customers.
• AVEVA (formerly Wonderware): AVEVA is a global industrial software leader whose HMI/SCADA platform (historically Wonderware) competes with WIN-911 in plant alarm visualization and notification. It is a broad incumbent serving the same industrial customers with a wider portfolio that overlaps WIN-911's notification niche.
• Schneider Electric (AVEVA / Citect SCADA): Schneider Electric's Citect SCADA and Wonderware-adjacent offerings include alarm notification functionality that competes with WIN-911 in process and infrastructure verticals. It is a broad incumbent serving utilities, water/wastewater, and industrial customers globally.
• Honeywell Forge / Experion: Honeywell's Experion and Forge platforms include alarm management and notification modules for process industries. It is a broad incumbent serving refineries, chemicals, and similar heavy-industrial customers that overlap WIN-911's industrial alarm notification use case.

Direct peers

• COPA-DATA (zenon): COPA-DATA's zenon SCADA platform includes alarm management and notification modules serving industrial customers across energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure. It competes directly with WIN-911 in mid-market industrial software deployments.
• Iconics (now Mitsubishi Electric): Iconics' Genesis64 HMI/SCADA includes alarm notification, mobile alerting, and analytics for industrial customers — directly overlapping with WIN-911's remote alarm notification value proposition. It targets similar plant operators and integrates with major automation systems.
• Inductive Automation (Ignition): Inductive Automation's Ignition SCADA platform includes alarm notification and mobile alarming capabilities that directly compete with WIN-911 in industrial automation customers seeking remote alarm delivery. Both target plant operators needing mobile/email/SMS alerting integrated with HMI/SCADA systems.

Emerging players

• Canary Labs: Canary Labs provides industrial data historian and alarm notification tools for process manufacturers, partially overlapping with WIN-911's notification use case. It is a smaller, more specialized player focused on time-series data and alerting.

Regional players

• Movicon by Progea: Progea's Movicon SCADA/HMI platform includes alarm notification features serving primarily European industrial customers. It competes with WIN-911 on remote alarm notification functionality but with stronger geographic concentration in EMEA.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/win911alarm

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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