Major national events rarely unfold in isolation. As the United States Coast Guard prepares for the FIFA World Cup 2026, Sail250, and America250, it faces the convergence of three nationwide, high-visibility operations during the Atlantic hurricane season. “The scale and overlap of these events introduce a new level of operational complexity,” says Sean Griffin, CEO and co-founder of PRATUS. “They demand secure coordination across jurisdictions, sectors and agencies, often in rapidly changing conditions.” PRATUS has been deployed to meet that challenge. Built on Microsoft Azure Government and integrated with Microsoft 365, the secure, cloud-based platform unifies real-time situational awareness, geospatial visualisation, planning products and operational coordination within a single digital workspace. By consolidating legacy systems, it supports faster decisionmaking, a shared operational picture and secure collaboration between public and private entities. For Griffin, the Coast Guard’s adoption of PRATUS highlights the potential of the solution. Because PRATUS aligns with the National Incident Management System, it integrates into established planning and operational processes. “This means agencies do not have to reinvent how they work,” he explains. “They can streamline Incident Action Planning, maintain consistency during events and coordinate more effectively.” PRATUS’S position within the Microsoft ecosystem extends its reach, allowing the platform to be deployed by federal, state and critical infrastructure organisations. “PRATUS is built natively within the Microsoft environment, so organisations can operate across Azure Government and Commercial clouds without fragmenting their workflows,” says Griffin. “That gives agencies and private sector partners a common operational layer.” The solution can be integrated with Microsoft Teams, providing additional operational benefits. “Teams is already embedded in daily operations for many agencies,” Griffin continues. “By integrating directly with it, we allow users to coordinate within familiar tools while still meeting federal security and compliance requirements. That reduces training time, accelerates adoption and enables secure information sharing with approved partners.” PRATUS supports the full incident lifecycle within a single environment, offering AI-assisted development and management of incident action plans, standardised role-based workspaces aligned with incident command system structures, real-time geospatial mapping, and secure collaboration. “PRATUS was built by practitioners, for practitioners – people who face the challenges of complex incidents and know what’s missing in legacy solutions,” says Griffin. “That real-world experience is evident in PRATUS’S capabilities.” PRATUS is available through the Microsoft Marketplace INTERVIEW Sean Griffin explains how PRATUS can enable public and private sector agencies to work faster and more collaboratively to manage major events Intelligent collaboration BY ALEX SMITH “ PRATUS was built by practitioners, for practitioners” 105 PUBLIC SECTOR
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