Alerts in Cloud Only Show When on the CRM Tab

Alerts in Cloud Only Show When on the CRM Tab

We are converting from desktop and rely HEAVILY on the pop up alerts that come to the front of your computer screen and stay displayed, no matter what program you are using. With Cloud lacking that functionality, we are going to have to assign a time-sensitive action to someone and then reach out to them to tell them we assigned an action. This is inefficient. 

The pop up is obviously our preference, but work arounds could be:

      Make the AE tab flash (until the alert is acknowledged)
      Send an email alert (this is the least effective b/c Outlook doesn't keep the alert up)
      
Not sure how difficult these are to implement, but I fear time sensitive things are going to get missed once we go live in a couple of weeks. 

Thank you,
Donna