Full range of business continuity functionality at a fraction of the expected cost

The BC Expert Gold supports the development of an effective disaster recovery and business continuity management system delivering an extremely wide range of functionality with mapping of all operational components, risk analysis and business impact analysis, resilience planning, disaster recovery planning and response and continuity planning, deployment of responsible persons and alternate asset and resource planning. Further functionality covers incident management, BCMS budgeting and team building.

The BC Expert Gold is a relational database system that is designed to assist Users to implement an effective BCMS including full risk analysis support and business impact analysis. The BC expert Gold contains a full disaster recovery and business continuity example plan and delivers the requirements in an inter-active format that simplifies conformance and encourages implementation with an approved standard such as BS 25999. The Business Continuity Expert Gold series contains three scalable versions. The BC Expert Gold is the second version in the series and is designed to support the achievement of conformance with BS 25999. This product delivers the full range of disaster recovery tools and professional guidance to assist the User identify gaps in the required level of conformance and to support the development of suitable processes and procedures to remove those gaps in a structured and controlled manner. Avoid the full impact of disaster situations in a new simplified manner.

Monthly subscription basis

The BC Expert Gold contains all the functions included in the BC Expert Silver plus a range of disaster recovery additional features and functions. The Business Continuity Expert Gold is available on a monthly subscription basis with no requirement to commit to a long term contract.

BC Expert Gold delivers easy to use software for preparing your disaster recovery plans and your business continuity plans.

BC Expert available in three scalable versions:

Silver:        Risk, BIA, business continuity (BCP) plans (more)

Gold:          Full functionality for best BCP practise (more)

Platinum: Multi-enterprise BCP version (more)

User profile for the BC Expert Gold

The software is suitable for organizations of all sizes and from all industrial and manufacturing categories, all commercial sectors, and all state and federal agencies and government departments. The software will be of interest to organizations that wish to implement industry best practise for preparation and protection against potentially disruptive incidents, implement disaster recovery measures, improve the organization’s level of resilience, measure and achieve conformance against the organizational resilience standard, and would like to generally strengthen corporate governance activities. It is suitable for larger organizations with some experience of the disaster recovery management; crisis management; incident management; continuity management processes; or for smaller organizations who wish to achieve best of breed recognition.

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The BC Expert software series contains three scalable versions. Functionality in the BC Expert Gold includes:

• Password based log on security

• Variable permission structure

• Ability to customize the system

• Comprehensive reporting structure

• Links to external documents

• On-line help file and User Manual

• Contextual screen based help system

• BC management support including scope and policy setting

• Mapping of all key operational components

• Establishment of business impact analysis criteria

• Setting of impact category criteria and severity

• Calculation of recovery time objectives & criticality

• Risk identification, risk analysis and assessment

• Setting dependency ratings

• Potential incident identification & planning

• Process continuity planning

• Unique “Plan builder” to simplify task creation

• Fully functioning example data

• Contact details for key employees, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders

• Assignment of persons to specific BCMS responsibilities

• Wizards covering most data entry functions

• Organization structure and business unit establishment

• Assigning of persons to incident response and process continuity tasks

• Operational workarounds

• Resilience based proactive & reactive strategies

• Testing for incident response and process continuity activities

• Notification and communication planning

• Alternate planning for assets or resources

• BCMS budgeting support

• Set up of BCMS resource and emergency teams

• BCMS meeting and interview support

• Allocation of skill competency levels to employee data and tasks

• Set up of risk treatment upgrade projects

• Cost / benefit analysis for enhanced risk treatment projects

• Resilience based BCMS documentation controls

• Set up of insurance mitigation

• Reporting on competency shortfalls for tasks and plans

• Operational command centre support for managing incidents

• Recording of actual incidents

• Damage and impact assessment