BC Expert Platinum - a relational database approach

The Business Continuity Expert Platinum provides a range of tools, guidance and techniques that enable an organization to implement disaster recovery business and contingency planning management concepts. The BC Expert Platinum version is a relational database system that is designed to assist Users to implement and achieve conformance with BS25999. The BC Expert Platinum delivers risk management and business continuity processes in an inter-active format that simplifies conformance and encourages implementation.

The BC Expert Platinum also supports the development of risk based disaster recovery business and contingency planning process delivering an extremely wide range of functionality with mapping of all operational components; risk analysis and business impact analysis, resilience 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 Platinum is able to support multiple data files and multiple client relationships for your disaster recovery business and contingency planning project. In addition to a comprehensive Client Control Panel, this product delivers a comprehensive business continuity management system together with a range of tools and 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.

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)

Intended audience for the BC Expert Platinum

The software is suitable for consulting firms or individual consultants or advisors who are responsible for looking after the risk assessment, disaster recovery business and contingency planning and continuity requirements for multiple client organizations. Uniquely suitable for clients 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 consulting organizations that wish to implement industry best practice for preparation and protection against potentially disruptive incidents, improve the client’s level of resilience, measure and achieve conformance against the organizational resilience standard, and to generally strengthen corporate governance activities.

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The BC expert software series contains three scalable versions. Functionality in the BC Expert Platinum 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

• Ability to re-link to each clients data

• Re-linking control panel

• Creating a new client BCMS from template