Let Easy2solve support your business continuity planning system

Implementing business continuity planning systems is often considered to be a daunting task - particularly for organizations who cannot afford to appoint a fully qualified business continuity practitioner. This task often falls to one of the organization's key employees who has often been with the organization for a while and is generally familiar with the operational processes. Real help is now at hand with the availability of the BC Expert software. With three versions available meeting your needs for differing levels of functionality you are certain to find one version to suit your organization's specific requirements.

BC Expert functionality delivers support for management of the BCM project, BCM budgeting, BCM emergency support teams, risk analysis. simple impact assessment, operational component mapping and dependency setting, mitigation management, critical documentation control, audit requirements, security over data access, incident planning, continuity planning, communication planning and crisis management. Identify your own needs and choose the most suitable system for your own purposes. If you decide later that another version is better for your needs it is easy to change with no loss of data.

Preparing and testing business continuity planning tasks

Task led incident response and recovery plans are needed for when a disruptive incident occurs. The plans should support the handling of the crisis phase as well as the repair and restoration phase. Continuity plans are handled separately and focus on the continuation of delivery of ordered goods and services using approved workaround processes as applicable.

Both incident management plans and operational continuity should be carefully tested and rehearsed prior to being invoked. Invoking an untested or unrehearsed plan can often have worse results than having no plan at all. Test should be conducted under realistic situations and involve persons who will be involved in the event of a real emergency.

Business continuity planning  support for large organizations with multiple companies

The BC Expert Platinum version supports the use of multiple data bases through a unique re-linking process. No other BC and contingency management system offers this feature. This makes the Business Continuity Expert Platinum and ideal system for BC officers looking after multiple companies or business continuity consultants who would like to manage the BCPs for multiple clients from one centralised control centre.

BC Expert available in three scalable versions:

Silver:        Risk, BIA, business continuity plan (more)

Gold:           Full functionality BC solutions (more)

Platinum: Multi-enterprise BC management (more)

Mapping operational components in your business continuity plan

Undertaking an analysis of the business operations is simplified in the BC Expert.  To complete this aspect of the business continuity process, it is necessary to map all the operational components together. Potential incidents, critical assets and resources, key business processes and products and services should all be mapped together and dependencies established.  This essential business continuity task is easy to accomplish in all three BC Expert versions.

View the related dependencies for each operational component to calculate RTOs, MTPDs and criticality levels. Enter data into the BC Expert on your products and services and your key business processes in their respective modules and use the mapping arrows to map each related component together. Use the dependency functions to establish the dependency level for each component.

Carry out the same activity with the assets and resources and also the potential incidents and the operational components are then effective linked together making planning and risk assessment significantly easier to accomplish. Identify single points of failure in the operational process and use this to establish priority setting.