IT Services, Business Continuity, Disaster prevention and recovery

Business Continuity

A Business Continuity Management System covers the whole lifecycle of disaster prevention and recovery for your business. It embraces the entire organisation and provides a planned and controlled method of anticipating and responding to events that are likely to interrupt key business activities.

Business Continuity Management - Organisational wide. Is a business owned and driven process that establishes a fit-for-purpose strategic and operational framework that:

• proactively improves an organisation's resilience against the disruption of its ability to achieve its key objectives
• provides a rehearsed method of restoring an organisation's ability to supply key products and services to an agreed level within an agreed timeframe after a disruption (incident)
• delivers a proven capability to manage a business disruption and protect the organisation's reputation and brand.

Organisations that have a business continuity capability are far more likely to survive the effects of a major incident than those that don't. The statistics speak for themselves and the DTI have identified several including the fact that "70% of business that suffers a major data loss are out of business within 18 months".

Any incident could have a considerable impact on the survival of your business.

If you're unable to satisfy your customers' needs then how confident are you that they will wait for you to recover. What might the effects be of another fuel crisis, a major utilities failure such as loss of power or the effects of severe weather conditions including floods? What if your neighbours' building suffered a major fire that resulted in you having no access to your offices for days, possibly weeks?

IT Answers can provide advice and guidance on how to create your Business Continuity Plan and understand the key risks to your business and how to mitigate them should an incident occur. We will then work with you to refine the processes involved to ensure that they are always up to date and will enable your business to respond quickly to recover from an unplanned event.

What are the benefits?

In today's business there is an ever increasing dependency on our IT systems and overall infrastructure whilst in parallel the potential threat of disruption is also growing. Preparation is the key in order that organisations can respond appropriately should an incident occur. This service from IT Answers will ensure you are able to respond effectively and minimise key risks to your business thus protecting you in the long term and providing peace of mind for all your stakeholders.

Please contact us so that we can discuss your requirements in greater detail.