Most companies are also taking the time to insure that they are just as prepared as their customers, partners and competitors. Omni Continuity Services provides three affordable industry leading service products that define your processes and meet the standards that you and your customers expect.
Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
Continuity Assurance (CA)
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Client Approach Working with our clients’ management and technology teams we lead activities associated with each step of the business continuity process. Ultimately, it is your process and plan that breeds the confidence in your organization and its ability to meet future challenges. A lot of companies in our marketplace profess to “do the plan” for you. The problem with this approach is that it brings awareness and often times produces alertness within your team; but it does not give you assurance, since your team was not critical to the processes identified. |
Business
Impact Analysis (BIA)
The first step in becoming aware of the impact disruptions in your business or access to the information your business thrives on. In simple terms the BIA provides a practical benchmark for the prioritization of critical business functions and the necessary support structure to ensure that you can recover effectively and efficiently.
Key BIA Activities
• Provide a framework for analysis
• Identify potential crisis impacts to your business
• Outline and prioritized critical business functions within your organization
• Develop policies for the re-establishment of your business functions
• Assess currently deployed technology infrastructure
• Identify essential technologies needed to meet the demands of a crisis
• Establish critical and non-critical recovery timeframes and associated costs to set
expectations
• Define the objectives associated with each recovery scenario
• Develop framework for the disaster recovery plan
The first step in becoming aware of the impact disruptions in your business or access to the information your business thrives on. In simple terms the BIA provides a practical benchmark for the prioritization of critical business functions and the necessary support structure to ensure that you can recover effectively and efficiently.
Key BIA Activities
• Provide a framework for analysis
• Identify potential crisis impacts to your business
• Outline and prioritized critical business functions within your organization
• Develop policies for the re-establishment of your business functions
• Assess currently deployed technology infrastructure
• Identify essential technologies needed to meet the demands of a crisis
• Establish critical and non-critical recovery timeframes and associated costs to set
expectations
• Define the objectives associated with each recovery scenario
• Develop framework for the disaster recovery plan
Disaster
Recovery Planning (DRP)
The second step a company must take and is the foundation of all business and IT continuity efforts. This plan provides you and your team with the process to follow in a wide variety of crises, based on a series of prioritized objectives that are designed and tested.
Key DRP Activities
• Provide plan framework
• Develop specific recovery processes needs for IT and the business
• Develop actionable processes and scenarios for recovery
• Identify and organize decision makers and groups within your company to
implement the plan and its priorities
• Identify crisis escalation triggers which start the activities associated with the plan
• Create communication and signaling methods to optimize recovery and avoid
“panic freeze” situations
• Develop training methods
• Crisis exercises
The second step a company must take and is the foundation of all business and IT continuity efforts. This plan provides you and your team with the process to follow in a wide variety of crises, based on a series of prioritized objectives that are designed and tested.
Key DRP Activities
• Provide plan framework
• Develop specific recovery processes needs for IT and the business
• Develop actionable processes and scenarios for recovery
• Identify and organize decision makers and groups within your company to
implement the plan and its priorities
• Identify crisis escalation triggers which start the activities associated with the plan
• Create communication and signaling methods to optimize recovery and avoid
“panic freeze” situations
• Develop training methods
• Crisis exercises
The third step, and is a recurring process that we train you and your team to maintain. As new systems are deployed or current ones upgraded, businesses acquired or divested, you relocate your business, or simply experience company growth it is imperative to make sure that your initial processes and priorities are still relevant.
Key CA Activities
• Run periodic crisis exercises
• Business process and technology deployment audits
• Update processes and procedures
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