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BUSINESS CONTINUITY / DISASTER RECOVERY (BC / DR)

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Good business continuity plans will keep your company up and running through interruptions of any kind: power failures, IT system crashes, natural disasters, supply chain problems and more.

Services and Expertise to Help Protect Your Future:

Considering the complexities of heterogeneous environments, the development of a business continuity plan may be a daunting task for your staff. Turn to the experts at Business Integra to help with business continuity and disaster recovery services. Our consultants use proven methodologies and industry best practices to help you assess, architect, implement, and manage the availability of information across the spectrum of recovery alternative.

A good first step, Business Integra consultants will come-up with a detailed Business Impact Analysis (BIA) reports. This will identify the business's most crucial systems and processes and the effect an outage would have on the business. The greater the potential impact, the more money a company should spend to restore a system or process quickly. A BIA will help companies set a restoration sequence to determine which parts of the business should be restored first.

Disaster Recovery:

Disaster Recovery is the process an organization uses to recover access to their software, data, and/or hardware that are needed to resume the performance of normal, critical business functions after the event of either a natural disaster or a disaster caused by humans. While Disaster Recovery plans, or DRPs, often focus on bridging the gap where data, software, or hardware have been damaged or lost, one cannot forget the vital element of manpower that composes much of any organization. A building fire might predominantly affect vital data storage; whereas an epidemic illness is more likely to have an affect on staffing. Both types of disaster need to be considered when creating a Disaster Recovery Plan. Thus, organizations should include in their DRPs contingencies for how they will cope with the sudden and/or unexpected loss of key personnel as well as how to recover their data.

Business Integra DRP Services:

Our DR plan audit service focuses on rebuilding the environment and restoring systems after a catastrophic event. BI Consultants develop disaster recovery procedures for clients’ platforms within their production facilities and provide documentation to recover critical hardware at an alternate location. Additional procedures can be developed to recover hardware within the current environment.

Business Continuity:

Business Continuity Planning is the way an organization can prepare for and aid in disaster recovery. It is an arrangement agreed upon in advance by management and key personnel of the steps that will be taken to help the organization recover should any type of disaster occur. These programs prepare for multiple problems. Detailed plans are created that clearly outline the actions that an organization or
particular members of an organization will take to help recover/restore any of its critical operations that may have been either completely or partially interrupted during or after (occurring within a specified period of time) a disaster or other extended disruption in accessibility to operational functions. In order to be fully effective at disaster recovery, these plans are recommended to be regularly practiced as well as outlined.

Business Integra BCP Services:

This service offers design, development, implementation, maintenance and refresh of continuity plans. BI Consultants will document a set of predetermined, action-oriented procedures that define required resources, courses of action, essential tasks, critical data and recovery priorities. The plan accounts for communication links, alternative facilities and the safety of employees.

We also create a “Critical Success Factors” spreadsheet that is weighted by the criticality of the system utilizes dependencies to factor-in the downstream impact of the failure, and create a “Score” based on the recovery.This is a tangible way to track progress and identify key deficiencies in the overall Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan.

Business Continuity Plan

Key Benefits:
Helps you identify weaknesses in your current IT recovery environment
Develop a step-by-step process for restoring and recovering designated hardware and software in your data center
Comprehensive, flexible recovery options tailored to meet your specific technical and business requirements
Create a business continuity plan that considers the impacts of service interruptions, the order of priority for recovery, your technical infrastructure, and your interdependencies
Learn what to do when a service interruption occurs so you can minimize disruption and data loss
Increase the sense of security among personnel, suppliers, vendors, partners, investors, and customers
Identification of recoverability exposures across the IT environment
Protect your data center and your future

Achieving higher levels of Information availability with BC/DR services, Business Integra can show you how.