Business Continuity Planning
Disaster Recovery

You spend years developing your business into the successful entity it is today, if you are lucky you will not have encountered any major issue that has put your operation at risk. However, in a complex environment, you will become increasingly dependant on elements such as specialist software, hardware, expertise. What would happen should any one of these elements be removed from your operations, could you carry on servicing your customers?, if so, for how long? and to what level?.

It is these, and other issues that should drive the need to have a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) in place, regardless of industry or the service / products provided. There are many sectors that are regulated, and a Continuity Plan forms a major part of the legislation. What ever the driving factor it is good sense, to have contingency measures in place.

Where To Start?

Where to start? and how far to go?, are key questions in starting to build the Business Continuity Plan. It is important to balance the risk against the cost of mitigating it. Positiv-IT Ltd has many years experience of measuring risk and will ensure resources are allocated where the risk/benefit ratio dictates. Some steps to take in this process are........

Identify your core services / products

What activities are performed & skills required in providing them

What dependancies are there on external parties

Establish Optimum, Medium and Minimum operating levels

Identify core service (Internal) dependancies, email, web access, telephones, etc

Positiv-IT will guide you through the Business Continuity Planing phases, ensuring the meaures are practical, economical and realistic.