BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN (BCP)
Your first choice for business continuity expertise
The success of any business depends on the day-to-day continuation of its operations. The bottom line, quite literally, is: How many minutes, hours or days can your business afford to be without critical operational processes?
For most, the answer is, “It’s essential to have no interruptions.”
GramTel understands that answer and provides its clients with the information they need to assess the risk of operational interruption and the resulting financial exposure that may occur, and offers a proactive/preemptive Business Continuity Plan (BCP) that anticipates and reacts quickly to a disaster.
Business Impact Analysis/Risk Assessment
The process starts with a Business Impact Analysis (BIA). Specially trained GramTel business continuity consultants gather information through interviews of key personnel to collect information to identify, analyze and control risks to IT assets and business processes, including:
- critical resources
- critical processes
- critical hardware and software
- critical vendors and business partners
- financial impact because of lost revenue
From this data, we generate a customized report that defines your specific Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and level of criticality for each of your business processes. This document becomes the benchmark for a BCP to ensure that:
- business operations are resilient
- impact on customers is minimized
- financial losses are reduced
- regulatory compliance is maintained
Business Continuity Plan
Perhaps the most important result of the BIA is the understanding it provides regarding risk of operational interruption and the resulting financial exposure that may occur. This allows executive management to make informed decisions about the criticality of business processes, the adequacy of insurance coverage and the budget that should be allocated to a continuity program.
GramTel’s experienced consultants develop that thorough and executable plan by using a proven and tested methodology, working hand-in-hand with your business and technical staff to plan, develop and deploy end-to-end solutions. Your customized continuity plan will help you implement an infrastructure that is tailored to your unique continuity needs.
When the plan is ready, GramTel will help you rehearse your continuity and recovery strategies with simulated disaster scenarios and will follow up with periodic program reviews to help you maintain a high level of preparedness. A risk monitoring process tests the plan, and includes an audit review and update based on changes to personnel and your company’s internal and external environments.
If your answer to our business continuity question is still “It’s essential to have no interruptions,” please contact us today to schedule a free consultation and to discuss the backup solutions your company needs. You can also learn more at our case studies and white papers pages.
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