Business Continuity Planning

Ensure your business can withstand technology failure.

Business Continuity Planning is about protecting your business from technology failure - whether that failure was induced by a natural disaster, power loss, software corruption, hardware failure or human error.

Your business depends on technology. Make sure you're protected.

Your business can be protected in two ways - by reducing the probability of technology failures occurring, and ensuring the business is able to recover quickly and with minimal impact if they do occur.

Business Continuity issues can be grouped into two distinct areas - low probability, high impact; and high probability, low impact issues.

An appropriate Business Continuity strategy should protect the organisation from both kinds of potential issues, and should include provisions for Disaster Recovery.

The best protection: The right technology with the right process.

The right combination of technology and business process results in easier-to-recover systems with less downtime. We seek to understand your business and recommend that right technology and process based upon your IT dependence and risk tolerance. Some of the areas that we investigate that may be beneficial to your business include:

Highly Available Systems: The probability of service outages can be reduced by building the appropriate processes and technology around critical business infrastructure. These systems can vary from highly-available infrastructure to business processes that reduce the chance of a technology failure.

Operational Processes: Structured change and patch management can have a significant influence on the reliability and availability of your technology assets.

Data Protection: Data must be protected by a system that allows data to be restored quickly and easily in the case of data corruption or data loss.

Fast System Recovery: If your business does suffer from service downtime, resuming business operations as quickly as possible is imperative. Often this can mean recovering your applications or system from a stand-by replica or image.

Don't assume that you are immune to Business Continuity issues - we have worked with large organisations where all EFTPOS payments for 200 stores were routed through a single eight year old server with no backups and no documentation. You may have significant risk within your business that you are not aware of.

How we can help you.

Our offerings in the Business Continuity space include:

Risk Assessment: Utilising our expert consultants, we customise a scorecard representing your business's tolerance for risk and ability to withstand downtime and data loss.  By investigating your existing protection systems we can then measure whether they meet your business requirements, and make recommendations if they don't.

Business Continuity Planning: We work with you to determine your important business services, define how critical each service is and build a protection plan that suits your budget and requirements around each of the important business services.

Business System Protection: We can implement Business Continuity technology and processes into your business to protect your business applications and suit your requirements.

All of our services are delivered according to our guiding principles, to guarantee a quality outcome at a fixed price.

Next steps.

Contact us to discuss your Business Continuity requirements.