The proven BCM tooling solution.
Continuity Manager is an intuitive, flexible and powerful Business Continuity Management (BCM) system that enables you to manage and follow up your organization’s BCM work in one single place. Based on many years of practical experience working with BCM in different organizations, Continuity Manager is designed to get BCM operational and maintainable over time, reducing risks and business exposure as well as support compliance. Continuity Manager makes the BCM effort easy and effective for all involved parties in the organization.
Configurable to your needs.
Continuity Manager is highly configurable and features a wide variety of modules spanning all aspects of Business Continuity Management. Whether you are a small business looking for core functionality to organize your BCM effort or you are a global business striving for full compliance using one tool, we can offer a fit for purpose setup in each situation.
Made to make a difference.
Based on real world experience of implementing BCM in various organizations, Continuity Manager is built to enable the BCM effort throughout the organization, supporting governance and life-cycle management. Making the BCM effort “stick” over time.
Dashboards and reporting.
Graphical representation of the overall BCM status of the organization, critical services or products and supporting assets such as IT-systems or suppliers.
Drill down into specific areas to review status, key figures and statistics. Follow up on BCM maturity, objectives, capabilities and the status of activities, plans and rehearsals. Traverse information on company, service or resource levels to get the relevant information based on different roles and perspectives. Produce reports to eg. management teams, key stakeholders or for compliance audit purposes.
Business Impact Analysis (BIA).
Create and maintain Business Impact Analysis (BIAs) interactively in the tool, assessing the financial, operational and customer- and market related impacts of downtime for critical products and services.
Graphical and user friendly representation of the resulting impacts over time with key figures such as Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and organizational severity levels highlighted.
Intelligent dependency management.
The time of guessing the business impact of an IT system outage, or the risk of business service outages without proper knowledge of the underlying assets has passed.
With Continuity Manager the right information is requested in the right place, and the system handles the rest. Track dependencies across the organization with real time translations of requirements and consolidation of BCM capabilities statuses. Relevant information for each user of the system, regardless if you are looking for the overall company status, the situation for a critical service or the consolidated requirement on a specific resource.
Interactive Business Continuity Plans.
Create and maintain interactive Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) for services, products and processes as well as for supporting resources.
Leverage the information already available in the system, incorporating information on business criticality, recovery teams or status of supporting resources or link to predefined process executions in the rehearsal module. Live version BCP that always has the latest status and information from the other modules in the system. Snapshot and approval functionality to generate PDF versions and approve BCPs.
Rehearse or execute predefined responses.
Supports live-process/scenario execution allowing multiple and geographically spread out teams and stakeholders to execute and follow step-by-step processes, showing live progress, time, status and results.
Typically used in recovery procedures, but any step-by-step process can be built and modeled in the system, be it an overall crisis response process or a specific recovery procedure for a particular resource etc. Building and executing live process/scenario execution for both rehearsal purposes or actual recovery efforts.
Present the overall company BCM Strategy.
Presentation of the overall company/organization strategy and approach to BCM.
Create and present content and enclose key document and instructions to be readily available to the organization and provide context for the overall BCM effort.
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Additional modules include:
BCM Maturity Assessment module - Interactive self assessment of BCM maturity to get an understanding of the current state of affairs and to get guidance in where to direct efforts going forwards.
Document module - One stop shop, allow for all BCP related instructions and documentation to be available and maintained in CM.
Awareness module - Keep track of and make visible planned and completed initiatives to support BCM Awareness.
People/Team module - Manage the people involved in the BCM effort, their roles, ownership, contact details and trainings etc. Create teams and assign people to them for utilization in e.g. BCP’s or in Rehearsals.