Can your business function without major revenue loss if impacted by an outage?

What is the impact to your business if systems are not available?

Can your data be recovered if a service interruption affects IT operations?

What happens to your employees if normal business operations have been severely disrupted?

In today’s fast paced world, business needs to have continuous operations to be successful. Unfortunately, there are various hazards that a company could encounter that could disrupt business operations. These hazards caused by nature, technology, or man, could result in serious downtime that can cripple your business.

How your business responds is greatly dependent on the amount of Business Continuity Planning (BCP) performed by the organization. It is vitally important for companies to have a strategy in place that allows them to be prepared and responsive.

At Bayshore Technologies, our consultants help your business develop the strategies and processes needed for withstanding any potential disaster. Our BCP process starts with the Business Impact Analysis (BIA). The BIA is an assessment of your company’s business priorities and risks. During the BIA process, we work with your key employees to evaluate your company’s mission critical business elements based on the defined business priorities and risks. Mission critical elements include business functions, system and network processes, customers, and suppliers.

Based on the results of the BIA, our consultants work with the key employees of your company to develop a business and technical strategy for business continuity. Our BCP process encompasses the communication, facilities, people, and processes that your business requires to be able to continue its mission critical functions. The goal of the BCP is to ensure that your business is able to respond to any potential outage with a documented set of activities and processes that your employees can follow.

Many of these strategies will be dictated by your company’s IT recovery strategy. As a part of the BCP process, our consultants also work with your key technical employees to develop a Disaster Recovery (DR) solution for your mission critical data, systems, network, and telecommunications. This strategy is based on your business priorities defined in the BIA. The DR strategy also helps to drive the business focused BCP activities that are defined in your plan.

Your company can also request for Bayshore Technologies engineers to implement the technical solution.

BCP is an ongoing process. Since business changes, it is a good idea to keep your BCP document and activities in sync with your business changes. Through Bayshore’s Plan Integrity service, our consultants can also provide training, BCP test facilitation, and plan maintenance to help keep your business continuity activities up to date with your changing business.