Business Continuity Management
Automate your approach to business continuity and disaster recovery planning, and enable rapid, effective crisis management in one solution.
Archer Business Continuity Management provides a centralized, consistent and automated approach to business continuity and disaster recovery planning, allowing you to respond swiftly in crisis situations to protect your ongoing operations. Developed through collaboration with more than 20 Fortune 1000 companies and business continuity experts from leading consulting firms, Archer’s
web-based solution combines business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis management into a single management system that you can implement out of the box or easily tailor to your unique methodologies. With Archer, you can assess the criticality of your business processes and supporting technologies, and then develop detailed business continuity and disaster recovery plans, utilizing automated workflow for plan testing and approval. Additionally, you can manage plan execution and communication in crisis situations to minimize harm to your employees, customers, reputation and business operations.
Through Archer Business Continuity Management, you can:
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Centrally Manage Your Business Continuity Program
Consolidate business continuity and disaster recovery plans, business processes, impact analyses and recovery procedures to allow efficient governance of your business continuity program. Also ensure the consistency of plan documentation across your organization using fully configurable web-based forms, and improve your plans over time through periodic reviews triggered by date-driven notifications. -
Perform Business Impact and Environmental Risk Analyses
Measure the value of business processes, and prioritize them based on impacts to your revenue, brand image, stakeholder confidence and customer loyalty in the event of process disruption or failure. Also assess the probability of environmental threats against your IT infrastructure. Because a single business impact or environmental risk assessment may apply to multiple plans, Archer allows you to complete an analysis once and link it to any number of plans to reduce duplication of effort. -
Test Your Plans and Facilitate Periodic Reviews
Test your business continuity and disaster recovery plans to identify process gaps, determine the time it will take to restore your business processes and infrastructure, and ensure that all dependencies have been captured. With Archer, you can estimate completion time at the recovery task or procedure level and roll those estimates up to the overall plan to determine the duration for testing and plan execution. Archer’s solutions also allow you to track testing gaps and remediation efforts through integrated task management capabilities. -
Track Crisis Events in Real Time
Report crisis situations that occur anywhere you do business, including natural disasters, workplace violence, product tampering, terrorist attacks, etc. Archer’s web-based solution allows you to quickly capture the details of a crisis, including the time of occurrence, event location, type and severity. To automate the collection of crisis data, you can also integrate the solution with a call center or notification service using the Archer Data Feed Manager. -
Rapidly Implement Response Plans
In the event that a crisis occurs, enable rapid contact with emergency responders through phased notification plans designed for specific business units, departments or facilities. Archer’s on-demand platform allows efficient access to business continuity and disaster recovery plans no matter where you or your stakeholders reside. -
Report on Your Business Continuity Program
Gain an enterprise view of your business continuity program through Archer’s flexible reporting capabilities. Report in real time on plan testing, gap analyses and remediation efforts, and gain a real-time view of current and historical crises, supporting event analysis and program enhancement. For senior managers who require a rollup view of your program, you can also deliver graphical dashboards, enabling them to drill down for more details.
Benefits of Archer Business Continuity Management include:
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Create Once, Use Many
Significant efficiencies gained through relating individual business impact and environmental risk analyses, recovery strategies, procedures and tasks to multiple business continuity and disaster recovery plans -
Time and Cost Savings
Minimized length of process and technology outages, leading to cost reductions for your business, achieved by providing rapid access to recovery strategies, procedures and tasks -
Best-Practice Approach
A business continuity program aligned with the BS 25999 standard and the Contingency Planning Guide for Information Technology Systems, published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) -
Stakeholder Confidence
A sense of trust throughout your organization that effective plans are in place to ensure your ongoing operations -
Quick Time to Value
Rapid return on your investment from a solution that you can implement out of the box (using predefined access roles, workflow, reports, dashboards, etc.) or easily tailor to your needs through point-and-click configuration -
Deployment Flexibility
The freedom to choose an on-premise, software as a service (SaaS) or managed service deployment and to move the solution from one environment to another as your needs change
Take advantage of these Business Continuity Management resources:
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Business Continuity Management Data Sheet
Get more details on Archer’s Business Continuity Management solution—a core component of your operational GRC program. -
GRC Webcasts
Take a deep-dive tour of Archer’s solutions through our one-hour webcasts. Participate live or request a recording to view at your convenience. -
Archer Case Studies and Testimonials
Hear from Archer’s clients why they have been so successful in solving governance, risk and compliance challenges through Archer solutions. -
Archer Live Chat
Chat with an Archer representative to get more information or to set up a private demo of the Business Continuity Management solution for you and your team.