Business Continuity

Rapid recovery begins with a strong Business Continuity Plan (BCP)

Adapt’s Business Continuity services ensure both maximum server availability and rapid recovery in the event of a disaster. Our services are individually tailored to your specific requirements and provide:

• Business impact analysis
• Risk assessment
• Plan creation
• Solution design
• Testing assistance
• Secure plan hosting

Store and manage your continuity plans offsite and control their accessibility: our software service (Hosted SharePoint) is specifically designed for the creation, development and maintenance of BCPs, providing access to your plans from anywhere in the world.

The planning process

The goal of the BCP is to identify critical business processes and analyse the potential repercussions that a disaster would have on these processes.

Adapt works closely with customers to define the engagement model and key personnel required to complete a Business Continuity analysis. The analysis stage requires a full understanding of your processes and procedures, backup technologies, alternative work practices and criticality/ impact of the failure of core business processes.

Our risk assessments identify the range of potential threats your business faces, their potential impact and the likelihood of each threat occurring to your business.

From here, we work with you to develop an outline BCP based on findings from the analysis stage. The BCP considers alternative methods to recover critical business solutions and ensures that these are properly documented where appropriate. Once the design has been agreed and tested, it is implemented across your business, ensuring that all employees are informed of their roles and responsibilities.

Where IT services are involved, contingency and recovery processes feed into the disaster recovery plan.

Review & refine

Adapt provides additional testing and consultancy services to review BCPs and accommodate changes to your organisational structure. Reviews typically occur annually on the anniversary of the contract commencement date throughout the contract term.

Business Continuity is for you if:

• You have not updated and tested the dusty Business Continuity Plan kept in the drawer
• You are unaware of the precise impact a disaster would have on your business
• You are running processes and systems that you can’t afford to live without

Key benefits

• Tested and proven contingency plans
• Minimised disruption
• Compliance with regulatory requirements
• Reduced business insurance quotations
• Customer reassurance, safeguarding business

Features

• Plans stored securely; accessible when you need them
• Identification of business processes and impact of failure
• Development of contingency plans to aid recovery
• Identification of workarounds to ease recovery plan
• Regular maintenance and plan testing