Business Continuity Management

The Archer Business Continuity Management solution allows you to plan for future business process interruptions that could jeopardize your organization’s long-term growth and success. Aligned with the BS 25999 standard, Archer’s web-based solution gives you an aggregate view of your business processes and allows you to assess their criticality based on a number of factors, including the competitive landscape and any impacts to your revenue, brand and customer satisfaction in the event of process failure. You can then develop detailed business continuity plans, utilize automated workflow to streamline the approval process, certify your plans through testing, and easily distribute them to ensure rapid process restoration. Powered by the Archer SmartSuite Framework, Archer Business Continuity Management is a decision-support solution through which you can transform static, paper-based documentation into a dynamic business continuity program and build trust throughout your organization that effective plans are in place to ensure your ongoing operations.

Through Archer Business Continuity Management, you can:

• Centralize your business continuity plans, impact analyses, recovery tasks and business processes to allow efficient governance of your program.
• Ensure the consistency of plan documentation across your organization using fully configurable web-based forms.
• 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.
• Improve your business continuity plans over time through periodic reviews triggered by date-driven notifications.
• Utilize built-in project management features to track all tasks related to business continuity management, including testing, gap analysis and remediation activities.
• Ensure the accessibility of business continuity plans by key members of your organization.
• Easily integrate your existing systems, such as HR and facility databases, with the solution to automate the maintenance of variable information.
• Utilize Archer’s powerful reporting capabilities, including pre-built reports, to gain a holistic view of your business continuity program and to enhance senior management’s awareness of business impacts associated with process interruptions.
• Maximize your Archer investment by relating business continuity plans to products, services, technologies, facilities, policies, standards, disaster recovery plans, security incidents and crisis events that you manage in Archer’s additional governance, risk and compliance solutions.

Benefits of implementing Archer Business Continuity Management include:

• Rapid return on investment from a solution that you can implement out of the box or easily tailor to your specific requirements through point-and-click configuration.
• Significant efficiencies gained through relating individual impact analyses, recovery strategies and tasks to multiple business continuity plans—Archer’s “create once, use many” approach.
• Minimized length of process outages, leading to cost reductions for the business, achieved by providing rapid access to recovery strategies and tasks.
• Long-term value from your ability to centralize plan information, streamline and automate workflow processes, and take advantage of related risk and compliance data you are already managing within Archer to achieve a more complete view of your business continuity program.

Features and Benefits

Read the full features and benefits to learn how the Archer Business Continuity Management solution can help you plan for future business process interuptions and protect your ongoing operations.