Business Continuity Plans

What is a Business Continuity Plan? A business continuity plan should be a commonsense document with a systemized process that addresses the specific circumstances and needs of your business. It provides practical strategies to follow in a crisis, eg fire, flood, storm, explosion, terrorism and adverse market or financial circumstances, computer viruses or power outages.

How we can help you plan? With our experience in handling real live disasters we know the importance of a well constructed plan.  A good business continuity plan will give you a better understanding of how your business works the risks it faces and the things that need to be done to ensure you recover from an incident.  Every business should know how they will manage an emergency situation. Planning is best done before an event, not in the middle of it. Time spent planning is never wasted. How quickly your company gets back to business after an emergency often depends on the planning you do now.

Helping you test your plans?  BC plans need to be regularly tested, reviewed and updated to make sure it remains relevant and useful. Business continuity and disaster recovery testing can be complex and this could explain why only 40% of companies regularly test their plans as many fear that it will be costly and difficult to do.

At EDC, we make testing your plans seamless by removing the risk of ineffective testing by first analysing the requirements of the test and then creating an effective test procedure. To decide on the test requirements we have developed a unique toolset based on industry standards, which incorporates a combination of software and business process. Using this toolset our clients have saved months in labour costs with a replicable cost effective business continuity planning software that ensures Business continuity plans never date.