Top five benefits of electronic business continuity management

Business continuity is joining many other enterprise applications and processes, by adopting electronic storage and cloud computing as a means of retaining and maintaining a dynamic corporate continuity platform.

The days of static

Far from the days of static, paper-based business continuity plans stored in an archive that were accessed once per year, electronic continuity plans are always available and adaptable to changing situations and environments.

“We're even seeing business continuity plans being stored in the cloud, on a secure, third-party server to ensure these plans are gladly available anywhere, at all times and on any device,” says ContinuitySA consultant Karen Humphris. “By moving to a software-based BCM tool, businesses can develop a dynamic, ever-evolving business continuity plan that meets their current needs instead of the requirements of a company that existed a year ago.”

The measurable value in moving to electronically-based

Humphris says the measurable value in moving to electronically-based, software-driven business continuity plans include the following benefits:

2. Dynamic: The information can be dynamically managed and maintained. Even small changes in departments will be recognised and automatically incorporated into the corporate business continuity plans.

3. Analysis: Electronically stored business continuity data is easier to analyse from a business intelligence perspective than collating piles of paper. This forms a secure and informed foundation to enhance decision-making.

4. Accessibility: Using a hosting function or Web-based approach ensures that information is available from any location and at any time, even while a disaster. In addition, a Web-based approach means the relevant people can access the system from nearly any device with an Internet connection.

The demands of environmentally

To ensure its clients are able to meet the demands of environmentally and efficiency aware 21st century organisations, ContinuitySA, South Africa's leading business continuity and disaster recovery specialist, is collaborating with Cura Software Solutions, a global developer of software designed to enable businesses to quickly achieve the bottom line benefits of GRC. The partnership is developing an easy-to-use electronic solution to business continuity management that will effectively remove the need for paper-based solutions.

ContinuitySA is Africa's leading provider of business continuity consulting and related services. The company boasts some of the continent's most highly skilled and qualified business continuity and disaster management experts, who help companies, organisations and government departments of all sizes prepare for and deal with all eventualities. These include potential threats, events, incidences and unforeseen or sudden disruptions due to human error or natural events.

The largest recovery facilities in southern Africa

ContinuitySA operates the largest recovery facilities in southern Africa. It has a number of recovery centres in South Africa, with over 20 000 square metres of recovery facilities in Midrand, Gauteng. A smaller site of 3 000 square metres is located in Cape Town. The company has already established a 1 500 square metre site in Gaborone, Botswana, and is in the process of furthermore expanding business into Africa through Mauritius and Mozambique and as well in the Middle East.