Continuity Now!

Click for more screen shots of Continuity Now!

Business Continuity

It is impossible to plan for all known potential business risks let alone risks that are yet to be discovered. In the 80’s, when the practice of Disaster Recovery (DR) first began, the focus was on IT Systems and Data Centers. As technology became much more distributed and intertwined with core business functions, Business Continuity Planning (BCP) emerged to address the sustainment of critical business functions and the business systems that support business processes during and after a significant disruption. Occupant Emergency Plans (OEP) for the protection of personnel during events and Continuity of Operations Plans (COOP), which sustain essential functions at an alternative site and perform those functions for up to 30 days before returning to normal operation, are required by some organizations based on the Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PDD-63) issued in 1998 and are now being incorporated by many organizations in light of the events of September 11, 2001.

Additionally, corporate impropriety such as Enron and WorldCom spawned one of the most broad-spectrum financial regulatory compliance acts with the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. Since then, regulatory compliance has been part of--and will continue to be a part of—day-to-day corporate life. Enterprise Compliance Management (ECM) requires thorough knowledge of the regulatory issues and the processes actually executed within an enterprise.

Operations Assurance

In today’s more complex environment, corporate risk management must go beyond traditional methods to provide a more proactive, real-time risk mitigation capability. This capability must offer real-time risk monitoring, situational awareness and significant capabilities to quickly and effectively respond to any event or incident that impairs or threatens critical business operations, personnel and/or corporate stability.

Organizations today require a suite of essential function and information system plans to prepare themselves for compliance, response, continuity, recovery and resumption of business processes in the event of a disruption. In order to continue operating effectively under duress, organizations need to think proactively and engineer availability, security and reliability into their business processes. Many organizations are achieving Operations Assurance by combining Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Compliance Management, Business Continuity Planning and Continuity of Operations Plans. While each plan has a specific scope, the end goal is always the same . . . KEEP THE ORGANIZATION RUNNING.

SDI’s Continuity Now! addresses these issues at multiple levels to support timely information flow, decision support and action. At the heart of Continuity Now! is a powerful, highly unique, patented, active collaboration engine that provides true interoperability, global business process automation and system integration. As a result, Continuity Now! delivers:

• Inter- and Intra- Agency and Multi-jurisdictional collaboration
• Shared Unified Situation Awareness
• Real-time delivery of information for active decision support
• Intelligent event-based process automation
• Contextually based notification and alerts
• Information and data sharing within your organization, external agencies and first responder systems
• Consolidated information for a total view of events

SDI’s Continuity Now! solution has been developed to address the need for organizations (Government, Military, and Commercial) to develop and store strategic and tactical plans that can be automatically or manually invoked to respond to single or multiple events on a real-time basis.

Continuity Now! will support your organization at multiple levels. First, Continuity Now! manages individual building or departmental COOP, Disaster Recovery and OEP plans. With Continuity Now! your plans have life. They are connected to trusted information sources assuring information integrity at critical times. Current cascading call lists are automated and require very little if any manual intervention while still assuring that appropriate notifications are received and acted upon.

Resource and personnel tracking is provided to deliver a complete picture of resource availability and safety. Continuity Now! provides event simulation to assure that data recovery services are working as planned, alternative sites can be activated as planned and communication links operate appropriately.

While Continuity Now! does not supply the mainframes, mid-range computers, servers and workstations – it does however, have the ability to monitor your IT systems and networks to recognize an event and automate plan execution.

Back to the top