Service Overview
Organisational strategy definition takes the output from current or recent Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Risk Assessment (RA) and reviews this against current or intended ICT infrastructure that underpins each of the critical business processes. This results in an overall gap analysis, providing the basis to develop and document a signed-off BC/ICT DR strategy.
This service provides a number of solutions that deliver varying outputs against required levels of recovery, availability and resilience. The structured information provides organisation with facts to consider elements such as cost benefits, technology, skills and budget in order to make an overall decision as to the best strategic solution, ready for sign-off.
Varying approaches can be undertaken to ensure appropriate coverage and alignment to core business requirements and overall organisational strategic goals. SunGard’s Strategy Definition covers:
- Increasing resilience or the efficiency of recovery
- Development of internal skills or outsourcing
- Improvement of facilities or hosting
- Replication of data or tape backup
The Benefits
This service would benefit organisations that:
- Are concerned existing strategy is no longer viable in view of changes to business, environment, technology and infrastructure
- Wish to confirm the organisation’s BC requirements
- Are not sure how to translate findings from the BIA and RA exercises into a viable continuity strategy
- Wish to know which recovery options are technically feasible
- Wish to know which recovery options are desirable within the policies of the organisation
- Are unsure which options are the most cost-beneficial to meet business continuity needs
- Require external evaluation of recovery options
- Wish to define a continuity strategy statement within your enterprise risk management policy
- Need to define implementation milestones and resource estimates for the implementation of a business continuity programme