BUSINESS CONTINUITY CONSULTING SERVICES

It’s a business fact: there’s no “good” time for unplanned IT outages.  While the costs and implications vary from industry to industry and business to business, one fact is constant: every minute your systems are down costs you real money.  One recent study indicated that one in five businesses have lost more than $100,000 from business interruptions in the preceding 12 months.  With downtime costs topping $50,000 per hour in certain industries such as financial services, manufacturing, and life sciences, you can’t afford to not be prepared for rapid recovery when natural or man-made disasters occur.

That’s why companies are turning to BANG! Communications for business continuity services encompassing IT recovery, business recovery, high availability, and data backup and recovery.  Our business continuity consulting engagements vary according to each client’s unique needs.  However, most can encompass some or all of the following elements.

• Project Initiation
• Define objectives and scope of coverage
• Establish a Steering Committee
• Draw up policies
• Business Analysis
• Perform business impact analysis
• Evaluate alternative strategies
• Create cost-benefit analysis and select strategy
• Develop budget
• Design and Development
• Set up an Emergency Response Team (ERT) and assign responsibilities to members
• Develop backup and recovery strategies
• Develop network infrastructure dependencies
• Develop escalation and notification plan
• Evaluate current backup strategy and hardware
• Implementation
• Prepare emergency response procedures
• Prepare detailed procedures to recover operating systems, data, applications, databases, and more
• Prepare vendor contracts and purchase recovery resources
• Testing
• Test plan based on selected scenario
• Produce test report and evaluate result
• Train all personnel
• Perform disaster recovery simulations
• Maintenance
• Develop review schedule
• Create policy and procedure for updates to plan