WHY BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANS ARE SO IMPORTANT
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Business Continuity plans are essential for any thriving organisation. However, they are often overlooked and underestimated. The issue is that no one notices the absence of a Business Continuity plan until disaster strikes – and by then, it’s too late. If your company doesn’t have a Business Continuity plan, any unplanned interruption or issue could result in costly downtime, immense delays and unhappy clients and staff.
There are many ways in which an unplanned interruption can take you by surprise. It could be as simple as a power outage that takes your servers down or might come in the form of a weather threat or even an attack on your systems and data from an external source. Regardless of the cause of your outage, unplanned means unexpected, which is why a Business Continuity plan is essential to ensuring your business can continue to thrive, even when the unexpected happens.
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What is a Business Continuity plan?
A?Business Continuity plan?(BCP) is a document that outlines how a business will continue to operate during a period of unplanned disruption. Your Business Continuity plan will outline ways to prevent and recover from potential threats to your company, ensuring assets and personnel are protected and able to recover quickly.
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Why have a Business Continuity plan?
Businesses, especially larger businesses, are prone to a myriad of disasters, be it minor problems or catastrophic standstills. The experts at Eclarity are here to come up with a fail-safe BCP for your business, allowing us to save you from disaster, whether it’s recovering your IT infrastructure after a crisis or implementing preventative measures to minimise potential downtime.
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1. Disaster recovery
Disaster recovery plays a large role in the restoration of business operations. Unfortunately, crises do occur and the unexpected can always happen. Without a proper BCP, the risk of downtime is much more significant, so working with an experienced Business Continuity plan provider can mitigate some of these issues.
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2. Backups are not sufficient
A large number of companies utilise some kind of data backup or recovery service. However, if a power outage were to occur or a server were to crash, you would not be able to access this data anyway. For this reason, having backup options is not sufficient and this is something that a BCP can address and handle to give your business the best opportunity at bouncing back.
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3. Edge over competitors
Businesses that employ an effective BCP have an edge over their competitors, as they are able to restore normal operations while other businesses struggle to figure things out. Ensuring your?networks?are back up and running quickly and effectively will allow operations to continue as normal, with access to all your data and documents. You will therefore be able to continue to present your company as a reliable leader in your industry, no matter what life throws at you.
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4. Business must continue
Keeping your business going is essential to happy customers, steady income and results. Without a suitable continuity plan, your business ceases to function. When working with Eclarity, we will establish all the ways your business could be affected, in order to better plan for the worst.
For example: if the power were to be lost and you and your teams are unsure of when things will be restored, do you have a server or network located in a functioning data centre?
Elements like this are all taken into consideration by the Eclarity team when we build our Business Continuity plans. We will consider all possible disruptions you may encounter to ensure you have strong foundations to uphold reliable IT infrastructure – even when disaster strikes.
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The importance of a Business Continuity plan:
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Why work with Eclarity Solutions
With over 20 years of experience in the industry and a specialist team on hand to help support your business, Eclarity is the trusted provider of?effective Business Continuity plans?to help your business, even when the unexpected happens.
To find out more about our services,?get in touch.