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Business Impact Analysis
This service identifies what parts of your business need to be up and running as soon as possible after a disaster hits.
After completing a business impact analysis (BIA) you can effectively create response and recovery plans that focus on bringing back those functions most critical to your survival.
The information for the BIA may be obtained through interviews, questionnaires, or a combination of methods.
We concentrate on what the business unit does, what systems support it, what hardware, applications, tools, data, and outside inputs are required to do that process.
We then identify the downstream elements of the business or data.
You may wonder, “Why is this important?”. The reason is simple, and is best shown by an example.
Lets say that a particular department's function is perceived as critical to maintaining your customer's orders for your product or services. To perform its function the department requires current information, no mere than one week old, from another department. That other "upstream" department doesn't consider its role as critical, so it only copies the data from its function and stores it off-site once each month. If a fire or tornado were to severely damage the facility towards the end of a month then the best data that the critical department could obtain would be 4 - 5 weeks old. Dreamcatcher Disaster Resilience, LLC could then work with the upstream department to increase its off-site storage of the required data, or create some other redundancy to protect this critical operation.
The BIA may take weeks, depending on the scope of the project.
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