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Business Definition for: Business Continuity

  • the uninterrupted maintenance of business activities. Ensuring business continuity requires a proactive process of identifying essential business functions within an organization and threats to those functions. Plans and procedures may then be put in place to ensure that key functions can continue whatever the circumstances. Plans may be drawn up, for example, for contingency, disaster, and risk management, or for total loss control.

Additional Resources

MessageOne Takes the Sting Out of Email Outages With New Email Continuity Solution
MessageOne, a leading business continuity and email management company, today announced a new version of its flagship EMS Email Continuity solution that features full integration with Microsoft Outlook so users can continue sending and receiving email as usual during any email outage. The EMS Email Continuity service is the only...
Tags: e-mail, MessageOne
Research articles 2006-12-05
Array Networks Launches SSL VPN Flex Plan to Address Growing Need for ''Business Continuity''; Array Business Continuity Flex Plan Provides Companies Instant Assurance to Deal With Emergency or Planned Surges in Remote Access
MILPITAS, Calif. -- Array Networks, the scalability and performance leader in SSL VPN solutions, today announced immediate availability of the Array Business Continuity ABC Flex PlanTM for companies looking for a true remote access business continuity plan. In order to ensure business continuity, employees need to be able to access...
Tags: business continuity, remote access, SSL VPN, VPN
Research articles 2006-05-17
Back to Business: Business Continuity Planning Is Key to Recovering From Disaster
Today, Business Continuity Planning BCP can be better defined as the advanced planning and preparations necessary to identify the impact of potential loss; formulate and implement viable recovery plans ensuring continuity of services; and administering a comprehensive training, testing and maintenance program. While senior managers today understand business continuity planning...
Tags: Strategy, Business Operations, Management, It Services, Business Security, Business Continuity, Thomson Corp., Business Continuity Planning
White papers 2002-11-01
An Introduction To Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
It is now generally recognized that Business continuity planning and disaster recovery planning are vital activities. The sole purpose of business continuity is to maintain a minimum level of service while restoring the organization to business as usual. However, the creation of and maintenance of a sound business continuity...
Tags: Data Management, It Services, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery Planning
White papers 2003-01-01
3 Methods For Evaluating Business Continuity
The paper presents a framework within which a comprehensive view of an organization’s business continuity program can be reviewed, audited, or otherwise measured. It also helps a person to create a future where executives, investors, regulators, and other interested parties utilize a consistent and objective “measuring stick” to evaluate corporate...
Tags: It Services, Business Continuity
White papers 2003-11-01
Business Continuity Management What? Why? How?
This paper provides an overview of what Business Continuity Management BCM means, why organisations need to do it and how an organisation should approach the planning, implementing and maintaining of a Business Continuity Plan. The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with an overview of the issues...
Tags: It Services, Business Continuity
White papers 2005-06-10
Business Continuity For IT Managers
In the contemporary business world, Information Technology IT assets and business processes go hand-in-hand. However, special attention must be given to the associated networks that are vulnerable to technical risks. There is a need to devise continuity controls to check the risks accordingly. The paper deals with techniques required for...
Tags: Continuity, IT manager, Thomson Corp., Business Continuity, Operational Planning, Productivity, Asset Management, It Services, Business Operations
White papers 2004-01-01
What Business Continuity Really Means
BCM is a necessary discipline that must be embraced by all organisations that have a responsibility to their clients, stakeholders and staff to continue to provide a service. A properly constructed Business Continuity Plan BCP takes a business-focused approach to managing recovery. Article explores the need for business continuity management,...
Tags: BCM, It Services, Business Continuity, Article
White papers 2003-07-29
Fujitsu Enhances Business Continuity Management in Procurement; Supports Suppliers' BCM Readiness with Assessment and Other Assistance
Tokyo, Japan, Aug 21, 2007 - JCN Newswire - Fujitsu Limited today announced enhanced initiatives to ensure the stable provision of its products and services by strengthening the business continuity capabilities of its suppliers in the event of natural disasters or other contingencies. In addition to evaluating the business continuity...
Tags: business continuity, Fujitsu Ltd., procurement, supplier
Research articles 2007-08-21
Business Continuity Planning and the FFIEC Guidelines
A business continuity plan is a collection of procedures and information that is developed, compiled, and maintained in readiness for use to help an organization respond, recover, and resume in the event of a disaster. The objectives of business continuity planning are to minimize disruptions to the financial institution and...
Tags: Business Continuity, Business Continuity Planning, It Services, Business Operations, Business Security, Business Continuity Plan, FFIEC
White papers 2005-01-01
Factors to Be Considered When Selecting a Business Continuity Planner and Partner
The specialised nature of business continuity means that many organisations need to utilise the skills of a dedicated coordinator and the resources of an external partner to ensure that business continuity arrangements are established that are appropriate, comprehensive, cost effective and practical. But choosing such a coordinator and partner is...
Tags: Partnership, Business Continuity, It Services, Business Structures, Finance
White papers 2005-04-27
Trends in Business Continuity and Risk Management
EnvoyWorldWide's second annual survey, Trends in Business Continuity and Risk Management, was conducted blindly among members of several business continuity organizations including the ACP Chapters in Washington and Utah, the Business Recovery Managers Association BRMA, the Contingency Planning Exchange, the New England Disaster Recovery Information X-Change NEDRIX, and the Three...
Tags: Business Continuity, Survey, Risk Management, EnvoyWorldWide Inc., It Services
White papers
Preparing for disaster at BT
As the country's dominant provider of communications infrastructure, BT is under no illusions about the integral role it plays in supporting the business continuity of UK Plc, and the implications this has for its own business continuity practices. As Justin Clark, a consultant in business continuity management at BT says:...
Tags: British Telecommunications, business continuity
Research articles 2005-04-10
Business Continuity Manager
The Business Continuity Manager job description template includes the following job summary: To develop and direct all aspects of the company's business continuity program in such a manner as to minimize the duration and impact of any business interruption. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education...
Tags: Job, Business Continuity, Recruitment & Selection, It Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Entering the Mainstream Business Continuity 2004
CPM Global Assurance and Deloitte & Touche LLP's 2004 Benchmark Survey on Business Continuity Management reports on the results of focused discussions between Deloitte & Touche LLP and senior CPM Global Assurance business continuity and risk management professionals. These discussions were designed to identify, record, and present the state of...
Tags: It Services, Business Continuity
White papers 2004-11-09
What's the worst that could happen? Two out of five enterprises that suffer a disaster will go out of business in five years, according to research by the Gartner Group. Michael Gallagher explains how an effective continuity management plan can improve yo
Business continuity management BCM is defined by the Business Continuity Institute as "the act of anticipating incidents that will affect mission-critical functions and processes for the organisation and ensuring that it responds to any incident in a planned and rehearsed manner".
Tags: Gartner Inc.
Research articles 2003-05-01
Business Continuity Considerations for Research and Development Organizations
The terrorist attacks of September 11 have resulted in an increased sense of risk for many people. Business and facility managers are increasingly concerned about their organization’s level of preparedness. Research and development firms that have not previously developed business continuity plans are now scrambling to do so....
Tags: Research & Development, Business Continuity, R&D, Business Operations, It Services
White papers 2003-01-01
Business Continuity Suite 4.0 from CYA Technologies Receives EMC Designed for Documentum Accreditation
SHELTON, Conn. -- CYAR Technologies, Inc., the only provider of business continuity solutions within the Enterprise Content Management ECM environment that automatically recovers discrete content and its properties, today announced that its Business Continuity Suite of products has received the EMC "Designed for Documentum" logo designation, a mark of quality...
Tags: business continuity, Documentum, EMC Corp.
Research articles 2006-01-31
ADVISORY/OpenReach to Display Business Continuity Solution at 2002 SIA Business Continuity Planning Conference
Business/Technology Editors
Tags: business continuity, business continuity planning, Semiconductor Industry Association
Research articles 2002-10-24
Weathering The Strom
From the executive summary: ‘Experts suggest that disaster recovery is the restoration of computing and telecommunications services. Contingency or continuity planning are the procedures that business functions follow to keep going until IT facilities are recovered. An overall business continuity program sits on three legs: disaster recovery programs, continuity planning...
Tags: International Data Group, Business Continuity Program, Disaster Recovery, Telephony, It Services, Data Management, Networking
Case studies 2000-10-15
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