Disaster Recovery

“It is better to have the business continuity plan and not need it, than to need the plan and not have it.” 

Crisis Survivor: Crisis Survivor constructs Business Continuity Plans tailored to your circumstances and regulatory environment, providing an impact analysis, emergency contact lists, details of roles and duties, emergency procedures, test scenarios  and nominated remediation specialists. Your BCP safeguards essentials, provides a managed resource document for continuity management, a specified “battle box”, and a task list for survival.

From “getting the first hour right”, to establishing a sustained recovery, Crisis Survivor helps protect the product of a lifetime’s work, acts as a framework to demonstrate compliance with an ever increasing regulatory burden, and improves commercial prospects.  We may even be able to save you money - having one of our plans could halve your commercial insurance premiums - and possibly identify other cost savings.

www.crisissurvivor.co.uk

Sabre Telecoms: So the worst has happened: the telephone lines are down, or the switchboard is under water, damaged by fire or you simply can’t gain access to your building. 
If your customers, employees and suppliers can’t contact you the implications are serious.  Human nature being what it is, they will naturally assume the worst: “I won’t get my delivery, I’ll have to find someone else”, “they might go out of business I’ll divert the next shipment to a supplier I know will be able to pay”.  Soon you’ll have no business.
What do you do; panic, or make a single call to have all essential numbers diverted to mobiles and carefully selected alternative numbers?
Sabre Telecommunications is able to deliver the services necessary so that your customers, employees, suppliers and other stakeholders can keep in contact with you.

www.sabretelecoms.com

planB: Imagine this:
Friday 10:00 - during your busiest time of the year, the servers running the finance and email have gone down.

• It's going to take 5 to 7 days to buy new ones, get them installed and the offsite backup loaded up
• there's no other way of issuing invoices, or sending emails to customers, suppliers and staff

At best, your business is now on hold! Unless, Friday 11:00, planB's system is invoked and,

• Normal service resumed within 30 minutes
• Company saved from a crisis

www.planbdr.com

Hillyer McKeown: When a company's business is disrupted how is this reflected in it's contractual obligations? Do its contracts allow it to suspend its contractual obligations? Do its contracts limit liability for failure to perform? Can its suppliers or customers use the event to cancel their contracts with the company and/or sue for breach of contract? 

Hillyer McKeown will undertake a preliminary audit and identify gaps – e.g. absence of contracts that should be in place plus problems with the contracts that do exist. The review will generate a short report comprising a high level assessment of key problems and identifying obvious gaps in the client’s armoury of contracts. This enables them to revise and update existing contracts and provide standard documents where none exist.

www.law.uk.com

ISS: Damage control, getting up and running after a crisis. Following a major disruption, re-establishing a healthy safe working environment for your employees with access to their records, whether paper or computer-based, is fundamental to a rapid recovery. 

ISS are specialists in damage remediation.  They can be on site within four hours with specialist equipment to dry out documents and IT equipment, safely remove smoke damage and a number of other perils.

www.iss.com

Guardian Archive: If a business loses its vital documents:

• How does this affect its contractual arrangements?
• Can it prove ownership?
• Can it claim on its insurances?
• Might its identity be at risk? 
• Keeps documents safe

Guardian Archive will store all your difficult to replace and infrequently required paper documents such as:

• Partnership Agreements
• Memorandum & Articles of Association
• Insurance Policies
• Original Contracts
• Proofs of Ownership
• Leases
• Property Deeds

Votive: Reputational management is a key element often overlooked during times of crisis. The six key stages to consider are:

• Set-up and planning
• Key Stakeholder communications
• Media Communications
• Crisis communication and situational monitoring
• Consolidation
• Recovery and opportunity

www.votive.com

Telsolutions: Telsolutions delivers a service to alert key stakeholders immediately should the worst ever happen.  Uses include:

• Communication with crisis management teams or command teams
• Notification of specialists and task force members
• Second alarm of additional standby personnel
• Information passed to further sites, company management or staff 
• Notification of official bodies and media
• Information hotlines for staff, clients, business partners and the public 
• General public alerts
• All-clear announcements and information concerning resumption of business processes

www.telsolutions.com

Fraser Eagle: How to get your key people to your Emergency Management Location, alternative workspace, or home - and back again! Unprepared is unacceptable!

• The success of your business relies on your operational continuity and ability to provide a service, whatever happens.
• In today’s climate, there’s an increasing pressure placed on organisations to have a recovery plan that ensures their business can continue to function.
• Your business is expected to be ready for anything!
• On average, a business will experience a major disruption once every four years as a result of IT or telecoms failure, damage and theft, or loss of key staff.
• More worryingly, 80 per cent of businesses affected by a major incident close within 18 months.
• Having a team on call 24-hours a day, with a proven track record of moving people quickly and efficiently, will make the difference between a smooth recovery and demonstrable loss of business.

www.frasereagle.com