Business continuity software refers to computer applications for maintaining business operations while their underlying IT systems are unavailable. It is also called Disaster Recovery as it covers both aspects of the process:
It is no exaggeration to say that the majority of businesses would not survive long should they lose access to critical business data. It is for this reason that every company should be prepared should disaster strike. Business continuity software helps ensure systems can continue operating in the event of outages, malicious attacks, or disasters.
Archer
Platform: Archer Business Resiliency
Description: Archer Business Resiliency enables users to identify and catalog their organization’s mission-critical processes and systems, as well as develop detailed business continuity and disaster recovery plans to protect their business from disruption. The platform offers incident management capabilities, which gives users the ability to quickly evaluate the criticality of an incident, determine the appropriate response procedures, and assign response team members based on factors such as business impact and regulatory requirements. Additionally, Archer Business Resiliency offers a coordinated and automated approach to business continuity and disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution.
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Arcserve
Platform: Arcserve Continuous Availability
Description: Arcserve offers several different backup products, including Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP), Arcserve Replication and High Availability, Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct, UDP Cloud Hybrid, and a legacy offering. UDP provides comprehensive Assured Recovery for virtual and physical environments with a unified architecture, backup, continuous availability, migration, email archiving, and an easy-to-use console. Arcserve Continuous Availability ensures business continuity with asynchronous, real-time replication and automatic failover to prevent downtime and data loss. Recovery testing can be fully automated or performed on a scheduled basis.
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Asigra
Platform: Asigra Cloud Backup
Description: Asigra is built for cloud computing environments and designed to offer backup efficiencies by allowing enterprises to capture, ingest, and store less data. Designed for compatibility with public, private, and hybrid cloud architectures, the Asigra platform is equipped with agentless software architecture, global deduplication, and data compression technology along with NIST FIPS 140-2 certified security. Asigra also offers ransomware protection, business continuity, and compliance management. These platforms offer bi-directional malware detection, deep MFA, immutable retention, and variable repository naming. In addition, the vendor reduces recovery time objectives and eliminates silos of backup data.
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LOGICMANAGER
Manage Tomorrow’s Surprises Today with LogicManager’s Top-Rated Enterprise Risk Management Software.
- Easily access, review, and update all of your BC/DR information like business processes and related assets in one centralized framework.
- Manage your responsibilities and track the status of your projects with easily accessible to-do lists
- Improve coordination between business continuity, disaster recovery, and crisis response teams with automated tasks, alerts, and reminders
- Ensure the BCP you have in place is operational and effective with automated testing
- Link risks and controls directly to the business continuity plans they relate to with our taxonomy technology
- Evaluate the criticality of each business process with pre-built, intuitive business impact analysis templates
- Track disaster events when they occur, identify the gaps in your plans, and determine follow-up improvements to your procedures with our intuitive incident templates
- Prove BCP compliance to auditors and BCP effectiveness to senior management with highly configurable reports and compliance checklists
QUANTIVATE
Quantivate’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software solution enables you to effectively and efficiently manage your compliance, risks, and governance initiatives across the enterprise.
- Guided processes for identifying critical business processes (criticality and risk scoring)
- Risk assessment: threat and vulnerability analyses
- Business impact analysis (BIA)
- Editor tool for generating BC/DR plans
- Business process library
- Pre-loaded content: templates for BC/DR plans, pandemic plans, and crisis management
- Scenario-based exercising
- Configurable workflows, dashboards, reports, and user permissions
- Built-in analytics
- Real-time plan updates and electronic distribution
- Centralized storage for plans and documentation
- Mobile app
ASSURANCESOFTWARE
Business Continuity Software, Services and Tools from Assurance Software enables effective recovery and prevention plans for key business operations.
- Ensure Success
- Decrease Security Risks
- Promote Compliance
- Win Organizational Buy-In
- Go Beyond DIY
- Ensure Reliability
- Minimize Data Challenges
BWISE
Nasdaq BWise is the global leader in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Management software.
- Maintaining a centralized business process repository
- Performing, storage, and mining of Business Impact Analyses (BIA) for business processes
- Prioritizing business continuity and disaster recovery plan development
- Authoring, reviewing, and updating business continuity and disaster recovery plans
- Communicating Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) plans to effected stakeholders (e.g., employees, regulators, audit, communities)
- Conducting tabletop walkthroughs
- Resolving issues via assigning and monitoring of action plans
- Signaling of crisis events that activate continuity and resiliency plans
- Integrating with mass communication systems
- Tailored configurable reporting
WEGALVANIZE
Galvanize builds security, risk management, compliance, and audit software. We’re on a mission to unite these teams in our HighBond platform in order to strengthen individuals and protect organizations.
- Automated business continuity management (BCM) workflow
- Simplified Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Comprehensive business continuity reporting
PLANBCONSULTING
PlanB Consulting are one of the UK’s leading providers of Business Continuity, Crisis Management and Incident Management consultancy. We help organisations to prepare for, react to and recover from disruptive events.
- Business Continuity Software
- FREE 30 Day Trial
- Features Summary
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Catalyst Security
- Business Impact Analysis
- Risk Assessment
- Plan Development
- Testing and Exercising
- Automatic Metrics
- Incident Management
- Emergency Notifications
- BC Program Management
- Recovery Strategy
- Plan Templates
Axcient
Platform: Axcient x360Recover
Description: Axcient offers a single solution that incorporates data protection, disaster recovery, archiving, and test/dev. Axcient x360Recover offers flexible deployments and ease of management to MSPs. The vendor also provides two self-service platform options that can be managed by a single user: Axcient Business Recovery Cloud, which is the legacy solution, and Axcient Fusion. Axcient Fusion is built to run on the public cloud, and both platforms offer one-hour and eight-hour RTO options. Axcient enables users to mirror their entire business in the cloud, thereby simplifying data access and restoration, failovers, and virtualization.
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Castellan Solutions
Platform: Castellan Platform
Description: Castellan Solutions provides business continuity software to organizations of all sizes. The vendor’s SaaS platform enables users to leverage automation and intelligence to solve operational resilience, crisis management, and emergency notification challenges in a single centralized location. Additionally, through fully integrated business impact analyses, risk assessments, and plan development functionality, users can set business continuity requirements and create visualizations summarizing the entire, end-to-end value chain. The solution also offers embedded alerts and emergency notifications.
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Cohesity
Platform: Cohesity SiteContinuity
Description: Cohesity is a data management company that manages, protects, and extracts value from enterprise data. The provider’s flagship tool, Cohesity DataProtect, safeguards a wide range of data sources on a single web-scale platform. The solution can be deployed on-premises on qualified platforms in the data center, public cloud, and on the edge. Cohesity SiteContinuity is the automation and orchestration engine that powers Cohesity’s unified data protection portfolio. The tool delivers near-zero RTO with hot standby and automated recovery of a single application or an entire site within minutes on a secondary site or cloud.
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Commvault
Platform: Commvault Complete Data Protection
Description: Commvault provides data protection and information management software to help organizations protect, access, and use all of their data economically. The provider offers Commvault Complete Data Protection, which is an all-in-one solution combining Commvault Backup & Recovery with Commvault Disaster Recovery for enterprise-level data protection software. The solution provides backup, replication, disaster recovery orchestration, copy data management, scale-out architecture, ransomware protection, migration support for data and application, and a web-based user interface. Additionally, Commvault Complete Data Protection delivers fast VM, application, and storage snapshot replication with flexible RPO/RTO.
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BWISE
Nasdaq BWise is the global leader in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Management software.
- Maintaining a centralized business process repository
- Performing, storage, and mining of Business Impact Analyses (BIA) for business processes
- Prioritizing business continuity and disaster recovery plan development
- Authoring, reviewing, and updating business continuity and disaster recovery plans
- Communicating Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) plans to effected stakeholders (e.g., employees, regulators, audit, communities)
- Conducting tabletop walkthroughs
- Resolving issues via assigning and monitoring of action plans
- Signaling of crisis events that activate continuity and resiliency plans
- Integrating with mass communication systems
- Tailored configurable reporting
WEGALVANIZE
Galvanize builds security, risk management, compliance, and audit software. We’re on a mission to unite these teams in our HighBond platform in order to strengthen individuals and protect organizations.
- Automated business continuity management (BCM) workflow
- Simplified Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Comprehensive business continuity reporting
PLANBCONSULTING
PlanB Consulting are one of the UK’s leading providers of Business Continuity, Crisis Management and Incident Management consultancy. We help organisations to prepare for, react to and recover from disruptive events.
- Business Continuity Software
- FREE 30 Day Trial
- Features Summary
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Catalyst Security
- Business Impact Analysis
- Risk Assessment
- Plan Development
- Testing and Exercising
- Automatic Metrics
- Incident Management
- Emergency Notifications
- BC Program Management
- Recovery Strategy
- Plan Templates
CONTINUITY2
Global Business Continuity Management Software (BCM Software) specialists empowering the business resilience of world leading organisations.
- Management Information & Reporting
- Plan Management
- Business Impact Analysis
- Explore (Data Visualisation)
- Incident Management / Notification
- Exercise & Testing
- Dynamic Reporting
- Corrective Action
- Audit & Compliance
- Document Management
- Mobile & Tablet Enabled
- Learning Management
- Central Management
- Policy Management
Conclusion
Due to the changing cyber threats which are becoming more complex and sophisticated, IT professionals along with others in the corporate world are slowly realising the importance of developing business continuity software. Business continuity management is an important aspect of risk management which every business should focus on. Having the right business continuity software helps in making it more efficient and smooth. Just like each day is unique, each business has different identity and risk exposure, hence select the best business continuity software helps in providin g you with better opportunities.