Implement Business Continuity Planning to fi t your Business Requirements

Implement Business Continuity Planning to fit your Business Requirements According to some recent market surveys, 80% of businesses affected by a major incident close within 18 months. 90% of businesses that lose data from a disaster are forced to shut within 2 years.1 Most companies now agree that disaster recovery is crucial to their resilience. However, they want to be prepared at the best affordable cost. MEGA International helps corporate managers to build efficient and disciplined Business Continuity Planning programs, Customer Benefits primarily driven by a business process ■ Easy to Evolve BCP Programs approach. These programs consider the Audited and tested at least once a year, your BCP client-side recovery needs as their top programs evolve with your business changes. Any priority; as opposed to former approaches paper report is only a snapshot of the business. The focusing exclusively on data center BCP plans are easily developed and maintained operation recovery. thanks to the reusable knowledge assets managed within the MEGA Repository. All business processes With MEGA, Business Continuity Planning and IT systems descriptions can be modified and (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) are automatically integrated into the impacted plans. part of a global operational risk manage- ■ Integrating Business Processes and IT Systems ment solution. Such programs have Operations to comply with more and more legislation The success of the MEGA solution for BCP is the and regulatory requirements. MEGA ability to bring together the business and the IT views gathers them into a consistent and shared without mixing them. MEGA describes the role of IT Enterprise Repository. resources in supporting critical customer business processes; as it is vital to have a clear understanding MEGA Consultants’ astute business of the interdependencies between the technology and expertise and MEGA software modeling the business. suite for BCP programs enable a ROI- oriented approach by: ■ Reusable Business Repository to support change within your organization ➔ Focusing only on what is critical to the The MEGA Business Repository can be used as a business, while preparing for ongoing BCP management tool for the global governance strategy. maintenance It is a corporate asset for all of the transformation ➔ Establishing BCP culture as a regular projects within your organization: enterprise governance practice based on ➔ It ensures rapid compliance with new regulatory the reuse of the Enterprise Repository requirements. contents ➔ It facilitates consistency and reuse of information ➔ Turning Business Continuity Planning in other projects like mergers and acquisitions, quality and Management into an opportunity to management, and overall enterprise architecture and drive positive changes at the enterprise governance. level. 1 London Prepared, November 2005 http://www.londonprepared.gov.uk/business/businesscont/ MEGA Business Continuity Planning Solution MEGA’s approach to Business Continuity Planning relies on MEGA’s solution for BCP and DR is based on our extensive experience the modeling of the enterprise's working with Fortune 500 companies critical business activities. The worldwide. objective is two-fold: create an MEGA solutions proved their excellence through the numerous successful implementations effective recovery action plan in realized globally. The ability to build an the short term; integrate BCP into effective Enterprise Business Repository relies governance practices in the long on 3 main components: term. Based on the implementation of an Enterprise plan for each department involved in the Business & IT Repository, the MEGA BCP business process. With MEGA’s approach and solution applies to any department within the toolset, an updated and accurate business organization as well as to the corporation as a description of who does what, when, and how whole. It follows a 4 steps approach: is delivered to all the stakeholders. ➔ 1. Scope the project ➔ 4. Simulate crisis situations, test the Identify the objectives and levels of resilience recovery plan, ensure ongoing maintenance that you expect from the main disasters. and improvement • Proven Modeling Approach Ensure that all stakeholders understand the BCP is a risk-driven program: failing to test it MEGA provides a real enterprise asset that business, that the BCP communication plan is reduces it to a hazardous project. In order to describes your business: processes, people, agreed upon and that all people to be involved prove that test plan reliability is not undermined risks and IT systems. MEGA embedded meta- in the recovery get the appropriate level of by false confidence, the BCP should be tested, models and modeling principles are compliant detail for proper action. This allows managers updated and audited every year by an external with official standards and can easily be to establish a BCP culture in the organization auditor. This requires defining and playing enriched with company-specific methods. from the very beginning of the project. accurate disaster scenarios and recording results (time, delay, data losses, required • Highly Skilled Consultants ➔ 2. Select and describe existing critical workload, and impacts on accountings). MEGA Consultants’ pragmatic approach allows business processes Office automation tools cannot reasonably analyzing and optimizing your business and IT Perform a business impact analysis to support such critical processes. Using a systems operations. Deliverables are gathered understand what the main critical business robust Enterprise Repository that automates into a reusable Enterprise Repository. activities are. Identify mission-critical processes publication and consistent communication is • A Modeling Toolset Leader in its Market and their dependencies inside and outside the the only viable solution. MEGA is the only solution provider that company.