Many organizations rely on FusionRM for business continuity management activities, whether it’s for operational resilience, crisis management, or risk management. However, FusionRM doesn’t provide all the required functionality needed for the successful recovery of your IT technology stack, such as workflow communications, process automation, infrastructure-as-code integrations, or a system of execution across people and technology.
This is where Cutover’s Collaborative Automation platform comes in. With Cutover, you can host multiteam and technology recovery plans, enabling your teams to rehearse planned or unplanned resilience testing and confidently recover from actual disasters or cyber incidents. Cutover enables a new layer of capability above infrastructure as code, giving you visibility and control over what happens when and in what order across all your teams and technology stacks.
Whats the difference in Cutover and FusionRM for disaster recovery?
What FusionRM does best:
FusionRM’s focus is on operational resilience, encompassing business continuity, risk management, IT risk, and crisis and incident management.
For IT disaster recovery, FusionRM provides:
- Impact tolerances on the maximum tolerable level of disruption that your organization can withstand for important business services.
- Risk and impact assessments on potential threats and the likelihood of them happening and business impact analysis to document the effects of particular disasters and their severity.
- Continuity planning for “what if” scenarios and outlining how every business unit should respond to a disaster to resume the most critical functions and return to typical business operations as quickly as possible.
What Cutover does best: Technology resilience
While FusionRM is the system of record for impact tolerances and risk assessments, Cutover is the system of execution for on-premises, cloud, and cyber disaster recovery situations. With Cutover, you can create and run dedicated recovery plans for both tests and actual technology disaster incidents and manage all actions across people and technology with automation in real time. Cutover provides visibility and transparency in reporting, thanks to an automated audit trail which can be used for post-incident review and regulatory reporting.
The Cutover Collaborative Automation platform provides:
- A system of execution to rehearse and recover from total loss and partial loss downtime
- Automated and codified tasks across people and technology
- Collaboration across your entire cloud disaster recovery team with integrations to commonly used collaboration platforms during cloud recovery tests and failovers
- Open APIs to automate the recovery process with a single source of execution that bridges the business, IT, and cloud service providers
- Recovery Time Actuals (RTAs) to validate and prove your ability to recover from an outage or downtime to regulators with the immutable audit trail
- Real-time visibility and stakeholder notifications of your IT disaster recovery testing or live invocation
- Post-execution analysis to determine areas of improvement
What Cutover and FusionRM can do best together
Together, Cutover and FusionRM can create an end-to-end technology resilience and continuity capability for IT disaster recovery situations that include dynamically created recovery plans encompassing both manual and automated activities, full execution visibility, audit trails, and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and RTAs for business impact analysis. With Cutover and FusionRM working together, you can associate application RTO data with Cutover’s post-execution audit data, such as RTAs, to enable a full assessment of your organization’s capability to meet recovery timelines and understand potential gaps in your processes.
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