Business Continuity Management | BCM Execution

The BCM “Execution Gap”

A common misconception: “We already have a BCM plan”. Your plan’s true value lies in your ability to execute it.

To make a plan executable one has to: rehearse it, test it, be able to invoke it in real time, track its execution, analyse the results.

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Plan

Improve production failover planning by building comprehensive event runbooks with greater ease. Once your plans are ready, rehearse them to remove conflicts, identify improvements, and finalize the best possible plan of action.

Orchestrate

Streamline and enhance execution with a platform that orchestrates humans and machine automation to complete tasks swiftly and accurately. Automate time-consuming manual processes and notifications, freeing people to perform more complex resilience-building tasks.

Analyze

Effective resilience-building is only possible when you have easy access to detailed event data and insights. Cutover collects and securely stores a full audit trail, driving a process of continuous improvement and ensuring impeccable regulatory compliance.

Stock exchange group successfully conducts critical business continuity management test

A major stock exchange needed a solution to help conduct their primary data center failover test. The exchange is considered to be critical national infrastructure, so it was vital to get this right.

Challenge: Failover for thousands of critical activities

The failover involved thousands of critical activities to coordinate the transition of thousands of services. If they were unable to failover it would disrupt business and put clients at risk.

Solution: Orchestrate critical activites and increase observability to stakeholders

Cutover enabled the stock exchange to build increased operational resilience capability, by orchestrating thousands of services and making progress observable to stakeholders.

Results: 80% reduction in business continuity management planning

Using Cutover reduced the amount of planning time by 80% compared to manual tools and processes. The exchange has since expanded its use of Cutover to involve more applications, people, tasks, and complexity.