Business Continuity Analysis & Planning

Business continuity planning is an issue often discussed at priorities meetings but regularly pushed to the back of the queue to accommodate the seemingly more pressing day-to-day demands. RedElephant’s business continuity offering focuses on back end infrastructure capabilities to support the business needs in the event of a catastrophe.

RedElephant works with business leaders to determine the amount of downtime and data loss a company is willing to sustain in the event of an unforeseen catastrophe. RedElephant’s iterative approach to business continuity planning is structured such that business leaders can determine the level of analysis and implementation needed to address their perceived vulnerabilities. RedElephant adopts a philosophy that unaddressed awareness of vulnerabilities is better than being unaware. While implementing a business continuity plan that addresses all vulnerabilities is optimal, such an approach is often cost prohibitive and unrealistic for most small to medium size companies.

RedElephant’s approach to business continuity planning allows for the implementation of a cost effect realistic strategy that takes into consideration the day-to-day demands of the business. RedElephant focuses on initially implementing business continuity safeguards that give a company the most bang for the buck. This is then followed up with longer term strategies that improve the robustness and scope of a business continuity plan.

Along with infrastructure, RedElephant will look at IT asset management practices, data management practices, communication tools & plans, insurance policies, and application change control and code management practices.