Maintaining business as usual
with BIC Business Continuity

The maximum tolerated downtime is automatically calculated for the respective critical process using information from the business impact analysis (BIA). Since important data and insights from the BIA are available as an on-demand report, they can be used – even on the fly – in executive briefings.

The BIA incorporates all essential aspects for maintaining operations of critical business processes. This creates a complete, holistic picture of the risk situation and keeps you well informed at all times.

BIC Business Continuity contains pre-built, ready-to-use catalogs to analyze existing risks in line with internationally recognized standards. A threat catalog based on the BSI IT Grundschutz methodology as well as a control catalog compliant with ISO 22301:2019 are currently available. Both can be either used out of the box or customized to your unique needs by an administrator.

Using renowned standards keeps your company on the safe side and eliminates the threat of overseeing risks. These norms provide reliable guidance for critical situations in BCM processes and can be tailored to your needs at any time.

The information contained in the business impact analysis is visualized in a dashboard to effectively prioritize the steps for taking action with respect to continuity strategies and contingency measures. You can also view data from the risk analysis. To facilitate risk tracking and handling, the dashboard highlights risks that bear a high probability of occurrence and impact of damage for critical processes regarding downtime.

For an optimized experience, users can also view information in the desired level of detail. This ensures that they get the information they need as well as the best-possible insight on the processes, resources and measures in BIC Business Continuity.

Contingency plans are often documented in thick paper manuals that cannot possibly be read during a critical situation such as a total outage. BIC Business Continuity is a tool that provides fast, simple, straightforward guidance on the path to resuming business operations. You can document the various steps of the respective contingency plans in BIC Business Continuity and even extend them, if desired, using BIC Process Design and BIC Process Execution. This provides vast capabilities to model, analyze, communicate and manage the individual process steps and directly transform them into executable processes.

The contingency exercises in BIC Business Continuity ensure that your emergency measures stay current and effective. This is an important instrument to sensitize and strengthen employee awareness for contingency scenarios and crises. Getting the workforce involved also strengthens the long-term resilience of your processes.