Test & Exercise Management

Performing regular tests of business recovery procedures, facilities, security and IT disaster recovery plans is essential to an organization’s resilience.

The management and reporting of tests is a complex process that can be greatly simplified by using the Factonomy BCM Test & Exercise Management module. 

It is essential to identify gaps between expected recovery times and those achieved and to map the recovery times recorded during testing to those required by the business in line with its RTO

Factonomy BCM makes it easy to set business rules determining how often certain tests must be completed and then marshal your resources through simple interfaces and chase emails to ensure the tests are carried out, the results captured and the implications rolled up and reported at required levels within your organizational hierarchy.

Scoping tests and achieving all necessary business and technology acceptances can be a complex process often requiring multiple rounds of negotiation and compromise. The module facilitates this process through a number of workflows, communications and data capture screens making it easier for those involved to understand the extend of any necessary disruptions and to ensure adequate mitigations are in place.

People (critical staff)

Ensuring business functions continue to be performed requires that staff are able to operate fully during an invocation.  Whether deployed to a dedicated recovery site, working from home or transferred to a remote office it is important to ensure that each plan element has been tested within limits set by the continuity team.

Technology

With enterprise integration available to application inventories, configDB databases and other technology stores, it becomes possible to map dependencies between technology and business function.

The Factonomy BCM testing module can extend into the disaster recovery space and help managers schedule, document, execute and analyze large scale failover and recovery tests involving geographically disperse assets.

In conjunction with the Factonomy BCM Run-Book management module, test documentation will be integrated to include run-book activities and vital records.

Benefits Include:-

• Manage all test communication between stakeholders;
• Simplify the setting of scope;
• Relate tests and full-scale exercises to the RTO’s of business functions;
• Integrate with Run-Book management module;
• Integrate with Config-DB and I.T. Inventories.