- How to Use This Catalog
- Form and Content of Process Catalog Entries
- Application Optimization
- Asset Management
- Budget Management
- Business Continuity
- Business Relationship Management
- Capacity Planning
- Change Management
- Configuration Management
- Contract Management
- Contractor Management
- Cost Recovery
- Data Storage Management
- Facilities Management
- Inventory Management
- Job Scheduling
- Negotiation Management
- Network Management
- Output Management
- Performance Management
- Problem Management
- Production Acceptance
- Production Control
- Physical Database Management
- Quality Assurance
- Security Management
- Service-Level Management
- Service Request Management
- Software Distribution
- System Monitoring
- Tape Management
- Workload Monitoring
Business Continuity
This process aims to provide continuous availability or contingent business processes as required in emergencies and extraordinary events. It develops business-continuity strategies and tactics (disaster recovery), identifies document recovery requirements for critical business applications, and also manages backup and archival processes for critical data.
Tasks |
Skills |
Prepare and maintain a business continuity plan (BCP) Communicate with suppliers and customers regarding disaster-recovery requirements Arrange and coordinate with hot-site, e-vault providers Integrate BCP with production acceptance processes Define standards around business continuity for customers |
Expertise in scenario planning Knowledge of technologies critical to information recovery |
Staffing |
Automation Technology |
Disaster-recovery specialist Project manager Business/IT liaison |
Disaster-recovery management software (Sunrise, Arise) Disaster-recovery planning software (PC-based) |
Best Practices |
Metrics |
Common continuity plans for the enterprise Update plan twice a year Test plan three times per year, with one actual, one simulated, and one unplanned test BCP has equal emphasis on business recovery and technology recovery Optimize use of third-party disaster-recovery facilities Integrate disaster recovery requirements with production acceptance process Ability to perform integrated testing/recovery across IT platforms |
A mean time to recovery (in relation to pattern) Cost per business segment, per volume of technology protected Stratified cost structure by pattern for systems and application with availability requirements as follows: instantaneous, within 24 hours, 2472 hours, 57 days Cost /MB of archived data |
Process Integration |
Futures |
Disk storage management Tape management |
Disaster recovery built into tape/storage subsystems, packaged applications Better cross-platform software for disaster recovery Improved simulation (scripting) software to minimize the need for business area involvement in disaster-recovery testing Continuous operations for Web-based applications Interface with ASPs and ISPs to provide recoveries |