Resiliency consulting services

Maintaining operational stability means staying in the game when it comes to the business objectives your organisation is set to achieve. Going down or slowing down can seriously affect your revenue-or even your organisation's long-term survival. IBM works with you to understand your objectives and provides IT and infrastructure risk management and business resilience expertise to assess a range of risks to the IT resources and assets on which your business processes depend.

Continuity you can count on
Do you know the risks to your business? Do you know the cost of downtime to your business? Is your business prepared to continue to meet service commitment in the face of a range of adverse events? Can your business effectively comply with ever-changing customer contractual requirements, industry standards or government regulations? If the worst happens, how quickly can you resume business operations? If you don't have a plan in place-or if you're unsure how well your business would perform in a crunch-IBM can help.

With business process expertise and more than 40 years of worldwide experience in business continuity, we can help you identify and fill gaps in your current business continuity strategy and guide you through the complex standards, practices and regulations that affect your business continuity program.

Using industry best practices and our Resilient Enterprise Blueprint approach, we can work with you to develop and manage a program that is aligned to your specific business needs and can create a reliable, more productive business environment. By reducing the risks related to noncompliance with contracts, industry standards, regulations and internal controls, we can help you link business planning and IT to business resiliency. The result: an integrated program aligned to your evolving business needs and risk tolerance levels.

What we offer
IBM provides a full lifecycle of services:

• Assessment and planning
  • Identify overall risks and vulnerabilities of your environment
  • Evaluate plans, processes, procedures, roles and responsibilities for the continuity program
  • Map IT to your critical business processes
  • Create plans for reducing risk from the range of threats identified
• Design
  • Creates a design for more resilient IT and physical infrastructure
• Implementation
  • Assists you in implementing your plans
  • Validation and periodic testing of plans
  • Updating plans due to changes in business conditions (acquisition, consolidation, expansion)
• Program management
  • Provides management of your risk and resilience program, including reporting