Resiliency Consulting
Services - planning and design

Overview

Does your business continuity program align the needs of your business with your IT recovery plans? Are you confident that you are addressing the right risks on both the business and IT side? Are your investments in business continuity optimized to meet your business requirements, without over or under spending? With IBM Resiliency Consulting Services - planning and design, our consultants work with you to develop detailed and customized resilience plans that can help you make proactive, business value-driven decisions. Using our exclusive IBM Business Resilience Framework, Resilience Enterprise Blueprint, resilience optimization and total cost of ownership methodologies, we can help you better understand the costs associated with optimizing your resilience environment. Our goal is to provide a business continuity program designed to meet your specific requirements so you can continue to manage and mitigate the risks to your business and realize the value of investing in business continuity.

Highlights

• Helps you sustain critical operations in the event of a disruption by defining strategic business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis management plans
• Designs a business requirement-based resilient architecture for your IT environment
• Helps you optimize the balance between your investments in-and the business value of-your business continuity program by providing plans and designs based on your unique needs
• Offers flexible and customizable solutions tailored to your specific needs

Providing a well-defined road map that can facilitate quick, cost-effective business continuity

Economic concerns drive organizations to cut costs, but businesses are continually faced with the challenge of sustaining critical operations in the event of a business disruption. The financial implications of downtime, brand vulnerability and data integrity-as well as regulatory compliance-are key risk factors that you need to address to support your business continuity goals.

IBM Resiliency Consulting Services - planning and design provides a specific action plan for your business. Building on information gathered from an initial assessment of your current business continuity capabilities and risks, this service focuses on your specific business requirements. We help you design the program that you need to avoid and mitigate potential risks to your business operations. Using IBM's exclusive methodologies, our consultants help you create the road map and supporting plans you need to cost-effectively implement the solutions that best meet your business needs. IBM can help you design a resilient architecture and define business-driven plans and procedures to apply in the event of a disaster or other type of business outage, helping to facilitate a quicker recovery. As part of this process, we help you manage your compliance needs, and we develop recommendations to help you defer or reduce capital expenditures for capabilities that are not required based on your business objectives.

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