Overview

The Business Impact Analysis (BIA) will identify and quantify the potential financial and business impacts of an interruption, providing the data required for an organization’s continuity strategy and plan.

Through web-based surveys and in-person interviews CSO assesses the organization’s business applications—from supply chain management to enterprise resource planning systems and everything in between.

Applications are then prioritized according to business requirements and the criticality of each mission.

Most clients are required to have a disaster recovery plan performed as a regulatory requirement. It is very difficult to write a disaster recovery plan without first performing a BIA.

IT organizations typically struggle to obtain funding and executive support for disaster recovery planning.

The BIA creates a business case that can be used to obtain the necessary funding and business sponsorship.

Deliverable

The deliverable from this project is a detailed report showing the business impact of critical processes, applications, and servers if they were to fail.