We invite business continuity planning pros who are serious about securing more executive buy-in for their BC programs to join our upcoming webinar on Wednesday, May 18.
Over 600 people have registered for this webinar already. If you have difficulty presenting your true effectiveness as a BC professional beyond generating plans, you cannot miss this discussion.
Our company was built by business continuity planners who have been in the industry for dozens of years. Our experiences have led us through pitfalls that many planners fall into, and we came together to chart a new course for planners.
One of the major problems we’ve seen deals with static paper plans. In our experience, static plans, whether they are electronic PDFs or on actual paper, present major challenges during outages due to their outdated nature and inflexibility.
Just wanted to comment on Gartner’s new report, “Four Risky Issues When Contracting For Cloud Services.” Though the report is not specific to business continuity, as the leading cloud BCP vendor, it definitely applies to us and our customers.
Frank Ridder and Alexa Bona from Gartner write that “the immaturity of cloud service contracting means that many have structural deficits.” To that, we’d like to respond that Strategic BCP has been around for over seven years and we’d certainly consider our company and our contracts mature. We strive to provide the best possible service to our more than 25,000 users and our contracts reflect this. We work hard to meet our clients’ privacy and security requirements while staying within their budget. In fact, it’s a company mission to meet the highest possible security and redundancy standards. We take these issues very seriously and we’re EU Safe Harbor-compliant.
Of course when you sign any contract, your lawyers need to make sure you’re protected. Negotiating to make sure the terms are in your favor is a given. We want to make every client we work with happy with our service and our contract terms. Come see what else we’re all about.
Our free webinar “Cloud Computing for BCP Software” with Continuity Insights magazine has been rescheduled to Wednesday, March 16, at 12:00 p.m. EST.
What We’ll Cover
It’s no secret – there’s a major buzz around “the cloud.” From managing leads in Salesforce.com to running payroll in QuickBooks, cloud technologies have emerged as popular applications for businesses of all sizes. In the BCP software realm, cloud computing can be quite powerful. For every BC professional, it is important to understand the concept and its specific application to our profession.
This webinar will put cloud computing in terms that all BC professionals can understand. No technical degrees are required. We will also go beyond the basics and into the key benefits of cloud BCP software, along with important risks that must be properly managed. We will delve into the specific aspects of cost, manageability, security, and redundancy.
Cloud computing is undoubtedly beneficial for many organizations and understanding its specific application in our industry is critical for every BC professional. We look forward to having you join us in this important webinar.
From managing leads in Salesforce.com to running payroll in QuickBooks, cloud computing has emerged as a popular option for businesses of all sizes.
Many of our customers and people we talk to in our BCP industry have apprehensions about cloud BCP, so we decided to weigh the risks and rewards in our latest white paper.
As I wrap up here in San Diego, I wanted reflect on DRJ’s Fall World 2009. It wasn’t hard to see that less people attended than previous years. It wasn’t surprising, with the lack of travel budgets and the state of the economy. The event had many of the same faces from the industry. But I detected a pervasive feeling of angst and frustration that I have not seen at other events this year. People are frustrated – many at being out of work, others at being faced with management that doesn’t recognize their true value to their organizations, and many at being locked into undesirable job situations that have a common theme: a lack of support resources and dollars to do their jobs.
The economy has put our profession under a tough magnifying glass where BCP as cost centers, mass document generation, and expensive solutions with little return are no longer passing muster. It’s a frustrating time, but also presents a unique opportunity to force us to be better – more than just document planners, but professionals who understand the inner workings of our operations and can put the pieces back together during the worst of times. Now more than ever we must be creative – there are those that will pray for the status quo and try to skate by to the end, but as Business Continuity Professionals we are much better than that – let’s not wither away, but prosper as a profession by continuing to make ourselves better – by making our organizations better.