Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Disasters happen everywhere and there is no way to totally prevent them, however, this is not an excuse to postpone developing a step-by-step plan to ensure that when disaster strikes, your people can be safer, communications restored and operations resumed as quickly as possible.

Hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters may come immediately to mind, but unforeseen business interruptions that are common in many areas include sabotage from vandalism, former employees, and accidental damage. Any of these situations can instantly lose data, damage equipment and put your business in a precarious situation.

It does not have to be that way. At relatively low cost and without significant effort, you can take steps today with Stemp Systems to eliminate the threat of significant damage and business discontinuity so your company can more quickly recover from unexpected adversity.

On the Internet, you can find estimates that anywhere between 25%-80% of businesses that do not have a Disaster Recovery Plan go out of business after a major loss like a fire, a break-in, a storm or sabotage. However, to be fair, we have never been able to confirm any of these numbers. It is clear that if your company must be able to access its accounting, customer relationship management, human resources, database, email, phone system or the technology to earn a profit, then it is absolutely critical that you have a business continuity or disaster recovery plan in place.

The bottom line is proper planning prevents a temporary disaster, forcing your business into permanent failure. Stemp Systems can help you create a comprehensive business continuity plan that provides a straightforward, step-by-step process to be followed to restore the technology that supports your business immediately following a disaster, and in some cases avoid downtime altogether.

Please realize that when disasters occur, your clients often need you more than ever. Therefore, we help you develop a plan that achieves the following:

• Define and prioritize your most critical employee safety needs, communication requirements, business processes, and technologies (“crucial needs”)
• Specify the sequence of crucial needs to restore following a tragedy
• List the crucial needs you can slow or delay the process of restoration; and
• Fully document how to simultaneously continue your most critical operations while your crucial needs are being fully restored within the capabilities of your backup and local governmental infrastructure.

Even in the best of circumstances, recovering from a disaster can be challenging. Catastrophes involve fear, panic and the need to make quick decisions. Having an easy-to-understand yet comprehensive disaster plan developed with a competent partner like Stemp Systems enables you to better provide safety for your employees, and more quickly reestablish communication and restore technology necessary to serve your people and clients.

One final note: Laws, regulations and shareholders expect organizations to proactively ensure the technology their company operates on is available, even following catastrophic events.