The business continuity sector is growing rapidly. What once started as an I.T. issue has quickly become an enterprise-wide initiative. The continuation of business operations after a major event is critical to any organization. Global AlertLink goes well beyond other products on the market to provide a truly holistic solution. Today’s business continuity is not just about one area, rather it is an enterprise-wide effort, bringing together worlds that rarely, if ever, work together.

• Distribute responsibility of planning to each operational or departmental unit.
• Connect plans together from diverse areas of your enterprise for a global response.
• Develop plans for any type of scenario, from legal to technological to natural disasters.
• Always know how up-to-date your plans and your plans’ information are.
• Plans are more than static documents, they are living active entities which include knowledge, resources, processes, communication and business rules.

• Get a global view of your enterprises’ interruption level.
• Drill down into specific locations, business units or departments to view details on any interruptions, regardless of the size or scale.
• Monitor the status of events as they unfold live and as your teams work through their plans.
• Integrate Global monitoring and receive instant alerts when any external risk may threaten your organization.
• Monitor the progress of plan development and up-keep of your entire enterprise’s continuity plans and resources.

• Allow individual teams or the entire enterprise to manage events.
• Link plans and events together providing great collaboration and response.
• Manage the response down to the individual task and decision points.
• Visually track your plan in action.
• Coordinate activity in real time to your team, regardless of physical location.
• Integrated emergency alert technology for instant communications with your team or external stakeholders via phone, PDA, e-mail, SMS, pager or fax.

• Recreate events down to the second to learn for future events.
• Analyze bottlenecks and complications to your plans.
• Review resource allocation to understand increased efficiency.
• Review business interruption causes to mitigate against future outages or lost profits.
• Store completed events as plans for real-world and tested plans.