The Planning Portal: Business Continuity Management Software
Capability AND Cost Savings, Security AND Access, Simplicity AND Flexibility. You CAN have it all!

Avalution has created a complete business continuity software solution based on the simplicity of Microsoft SharePoint, paired with deep business continuity expertise. The Planning Portal is designed to enable organizational compliance with key international standards, including NFPA 1600 and BS 25999. Its familiar interface and distributed approach reduces administrative burden. Additionally, The Planning Portal is backed by the expertise and service provided by Avalution Consulting. Our 24x7 technical support line is staffed by personnel familiar with both business continuity and The Planning Portal.

Based on industry feedback and our knowledge of what’s needed to build and maintain a successful, value-added business continuity program, The Planning Portal provides your organization with the following functionality:

Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

1. Provides support for a survey and/or interview-based analytic approach
2. Identifies key process and application dependencies
3. Enables visual mapping of business process and technology dependencies through multiple layers
4. Utilizes information gathered during the BIA in all subsequent planning phases
5. Enables the identification of key threats and vulnerabilities, for individual processes and the overall facility (consistent with enterprise risk management, or ERM, best practices)

Recovery Strategy Definition

1. Identifies minimum staffing levels by process, across the period of disruption
2. Identifies minimum resource requirements for items such as facilities, technologies and communications – by process, facility and across the enterprise
3. Enables IT requirements planning – understanding what applications are needed and how individual elements of IT infrastructure support them
4. Enables alternate space planning for facility based outages

Planning

1. Delivers a web-based plan development process, with highly customized plan templates and content (unlimited plans, unlimited users)
2. Enables the development of communications, response and recovery plans based on one or more scenarios, such as loss of facility, loss of personnel or loss of technology
3. Supports the development of IT response and recovery plans, based on recovery objectives identified during the BIA

Exercising

1. Supports the definition of exercise plans and objectives
2. Tracks exercises across the enterprise
3. Enables an evaluation of exercise results versus objectives

Learning

1. Provides a web-based e-learning management solution
2. Provides instructional content on your business continuity program, as well as details on how to use The Planning Portal

Emergency Notification

1. Includes an embedded notification service: send via phone (text to speech), text message or email
2. Track delivery status and even ask a question and see individual responses

The Planning Portal Mobile / Live Crisis Management

1. Available on any BlackBerry OS 6+, Android or iOS (iPhone, iPad, etc) device
2. Enables users to view recovery plans, team contacts, roles and procedures in a mobile friendly, secure format
3. Provides access to live, incident-specific crisis management sites
4. Enables tacking and updating of situation reports, plan status and application recovery status
5. Provides check-in links that register employee location to manage staff
6. Enables users to publish key mobile links to users for use during an emergency - such as floor plans and call lists.

General Management

1. “At a glance” dashboard provides an overall summary of the enterprise planning effort
2. Enables business process / technology self-assessment to evaluate entities against a corporate standard
3. Provides extensive reporting features based on Microsoft Reporting Services
4. Organizes, stores and versions files of any type using a flexible folder structure
5. Protects plan content with granular, role based security, auditing and versioning controls
6. Manages internal and external contacts through the use of interfaces with other business applications, to include human resource systems, ERP applications or even Active Directory
7. Assigns one-time or recurring business continuity planning tasks to The Planning Portal users

Are you ready to learn more? Contact us today to find out how The Planning Portal will add value to your organization's business continuity capabilities and save you time and money!