The simplicity of Microsoft SharePoint, combined with deep business continuity expertise has resulted in a truly compelling business continuity solution.  The Planning Portal is designed from the ground up to enable organizational compliance with NFPA 1600 concepts and BS 25999 specifications.  Its familiar interface and distributed approach will reduce administrative burden, not add to it.  Finally, The Planning Portal is backed with the expertise and amazing service provided by Avalution Consulting.  Our 24x7 technical support line is staffed by personnel familiar with both business continuity and ThePlanningPortal.

Key Features
Based on industry feedback and our knowledge of what’s needed to build and maintain a business continuity program, ThePlanningPortal provides your organization with the following functionality:

• Business Impact Analysis
• Support for a survey and/or interview-based analytic approach
• Identify critical processes across the entire enterprise
• Depict the impact of process interruptions over time
• Identify key process and application dependencies
• Utilize information gathered during the BIA in all subsequent phases
• Identify key threats and vulnerabilities, for individual processes and the overall facility (consistent with enterprise risk management, or ERM, best practice
• Recovery Strategy Definition
• Identify minimum staffing levels by process, across the period of disruption
• Identify minimum resource requirements for items such facilities, technologies and communications – by process, facility and across the enterprise
• Conduct alternate space planning – to define which alternate facilities will be used by each process in the event of a business interruption
• Recovery Planning
• Web-based plan development, with highly customized plan templates and content
  Unlimited plans, as well as planning participants – all based on your organization’s structure
• Develop recovery plans based on one or more scenarios, such as loss of facility, loss of personnel or loss of technology
• Develop IT recovery plans, based on recovery objectives identified during the business impact analysis
• Plan Exercising
• Define exercise plans and objectives
• Track exercises across the enterprise
• Evaluate exercise results versus objectives
• Learning
• Complete web-based e-learning solution management framework
• Assign training modules to ‘learners’, require learners to complete quizzes and review overall results by facility or across the enterprise
• Provides instructional content on your business continuity program, as well as details on how to use ThePlanningPortal
• Measure learning and report awareness levels enterprise-wide
• “My Activities”
• Provides a single interface for plan owners to review their BIA, Strategy, Plan and exercising information, and take action as needed
• General Management
• “At a glance” dashboard, providing an overall summary of the enterprise planning effort
• Self Assessment for individual facilities to evaluate themselves against corporate or international standards.
• Extensive reporting features based on SQL Reporting Services
• Flexible folder-based file management system, which also enables the storage, versioning and linking of supporting files (of any type)
• Granular security, auditing and versioning controls
• Manage internal and external contacts through the use of interfaces with other business applications, to include human resource systems, ERP applications or even Active Directory
• Assign one-time or recurring business continuity planning tasks to ThePlanningPortal users

Why Will The Planning Portal Add Value to Your Organization?

Easy-To-Use
An intuitive web-based design, taking advantage of the SharePoint platform, makes learning ThePlanningPortal a breeze – your business users are likely already familiar with much of the functionality.

Lowers Administrative Burden
ThePlanningPortal has a number of features that minimize the resources needed to ‘maintain’ the application, such as: