Symetra empowers its leaders and streamlines continuity with BCIC

Learn how Symetra, a financial services company offering annuities, life insurance, and employee benefits, uses BC in the Cloud (BCIC) to centralize information, simplify contingency planning, and provide department leaders with a unified view of recovery strategies and business continuity plans.

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The benefits of using BCIC, for us, our organization, Symetra, is the consolidation of all the information, of all of our business units. It’s been helping us as our company grows, and with the expanding of our business entities.

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It helps us to have that one single view of our contingency plans for all the various units that we manage. And it’s been very effective also to help us and our department leaders manage, review their business impact analysis, and also review their continuity plans.

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So with the incident, it helps us to have, number one, to just like, helps that our department leaders that manages and own the business continuity plan, to have that one place where they can, like, where is my, continuity plan?

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So you go to the BC in the Cloud and then you can see your information there; all of your recovery strategies information. If they’re relying on department call trees, those are all of the lists of your employees, which, for us specifically, we connected with our HR information system.

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So, it helped them to have that one single spot.