Common challenges for business continuity programs
Organizations often face obstacles when developing and maintaining effective business continuity programs.
Ensure business continuity
Automate and streamline your business continuity and disaster recovery programs to navigate any disruption. The Everbridge BC in the Cloud® resilience planning platform provides the clarity and control you need to keep your organization running.
Understand your business continuity goals
A static plan isn’t enough. Organizations should assess program maturity and develop a practical, evolving resilience strategy embedded in their culture.
Business continuity management software helps you:
- Map dependencies and prioritize recovery: Identify interconnections across processes, systems, and suppliers, then define Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for critical functions.
- Automate and streamline updates: Keep plans current with efficient workflows.
- Assess readiness and ensure compliance: Identify gaps and meet standards like ISO 22301.
- Monitor performance: Generate dashboards and reports demonstrating readiness.
Limited resources and priorities
Insufficient funding, time, or focus can weaken continuity planning and delay critical recovery efforts.
Cultural and organizational barriers
Resistance to change and silos hinder collaboration and alignment between business and IT teams.
Faulty planning and dependencies
Incorrect assumptions and unprepared third parties can expose the organization to significant operational risks.
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Benefits
- Enhanced resilience: Minimize disruptions through impact assessments, planning, testing, and proactive risk management.
- Operational efficiency: Automate workflows to accelerate plan maturity and close gaps across operations.
- Scalability and flexibility: Scalable solutions that grow with your organization and adapt to changing needs.
- Improved compliance: Centralize documentation and monitor program status to meet regulatory standards.
- End-to-end resilience: Gain insights into response effectiveness and track lessons learned for continual improvement.
Features
- Visualize enterprise dependencies: Reveal interconnections and gaps between critical systems and recovery initiatives.
- Extend impact and plan templates: Use or customize templates to assess impact and build plans.
- Configuration without complexity: Easily expand programs with visual tools, drag-and-drop features, and pre-built components.
- Simplify compliance: Centralize documentation and access real-time insights to meet regulations.
- Seamless technology integration: Integrates smoothly with existing systems, avoiding reconfiguration or downtime.
Solution
Everbridge BC in the Cloud (BCIC) is a comprehensive resilience planning platform that integrates impact assessment, planning, risk management, testing, and incident response into a single solution. With full life-cycle automation, intuitive dashboards, and built-in templates, BCIC simplifies compliance and accelerates critical event management. It empowers your teams to know earlier, respond faster, and improve continuously when every moment matters. BCIC enables you to effectively assess the impacts of business disruptions, develop mitigation strategies, create response plans, and validate your resilience.
BC in the Cloud helps WEX, Inc. achieve operational resilience
With limited capabilities from its existing business continuity and disaster recovery software, WEX began researching alternative solutions in 2017. The rapidly growing company needed a system that was flexible, scalable, provided greater reporting capabilities, and offered a positive end-user experience.
WEX narrowed its initial research of dozens of vendors down to five companies, then to three, and ultimately selected BC in the Cloud.
How it works
BC in the Cloud provides industry-standard assessment and plan templates to jumpstart your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) programs. The templates align with regulatory requirements and are easily configured to match your organization’s needs and terminology. The platform allows for easy extension and configuration while providing ongoing updates to new templates aligned with market demands and international standards. By bridging the gap between business and IT, BCIC delivers a holistic view of what matters to your business and provides insights to prioritize functions and systems, minimizing impact during a disruption.
2025 Global Enterprise Resilience Report
Disruptions are inevitable and unpredictable, and organizations must have a flexible, dynamic approach that enables them to achieve true enterprise resilience.
Combined expertise of Everbridge 360 and BC in the Cloud
By seamlessly integrating with Everbridge 360TM, BC in the Cloud transforms your continuity strategies from static documents into dynamic, coordinated actions. This alignment of business continuity processes with real-time incident management and emergency communications protects your people, operations, and systems when every second counts.
Utilizing BC in the Cloud with the Everbridge 360 platform offers organizations enhanced safety and operational continuity. You can anticipate risks, predict impacts, enhance collaboration, and improve communication, enabling your organization to emerge stronger.
Outcome
BC in the Cloud, combined with Everbridge 360, delivers a unified solution that connects planning with response, ensuring you are always ready for disruption. Together, our solutions empower you to manage crises with precision, offering robust risk intelligence and communication capabilities for swift, informed responses that minimize disruptions. This approach bolsters organizational resilience and fosters a proactive approach to risk management that safeguards employees and assets while maintaining trust and stability.
Why Lennar ditched manual processes for BCIC
Discover how Lennar uses BCIC to boost resilience and streamline operations. With centralized, relational data, they easily track Business Impact Assessments (BIAs), tie it to continuity plans, and eliminate redundancy. In this case study BCIC helped Lennar identify impacted processes during a migration in just 30 minutes.
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Featured case studies
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A global financial services technology company used our solutions to improve its business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) program, which was managed through disparate systems and required manual reconciliation.
Improving business continuity for financial services: CIBC Mellon case study
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Industry solutions for business continuity
IT industry
For the IT industry, business continuity enhances organizational resilience by enabling firms to proactively plan and assess risks. It involves monitoring system vulnerabilities and implementing robust solutions. These strategies protect sensitive data, ensure uninterrupted operations, and maintain system integrity, empowering IT organizations to effectively manage cyber threats and safeguard critical digital infrastructure.
Financial institutions
For financial institutions, business continuity ensures the stability of financial operations by proactively planning and assessing potential risks. It involves safeguarding assets and maintaining compliance through continuous monitoring and implementation of strategic solutions. These measures bolster customer trust, protect financial data, and enable institutions to effectively navigate unforeseen disruptions while preserving financial integrity and operational resilience.
Telcomms
For the telecom industry, business continuity enhances network resilience by enabling companies to proactively plan, assess risks, and monitor network vulnerabilities. This involves implementing strategic solutions to ensure consistent service delivery and customer communication. These efforts protect critical infrastructure, maintain operational flow, and empower telecom providers to effectively manage disruptions and uphold service reliability amidst unexpected challenges.
Government
For governments, business continuity enhances resilience by enabling proactive planning, risk assessment, and continuous monitoring of critical functions. By implementing strategic solutions, governments ensure the uninterrupted delivery of essential services and maintain public trust. These measures bolster operational integrity, allowing governments to effectively manage unexpected disruptions and protect vital public infrastructure, ensuring societal stability and security.
Corporate impact
For corporates, business continuity enhances operational resilience by enabling companies to proactively plan, assess risks, and continually monitor potential vulnerabilities. By implementing strategic solutions, businesses ensure the protection of vital assets and the stability of operations. These measures maintain stakeholder confidence and allow corporates to effectively navigate disruptions, safeguarding their competitive edge and ensuring long-term sustainability.
Healthcare
For healthcare organizations, business continuity enhances care resilience by enabling providers to proactively plan, assess risks, and monitor operational vulnerabilities. Through strategic solutions, healthcare facilities ensure uninterrupted patient care and continuous medical services. These practices protect critical healthcare infrastructure, maintain service integrity, and empower organizations to effectively manage disruptions, ensuring patient safety and service reliability amidst unforeseen challenges.
Related resources
8 steps to an effective business continuity plan
Our essential guide on 8 steps to create an effective business continuity plan empowers you to take control and build a roadmap for success
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At a time of rising geopolitical tensions, increasingly frequent and destructive natural disasters, and cyber and retail crime epidemics, organizations must be prepared to respond.
The business case for BC/DR (business continuity & disaster recovery)
BC/DR ensures the company has the ability to quickly and effectively react to a negative change from a disruptive event (natural or manmade) by having and implementing proactive and reactive strategies to safeguard its stakeholders and revenue.
Developing a Disaster Recovery Plan: A Comprehensive Guide
It may seem like a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan are the same thing, but businesses must understand the difference between disaster recovery vs. business continuity planning.
How to create a business continuity plan
Maintaining stable business operations is key. Given the growing number of risks companies face today, businesses will continue to face ever-changing disruptions, and quickly acting on them requires having a solid business continuity plan (BCP) in place.
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In today’s high-risk environment, businesses must not only be able to respond effectively to disruptions, but they must also be able to return to operations faster and more confident than before.
Business continuity FAQs
What is business continuity?
Business continuity refers to the strategic and tactical capability of an organization to plan for and respond to incidents and business disruptions in order to continue operations at an acceptable predefined level.
Why is business continuity important?
Business continuity is crucial because it ensures that essential functions can continue during and after a disaster, minimizing operational disruptions and financial losses while safeguarding the organization’s reputation.
How do you implement a business continuity plan?
To implement a business continuity plan, identify critical business functions, assess potential risks, develop strategies to maintain operations during disruptions, and communicate the plan to all stakeholders.
What are the key components of a business continuity plan?
Key components include risk assessment, business impact analysis, recovery strategies, plan development, and testing and maintenance procedures.
How often should a business continuity plan be tested?
A business continuity plan should be tested regularly, at least annually, to ensure effectiveness and make necessary updates based on new risks or changes in business operations.
