Roberta J. WittyHappy 2010! Personally, I’d like a do-over for the last six months of 2009 – ironic, but I might have had H1N1, but most folks would prefer a do-over starting mid-2008. Life goes on and WOW! – has 2010 started with some big acquisition news. Not only has Gartner made a few acquisitions (AMR Research and the Burton Group), but EMC just announced their acquisition of Archer Technologies. For many BCM professionals, you might not know that Archer has a BCM planning module. But they do and it’s integrated with their other GRC and IT security modules, making it one of the few operational risk tool suites that cover BCM. FYI – we define a BCM planning tool as one that has capability to conduct an availability risk assessment and business impact analysis (BIA) as well as provide recovery plan development and management, including all the necessary database components such as business and IT interdependency mapping, asset inventory, human resource inventory and so forth.
In 2010, my colleague Tom Scholtz and I will be publishing an analysis of the BCM planning tool market – covering many of the pure play vendors as well as operational risk tools that include BCM planning.
We’d like to know what you think – are there advantages in going with a suite versus a pure play BCM planning tool? What is your preference and why?
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1 Parvaneh January 7, 2010 at 7:54 am
Hello, I am a master student in IT-Management in University Technology Malaysia (UTM), I wanted to know How I can get in touch with you. Do you have any email that I can communicate with you?
regards,
Parvaneh