Business Continuity

Continuity Logic FrontLine Live automates BCP, Risk and DR management programs so you can focus on improving organizational resiliency.  Built by industry leaders, FrontLine Live offers an affordable, comprehensive and easy to use software solution that is truly revolutionizing how business continuity planning professionals are using planning software today.

Continuity Logic’s innovative platform is tightly integrated allowing you to easily manage, monitor, and support your BCP, DR, Risk, and Compliance information on a single, unified platform.  With Continuity Logic’s customized dashboards, administrators, executives, managers and other support teams will be more productive.  The organization will also improve its understanding of operational, financial and regulatory risk enabling the management of a resilient business.

Benefits include:

BIA Manager

• Automate RTO rankings with customized weighting and ratings
• Distribute simple surveys and forms for users and third parties to fill out
• Dynamically link BIA and Risk data into plans with real-time reporting creating a continuous BIA approach
• Distribute tasks that automatically guide users via email links to fill out BIA questionnaires
• Easily identify critical functions, required resources and dependencies
• Automatically generate recovery priorities that minimize user errors
• Offer real-time BIA metrics and reports on customized dashboards and hard copy print outs
• and more…

Risk Manager

• Include risk assessments within the plan update process
• Display separate threats based on the item assessed (i.e.: type of building, different threats for business/technology function, etc.)
• Factor risk scores and threats into the Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs)
• Alert owners to changes of risk for their departments or locations
• and more…

Plan Manager

• Deliver automated tasks that guide users through plan building steps with progress tracking via dashboards
• Generate plan update reminders and past due alerts to minimize administrator’s responsibilities
• Integrate an organization’s existing databases and source information for single point of data
• Control access and plan approval with roles, permissions and custom workflow
• Re-organize and restructure plans with simple drag and drop feature
• Customize tabs, screens and fields to create a flexible approach that fits your methods
• Capture version history of changes
• and more…

Vendor Manager

• Quickly import existing vendor contact information with vendor participation in your plan building
• Leverage forms that allow for simple data entry and updates of vendor records
• Report on vendor contacts, contracts and versioning
• Engage vendors and third parties directly in to the planning process with log ins to their own plans (not as an attachment) to improve the productivity of your supply chain.
• Allow vendors the ability to complete their own risk assessments and contact information
• and more…

Technology Manager

• Import existing data or utilize simple forms for data entry of IT services and resources
• Create automated alerts that notify users of gaps between business requirements and IT capabilities
• Produce dependency maps with unlimited number of parent/child relationships
• Integrate the recovery process with IT ticket and monitoring systems
• IT Dashboard, reports and gaps analysis  for applications and hardware dependencies
• Utilize data from external configuration management databases (CMDBs) and maintain the relationships that existed in the CMDB
• and more…

Report Manager

• Extend real-time reports on to dashboards, linked to plans and in hard copy
• Create detailed audit reports with approval status, audit trails and versioning available throughout the entire system
• Prepare customized relational reporting with an easy to use system
• Customize personalized dashboards with drag and drop reports available
• Create reportable relationships between dependent functions regardless of if they are business, technology or vendor related
• Display graphs and gauges and attachments in your published plan
• and more…

Incident and Exercise Manager

• Activate dynamic plans by generating tasks and assignments based on the impact(s) of the scenario and automatically alert the appropriate participants
• Manage incidents and recovery status from customized dashboards
• Automatically record every step of the exercise or incident for after action reports and plan improvement
• Merge lessons learned back in to the plans automatically saving time in the post-mortem process
• Display financial impacts in real-time and accrue as the incident progresses
• Empower users to log in remotely and monitor the status of recovery
• and more…

Notification Manager

• Deliver automated tasks that support all phases of planning and recovery
• Create call tree and recovery team notifications for managing live events and tracking user response
• Utilize an open API to work with 3rd party notification tools
• and more…

Compliance Manager

• Track regulation changes and be automatically alerted of any new regulation changes
• Identify where regulation changes affect your organization’s functions, services and locations
• Populate a compliance dictionary with regulatory information by industry
• Provide third-party vendor data that can be tied to regulations in order to assess vendor compliance with regulatory changes
• and more…

Key Product Differentiators

• Automated Logic throughout the entire system cuts down on user error and minimizes mistakes during testing and recovery efforts.  The system calculates RTO, criticality and recovery priority and gaps based on user input.  It also dynamically pulls together all dependencies, recovery steps and impacted plans during a test or incident.
• With a real time incident duration tracker FrontLine Live will help make tough recovery decisions for the organization by calculating RTO, Recovery Priority and Financial impacts over time to reprioritize the recovery effort as the incident progresses (including sending recovery tasks via e-mail).
• Automated notifications sent out to users based on gaps between Business needs and IT requirements. Built in intelligence will compare the requirements and notify impacted individuals.
• Drag and Drop capability for reorganizing and restructuring plans reducing the time it takes to incorporate reorgs in to your BCDR program.
• Based on simple user input, FrontLine Live will generate RTOs, Recovery priorities and metrics etc that eliminate end-user data entry errors.
• Dependency mapping with unlimited number of parent and child relationships (most tools only go one or two levels upstream or downstream).
• Quick and easy customized relational reporting capabilities (does not require Crystal).  Run reports and queries against any table in the system to see relationships, gaps, impacts, etc.  Reports can easily be dropped into any section of the plan.
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