Atlantic Communication Services: Business Continuity

Real-Time Business Continuity

Considerations for Businesses with Mission-Critical Applications

Are You Prepared?

Recent events have made it very clear that a disaster can occur in the absence of preparation. Your telecommunications systems and services must be engineered for the real world today to prevent loss of mission-critical data and vital communications links. Not just major disasters cause problems; other events, such as lack of Internet service, can disrupt primary business and support operations. U.S. business disasters experience demonstrates that:

80% of businesses without business continuity preparedness close within 2 years of a major disaster
93% of businesses are out of business within 5 years of the loss of their data center
50% of businesses that do not recover in 10 days never recover at all.
Critical functions can not be out of order longer than 4.8 days
Of the 68% of businesses that have contingency plans, 45% test their plans.[1]

In the event that your staff is dispersed from your facilities, will your business continue to function?

Real-Time Business Continuity (RTBC) Service

Atlantic Communication Services specializes in helping organizations develop comprehensive business continuity plans, putting these plans into practice, and assisting in the regular testing of these plans. Our Real-Time Business Continuity (RTBC) - a service that ensures business operations are minimally disrupted in the event of a disaster - helps clients evaluate potential threats, prepare contingency plans, and establish back-up/repair readiness plans. RTBC extends business vulnerability assessments across an organization using tools to measure threats and their potential damage in five key areas:

People
Financial/Operations
Communications
Information Technology
Product & Service Delivery

Our RTBC methodology is consistent with federal government and ISO 9000 guidelines. RTBC projects begin by working with clients to consider all potential sources of vulnerability: internal (e.g., corporate scandal) and external (e.g., terrorism). The risks associated with each perceived threat are then quantified and prioritized so that contingency plans include the tactics most easily deployed and managed.

RTBC enables organizations to recover from disasters by developing a strategy and implementing a set of established preparations and procedures. Whether a crisis comes as a terrorist threat or a corporate scandal, key personnel will already know how to respond in a manner that will quickly get critical operations back on track. Ideally, these plans include:

Transition of core business management and operations functions to virtual
Backing-up human capital by documentation of issues, decisions, processes and procedures
Formation of succession plans and training of shadow teams
Allocation of distribution, supply chain and warehousing for multiple support paths
Assessment of vendor contingency planning and recovery compliance.

With Atlantic Communication Services as your business continuity partner, you can commit your organizationÕs resources and expertise towards your core business, with the knowledge that Atlantic Communication Services has provided your organization with state-of-the-art solutions and procedures to address your business continuity concerns.

If you would like more information about our Business Continuity Planning Service, please complete the form below or contact us at info@atlcomsvc.com or 703.728.8570.