Business Impact Analysis (BIA) &

Dependency Mapping

Define your important business services, critical business areas, products and more, and comprehensively map their critical dependencies both upstream and downstream and view these via a graphical dependency map.

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Take charge of how business impact analyses (BIAs) are conducted in your organisation and program with Shadow-Planner’s enhanced customisation options.

 

Enjoy the flexibility to conduct targeted BIAs on any aspect of your program by specifying:

  • The record or group of records for the BIA, whether it’s a department, function, location, supplier, IT service, or a product/service/important business service
  • The timescales for analysis using multiple time scale sets, tailoring them to match the BIA subject
  • The impact assessment policy for comprehensive assessments tailored to specific divisions, organisational parts, geographies, or products/services
  • The data and dependencies to capture in each BIA, allowing flexibility in detail and information collection by adding custom fields
  • All necessary information for your business continuity (BC) program, including general information about the BIA subject, completion of impact assessments, risk identification, and mapping of dependencies across your organisation

You can also:

  • Conduct comparative analysis during dependency mapping, providing visual cues for inconsistencies or data issues
  • Leverage the visual dependency map function to easily identify where requirements can or cannot be met across all dependencies. This powerful visual tool allows users to quickly assess challenges for further investigation.

Dependency Mapping

One of the biggest challenges for any organisation is identifying and understanding the interdependencies between different parts of the business. This is complex and multi-faceted which makes it time-consuming and resource-heavy – but it’s a fundamental requirement for a business continuity programme.

With Shadow-Planner, a single click gives you a clear graphical view across your organisation.

Powerful graphical dependency mapping

Shadow-Planner comes equipped with a graphical dependency map that provides real-time gap analysis, highlighting gaps in recovery capabilities. It shows at a glance:

  • Where the required RTO cannot be met
  • Where dependency gaps are unknown
  • Where the required RTO can be met
  • Where the required RTO can be exceeded

Shadow-Planner’s dynamic dependency map tool allows administrators to navigate upstream and downstream to explore critical paths and dependencies across any element of the organisation:

  • business areas/divisions/departments
  • IT services
  • locations/buildings
  • products or services
  • resources
  • suppliers

Why is dependency mapping so important?

Dependency mapping is important because it shows how systems, processes, and teams rely on each other. Without it, you can’t see the impact of change, risk, or failure in any one thing, on the rest of the business.

Above and beyond its importance in business continuity and disaster recovery planning, it helps you:

  • Assess operational and technical risks.
  • Plan system changes, migrations, or outages with fewer surprises.
  • Improve incident response by tracing issues to root causes faster.
  • Prioritise investments based on real business impact.

In short, dependency mapping gives you visibility and control so that you understand what matters, what’s connected, and what’s at risk. Shadow-Planner’s strengths in dependency mapping make it invaluable when it comes to meeting FCA requirements for all important business service or product, and their respective process RTOs.

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