Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
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.
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.
