The SMS DR Program Review is a way for your company to compare its disaster recovery program to industry best practices and take immediate steps to increase your program’s effectiveness and prepare for unplanned events.

The results of this two-day analysis give you a measurement of your current state and a forecast of where the program could be in the future. The assessment covers three main areas:

• Enterprise level of preparedness

How ready is your company to work with other other business and governmental emergency preparedness teams?

• Technology level of preparedness

What is you level of preparedness within the Information Technology functions?

• Business

How prepared are your business functions to work with the disaster recovery plan?

Your score in these three areas is benchmarked against other companies in your industry and against companies in other industries. The prioritized action plan included in the final report allows you to immediately increase your DR program maturity and reduce your recovery time objectives.

Do your users ever complain about application availability?

When you cover this issue in your budgeting process is it disapproved?

Are your high availability configurations and alternate site strategies routinely ignored?

What you need is the Business Impact Assessment from SMS!

The business impact assessment (BIA) is key to defining your company’s recovery time and recovery point objectives and the business is the one driving these measurements. This is the supporting data you need to develop your alternate site and recovery strategies and is used to create the project and budgetary requirements.

This is why SMS does a thorough job of interviewing, evaluating, and assessing the results of its BIA surveys. Our best-of-breed practice helps you quickly define the requirements your business wants from Information Technology.

This information, defined by the business, is used to define the optimum recovery strategy for your IT organization. It becomes the basis for any necessary high-availability configurations and alternate site discussion.