Tivoli Business Continuity Process Manager

Features, advantages and benefits

Features	Advantages	Benefits
Business continuity people and process workflows aligned to ITIL and other best practices	Enables the management of business continuity from a service perspective across platforms	Provides a comprehensive business continuity solution that includes more then the technology layers incorporating the people and process elements
Integration of business continuity management with other key IT processes	Ties incident and problem management to business continuity actions and to ensure updates to change and configuration are accounted for	Allows you to effectively respond to incidents and events that can significant impact business operations and to ensure that the plan accounts for ongoing changes in the environment
Comprehensive business continuity testing that includes technology, people and process	Enables the testing of the people/process elements the are often overlooked and to assess the results in order to improve on the existing plan	Allows for meaningful testing with minimal disruptions to the production environment and to mitigate the risk of an incomplete or insufficient business continuity plan

Business benefits

IBM Business Continuity Process Manager V7.1 capabilities include:

• ITIL-aligned best-practice IT service continuity processes
• Planning and documenting of recovery strategies and activities
• Simulate outage events to test and verify recovery procedures
• Automatic notification of the required people according to roles
• Analysis of outage situations and their impact
• Ability to select, agree on, and approve the most valid recovery actions
• Execution of recovery actions

Exploit z/OS infrastructure information discovered by Discovery Library Adapters for:

• z/OS sysplexes and logical partitions (LPARs)
• Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)
• System Automation for z/OS

Analyze and classify continuity-related incidents and disasters:

• Analyze incidents and disaster situations
• Relate these incidents to the impacted business
• Find the documented and approved recovery plan

Integrate with operation management products:

• Process workflows integrated with GDPS and IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager Sysplex and IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager

Take advantage of an enhanced user interface experience:

• Business-continuity-specific dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
• Business continuity reporting

 

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