Business continuity software – functional components
Must have
Should have Nice to have
Login page 
Home page 
to include  
(news and events)
Dashboard
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Invocation &   
Planning   Implementation, operation, improvement 
recovery  
(Establish) (Embed)
(Invoke)
Excercising, 
Understanding the 
Determining  
Developing and 
Embedding BCM in 
  maintaining and 
organisation
BCM strategy
implementing 
the organisation
BCM response reviewing
Business continuity  Incident response  Plan task  
Exercising Training
Issue notifications  
policy definition structure alignment
of invocation
Static data   Strategy   Plan task  
Audit log of  
Auditing Familiarisation
collection options allignment
actions/decisions
Continuity plan 
Roles assignment Relationship  creation, strategic, 
Preventative and 
What if analysis
Instant messaging 
management
operational and 
corrective actions between responders
tactical
Proactive alerting  
Business impact  Incident  
Management  
of imminent actions 
analysis
DR planning
management plan
review
and deadlines
PDA/iPhone based 
Dependency  
Individual disaster 
Risk assessment alerting/dashboard 
planning
recovery plans by 
service provided
reporting
Determining  
Individual disaster 
Local language 
choices
recovery plans by 
definition
infrastructure
Administration
Account  
Roles and  Workflow   Data import/
User security Plan templates
maintenance
responsibilities manager connections
Reporting
Activities by time 
Activities by  
criticality
potential financial  
Readiness matrix
IT systems matrix
Dependency   Compliance by 
report standard
loss
Risk management 
Inconsistencies   Activities  
Critical processes report by risk 
Incident check lists 
Cascading  
and breaches by location
exposure
and tasks
call lists
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