Integrating BCM culture into your company

The HiScout BCM module is a new generation of BCM tools that can generate quantifiable benefits even when there is no emergency, and is therefore not only used to help you to plan for circumstances that will hopefully never arise. HiScout BCM can analyze and document in detail the vulnerability of key business factors (processes, structures, resources), irrespective of their size or complexity. HiScout BCM can also generate customized and up-to-date plans of action at the push of a button in the case of business process failures. It can also check that regulatory requirements (e.g. laws, directives) are being met at any given time.

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Services

• Mapping of all phases of the business continuity management cycle
• Supports the current ISO 22301 and BSI 100-4 standards
• Business impact analysis with business logic support (workflows)
• Easy-to-manage business continuity planning
• Efficient reporting
• Creation and expansion of a risk and threat catalog
• Overview and display of exercises and tests
• Audit support

Benefits

• Transparency thanks to the identification of critical business processes, their dependencies and required resources
• Greater reliability of business processes by providing the appropriate framework for business continuity in case of emergency

Functions

• Extensive business impact analysis with workflow support
  • Automatic criticality/MTA calculations
  • Inheritance function on all directly and indirectly connected critical resources while taking process chains and critical schedules into account
  • Optional centralized or decentralized control
  • Freely definable damage categories and timescales (depending on the requirements of the sector or organization)
• Easy-to-manage business continuity planning
  • Takes into account and expands upon BIA findings
  • Use of templates
  • Live preview of the business continuity plan with extensive assistance in filling it out, plus examples
• Efficient reporting
  • Preconfigured and flexibly customizable templates for BIA reports, emergency manuals, business continuity and recovery plans
  • Updated manuals available at the click of a mouse
• Additional risk analysis options
  • Creation and expansion of a risk and threat catalog
  • Assignment of catalogs to critical resources and corresponding BCM measures
  • Creation of a BCM risk report
• Overview of exercises and tests
  • Planning of emergency exercises and tests
  • Creation of an exercise calendar and detailed exercise scenarios
  • Documentation of findings
• Audit support to comply with standards or individual checklists
• Available offline
  • Can be fully replicated on an emergency laptop
  • Transfer as image file onto a USB stick

Unique features

• Complete support of ISO 22301 and BSI 100-4 standards
• Highly flexible and customizable data model
• Can be expanded for IT service continuity management (ITSCM) purposes
• Thanks to its generic approach, HiScout BCM can be easily adapted to suit your processes, and it evolves as your organization becomes more developed

Operation

• Company-wide license model
• Available in German and English
• Browser-based multi-user application
• No installation on the client’s side required
• Freely configurable data model
• Individual role and rights management
• Code-free generation of application-specific views
• XML interface for a wide range of import and export options
• Integration of documents and structured data
• Extensive reporting functions
• Audit compliance thanks to versioning, archiving and release processes
• Search function, including full-text search, in uploaded documents
• Can be expanded as an integrated management system based on the same data model and identical company master data.
• HiScout customer support with in-house employees
• Software development – 100% “Made in Germany”