Top Business Continuity Management Solutions & Software

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Business continuity software, often known as business continuity management, is a category of applications that help companies optimize their processes and avoid data loss. Business continuity involves risk management; disaster preparation, response, and recovery; and strong knowledge of potential problems and weaknesses within the business.

Though most business continuity management platforms focus on disaster recovery and other functions to protect important data, business continuity, as a broad topic, includes more than just sensitive company information or files. Minimizing risk also includes preparing for unexpected events such as an employee leaving the company or a third-party organization ending its partnership.

Business continuity can also include improving how projects flow, how documents are stored, and how finances are managed. A business continuity plan should take company dependencies into account: what projects, tasks, and employees depend on each other.

Business continuity, if applied correctly, can save companies money. If a server or other machine goes down, business continuity platforms provide a way to save money because the company has already made a backup plan. Technical downtime in particular is a very costly mishap for businesses, and even short downtimes can result in thousands of dollars lost.

How to Buy Business Continuity Management Software

Because the scope of business continuity extends to so many parts of your organization, you’ll want to consider multiple characteristics of a potential platform. Consider the following when choosing a BCM solution.

IT support

Especially since business continuity often needs to respond quickly to disasters, you’ll want a technical support team that’s both fast and experienced.

Strong and reliable cybersecurity features 

A huge part of business continuity and disaster recovery is protecting data and preventing and responding to security breaches, so a software with questionable security features won’t be as confidence-inducing.

Ability to meet company RPOs

An RPO measures how much data loss or technical downtime a business can sustain before truly experiencing a loss. For example, if updates to a sensitive file were lost three hours ago, but the RPO is a backup every four hours and no changes have been made since, then the company has not experienced true loss. People often use the term RPO to describe how often backups are scheduled. However, it indicates how much loss or outage a company can sustain and still keep operations running without real injury. Choose a vendor that has no trouble meeting your organization’s RPOs.

Potential for hybrid cloud  

If your company plans to migrate to the cloud in the near future or still has some hardware on premises. Hybrid cloud is typically a good choice overall because it gives businesses flexibility and space to expand.

Business Continuity Software Providers

The following software platforms are some of the most popular business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, providing disaster recovery, backup, and varying levels of customer support.

Top Business Continuity Vendors

Quantivate

Quantivate logo.Value proposition: Quantivate provides risk management features that go far beyond the bare minimum, including compliance regulation monitoring and third-party vendor reports.

Quantivate, a SaaS business continuity management platform for disaster preparation, is a favorite within the business community. The platform is accessible through iOS and Android applications, with push notifications for up-to-date mobile information. Quantivate’s third-party vendor risk management features allow customers to report and classify vendor data. Third-party programs and applications can be a security liability, and Quantivate’s platform takes that into consideration.

Quantivate also offers a regulatory compliance module for businesses to manage their compliance with laws and standards. Though learning the software can be complicated, Quantivate’s stellar features for business management and vendor reporting set it apart from other solutions.

Datto

Datto logo.Value proposition: Datto is a good choice for smaller businesses, offering an arsenal of backup and ransomware solutions. For businesses that need enhanced mobile security, Datto has remote cloud infrastructure management for monitoring remote endpoints.

SIRIS, Datto’s business continuity platform, is a cross-platform solution that offers ransomware scanning and mandatory two-factor authentication required to access the main admin portal. Through SIRIS, service providers have access to incorruptible backup snapshots. Consider Datto if you’re a smaller MSP with advanced security requirements. 

Datto’s other solution for MSPs, the Unified Continuity platform, allows providers to customize a business data and application protection solution for their customers. Unified Continuity combines disaster recovery and cloud PC backup in a suite of solutions for managed service providers.

Is your business considering an enterprise-level backup solution? Read Best Enterprise Backup Software & Solutions next.

Zerto

Zerto logo.Value proposition: Zerto’s workload migration feature is ideal for organizations focused on performing virtual machine and server migrations.

Cloud-based backup and recovery provider Zerto is a match for businesses with high-priority data searching for reliable disaster recovery. Zerto has low RPOs and continuous data protection (CDP), which backs up data after every edit or change to the system. Zerto also tracks changes so that customers can restore a specific version of a system.

Zerto specializes in protecting and backing up virtualized environments. Its replication features work with both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. Zerto allows businesses to run workloads on multiple cloud platforms.

Onspring

Onspring logo.Value proposition: For companies that need to deploy a business continuity solution immediately or don’t have a huge IT team, Onspring’s ease of use is a favorite feature among its customers.

No-code business continuity and automation platform Onspring analyzes business sectors to see which have appropriate continuity plans, offering dashboards for companies to review their BC and DR plans and tests. Businesses can manage vendors and projects through Onspring. Customers can schedule and test disaster recovery situations to prepare for future problems.

Onspring’s client success representatives and customer support are a customer-favorite feature; users found the software easy to implement, and the technical support and recommendations exceeded customers’ expectations. Onspring also receives acclaim for its license, which customers found easy to use and understand.

Rubrik

Rubrik logo.Value proposition: Rubrik offers data recovery from virtual machines and SQL databases.

Rubrik’s Replication and Disaster Recovery solution gives customers a single management console, or interface, for handling data recovery processes. Users can recover data from VMs and replicate their SQL databases. Rubrik encrypts data both at rest and in motion.

The Replication and Disaster Recovery software also allows users to restore data from bare metal servers and subsequently migrate that data to other environments. Rubrik provides compliance features and alerts users when errors or potential problems occur within the data center or servers.

LogicManager

LogicManager logo.Value proposition for potential buyers: Customers work with a dedicated analyst during their time using the software, so that their business can continue to benefit from expert insights.

An enterprise risk management system, LogicManager is web- and cloud-based, giving its customers support not only at the implementation stage but also throughout their time of use. LogicManager assigns individual analysts to paying businesses, who can continue giving them recommendations and support.

LogicManager’s software takes work and time to set up, but the platform includes training videos, and customers rave about the exceptional customer support team. The software also provides vendor management risk assessments, customizable reports, and templates to analyze common risks.

Fusion Risk Management

Fusion logo.Value proposition for potential buyers: For organizations that use Salesforce heavily, Fusion offers integration options through the popular CRM platform’s prebuilt connectors.

Fusion’s risk management software empowers businesses to better view details of their operations so that they can effectively plan their disaster mitigation and growth. Business analytics for risk and impact assessments gather data from major stakeholders and draw conclusions about potential risks.

Fusion provides incident response and management for other business issues, not just external disasters. Its Community Connector platform is a space for intercommunication between the company and its vendors, partners, and customers, reducing silos and keeping everyone involved up to date.

Carbonite

Carbonite logo.Value proposition for potential buyers: Carbonite’s backup and data management solution is straightforward and easy to implement.

Carbonite Server Backup offers cloud-based server backups and disaster recovery on the lower pricing end. It requires little user management and is easier to understand than other solutions, giving users a straightforward backup experience.

Carbonite’s recovery speeds can be slow, and the software received criticism for how it handled in-depth data recovery tasks and backups. However, it’s still a popular and acclaimed backup solution, especially for businesses that can’t afford one of the larger and more expensive solutions. Carbonite is available for Mac, Windows, and Android.

Is your business considering a disaster recovery solution? Read Best Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Providers next.

Jenna Phipps
Jenna Phipps
Jenna Phipps is a staff writer for Enterprise Storage Forum and eSecurity Planet, where she covers data storage, cybersecurity and the top software and hardware solutions in the storage industry. She’s also written about containerization and data management. Previously, she wrote for Webopedia. Jenna has a bachelor's degree in writing and lives in middle Tennessee.

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