Business Impact Analysis

Archer Business Impact Analysis is designed to help you determine the criticality of business processes and supporting infrastructure so you can protect and recover what is most important. You can share information with interdependent teams across the organization and enable business leaders to prioritize recovery strategies, recovery tasks, risk assessments, and other activities crucial to the entire organization’s operations and IT systems.

For the key features and benefits of this use case, see the Data Sheet on the Archer Community: https://community.rsa.com/docs/DOC-40093

How Business Impact Analysis fits into a risk and compliance Program

Business Impact Analysis is a use case in the Business Resiliency solution area. The following sections describe the use cases that Business Impact Analysis requires as a prerequisite, which use cases you can upgrade to as your business resiliency program matures, and which use cases in other solution areas you can integrate for additional business context and functionality.

Prerequisite and Next Use Cases

The following table shows how this use case fits into the overall Business Resiliency solution area..

N/A	Business Impact Analysis	Crisis Management
	Determine the criticality of and recovery objectives for business processes Provides an automated process for identifying business processes that do not yet have a BIA, or whose BIA needs to be updated	Track and manage crisis events Send emergency notifications to members of the crisis team Complete Lessons Learned Assessment BC/DR Planning Develop detailed business process recovery plans or IT disaster recovery plans Use an automated workflow for reviewing and testing plans Incident Management Report and manage incidents to their resolution Assign investigators Track and monitor legal involvement Attach reports and evidence Escalate an incident to a crisis event Operational Scenario Analysis Determine the criticality of important business services that should be prioritized for resilience Perform dependency mapping Conduct scenario analysis

Related use cases in other solution areas

The following table shows additional features that are available if you have the specified use cases licensed.
Application	Use Cases	Primary Purpose(s) of the Relationship
G/L Accounts	Financial Controls Monitoring	Controllers can refer to the information stored in this application to provide additional insight as they complete their section of the Business Impact Analysis.

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