Archer Resilience Management Release Notes

January 8, 2026

This release enhances Resilience Management with clearer RTO gap analysis, improved BC/DR plan lifecycle controls, more accurate reporting focused on active plans, and a fix to activated plan completion calculations for better progress tracking.

What's New?

Resilience Management Workspace

Added a link to the Issues Management Dashboard
Created Resilience Preparation Dashboard
Created a new RTO Gap Analysis that focuses on applications rather than business processes to make it more clear which applications have IT desired RTOs higher than process driven RTOs

BC/DR Plan

Updated instructions for approved plan to indicate how to create a plan exercise
Updated workflow to enable the ability to deactivate the plan from the draft stage
Updated Reports on the Resilience Planning Dashboard to reflect only active plans

Activated Plan

Updated % Complete with a new calculation to fix a rounding issue

September 2025

First official release of the consolidated version of resilience management.

This release re-imagines the architecture of BIAs and campaigns to simplify execution and improve reporting. Instead of archiving and reattaching old BIAs, each campaign now generates a new BIA record—making trend analysis easier, reducing reliance on complex data feeds, and streamlining configuration maintenance. MTPD has been added consistently across applications and integrated into the BIA for complete recovery objective tracking. The incident process has been redesigned with a modern, standardized workflow that is independent of incident type, making it easier to adopt industry best practices and extend to new incident categories. Activated Plans have also been simplified—users can now launch them directly by creating a record and linking the BC/DR plan, eliminating the need for data feed triggers from the crisis or BCDR Plan. Finally, the BIA is transformed into a guided workflow, providing a clear, step-by-step experience that ensures easy and accurate assessment completion.

What's New?

Business Impact Analysis

Created new roles aligned with new design principles
Streamlined layout and workflow
- Added and removed several fields and sections based on user feedback
- Added a stage-driven workflow that allows users to answer portions of the BIA in sections through workflow, only showing what they need to see at any given point in the process. This also enables reoccurring saves during the process to avoid data loss
- Simplified criticality assessment and changed the global values list to field-specific values list so that clients can better adjust questions without having to delete the entire assessment
- Updated dependency mapping to include new critical applications
- Included a process review step to ensure accurate processes
- Included a review step with approval
- Added workflow data feeds during the process to make the tool more responsive and less dependent on schedules
- Added MTPD, which was not previously tracked
- Added workflow tracker to track progress
- Added in-app instructions for each stage
- Added notifications to workflow at the proper times
- Removed restriction on the number of BIAs that can be active for a process
  - We removed BIA Archive. Instead, you can have multiple BIAs for different years or periods. The business process assumes the scores of the latest approved BIA. This greatly simplifies the process, as there is no need to keep two applications and a data feed in sync. Any changes to the BIA do not need to be replicated.
Created new reports and dashboards
Fixed and updated several calculated fields
Updated inherited and default record permissions to reflect new groups and cross references
Updated history log to include relevant fields and set retention period to 90 days
Update fields to be inline edit
Updated cross references grids to show appropriate values
Added several data feeds that are all triggered from advance workflow
- Data feed to create the BIAs from a campaign
- Data feed to pre-populate the BIAs
- Data feed to update business processes after the BIA is approved

BC/DR Plans

Created new roles aligned with new design principles
Streamlined layout and workflow
- Added and removed several fields and sections based on user feedback
- Added a stage-driven workflow that includes a review step with approval
- Added workflow tracker to track progress
- Added in-app instructions for each stage
- Added pre-crafted notifications to workflow at the proper times
Created new reports and dashboards
Fixed and updated several calculated fields
Updated inherited and default record permissions to reflect new groups and cross references
Updated history log to include relevant fields and set retention period to 90 days
Update fields to be inline edit
Updated cross references grids to show appropriate values

Recovery Tasks

Created new roles aligned with new design principles
Streamlined layout and workflow
- Added and removed several fields and sections based on user feedback
- Removed the Recovery Strategies to Task leveling. You can noe use the rich text field to bullet point the specific sub-tasks needed. This is still compatible with integrations to other ENS tools.
- Added in-app instructions
Created new reports and dashboards
Fixed and updated several calculated fields
Updated inherited and default record permissions to reflect new groups and cross references
Updated history log to include relevant fields and set retention period to 90 days
Update fields to be inline edit
Updated cross references grids to show appropriate values

Plan Requirements

Created new roles aligned with new design principles
Streamlined layout and workflow
- Added and removed several fields and sections based on user feedback
- Added in-app instruction
Created new reports and dashboards
Fixed and updated several calculated fields
Updated inherited and default record permissions to reflect new groups and cross references
Updated history log to include relevant fields and set retention period to 90 days
Updated fields to be inline edit
Updated cross references grids to show appropriate values

Communication Plan

Notification Execution re-named and re-purposed to expand the original scope of the app
Created new roles aligned with new design principles
Streamlined layout and workflow
- Added and removed several fields and sections based on user feedback
- Added in-app instructions
- Added ability to determine system generated notifications and documentation for strategic communication plans
- Added ability to have Archer send out the email to users when launched
Created new reports and dashboards
Fixed and updated several calculated fields
Updated inherited and default record permissions to reflect new groups and cross references
Updated history log to include relevant fields and set retention period to 90 days
Updated fields to be inline edit
Updated cross references grids to show appropriate values

BIA Campaign

Created new roles aligned with new design principles
Streamlined layout and workflow
- Added and removed several fields and sections based on user feedback
- Added in-app instructions
- Removed ability to launch product and service specific BIAs, removed Business Unit Scoping, and added the business unit field on the process lookup
- Added workflow that triggers the data feed
Created new reports and dashboards
Fixed and updated several calculated fields
Updated inherited and default record permissions to reflect new groups and cross references
Updated history log to include relevant fields and set retention period to 90 days
Updated fields to be inline edit
Updated cross references grids to show appropriate values
Added a new data feed to replace the existing one to launch BIAs
- This will always create net new BIAs instead of the old data feed.

BC/DR Plan Exercise

Created new roles aligned with new design principles
Streamlined layout and workflow
- Added and removed several fields and sections based on user feedback
- Added in-app instructions for each stage
- Added workflow stages with workflow tracker
- Included a planning, testing, and review stage
- Enabled exercises to run with or without live activations
- Added lessons learned and ability to scenario test
- Added the ability to compare actual results with the set RTO, RPO, and MTPD, determining pass and fail
- Added the ability to create activated plans (which launch data feed upon creation), and added rollup calculations to work with the new plan layouts
Created new reports and dashboards
Fixed and updated several calculated fields
Updated inherited and default record permissions to reflect new groups and cross references
Updated history log to include relevant fields and set retention period to 90 days
Updated fields to be inline edit
Updated cross references grids to show appropriate values

Activated plans

Created new roles aligned with new design principles
Streamlined layout and workflow
- Added and removed several fields and sections based on user feedback
- Added in-app instructions for each stage
- Added workflow stages with workflow tracker
- Included a tracker for in-progress or complete
- Added workflow that triggers the creation data feed. Now there is no need to generate plans from a crisis or plan. You can create an activated plan, choose the plan, and the data feed populates it regardless of where it is created from.
- Updated to work with the new activated tasks and communications
Created new reports and dashboards
Fixed and updated several calculated fields
Updated inherited and default record permissions to reflect new groups and cross references
Updated history log to include relevant fields and set retention period to 90 days
Added a data feed
- When an activated plan is created, this addd all of the details of the plan and copies the tasks and communication plans to the proper activated applications
Updated fields to be inline edit
Updated cross references grids to show appropriate values

Incidents

Created new roles aligned with new design principles
Streamlined layout and workflow
- Added and removed several fields and sections based on user feedback
- Added a stage-driven workflow that allows users to report, triage, and respond to incidents
- Added workflow tracker to track progress
- Added in-app instructions for each stage
- Added pre-crafted notifications to workflow at the proper times
- Added ability to escalate incidents into crisis events
- Updated workflow to be standardized, rather than based on incidents type. All incidents must go through the incident management framework of triage, response, and review
- Added lessons learned sections
- Added SLA tracking fields to track time of first contact and time of remediation
Created new reports and dashboards
Fixed and updated several calculated fields
Updated inherited and default record permissions to reflect new groups and cross references
Updated history log to include relevant fields and set retention period to 90 days
Updated fields to be inline edit
Updated cross references grids to show appropriate values

Crisis Events

Created new roles aligned with new design principles
Streamlined layout and workflow
- Added and removed several fields and sections based on user feedback
- Added a stage-driven workflow that allows users to pull information from the incident, assign a crisis team, and track progress
- Added workflow tracker to track progress
- Added in-app instructions for each stage
- Added pre-crafted notifications to workflow at the proper times
- Consolidated lessons learned and now require the user to go back to the incident to document lessons learned as with all other incidents for standardized reporting
Created new reports and dashboards
Fixed and updated several calculated fields
Updated inherited and default record permissions to reflect new groups and cross references
Updated history log to include relevant fields and set retention period to 90 days
Updated fields to be inline edit
Updated cross references grids to show appropriate values

Activated Communication

Created new roles aligned with new design principles
Streamlined layout and workflow
- Added and removed several fields and sections based on user feedback
- Added in-app instructions
- Added notifications sent from archer on launch for messages
Created new reports and dashboards
Fixed and updated several calculated fields
Updated inherited and default record permissions to reflect new groups and cross references
Updated history log to include relevant fields and set retention period to 90 days
Updated fields to be inline edit
Updated cross references grids to show appropriate values

Activated Tasks

Created new roles aligned with new design principles
Streamlined layout and workflow
- Added and removed several fields and sections based on user feedback
- Added in-app instructions
Created new reports and dashboards
Fixed and updated several calculated fields
Updated inherited and default record permissions to reflect new groups and cross references
Updated history log to include relevant fields and set retention period to 90 days
Updated fields to be inline edit
Updated cross references grids to show appropriate values