Archer Business Impact Analysis 2024.09

Archer Business Impact Analysis is designed to help you determine the criticality of business processes or products and services. This includes identifying the supporting infrastructure so you can protect and recover what is most important.

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Benefits of Using Business Impact Analysis

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://www.archerirm.community/t5/solution-use-case-overviews/archer-solutions-amp-use-cases/ba-p/572564

How Business Impact Analysis Fits into a Risk and Compliance Program

Business Impact Analysis is a use case in the Resilience Management 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 Resilience Management 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 Resilience Management solution area.

Prerequisites

What you have

What's next

N/A

Business Impact Analysis

Crisis Management

 
  • Determine the criticality of and recovery objectives for business processes or products & services
  • Provides an automated process for identifying business processes or products & services 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.

For information on these Archer use cases, see the Archer Solutions Help.

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.

Risks

IT Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management (formerly Top-Down Assessment), Audit Engagements & Workpapers, Audit Planning & Quality, Operational Scenario Analysis, Information Security Management System

Controllers can refer to the information stored in this application to provide additional insight as they complete their section of the Business Impact Analysis.

Third Party Profiles

Operational Scenario Analysis; Third Party Catalog, Third Party Risk Management, Third Party Engagements

Controllers can refer to the information stored in this application to provide additional insight as they complete their section of the Business Impact Analysis.

Engagements

Third Party Catalog, Third Party Risk Management, Third Party Engagements

Controllers can refer to the information stored in this application to provide additional insight as they complete their section of the Business Impact Analysis.

Subcontractors

Third Party Engagements

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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