i-doit Suite+ BCM

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is a strategic approach to ensuring that an organization can continue critical operations during and after disruptive events. Today, it's essential because businesses face increasing risks from IT failures, natural disasters, cyberattacks, and other incidents. BCM helps minimize downtime, protects revenue, meets regulatory requirements, and maintains stakeholder confidence by demonstrating preparedness.

i-doit Suite+ BCM is suitable for:

• Mid-sized and large organizations with complex operations and dependencies

   

• Critical infrastructure operators and public administration agencies

• Organizations with high business continuity and compliance requirements

• Any company seeking to professionally formalize and continuously improve their BCM capabilities

While both are essential, they address different scopes. IT Emergency Planning (part of i-doit Suite+ Emergency) focuses specifically on recovering IT systems and infrastructure after outages. Business Continuity Management in i-doit Suite+ BCM takes a broader view, encompassing all critical business processes—both IT and non-IT—and their interdependencies. BCM ensures the organization can continue business operations, not just restore technology.

i-doit Suite+ BCM enables structured business impact analysis (BIA) by:

• Centrally mapping business processes and their interdependencies

• Defining impact criteria for disruption (financial impact, customer impact, operational impact)

• Automatically calculating recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)

• Linking business processes to supporting IT systems and infrastructure through CMDB integration

• Creating documented, auditable BIA results that inform recovery strategies

Thanks to pre-configured process structures, templates, and practical workflows, i-doit Suite+ BCM can be deployed productively within a reasonable timeframe. Organizations quickly establish a solid foundation for business continuity—including process mapping, BIA documentation, and recovery strategies—without extended implementation phases.

In a crisis, i-doit Suite+ BCM provides:

• Clear prioritization of critical business processes and their recovery sequence

• Defined recovery strategies and detailed implementation steps for each process

• Transparent responsibility assignments and escalation paths for crisis management

• Rapid decision-making support through pre-analyzed impact and dependencies

• Documented, traceable recovery procedures enabling coordinated, efficient response

• A structured foundation for coordinating recovery across IT and business departments

Yes. i-doit Suite+ BCM is part of the complete i-doit GRC Suite+ and can be deployed as an individual product or in combination with other solutions including ISMS, Emergency Planning, and Data Protection. The unified data foundation means you maintain process and asset information once and share it across all modules, eliminating duplicate data entry.

Yes. The i-doit GRC Suite+ is designed to enable comprehensive governance, risk, and compliance management across all four areas in a single integrated solution. This unified approach provides shared data, consistent processes, and unified reporting—making your compliance efforts more efficient and reducing organizational overhead.

Yes – i-doit Suite+ BCM supports organizations in implementing business continuity management in compliance with ISO 22301 (Business Continuity Management Systems) and BSI Standard 200-4 (BSI C-Level Risk Management). The integrated analysis and reporting functions provide comprehensive evidence for audits, reviews, and regulatory assessments.