IT Disaster Recovery Planning For Dummies®

Chapter 14. Ten Disaster Recovery Planning Tools

This chapter has a little bit of everything, but that doesn't include the kitchen sink. If you want to find a variety of resources, this chapter gives you complex high-end DR planning tools, template-style tools, and tools for Service Level Agreements and risk analysis.

Living Disaster Recovery Planning System (LDRPS)

www.strohlsystems.com/software/ldrps

LDRPS is a mature and highly respected DR planning product from Strohl Systems. You can choose from five versions to fit any size organization. You can also get LDRPS as a hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) solution in which Strohl Systems hosts the application in its data center so you don't need to install and maintain the software on your own premises.

Some of the features available in LDRPS include

• Customizable best-practices-based plan navigators

• Built-in standard reports

• Customizable reports

• Dependency maps

• Drag-and-drop call lists

• Location resource management

• Sample final plans

• Customizable screens

• Scheduled importing and plan publishing

LDRPS has been a successful DR planning product for more than twenty years.

BIA Professional

www.strohlsystems.com/software/biaprofessional

BIA Professional, a software product from Strohl Systems, guides you through the process of developing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) survey, organizing the survey data, and presenting the final results. It paints a detailed picture of financial and operational vulnerabilities, disaster-related impacts, and possible ...