Tivoli Business Continuity Process Manager

Tivoli Business Continuity Process Manager provides configurable processes to plan, test and execute IT service continuity.

Enables a comprehensive business continuity solution that integrates the management of people and process with the underlying technology solutions.

  • Helps reduce the possibility of human error in recovery efforts for systems and applications.
  • Improves alignment of employee work efforts with prioritized recovery tasks.
  • Improves productivity through efficient, effective, and tested recovery plans for key business systems and applications.
  • Reduces the impact of an outage by automating the execution of recovery tasks according to the requirements of specific business systems and applications.
  • Provides automated process flow that is aligned to industry best practices and ITIL® standards.
  • Reduces the possibility of Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations and the corresponding IT costs.
  • Leverages the infrastructure provided by IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database V7.1.1.
  • Operating systems supported: Linux, Windows

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Features, advantages and benefits
FeaturesAdvantagesBenefits
Business continuity people and process workflows aligned to ITIL® and other best practices Enables the management of business continuity from a service perspective across platforms Provides a comprehensive business continuity solution that includes more then the technology layers – incorporating the people and process elements
Integration of business continuity management with other key IT processes Ties incident and problem management to business continuity actions and to ensure updates to change and configuration are accounted for Allows you to effectively respond to incidents and events that can significant impact business operations and to ensure that the plan accounts for ongoing changes in the environment
Comprehensive business continuity testing that includes technology, people and process Enables the testing of the people/process elements the are often overlooked and to assess the results in order to improve on the existing plan Allows for meaningful testing with minimal disruptions to the production environment and to mitigate the risk of an incomplete or insufficient business continuity plan

Business benefits

IBM Business Continuity Process Manager V7.1 capabilities include:

  • ITIL-aligned best-practice IT service continuity processes

  • Planning and documenting of recovery strategies and activities

  • Simulate outage events to test and verify recovery procedures

  • Automatic notification of the required people according to roles

  • Analysis of outage situations and their impact

  • Ability to select, agree on, and approve the most valid recovery actions

  • Execution of recovery actions

Exploit z/OS infrastructure information discovered by Discovery Library Adapters for:

  • z/OS sysplexes and logical partitions (LPARs)

  • Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS)

  • System Automation for z/OS

Analyze and classify continuity-related incidents and disasters:

  • Analyze incidents and disaster situations

  • Relate these incidents to the impacted business

  • Find the documented and approved recovery plan

Integrate with operation management products:

  • Process workflows integrated with GDPS and IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager Sysplex and IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager

Take advantage of an enhanced user interface experience:

  • Business-continuity-specific dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

  • Business continuity reporting

Product requirements

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

IBM Business Continuity Process Manager V7.1 is based on the infrastructure provided by IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB) V7.1.1. No additional hardware is required besides what is needed to deploy CCMDB.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

IBM Business Continuity Process Manager V7.1 is based on the infrastructure provided by IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB) V7.1.1 and needs this as a prerequisite. While CCMDB V7.1.1 can be deployed on a multitude of platforms, Business Continuity Process Manager V7.1 currently is limited to:

  • SUSE Linux (SLES) 9.0 Enterprise Server System z SP4, or later

  • Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Standard Edition x86-32

Page last updated on May 06, 2008.

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