Creating a comprehensive business continuity plan is a time consuming and often daunting task due to the complexity and scope of the process.  The business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) planning professionals at Hyperion Global Partners can simplify the tasks to get you focused on what is truly important when building a BC/DR capability.  With 15 years of legal industry business continuity planning experience, and over 100 BC plans under our belts, we are uniquely qualified to assist you in your planning efforts.

• We can help you immediately focus on what we know to be critical to both the business and the practice of law

• We provide comprehensive services to ensure all aspects of you plan will work together – including the technology, people and recovery processes

• Our approach and methodology are innovative, efficient and constantly updated to account for new technology, and changing business requirements as well as immerging threats

Hyperion can help you with all aspects of your planning efforts.A comprehensive BC/DR recovery capability should include the following items:

Life/Safety Planning

Most life/safety plans only include simple evacuation and fire procedures.  Hyperion consultants have real world emergency services experience in all aspects of life/safety planning and can help you expand your plan to incorporate topical issues such as work place violence, hazardous materials and pandemic planning. Our goal is to ensure your company can safeguard its most important resources – its people. 

Crisis Management and Communications Planning

Arguably the most important aspect of BC planning is often the most overlooked.  Knowing where to start and what questions to ask is difficult. We will guide you through the process of understanding critical decision making, problem escalation, and communicating during a crisis from the initial event, the disaster declaration and then back to recovery. 

Business Impact Assessment

The most difficult thing about the BC planning process is knowing where to start.   Hyperion can help you complete a comprehensive business impact assessment is to determine recovery objectives for your firm’s most critical business functions, along with all of the support technology, people, process and records required to recover the business.

Business Continuity Planning

Hyperion can help you develop and document all of the critical components of a BC plan, including business function recovery, set up of alternative workspace for personnel, identifying and documenting supporting requirements such as client records, key vendors and supporting technology. Along with helping you develop your plan from scratch, Hyperion can also

-- Complete a BC plan health check/gap analysis to determine where your existing plan can be expanded or updated to be in line with BC planning best practices

-- Design and/or facilitate a mock disaster scenario to test your plan

-- Develop change management protocols to help keep your plan up-to-date

-- Provide guidance in the selection and implementation tools to support the plan such as an emergency notification system or BC planning software

Primary/Secondary Datacenter Site Location Selection

Hyperion can provide guidance or process management for back up datacenter selection by managing multiple vendor comparisons and pricing.  Our extensive experience in this area allows us to provide you with real world comparative pricing and service set analysis. 

-- Hyperion is a national consultancy and as such can provide site recommendations in most major markets in the US

-- Our experience also allows us to provide best practice recommendations for SLA and Professional Services Agreements.

Disaster Recovery Architecture Development and Implementation

Hyperion consultants are experienced in the most innovative and advanced data protection, high availability and disaster recovery technologies on the market today. We can also provide assistance in reducing DR costs by including use of tools such as virtualization. Throughout the process of designing and building DR architecture, Hyperion can guide you in building a recovery capability to meet today’s stringent business recovery objectives. Our analysis includes detailed design and implementation of technology recovery architecture, including 
 

-- Comparison pricing for a variety of technical options

-- Implementation planning and project management, including multiple vendor coordination during implementation

-- Hands on implementation to train assist in training or supplementing your current IT staff