How do operational resilience and BCM teams use resimate?
The short answer
resimate does the dependency mapping BCM teams can't do by hand: end to end, from important business services to processes, applications and suppliers, and kept up to date. On that connected view, operational resilience and BCM teams move from spreadsheets to dynamic continuity plans and steer resilience with live data. When a dependency changes, the affected plans show it. And the view shows where time and resources bring the highest return.
The BCM year, as most teams live it
Send out the BIA questionnaires. Chase the owners. Consolidate the spreadsheets and review the GRC report. Update the plans. Pass the audit. Start again.
By the time the cycle ends, the first BIAs are out of date. The plans can't keep up with reality. And when IT restores systems after an outage, it follows its own priority list, which rarely matches the one in your BIA. The problem is the format. A static document can't match today's pace of change, and AI keeps speeding it up. The data behind it can.
We ran that cycle for years, including in a hospital where the client stopped us in the first week: "You can't run around asking everyone what's important. We need to find the truly critical things faster." resimate is the better way we went looking for.
The hard part: an end-to-end dependency map
Mapping dependencies end to end, from important business services to processes, applications and suppliers, is the part nobody can do by hand and keep current. A partial map doesn't help. Services without the applications behind them, or applications without their suppliers, break the chain exactly where an outage hits.
resimate takes that off your plate. We map the full chain with you, on the data you already have, using the method we built running these programs ourselves. From there, BIAs and plans stop being spreadsheets and become dynamic continuity plans. In regulated sectors, the map is now a requirement too: DORA asks financial entities for exactly this chain.
"You didn't just bring the software to the table. You brought your skills to map those things for me." Andrea Manning, CISO, Acorn Life
Start from services, and let the structure rank them
In resimate, we connect every important business service or critical function to the people, processes, technology, sites and third parties behind it. Service owners review a drafted picture instead of filling in another questionnaire, and their corrections land in the same view.
Mark a service as an Important Business Service or Critical Function once, and the label flows down the chain to every process, system and supplier behind it. You see where dependencies concentrate and where one failure hits several critical services at once.
Define the minimum and the workarounds
For each disruption scenario, you define the Minimum Viable Company: which services must keep running, at what level, and with which workarounds. That replaces "switch to manual" with something people can run.
Continuity plans build from the business impact and dependencies already in the view, so nobody starts from a blank page. resimate proposes workarounds based on your context. When a dependency changes, the plan flags the workaround that is now missing. During an incident, the plan is built for activation: impact clock running, contacts one tap away.
Connect business priorities to IT recovery
The recovery sequence comes from the same view, so IT restores what the business needs first. When IT's tested recovery can't meet the tolerance the business set, the RTO feasibility view shows it, dependency by dependency. BCM and IT DR finally look at the same picture instead of comparing two spreadsheets in a meeting.
Test it before an incident does
Exercises run against your real services and dependencies. Start from the capabilities you want to test, pick a loss scenario, and see where the plan and the workarounds hold. Every capability improvement that comes out of it gets recorded with an owner.
From the field
A global consumer goods company started without any connected view. In resimate it now connects its departments, value chain and key business services to the applications, SaaS and IT services underneath, linked to the threat and loss scenarios that matter and the capabilities that cover them.
Your first six weeks
- Week 1: scope your first critical services and collect what you have: earlier BIAs, continuity plans, process maps, application lists.
- Week 2: first dependency map, from the service down to the people, systems and suppliers behind it.
- Weeks 3 to 4: Minimum Viable Company, workarounds and recovery sequences for your first scenario.
- Weeks 4 to 6: plans connected to the live view, team trained, first exercise planned.
Spreadsheets and exports work on day one. Nothing you built so far goes to waste.
See it on your own data
Bring one important business service and the BIA you already have. We map it with you and show you its dependencies, its minimum and what your plan is missing. Plans should be the outcome of planning, and the planning should stay current.