Buttress - Business Continuity and Crisis Management Software

Mitigate your vulnerabilty before an incident - and manage the consequences after an incident.

Buttress is registered under the Trade Marks Act 1995 (TM 1355035) with IP Australia within Class 9 Application Software.

The Buttress Software Module supports enhanced business continuity and crisis management capability. It is available as a standalone software download to use "as is" and tailor to your context.

What differentiates Buttress from other business continuity and crisis management products is that it will support you to understand your risks, evaluate your exposures, and take action to:

(a) mitigate your vulnerabilty before an incident - and

(b) manage the consequences after an incident.

The module includes a Business Impact Assessment (BIA) element which will map your critical activities as specified in the International Business Continuity Standard BS 25999. The module then supports profiling resources against each activity - across the assets, people, skills, information (electronic / non electronic), technology (including plant and equipment), premises and supplies which underpin your critical activities, and identify the risks inherent across your resource profile.

To ensure sound information is used to support good decisions, the BIA element in the module can be linked to a crisis management nutshell template (example provided is a Word.doc) which includes a reporting element for the impact of any event on the resource profiles mapped in the Business Impact Assessment element of the module.

Buttress analysis and reporting capabilities address the need to report on the status of risks being addressed both before an event and after impact. The software is both a supporting record and a resource which can be updated to generate future reports. This approach has been validated by clients across both the public and private sectors.

For clients who want to use it "as is" rather than have it incorporated within a consulting module, the Buttress supporting software package is available as an immediate download.