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What is IT Business Continuity Management

Chapter 17
Handbook of Research on Service-Oriented Systems and Non-Functional Properties: Future Directions
A management process that identifies potential threats to an organisation’s IT landscape and the impacts to business operations that those threats, if realized, might cause. IT BCM aims to build operational resilience with the capability for an effective response that safeguards an IT landscape and business operations.
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Business Continuity Management of Business Driven IT Landscapes
Ulrich Winkler (SAP Research Belfast, UK) and Wasif Gilani (SAP Research Belfast, UK)
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-432-1.ch017
Abstract
The overall objectives of this book chapter are (a) to provide an introduction of Business Continuity Management, (b) to discuss the importance of business continuity in a service-oriented IT environment, (c) highlight and discuss major challenges and approaches to translate business requirements and objectives down to BCM related service level terms and metrics and (e) identify requirements, such as modelling methodologies or analyses, to enable such translations.
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