NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES AT

BUSINESS CONTINUITY EXPO 2008

Business Continuity Expo 2008 brings together a diverse range of products, services and toolkits from industry leaders and below is a sneak preview of new and exciting products and services showcased at the event.

BSI (Stand No. 450) will be launching their new BCM web portal.  This dedicated BCM portal will contain everything you need to compile and audit your business continuity plan.

Connect Systems LLP (Stand No. 340) is to announce it’s new products and services for quick and easy recovery for SMB’s. These include the new Server Recovery Option from DoubleTake software (Stand No. 600), a low cost server replication product. Double-Take® Software are launching Double-Take® for VMware Infrastructure 3.0, enabling businesses of all sizes to protect their critical data by simplifying protection of virtualised workloads and providing automated failover of Vmware virtual machines.

Continuity Shop (Stand No. 444) announces expansion into China, India and the Gulf. Having a portfolio of BCI-Approved courses and holding a licence to deliver the new BCI training modules, it plans to deliver them world wide, working with partners.

Continuity² (Stand No. 420) launches it’s new product – ReachAll- The Rapid Communication system to ReachAll. The product will make communication the least of your worries in the event of a crisis.

Continuity² will be making the most of the latest voice technology and two-way SMS, you can guarantee that your message is received loud and clear.

Criticall (Stand No. 366) will showcase V3 of their Nerv8 infrastructure platform, which underpins all their ‘SaaS’ offerings and has driven their company revenues to treble in 3 years.  Criticall will also be announcing 3 major long-term contract wins with global banking, pharmaceutical and IT facilities companies.

Ear Productions (Stand No. 333) will be launching their new Exercising Toolkit which uses sound-effects, sound-bites and film to inject reality into exercises in a very simple, cost-effective way.

Easy2solve (Stand No. 240) is launching the RUsecure Business Continuity Expert. Using highly functional relational database technology, this exciting new software development covers all aspects of BCM including defining your business structure; analysing threats and risks; developing the recovery plan and managing actual incidents when they occur.

 

eBRP Solutions (Stand No. 334) launches toolkit CommandCentre- a powerful web-based tool that puts real-time information at the fingertips of Incident Managers. Designed to deliver Intelligent Incident Response Solutions for any business incident, it provides visual "dashboards" that facilitate real-time decision making, real-time reporting, monitoring, and team collaboration.

Gematech UK Ltd (Stand No. 500) will be launching three new products at the show. One of which is the Dealer Board CAS Recovery – Providing a truly unique solution to instantaneously and seamlessly re-route individual, nailed up, CAS channels over the PSTN converting back into CAS following a circuit failure and/or recovery to alternative CAS Dealer Boards located in remote sites including the provisioning of home based Dealers.

Infosec Associates’ (Stand No. 440) award winning modular approach to integrated risk and resilience management incorporates pragmatic techniques and tools that enable you to gain control of your organisational resilience and target resource where it adds most value.

Line Xero Ltd (Stand No. 630) announced the launch of a new product called RiskTaker in February which will be appearing on their stand at Business Continuity Expo. RiskTaker is a fully configured hardware appliance aimed at the small and medium enterprise (SME) market.

MacoPharma (Stand No. 456) manufacture a range of medical goods to be used in the event of Pandemic Influenza. MacoPharma realises that a workforce who are protected effectively from contracting the potentially lethal virus, will reduce the devastating effects to small and large business, through worker absence/illness.

Marsh Ltd (Stand No. 366),  the  insurance  broker  and risk adviser, will be revealing the results of its pan-European Benchmarking survey at the event. Analysing firms'  attitudes  towards  business continuity management and critical risk  issues,  the findings will provide a unique insight into business continuity’s  place  on  European  boardroom  agendas and the return of investment business continuity provides.

Mimecast (Stand No. 210) will be previewing the latest version of its web-based unified email management service. The new version is fully integrated with Microsoft Outlook and offers email security, archival and continuity of service, including 24/7 access to all incoming, outgoing and archived emails even in the event of planned or unplanned server outages.

On 2nd April, at Business Continuity Expo 2008, executives from British American Tobacco will be discussing how the organisation is using software from Neverfail Group (Stand No. 400), a provider of continuous availability solutions, to protect its BlackBerry service from downtime.

PageOne Communications ltd (Stand No. 533) will have a suite of business continuity products branded Flare, which can help maintain secure and reliable messaging communications as a key part of businesses continuity plans. 

Power Electrics Generators (Stand No. 447) aims to meet all requirements whether the requirement is for instant response with a generator to maintain backup power, rental of a standard or specialised unit or a complete turnkey project, will be showcasing the breadth of its capabilities at Business Continuity Expo this year.

Risk Reasoning Ltd (Stand No. 330) will be launching RiskAid Enterprise to support all your risk assessments, including business continuity: clearly and simply showing the potential cost benefits of each action against risk exposure, throughout your organisation. 

Siemens Enterprise Communications Ltd (Stand No. 254) latest product – OpenScale Services – is designed to reflect the stages that a customer moves through when considering and implementing business continuity programmes.  The five stages are: Evaluate, Design, Implement, Operate and Improve, providing a complete solution for continuity utilising professional services, training and solutions.

Star (Stand No. 251) will be announcing a suite of business hosting products designed for SMEs that have integrated and optional features to support business continuity and disaster recovery planning. These products will feature varying degrees of inbuilt redundancy, SLA, recovery and replication options designed to meet with the organisation's own appetite for risk.

Teed Business Continuity (Stand No. 314) will be showcasing Supply Chain Continuity - review the BC preparedness of your key suppliers by identifying potential risk exposures and actions to ensure continuity of supply in the event of a disruption. Also available is Continuity Cover; a package of three fixed-price, straightforward, cost-effective BCM solutions specifically for SMEs.

Tribune Business Systems’ (Stand No. 710) capacity planning and optimisation service provides an integrated set of analysis, planning and decision support reports to enable faster, measurable and more accurate infrastructure assessment. All of which will help you make smart decisions when vitalising and consolidating data centre infrastructure, redeploying strategic IT assets and optimising workload capacity utilisation.

Corporate communication specialists Vocal (Stand No. 430) has launched the eagerly awaited new platform iModus. iModus, the dedicated business communication suite, uses SMS text, voice, interactive voice response, paging and email to disseminate vital information about potential incidents or quite simply a mass communication tool.

Designed specifically for use within the business continuity marketplace, it’s a tried and tested solution which can be tailored and adapted to meet your businesses requirements.

WebEx Communications BV (Stand No. 543) will demonstrate how business disruption can be transformed into business-as-usual through the use of online collaborative services. Senior Product Manager Michael Murphy will talk through the possibilities in a presentation in the Solutions Theatre at 10am, April 3rd, with free trials available for all visitors

All these products and services can be seen, first hand on the show floor at Business Continuity Expo 2008.