A simple fire or flood can completely destroy a business and with the latest threats from terrorism and ongoing climate changes causing freak weather conditions world-wide, can UK businesses really risk not having proper plans in place?

Did you know that statistically, a surprising 80% of small/medium businesses go out of business within 18 months of a major problem occurring. And even worse, 90% of businesses that lose data in a disaster are forced to shut within 2 years.

Obviously, we all hope that recent disasters will never happen again but, of course, 'hoping' is not good enough for professional businesses these days. Such events are, unfortunately, a fact of life and many small and medium sized businesses never actually recover from them.

If suddenly there was a serious problem such as a fire, flood or police cordon area at one of your key offices, could  you answer the following questions

Where would your employees report for work?

How would your customer phone calls be answered?

Can your employees still access email and where from?

How will your employees get paid?

Can you still invoice your customers?

Can you carry out order processing?

How much would a disruption cost you?

Also, having copies of data files off-site is often not enough. Do you ever properly test that you can recover using your off-site data? Many companies get a shock when they try!

Hart Technology can help deliver a Business Continuity Plan to safeguard your business that may even result in additional benefits such as business flexibility and the streamlining of business processes.