Business Continuity Management (BCM) relation(s) to Integrated Risk Management (IRM)?

Valqe · ‎08-29-2022

Hi all,

I am scratching my head with link/relations between BCM and IRM.
I am comfortable to setting up both sides (BCM and IRM) and a silos, but and I am wondering what's the relation of utilization between two modules?

Example:

In IRM you setup: entity classes, entity types, policies, control objectives, etc etc and you drive them through their lifecycle.
In BCM you setup: Element definitions, recovery timeframes, impact categories, BIA template then you have plan which you use in case of disaster etc etc

All that works well independently, but I am wondering how can you utilize i.e. IRM entity types into BCM? What’s the link between two modules and reusability so in BCM you utilize some definitions you created in IRM?

I appreciate your comments.

Thank you

V.

Sebastien Fix · ‎09-06-2022

Remember that BCM is based on Fairchild software bought by SN 3 years ago and has been slowly integrated onto the SN platform. Even the BCM workspace is still not a standard UI Builder workspace.

BCM does not use Entities and if you look at the IRM architecture, BCM is nowhere near it. The Impact Assessment mentioned on the slide is not related to BCM but Regulatory Monitoring.

You can of course use the values from the various Assessment Instances, or other values generated by the BCM application to trigger indicators or automated factors - just like any other assessments - in order to impact risk scores or control compliance.

You can always try the Idea Portal if you have use cases where IRM+BCM could be linked closer together from an architecture point of view.

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Valqe · ‎09-06-2022

Thank for your reply Sebastian. That was my observation too. I was afraid there were no relations to entity types etc and that seems to be the case, unfortunately. Let's hope new releases will bring more relationships between IRM and BCM.

Rahul Gaur · ‎07-15-2025

Hello @Sebastien Fix
The above snapshot looks like a snip of a presentation.
This is really useful, I have recently started working on IRM and GRC module.
Kindly share the complete presentation, please.

You may email it to as well.

Regards

Rahul Gaur

Simon Hendery · ‎07-15-2025

@Rahul Gaur - this doc from Now Create may or may not meet your needs:

https://learning.servicenow.com/nowcreate?id=nc_asset&asset_id=d81a3902c3ac1ad443395230a0013186&nc_s...

If it doesn't, have a dig around in Now Create and you're bound to find what you're looking for.