Home page view

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    Summary of Home page view

    The Home page in the Business Continuity Workspace serves as the central hub for managing business continuity activities. It provides an interactive dashboard summarizing the status of various tasks and events crucial for continuity planning and response.

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    Key Features

    • Crisis Events Tab: Displays information about crisis events, including their current states (e.g., In progress, Pending, Approved). Users can report new crises and view detailed information about selected events.
    • Business Impact Analysis Tab: Offers insights into various business impact analyses, their statuses, and allows users to create new analyses. It includes visual representations of assets and their recovery time objectives (RTO).
    • Planning Tab: Provides an overview of business continuity plans with options to create new plans. Users can monitor the status of existing plans and view details about them.
    • Exercises Tab: Contains information on exercise events, their states, and the ability to create new exercise events. It also tracks the progress and details of ongoing exercises.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing the Home page in the Business Continuity Workspace, users can efficiently monitor and manage crisis events, business impact analyses, planning activities, and exercise events. The dashboard's visualizations and organized tabs facilitate quick decision-making and ensure that users remain informed and responsive to ongoing continuity needs.

    The Home page in Business Continuity Workspace serves as the landing page of the BCM application.

    Home page in Business Continuity Workspace

    The Home page in Business Continuity Workspace provides an interactive dashboard that summarizes the status of continuity activities. The visualizations help the Workspace users to act on their assigned tasks in an organized manner. The Home page includes these tabs:
    • Crisis events
    • Business impact analysis
    • Planning
    • Exercises

    Each tab shows cards that highlight key states, detailed views, and visualizations that help users act quickly and stay informed.

    Crisis events tab

    The Crisis events tab in the Home page displays various cards that offer information on the crisis events. You can review the crisis events in various states, details of the selected crisis events, and monitoring and tracking of the crisis events. The example shows the cards in the Crisis events tab. You can select Report crisis to start a new crisis event.

    Crisis events tab in the Home page.

    See the table for the description of the cards in the Crisis events tab:
    Table 1. Cards in the Crisis events tab
    Card Description
    Crisis events overview Overview of the crisis events in different states. You can view the details of the crisis events in these states:
    In progress
    Number of the crisis events that are in the In progress state.
    Pending
    Number of the crisis events that are in the Pending state.
    Returned
    Number of the crisis events that are in the Returned state.
    Pending approval
    Number of the crisis events that are in the Pending approval state.
    Approved
    Number of the crisis events that are in the Approved state.
    Closed
    Number of the crisis events that are in the Closed state.
    Details of the selected event card Details of the crisis events for the selected state of the card. For example, if you selected In progress in Crisis events overview, then details of the crisis events that are in the In progress state are displayed in this panel. You can view details on the crisis events:
    Active
    State of the crisis event. The state can be True or False. You can select the link to open the crisis event record.
    Activity due
    Activity that is due on the crisis event.
    Participants
    Participants of the crisis event.
    Approval
    Approval information for the crisis event.
    Approval history
    Approval history of the crisis event.
    Assigned to
    Name of the assignee responsible to respond to the crisis event. When you select the assignee name in the column, it opens the record form where these tabs are displayed:
    • Details
    • Roles
    • Groups
    • Delegates
    Assignment group
    Assignment group for the crisis event.
    Business duration
    Business duration of the crisis event.
    Service
    Service impacted due to the crisis event.
    Monitoring and tracking of ongoing events Graphical representation of all crisis events. You can filter the information based on their associated assets, plans, and tasks in a pie chart format:
    Assets by recovery status
    Shows the number of the assets by their recovery status for ongoing events. The details are displayed on the asset in a pie chart:
    • Not recovered
    • Recovered
    The example in the image shows that out of the total 18 assets, 17 assets are not yet recovered and one asset is recovered.
    Plans by status
    Shows the plans by their status of the ongoing events:
    • Pending
    • Work in Progress
    • Closed Complete
    Tasks by status
    Shows the tasks by their status of the ongoing events:
    • Open
    • Pending
    • Closed Incomplete
    • Closed Complete
    • Closed Skipped
    Report crisis action button Action button to report a crisis and create a crisis event from the Crisis events tab. When you select Report crisis, it launches the Create New Event form where you can fill in the details of the crisis event.

    Business impact analysis tab

    The Business impact analysis tab displays various cards that offer information on the business impact analyses. You can review the business impact analyses in various states, details of the selected analyses, and monitoring and tracking of the analyses. The example shows the cards in the Business impact analysis tab. You can select Create BIA to start a new analysis.

    Business impact analysis tab in the Home page.

    See the table for the description of the cards in the Business impact analysis tab:
    Table 2. Cards in the Business impact analysis tab
    Card Description
    Business impact analysis overview Overview of the business impact analysis in different states. You can view the details of the business impact analysis in the states:
    All
    Total number of the business impact analyses in the BCM application.
    Draft
    Number of the business impact analyses in the Draft state.
    In review
    Number of the business impact analyses in the In review state.
    Returned
    Number of the business impact analyses in the Returned state.
    Pending approval
    Number of the business impact analyses in the Pending approval state.
    Expired
    Number of the business impact analyses in the Expired state.
    Approved
    Number of the business impact analyses in the Approved state.
    Archived
    Number of the business impact analyses in the Archived state.
    Details of the selected business impact analysis card Details of the business impact analyses for the selected state of the card. For example, if you selected In progress in Crisis events overview, then details of the business impact analyses that are in the In progress state are displayed in this panel. You can view these details on the business impact analyses in a tabular format:
    Name
    Name of the business impact analysis.
    Description
    Description of the business impact analysis.
    Applies to
    Service, process, or company that the business impact analysis applies to.
    Finalized RTO

    Finalized RTO populated from the BIA record. If you open the column chart in 'Assets by RTO', the revised column name 'Finalized RTO' is displayed.

    RTO.Column.
    State
    State of the business impact analysis.
    Updated
    Date and time when the business impact analysis gets updated.
    Monitoring and tracking of ongoing business impact analyses Graphical representation of all business impact analyses for their assets in a pie chart format:
    Assets by RTO
    Shows the number of the assets that have different recovery time objectives (RTO). The image shows an example of three assets that have an RTO of 8 hours and one asset that has an RTO of 4 hours.
    Assets by recovery tier
    Shows the number of assets that have different recovery tiers. The image shows an example of three assets that have mission critical recovery tiers and two assets that have business critical recovery tiers.
    Create BIA action button Action button to create a business impact analysis from the Business impact analysis tab. When you select Create BIA, it launches the Create New Impact Analysis form where you can fill in the details of the business impact analysis.

    Planning tab

    The Planning tab in the Home page displays various cards that offer information on the business continuity plans. You can review the business continuity plans, details of the selected plans, and monitoring and tracking of the plans. The example shows the cards in the Business continuity plan tab. You can select Create BCP to create a new plan.

    Planning tab in the Home page.

    See the table for the description of the cards in the Planning tab:
    Table 3. Cards in the Planning tab
    Card Description
    Business continuity plan overview Overview of the business continuity plans in different states. You can view the business continuity plans in the states:
    All
    All business continuity plans in the BCM application.
    Draft
    Business continuity plans that are in the Draft state.
    In review
    Business continuity plans that are in the In review state.
    Returned
    Business continuity plans that are in the Returned state.
    Pending approval
    Business continuity plans that are in the Pending approval state.
    Approved
    Business continuity plans that are in the Approved state.
    Archived
    Business continuity plans that are in the Closed state.
    Details of the selected business continuity plans card Details of the business continuity plans for the selected state of the card. For example, if you selected In progress in Business continuity plan overview, then details of the business continuity plans that are in the In progress state are displayed in this panel. You can view these details on the business impact analyses in a tabular format:
    Name
    Name of the business continuity plan.
    Description
    Description of the business continuity plan.
    State
    State of the business continuity plan.
    Updated
    Date and time when the business continuity plan gets updated.
    Monitoring and tracking Graphical representation of all the active business continuity plans in a pie chart format:
    Plans with exercises
    You can select the card to view the plans with exercises.
    Plans without exercises
    You can select the card to view without exercises.
    Plans with events
    You can select the card to view the plans with events.
    Plans without events
    You can select the card to view the plans without events.
    Create BCP action button Action button to create a business continuity plan from the Planning tab. When you select Create BCP, it launches the Create New Plan form where you can fill in the details of the business continuity plan.

    Exercises tab

    The Exercises tab in the Home page displays various cards that offer information on the exercise events. You can review the exercise events in various states, details of the selected exercise events, and monitoring and tracking of the exercise events. The example shows the cards in the Exercises tab. You can select Create exercise to create a new event.

    Exercises tab in the Home page.

    See the table for the description of the cards in the Exercises tab:
    Table 4. Cards in the Exercises tab
    Card Description
    Exercises overview Overview of the exercise events in different states. You can view the details of the exercise events in these states:
    In progress
    Exercise events that are in the In progress state.
    Pending
    Exercise events that are in the Pending state.
    Returned
    Exercise events that are in the Returned state.
    Pending approval
    Exercise events that are in the Pending approval state.
    Approved
    Exercise events that are in the Approved state.
    Closed
    Exercise events that are in the Closed state.
    Overview of the exercises for the selected state Details of the exercise events for the selected state of the card. For example, if you selected In progress in Exercises overview, then details of the exercise events that are in the In progress state are displayed in this panel. You can view these details on the exercise events in a tabular format:
    Active
    State of the exercise event. The state can be True or False. You can select the link to open the exercise event record.
    Activity due
    Activity due on the exercise event.
    Participants
    Participants of the exercise event.
    Approval
    Approval information on the exercise event.
    Approval history
    Approval history of the exercise event.
    Assigned to
    Name of the assignee responsible for the crisis event. When you select the assignee name in the column, it opens the record form where these tabs are displayed:
    • Details
    • Roles
    • Groups
    • Delegates
    Assignment group
    Assignment group for the exercise event.
    Business duration
    Business duration for the exercise event.
    Service
    Service for the exercise event.
    Monitoring and tracking of ongoing exercises Graphical representation of all active exercises in a pie chart format:
    Assets by recovery status
    Shows the number of the assets by the recovery status for ongoing events. Details are displayed on the asset in a pie chart:
    • Not recovered
    • Recovered
    The example in the image shows that out of the total 18 assets, 17 assets are not recovered and one asset is recovered.
    Plans by status
    Shows the plans by status of the ongoing events:
    • Pending
    • Work in Progress
    • Closed Complete
    Tasks by status
    Shows the tasks by status of the ongoing events:
    • Open
    • Pending
    • Closed Incomplete
    • Closed Complete
    • Closed Skipped
    Create exercise action button Action button to create an exercise event from the Exercises tab. When you select Create exercise, it launches the Create New Event form where you can fill in the details of the exercise event.

    Home page views for BCM Manager and BCM Planner

    When you log in to the BCM application, the Home page view is displayed according to your user role, responsibilities, and the assigned tasks.

    A typical Home page view for a BCM manager is shown in the example.

    Exercises tab in the Home page.

    A typical Home page view for a BCM planner is shown in the example.

    Home page view for the BCM planner.

    For information on the tabs and their associated actions in the Home page, see Home page view.