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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.
See the table for the description of the 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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.
See the table for the description of the 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:
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| 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:
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| Monitoring and tracking of ongoing business impact analyses | Graphical representation of all business impact analyses for their assets in a pie chart format:
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| 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.
See the table for the description of the 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:
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| 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:
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| Monitoring and tracking | Graphical representation of all the active business continuity plans in a pie chart format:
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| 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.
See the table for the description of the 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:
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| 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:
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| Monitoring and tracking of ongoing exercises | Graphical representation of all active exercises in a pie chart format:
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| 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.
A typical Home page view for a BCM planner is shown in the example.
For information on the tabs and their associated actions in the Home page, see Home page view.