Business continuity remains a hot button for all organisations, we just need to reflect on the recent unexpected flooding and load shedding to note that continuity problems strike when they are least expected.
It is as a result of this that the provision of services via the cloud, such as the SaaS (software as a service) SunGard Assurance solution, available locally from Quintica are becoming increasingly popular amongst organisations across the financial services, manufacturing, mining and retail industries to name a few.
SunGard Assurance provides customers a cloud-based service with less interruption; enables them to safeguard customers and employees before, during and after disaster scenarios; helps them better protect their corporate reputation and ultimately enhances shareholder value.
“In a world where the physical technology footprint of companies is rapidly shrinking as a result of virtualisation and the advent of software-defined architectures, a SaaS solution is a critical component of a vendor’s portfolio,” states Kerry Evans, MD at Quintica Africa.
“SunGard Assurance has to date proved to provide customers an affordable solution that enables all companies, no matter their size, to better leverage the benefits of business continuity without the constraints of a physical architecture.”
Business continuity solutions available via SaaS, are becoming particularly important to corporate finance, accounting and related professionals. Why? Because, according to Evans, they allow a business to safeguard those systems, from core accounting and budgeting platforms, to back office infrastructure, ERP and CRM solutions as they get marched by IT into the cloud.
The fact that SunGard Assurance was originally developed in partnership with more than 100 SunGard Availability Services’ customers, means that today it helps customers reduce user pain points surrounding operational resiliency and compliance, as well as increases confidence surrounding business outcomes for business leaders and business continuity professionals.
Quintica says that the SaaS-based Assurance offering, captures the processes and experience of real business continuity and disaster recovery planning, it then makes these accessible to a broad array of users, pulling together reviews of all current industry standards and tools.
“Even though cloud computing represents the largest change in technology since the dawn of the Internet, it has also seen an increased need for improved governance and compliance laws, all of which need to be adhered to.
“Financial institutions in particular need to develop and maintain their own business continuity and disaster recovery plans, all of which fall in line with these compliance and regulatory needs, which they can now achieve by accessing the SunGard Assurance service,” ends Evans.
