ContinueOps vs eFront ERM BCP
ContinueOps
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| Figure | ContinueOps | eFront ERM BCP |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | £100/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 15 | 1 |
| Spec score · Business Continuity Management Software | 8.9 (#2) | 7.9 (#5) |
| Deployment | ContinueOps offers self-hosted appliance and managed SaaS deployments, and its security page also describes hybrid and fully self-hosted models. | eFront ERM Ready is described as a standard, preconfigured solution that can be deployed in a few weeks. |
| Purpose | ContinueOps automates disaster recovery runbook execution and creates tamper-evident evidence chains with human-on-the-loop approvals. | eFront ERM BCP helps organizations identify critical activities, define crisis scenarios, and build and activate business continuity plans. |
| Support | The Organisation Licence includes priority email and chat support; Enterprise includes 24/7 phone support and a dedicated Customer Success Manager. | eFront says committed support teams work around the clock, regardless of client location or time. |
Plans
ContinueOps
- +5 user logins£100 a month
- +5 user logins£100 a month
- +600 DR test minutes£150, paid once
- +600 DR test minutes£150, paid once
- +3,000 DR test minutes£200, paid once
- +3,000 DR test minutes£200, paid once
- Organisation Licence£1,600 a month
- Organisation Licence£1,600 a month
- Runbook authoring - 20 hr block£4,000, paid once
- Runbook authoring - 20 hr block£4,000, paid once
In their own words
ContinueOps
ContinueOps automates disaster recovery runbooks and records tamper-evident evidence chains with human approvals. Its Organisation Licence adds a business continuity platform with unlimited runbooks, plus tools for business impact analysis, continuity plan management, exercises, disruption response, dependency mapping and RTO/RPO tracking. The service can run recovery tests against infrastructure: both successful and failed tests use DR minutes, while validation-only dry runs without cloud actions are free. The agent retrieves secrets at runtime from HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager and CyberArk. Deployment choices include managed SaaS, a self-hosted appliance, hybrid and fully self-hosted models. Its outbound-only mTLS design stores no cloud credentials and keeps runbook outputs and captured variables inside the customer's VPC. Access controls can be set per runbook; audit logs are append-only and authenticator-app MFA is required by default. ContinueOps supports Linux, macOS, Windows and web, and lists AWS, Azure and GCP marketplaces as deployment formats. The Organisation Licence is £1,600 a month, with a £1,500 setup fee; it includes five user logins and 60 one-off DR test minutes. ISO 27001 certification is in progress, and the company says it is not currently certified.
eFront ERM BCP
eFront ERM BCP helps organizations prepare continuity plans and coordinate responses to business interruptions. Its Business Impact Analysis tools assess potential financial, legal, reputational, and human consequences, then calculate Maximum Allowable Downtime. Teams can identify the human, IT, and logistical resources needed for recovery and model degraded operations and a return to normal. During a crisis, users can activate response plans, manage degraded operations, coordinate recovery, and track decisions and events in real time. A unified repository holds continuity plans, entities, contacts, suppliers, and services. Dashboards group activities by supplier, service, and criticality, and monitor key performance indicators. Teams share procedures, actions, and simulations in a workspace. For ICT continuity, the product supports documenting critical activities, crisis scenarios, and measures, and regularly testing plans for DORA Article 11 alignment. eFront ERM is modular, so organizations can activate modules as needed. eFront ERM Ready is described as a preconfigured solution deployable in a few weeks. Pricing is available on request through the product page’s contact form.