eFront ERM BCP vs Preparis

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.

Preparis is a cloud-based suite for planning for and responding to business disruptions. Its tools cover continuity planning, emergency alerts, incident management, and reporting. Preparis Planner supports customizable plans, guided business impact analysis, risk assessments covering availability, IT, and third parties, exercises, and compliance reporting. Reports, dashboards, and metrics can be default or customized, with hundreds of default reports available. Preparis Alerts sends two-way messages across channels and lets administrators target people by location, department, group, or role. It includes online continuity training with more than 100 threat-specific topics, plus cloud or offline document sharing for times when a building is unavailable or servers are offline. Incident Manager supports incident documentation, action lists, dashboards, and virtual war rooms. Preparis presents solutions for government, financial services, insurance, professional services, manufacturing, and healthcare, and states that it is now part of Mitratech. The suite supports Android, iOS, Mac, web, and Windows. It is paid, with pricing on request; prospective customers can request a free demo, and no free trial is stated.