Preparis vs Quantivate Business Continuity Software

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.

Quantivate Business Continuity Software supports business continuity and disaster recovery planning and management in one cloud solution. It combines threat and vulnerability analysis, risk assessment, and business impact analysis with an editor for creating plans. Users can draw on a business process library and preloaded continuity, pandemic, and crisis templates. The product also includes scenario-based exercises and incident management. Workflows, dashboards, reports, and permissions can be configured, with built-in analytics and Report Builder for reporting. Plans and documentation can be stored centrally, distributed electronically, and updated in real time. Emergency notices can be sent by SMS, email, or voice broadcast. Staff can use Quantivate's iOS and Android app to access, store, and synchronize continuity plans. The platform offers single sign-on and user provisioning. Pricing is available on request. Quantivate describes its GRC platform as purpose-built for banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions, and offers optional consulting services to help build continuity and disaster recovery plans.