Business Impact Analysis Report – Recovery Sequence, Findings and Live Workbook

Description

What the business impact analysis report contains

You already have your recovery sequence, and every place your own numbers contradict each other, for free. This business impact analysis report is the full analysis behind them, written up as the record an ISO 22301 auditor, a regulator or your continuity team expects to see.

• Your activities in recovery order. Every activity you analysed, sequenced by its recovery time objective, so you can see what comes back first and what can wait.
• Impact over time. How the impact of each activity grows across the points in time you rated, in every impact category you chose.
• RTO, MTPD and RPO for each activity. With every recovery time objective that sits at or beyond its maximum tolerable period of disruption raised as a finding.
• Dependencies and single points of failure. The systems, suppliers, sites and vital records each activity needs before it can restart, and the single points of failure among them.
• The staffing needed at each point. How many people each activity needs to resume, so day-one resourcing is planned rather than guessed.
• The criteria record. Your impact types and criteria, written down before anything was rated, as ISO 22301 clause 8.2.2 asks.
• An AI-assisted analysis and 30/60/90-day roadmap. Priorities and a roadmap written from your own answers.

The live Excel workbook

A business impact analysis has to be revisited when the business changes, so alongside the business impact analysis report you also get your analysis as an Excel workbook you can keep working in offline, share with activity owners or take into a continuity exercise.

One purchase, one report

This is not a subscription and not a seat licence. You buy the business impact analysis report for a specific analysis. Each purchase generates one report from your answers as they are at that moment, and that report is final. If you later change an activity or a target, you can keep working in the analysis for free; a report on the updated answers is a new purchase.

Both files live in your account permanently and are downloadable only while signed in.

How to get your business impact analysis report

1. Run the free business impact analysis tool: define your impact criteria, list your activities, rate the impact over time, set your recovery targets and record the dependencies. Answers save as you go.
2. See your recovery sequence and every contradiction in your own numbers, free, on the result screen.
3. Buy the report from your result screen. The analysis is attached automatically.
4. Both files are generated immediately and a link is emailed to you. They also appear under My assessments in your account.

You cannot buy this product on its own, because there would be nothing to put in it. If you have arrived here directly, start with the free analysis above.

Honest about the boundaries

The business impact analysis report is exactly as accurate as your answers. It is a structured self-assessment built to ISO 22301:2019 clause 8.2.2, not an audit, and it does not certify anything. The same analysis also feeds SAMA business continuity, DORA operational resilience and ISO 27031 work.

It is not a business continuity plan. A BIA works out what has to come back and how fast; the plan sets out how you will do it. For the plan, procedures and templates, see the ISO 22301 Toolkit.