ramsac to help educate South East SME's on Business Continuity
Planning in event of disaster
90% of businesses that lose data
from a disaster are forced to close within 18 months
ramsac a leading IT solutions provider, today announced that
its next South East Professional Services Forum will focus
on business continuity for the SME. This free forum, hosted
by ramsac at its Godalming based offices in Surrey on the
15 th June, is aimed at educating local Surrey businesses
on the importance of being able to cope with an event which
has the potential to seriously interrupt the day to day operations
of an organisation. These events can be anything from an IT
systems failure to a fire or flood on the premises.
Business
continuity management is simply about identifying possible
events that may affect the running of a business and implementing
solutions to ensure the business can carry on as usual. It
is a worrying fact that businesses that have experienced major
disruptions to their day-to-day operations have suffered severely,
this is due to either little or no consideration to the affect
a disaster may have. The government state that 80% of businesses
affected by a major incident close within two years and 90%
of businesses that lose data from a disaster are forced to
close within 18 months.
Robert
May, Managing Director of ramsac explains "The increasing
number of threats in today's business environment means that
companies need to take reasonable measures to ensure that
their business can continue to operate in the event of an
incident. At our latest forum we will look to help local SMEs
to keep up-to-date with new trends and offer them an excellent
networking opportunity. We look forward to welcoming local
business professionals to the forum."
Key
note speaker Bernard Jacobs, a consultant at Biscon Planning,
a specialist in business continuity consultancy will lead
the seminar. Jacobs explains, "It is often the case that SMEs
overlook the need for effective management of this area, or
that they focus on the wrong areas.
At
the forum, we will provide attendees with information on how
to deploy a business continuity management strategy as a five
stage process, focusing on the site, people, technology, information
and key suppliers of any organisation."
ramsac
has been successfully hosting the South East Professional
Services forums for the past two years, offering local businesses
an opportunity to keep abreast of new technology and how it
can help to improve business operations. Due to ramsac s commitment
to the local business environment it has been awarded the
Southern Business Times business of the month for March 2005.
The
second of this year's South East Professional Services Forums
will be held on Wednesday 15 th June at 17:00 at the ramsac
offices in Ashcombe Court , Godalming, Surrey. Contact Melanie
Wilcock on 0870 756 9001
to book your place.
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