SunGard Announces New Releases

Profiles, which provides a “living whiteboard” to profile an organization’s infrastructure, environment and interdependencies, can now be printed and stored – in addition to being viewed. This capability enables companies to take a snapshot of an infrastructure area and examine the impact should a disruption occur. For example, an organization could look at how people, business functions and facilities would be affected if a specific server was disrupted.

Impacts, which allows organizations to conduct a business impact analysis of a potential disruption, provides the ability to create surveys, which now can feed results directly to any item in an availability plan. For instance, companies could assess and record how potential system disruptions may affect a business process such as Sarbanes-Oxley compliance procedures.

Plans, which enables organizations to create information availability plans, includes a series of new report templates to help users produce graphical analysis and metrics on program progress and readiness. The reporting capability provides security safeguards to control information access down to the individual person and report levels.

Situations, which tracks availability plans in real time, allows incident managers to swap individual team members in and out of an incident as shifts change or responsibilities are reassigned. In addition to the existing e-mail messaging, organizations can now use text-to-speech notifications to individuals and teams when assignments are due or completed.

Notifications, which enables organizations to launch communication directly from any plan or crisis management screen, now support messages delivered via personal voice recordings in addition to automated text-to-speech. The notifications engine embedded in Paragon can be used independently of Paragon screens for communications not directly connected to availability planning and response.