FAQ

Business continuity plans help organizations identify and understand the potential risks and impacts of different kinds of business disruptions. Effective planning creates strategies that can help ensure continuity of operations in the aftermath of such an event. These strategies for response help organizations position themselves to maintain market share, share prices, and retain employees. Many insurance carriers also provide special incentives and premium discounts to policyholders with comprehensive business continuity plans.

Circumspex™ is built on the accepted best practices of BCP, though its focus is explicitly property-centric. At its core Circumspex™ provides a platform for easily organizing, maintaining, and exercising your BCP.

Circumspex™ provides fundamental risk assessments and we work with several third-party experts to offer a variety of professional risk assessment, distance and onsite consulting, surveying, training and exercise services.

Circumspex™ is fully scalable to accomodate single properties, property portfolios, campus developments, or detailed plans for individual floors in high-rise buildings.

Circumspex™ allows the creation of multiple users to facilitate collaboration as you build your plan. User access can be limited to a single location/property or expanded across an entire corporation with one of three access levels. Account Managers users may view and edit all locations. Location Managers can view and edit details for one specific location. Team Members have view-only access for one location.

Yes, Circumspex™ has been designed for collaborative use. It may be built or maintained by groups of users working together.

Detailed information about updates are automatically generated and retained, including Created by, Modified by, and date modified. This information is shown in the footer of each entry.

Yes, Circumspex™ can store digital photos, PDFs, Microsoft Word docs, and Excel spreadsheets.

Yes, users can easily import existing documents, photos, and drawings. You can also upload data using our coded spreadsheets.

We typically provide operational training over the web. We can also provide on-site training on request.

Yes, Circumspex™ can provide training and employee awareness sessions. We typically provide operational training over the web. We can also provide on-site training if those services are needed.

We recommend the following format, and have professionals available to assist in the plan development if you need those services:

• Overview and staff orientation
• Project kickoff meeting
• Scope and assessment, risks, critical processes
• Strategies, procedural developments
• Plan build out
• Exercise
• Gap analysis
• Benchmark standard completed
• Schedule interval reviews and exercises

Circumspex™ user accounts are typically hosted on our servers, with guaranteed service levels. This way your plan is always available, even if your server is down. Additionally, this ensures that updates to Circumspex™ are automatically implemented without any additional installation. Local hosting can be facilitated, but additional fees apply.

Circumspex™ contracts with a dedicated web hosting service that guaranteed 99.97% uptime. We will announce any scheduled downtime for maintenance at least 48 hours in advance.

Pricing is based on an annual license fee per location. Custom quotes for multiple locations or enterprise wide use are available upon request.

Yes, we are able to provide both field surveyors and data entry clerks based on your needs. Contact us for pricing.