The webinar, “An Insider’s Look into BCP Software,” will offer BCP planners an exclusive opportunity to take an in-depth tour of ResilienceONE®. Attendees will see the software’s intuitive business process-based methodologies, easy-to-use interface, cutting-edge analytics, business continuity task automation, built-in incident management and recovery tracking tools, and much more. Strategic BCP president and co-founder, Frank Perlmutter, CBCP, will host the session.

“It is important for BCP pros to understand that they are no longer limited to using traditional, bulky, expensive software models popular in the past, and that more powerful and intuitive software is available,” says Perlmutter. “Strategic BCP’s experts have heard – and lived through – the horror stories of entities that have spent enormous amounts of time and money taking long surveys just to generate paper plans that simply can’t be deployed fast enough when a disaster strikes. This is why we built ResilienceONE from the ground up – to help our colleagues become better planners. Our software has changed the minds of thousands of users and BCP planners, and we are excited to show people how such powerful software can be so easy to use. We also thank Continuity Insights for this opportunity to share our technology publicly.”

Strategic BCP was rated a “Positive” in Gartner’s “MarketScope for Business Continuity Management Planning Software” report (Roberta J. Witty, Tom Scholtz, May 13, 2010). According to the MarketScope, customers of companies receiving a “Positive” rating are advised to “continue planned investments,” and potential customers are advised to “consider this vendor a viable choice for strategic or tactical investments, while planning for known limitations.”

Strategic BCP also offers private demos of its ResilienceONE® BCP software for the media, business continuity planners and consultants, and executives from organizations of all sizes, from small to mid-sized companies to global enterprises. Please email contact@strategicbcp.com for more information.

Frank Perlmutter will present this month’s Disaster Recovery Journal webinar: “The Downfall of the BC Professional: Setting Up a Personal Plan to Quit Bad Habits.”

The webinar will be on Wednesday, April 21, from 2:00 p.m. EST – 3:00 p.m. EST, and will offer expert tips on how business continuity professionals can increase  job security by adding more value as a planners – and eliminate traditional practices that have led to the downfall of many of our colleagues.

Sign up for the webinar here: http://www.drj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3994&Itemid=487.

If you’re attending the Disaster Recovery Journal Spring World 2010 conference from March 21 – 24, please stop by our booth #411.

Strategic BCP’s business continuity experts will discuss the customizable ResilienceONE “Trialware” program at the upcoming DRJ Spring World. Trialware users can have access to the majority of ResilienceONE’s BCP features for a customizable time and cost structure. Program participants are immediately given log-in information to ResilienceONE upon sign-up.

“Now more than ever, business continuity professionals must prove their worth by developing strong, action-based plans that can immediately reduce downtime during a disaster. ResilienceONE has helped planners do this for years with built-in methodologies that objectively determine the most critical business functions that should be recovered first,” says Frank Perlmutter, CBCP, founder and president of Strategic BCP. “The Trialware program is designed to let planners experience the software’s ease of use, utility, and power, and to let experienced BCP software users compare ResilienceONE to traditional software. We are proud to present ResilienceONE once again at DRJ’s Spring World event, a premier gathering of business continuity professionals.”

BCP Planners interested in the program can get more information at http://www.resilience1.com/software/trialware.aspx.

The economy has put our profession under a tough magnifying glass where BCP as cost centers, mass document generation, and expensive solutions with little return are no longer passing muster. It’s a frustrating time, but also presents a unique opportunity to force us to be better – more than just document planners, but professionals who understand the inner workings of our operations and can put the pieces back together during the worst of times.  Now more than ever we must be creative – there are those that will pray for the status quo and try to skate by to the end, but as Business Continuity Professionals we are much better than that – let’s not wither away, but prosper as a profession by continuing to make ourselves better – by making our organizations better.