Corporate ProfileMore than two decades of experience, a blue-chip client base, internationalaccreditation and next-generation capabilities today make ContinuitySA the Africanleader in business continuity management.

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For the past 21 years, ContinuitySA has led the business continuity industryin South Africa and Africa as a whole. Our focus is on ensuring that ourclients’ businesses can continue to operate effectively through any crisis.

To that end, we offer a portfolio of services backed up by comprehensiveadvisory services. Our long experience has taught us that business continuityis both important and complex, and so we have developed the tools andexpertise to give our clients the right advice—and then provide them withthe solutions they need.

Our portfolio of services continues to grow as we bring to market businesscontinuity solutions that take advantage of technology advances. Forexample, the growing availability of cost-effective bandwidth is changingthe face of business continuity, and we are positioned to offer next-generation business continuity over the network and, ultimately, businesscontinuity as a service. In fact, this new approach is redefining businesscontinuity by making infrastructure earmarked for business continuityavailable to the company as a resource for day-to-day operations as well,thus creating a positive asset.

ContinuitySA’s leading position in Africa is based on solid foundations:

Comprehensive portfolio of services.We offer a range of hosted, availability,network and standby solutions, backed up by strong professional servicesto ensure our clients make the right choices and create a solution that isright for them.

Experience.Over the years, we have worked with companies in a widerange of industries to design tailored business continuity solutions. Wehave also built seven customised recovery sites,performed hundreds ofrisk assessments and business impact analyses, developed many viablerecovery strategies and solutions, and written the supporting business,incident and IT continuity plans.

Besides designing and building/ redeveloping all of our own disasterrecovery facilities, ContinuitySA has been contracted to design, projectmanage, commission and operate a number of specially designed disasterrecovery centres throughout Southern Africa. Specific projects include:

· Design and construction of the first specialised work area recovery facilityin South Africa.

· Design and construction, with Grinaker Construction, of an entire turnkeyoffice park project for Siltek. This 13000m2 facility incorporated 1400m2of dedicated recovery space for Bankserv and 1400m2 of commercial syndicated work area recovery facility for ContinuitySA and its clients.

· Management of Class A commercial IT recovery sites in Durban, Pretoriaand Cape Town for various banking sector clients.

· Design and implementation of MTN South Africa’s main data centre in Sandton, Johannesburg;

· Design and commissioning of a complete mobile disaster recovery unit for a major mining house.

· Design and implementation of a leading IT company’s main data centrein Sandton.

The right resources and facilities.We are proud to have some ofthe country’s leading business continuity practitioners on our staff.Our people are backed up by a network of world-class facilities, withdisaster recovery centres in Gauteng (Midrand and Randburg), Cape Town(Bellville and Somerset West), Botswana, Mozambique and Mauritius.

Methodologies and frameworks in a process context.We have distilledour years of experience into a range of re-usable frameworks, methodologiesand toolsets that reduce risk for our clients, and ensure standard, consistentengagements in line with best practice. These core items of intellectualproperty are rendered even more valuable because they are deployed aspart of a proven set of processes aligned with the business continuitymanagement lifecycle.

Most important of all, we understand that business continuity is a processrather than an event, and invest the requisite time to build an ongoingrelationship with our clients.

Professional affiliations and standing.We subscribe to the highestinternational standards and are a Gold Partner of the Business ContinuityInstitute. Based in Britain, the Institute sets standards and best practicesfor the industry. More than 40% of the members and associates of theBusiness Continuity Institute working in South Africa are employed byContinuitySA, and six of our professionals are Fellows of the Institute.Louise Theunissen, general manager: Client Services at ContinuitySA,represents the African continent on the board of the Business ContinuityInstitute.

ContinuitySA collectively was asked to make submissions to the King IIIReport, and sits on the Business Continuity Institute’s peer review andSouth African standards review committees. As part of this work, we haveon occasion consulted to organisations both in Britain and the UnitedStates.

Accredited training.We ensure that our people have the right skills byproviding ISETT Seta-accredited training. Our two-day IT Continuity®Programme and five-day Complete Continuity® Practitioner Programmeare both fully accredited at levels 5 and 6 respectively.

Corporate social responsibility.ContinuitySA is a Level 4 BEE contributor.Our current corporate social investment project is supporting Raise a Roof,with Habitat for Humanity.