Analyzing Business Process Requirements for a Software Based Execution of Business Continuity Tasks

Business Continuity helps organizations maintain their critical business activities at an acceptable level in the occasion of an unexpected interruption. A critical part of the business continuity management process is the Business Impact Analysis. The BIA process includes decision making regarding the recovery priority of business functions. Moreover, risk assessment of factors which may trigger business interruptions and extended information system outages is an issue of major importance in terms of business continuity. The current paper analyzes the business process requirements for a software based decision making regarding the two aforementioned tasks. The tool for specifying the business process requirements is the Business Object Relation Model which is a widely accepted and easily comprehensible approach for requirements specification, delineation and documention.