Organizational
Resilience Management Software Consultant
The ORMS Consultant
provides a range of tools, guidance and techniques that enable an
organization to implement organizational resilience
concepts. The ORMS Consultant is a relational database system that is
designed to assist Users to implement and achieve conformance with the
OR Standard [ASIS SPC.1-2009]. The ORMS Consultant contains the full
text from the OR Standard and delivers the requirements in an
inter-active format that simplifies conformance and encourages
implementation.
ORMS software series contains five scalable versions. The ORMS
Consultant is able to support multiple data files and multiple client
relationships. In addition to a comprehensive Client Control Panel, this
product delivers the full OR Standard content together with a range of
tools and Consultant guidance to assist the User identify gaps in the
required level of conformance and to support the development of
suitable processes and procedures to remove those gaps in a structured
and controlled manner.
The ORMS Consultant
also supports the development of an effective organizational resilience
management system delivering an extremely wide range of functionality
with mapping of all operational components; risk analysis and business
impact analysis, resilience planning, and response and continuity
planning, deployment of responsible persons and alternate asset and
resource planning. Further functionality covers incident management,
ORMS budgeting and team building.
The ORMS Consultant is available on a free trial basis for a maximum of
20 days for evaluation purposes. To take advantage of this 20 day free
trial offer, simply click on this
free trial
link and press the "Buy now" button. You will then be required to register your details with the
ecommerce provider Share-it! and provide valid credit card details.
Share-it! will notify the vendor and provide a link to the Free Trial
download. At the end of the 20 day free trial period the ecommerce
provider Share-it! will process a transaction for the purchase of a one
year license for a Master User License unless you have cancelled the
transaction prior to that date. Share-it! will notify the vendor about
the completed transaction and provide a link to the purchaser for the
full version software download. You can cancel the transaction at any
time during the free trial period and the purchase transaction will not
be processed. Once the free trial period has been cancelled the programs
will not continue to function and should be uninstalled.
The ORMS Consultant
contains all the functions included in the ORMS Professional but allows
the handling of multiple client files from a single set of ORMS
programs. Also supports multiple user access.
Contents of this ORMS
Consultant page
Detailed product
information is provided in this section on the ORMS Consultant. For
comparative information about the five products in the ORMS software
range go to the
Comparative data page. The
topic areas covered are as follows:
Click on each item to
go directly to that topic area.
Overview of
product features
ORMS software series contains five scalable versions. The ORMS
Consultant is the top product in the range of ORMS support systems and
is designed to support the management of multiple clients’ data files in
the achievement of conformance with the OR Standard and development of
an effective ORMS. This product also delivers the full OR Standard
content together with a range of tools and guidance to assist the User
identify gaps in the required level of conformance and to support the
development of suitable processes and procedures to remove those gaps in
a structured and controlled manner.
Functionality in the
ORMS Consultant includes:
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Full content
from the OR Standard
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Contextual
delivery of each OR Standard requirement
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Self assessment
conformance questionnaire
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Maturity
modelling for implementation benchmarking
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Password based
log on security
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Variable
permission structure
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Ability to
customize the system
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Comprehensive
reporting structure
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Links to
external documents
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On-line help
file and User Manual
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Contextual
screen based help system
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OR management
support including scope and policy setting
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Mapping of all
key operational components
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Establishment of
business impact analysis criteria
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Setting of
impact category criteria and severity
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Calculation of
recovery time objectives & criticality
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Risk
identification, risk analysis and assessment
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Setting
dependency ratings
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Potential
incident identification & planning
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Process
continuity planning
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Unique “Plan
builder” to simplify task creation
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Fully
functioning example data
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Contact details
for key employees, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders
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Assignment of
persons to specific ORMS responsibilities
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Wizards covering
most data entry functions
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Organization
structure and business unit establishment
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Assigning of
persons to incident response and process continuity tasks
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Operational
workarounds
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Resilience based
proactive & reactive strategies
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Testing for
incident response and process continuity activities
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Notification and
communication planning
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Alternate
planning for assets or resources
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ORMS budgeting
support
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Set up of ORMS
resource and emergency teams
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ORMS meeting and
interview support
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Allocation of
skill competency levels to employee data and tasks
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Set up of risk
treatment upgrade projects
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Cost / benefit
analysis for enhanced risk treatment projects
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Resilience based
ORMS documentation controls
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Set up of
insurance mitigation
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Reporting on
competency shortfalls for tasks and plans
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Operational
command centre support for managing incidents
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Recording of
actual incidents
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Damage and
impact assessment
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Ability to
relink to each clients data
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Relinking
control panel
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Creating a new
client ORMS from template
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Intended audience
for the ORMS Consultant
The software is
suitable for consulting firms or individual consultants or advisors who
are responsible for looking after the resilience requirements for
multiple client organizations. Uniquely suitable for clients of all
sizes and from all industrial and manufacturing categories, all
commercial sectors, and all state and federal agencies and government
departments. The software will be of interest to consulting
organizations that wish to implement industry best practice for
preparation and protection against potentially disruptive incidents,
improve the client’s level of resilience, measure and achieve
conformance against the organizational resilience standard, and to
generally strengthen corporate governance activities.
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ORMS Consultant FAQs
Q: Can I
customize the log-on screen
A: Yes, the User
area of the log-on screen is customizable including organization name,
locations included in the scope, name of person responsible for the ORMS
program and name of person responsible for administrating the ORMS
software.
Q: Is the date
format amendable?
A: Yes, date
format templates: DD/MMM/YYYY or MMM/DD/YYYY are included in the system
Q: Is there a
comprehensive audit log of data changes?
A: Yes, all data
changes are logged and this is available in, and filtered by, each all
versions of the ORMS software
Q: Can anybody set up a new user
who can access the system and data?
A: No, only Users
with System Administrator permissions can set up or delete Users
Q: How do I obtain software
updates and ensure I am using the latest version?
A: You can check
anytime from the registration details button on the log on screen to see
if there are updates available for the ORMS Consultant. Updates are
free and Users are encouraged to always use the latest version.
Q: Do you provide technical
system support?
A: Yes, email
based support is available from
Support@organizational-resilience.com
Q: Can I attach external
documents to the ORMS Consultant so that I can reach the information
easily?
A: Yes, it is
extremely easy to attach external documents to the ORMS Consultant
through our unique DocLinks facility.
Q: Can I associate products and
services, business processes or assets and resources to particular
divisions or departments?
A: The ORMS
Consultant version associates all key components of the operational
process with business units that are assigned by the User. Business
Unit filtering and reporting is to be released by the end of December
2010.
Q: Do any of
the ORMS products contain example data and plans?
A: Yes, the
ORMS Entry Level, Intermediate and Consultant software contain a
comprehensive sample data. In those systems the User can easily toggle
between the sample data and the User's own data.
Q: Can I
change the currency associated with the costs in any of the systems?
A: Yes, the
ORMS Consultant has a full list of international currencies, any one of
which can be selected for the ORMS plan.
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