CloudOak Plan4Continuity BC Planning and Automation Tool Offered as Service for Technology Solution Providers

CloudOak announced Plan4Continuity, the channel’s cloud-based BC planning and automation tool for technology solution providers (TSPs).

Plan4Continuity is a cloud SaaS solution that creates, automates and orchestrates BC plans in the cloud. As a new tool for TSPs, it is a BC Planning SaaS solution designed for the SMB and SME markets. TSPs can create multiple plans for multiple clients, across any vertical as the client’s BC plan is no longer a document gathering dust in a drawer but a live cloud-based system that contains plans, simulation schedules and audit logs of all activations. It also acts as a full management system of a client’s BC activities and communications. As per ISO 22301 standards, Plan4Continuity enables the 5 important elements of continuity planning namely, people, assets, services, locations, and vendors or suppliers. Together they make up the cornerstone of the BC ecosystem.

“Plan4Continuity has been developed to solve a global problem that encompasses all businesses and all verticals.“, says Petrus Human, co-founder, CloudOak. “Most DR and BC Plans are simply a collection of custom templates that takes valuable time and resources to create that inevitably end up as outdated and unmanaged documents stored in someone’s desk., To add to the challenge, BC declarations are still manual in nature and the entire post incident review is cobbled together, many times based on people’s memories of the event days after. Plan4Continuity now solves this problem and modernizes, with a cloud-centric view, the entire BC Planning and Automation ecosystem enabling Managed and Technology Solution Providers globally to solve this problem for their clients.“

“The CloudOak team has a 100% partner focus and have been great to work with.” says Spencer Heaton, CEO and owner, A&S Systems Consultants, a MSP out of Milton, ONT, Canada. “They helped us with training, client demonstrations and have attended events with us. At a recent event, I was ill the night before and could not make it to the show the next day. The team from CloudOak showed up in the morning, opened the booth for us and ran as our representatives for the day booking client meetings for us. As for Plan4Continuity, CloudOak has put together a truly compelling solution which we will be adding to every service offered by A&S.” says Heaton.

The company’s pre-released Plan4Contintuity at the CompTIA ChannelCon 2019 event in August and after 3 days of partner demonstrations, over 1000 attendees voted CloudOak as the best start-up.

Here’s why:

• Plan4Continuity is a cloud SaaS solution that creates cloud-based DR plans and BC automation as live application in minutes.

• It offers 20+ continuity templates which includes plans like active shooter, data breach response, fire evacuation, flood, natural disaster, DR, cyber security audits, ransomware attack, and more.

• It offers a solution as every plan includes broadcast, call tree and roll call technology with asset detection to create servers and assets as part of any client’s DR and BC plan.

• Broadcast – the ability to text mobile devices instantly in the event of a continuity event or declaration.

• Roll Call – the ability to send a text to every mobile device instantly, with options to indicate safety status or if they are in need of help. This is all tracked and visible in real time view.

• Call Tree – the ability to send email and text to anyone instantly inside or outside the company to coordinate, automate and orchestrate the continuity event.

• Plan4Continuity is a partner solution that will detect CloudOak CUBES, Rubrik appliances, Cohesity applications and Datto devices.

• It is designed to comply with ISO 22301 BC Planning standards.

“Since our pre-release, we have come to discover that Plan4Continuity is a unique partner offering“, says Troy Cheeseman, co-founder, CloudOak. “We started off our marketing and messaging focusing on the new service offering that partners can now bring to their clients. This is a new recurring revenue generating opportunity where there was none before. In just under eight weeks, partners have shown us that Plan4Continuity is much more than a TSP technology tool, it is a true business operations solution that can be leveraged by everyone in any company, across any vertical. This will open up new opportunities for the partner channel.”

“Plan4Continuity will be a major differentiator for the partner opening up all new revenue streams that were traditionally hourly services or even lost revenue opportunities due to outsourcing to third party consultants who specialized in this area.” say Jeff Collier, co-founder, CloudOak. “We have been working with strategic partners and they are seeing great success by leading with Plan4Continuity. One of our early partners have booked 35 client demonstrations in the month of November proving there is a strong desire for this type is solution in the SMB/SME. Plan4Continuity has proven to be as effective a lead in to new opportunities as we believed it could be when we first saw it in action.”

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February 5, 2019 | Press Release