Factonomy1, a leading enabler of web-based business solutions, announced today that it signed an agreement to develop a business continuity management (BCM) planning solution with Glen Abbot2, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of business continuity services.
Glen Abbot plans both to use the solution internally as their own BCM system of choice and to roll it out to their customers, which range from local authorities and public sector bodies, to SMEs and multinational blue chips.
Based on the Factonomy Framework3, the BCM solution has been built to facilitate compliance with recognised best practice and standards including the world’s first standard for Business continuity management BS25999.
Andrew Sinclair, Glen Abbot’s Commercial Director said that it was Factonomy’s ‘different approach’ to development that first caught the company’s eye: “Factonomy allows us to tailor BCM tools to suit a company’s existing processes and systems which means we are able to reduce significantly the resource required to develop a full Business Continuity Response,” Sinclair said. “The Dynamic Documentation solution for Recovery Plans which we have developed with Factonomy reduces 90% of the management effort involved in keeping plans up to date,” Sinclair said.
“The document led approach to the collection and collation of data, means that as well as the obvious benefits to us of hours saved, ease of maintenance and speedy ROI, we are also able to provide clients with better informed judgements on long-term planning and contingency management,” he said. “The aim of the project was to create an intuitive system for the collection and analysis of Business Continuity data, along with the ability to produce customer-specific Plans at the push of a button. The Factonomy Framework allowed this to be achieved whilst keeping the system lean and easy to use.”
“The difference between Factonomy’s approach and the existing range of cumbersome and expensive off-the-shelf BCM solutions is that Factonomy starts by asking companies what they want to achieve rather than getting them to modify their existing business processes,” said Geoff Kell, CEO of Factonomy.
Notes to Editors:
1. Factonomy licenses its strategic application framework to enable the agile and flexible development of web-enabled business solutions. Unlike any other development platform, the Factonomy Framework allows developers to work independently on functionality, content and style, so they can deliver solutions which are agile, flexible and cost effective. Factonomy was founded in 2003 by Graeme Bryce and licenses its technology framework to companies to reduce the time and cost it takes to develop applications. Factonomy has a broad portfolio of clients, including national and international public companies.
2. Glen Abbot is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of Business Continuity Services supplying Local Authorities, NHS, Utilities and SMEs. The company’s client list includes many blue-chip and multinational organisations as well as providing services to the Scottish Executive and other public sector bodies.
3. The Factonomy Framework provides a coherent end-to-end environment for the development of business solutions. Factonomy's agile software environment for the rapid development of web-enabled business applications enables their development using declarative XML only.