I have a survey, please fill it in :)

[davidd]

We have an idea for a new business, I need some feedback.

I would really appreciate it if you could spare me a few moments to complete this short survey.

www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=958111868649

Thanks

D

[davidd]

Thanks to those who have done this so far.

I take the point that I need to add an option to the question about backup however now I have some responses I cannot make changes.

Re manufacturing I fully understand, is there a way whereby the drawings, cnc files etc can be sent somewhere else at short notice to get whatever orders need fulling sorted?

[davidd]

Would whoever said there were already lots of providers please give me some examples?

I know there are some companies offering a level of service and I have, where possible examined that service in detail. Those I have looked at are not offering the services we are, to the depth we are, for the price we think we can do it at.

So let me know who they are so I can take a look.

Cheers

D

[s a m]

How much would this sort of office replication cost monthly?

I assume that’s what it is... space to "move into" should the main office get damaged by fire etc.

Sounds like a good idea, but I would assume its expensive.

What happens if more than one company gets hit and need the backup services? For example you have 3 customers in one building that gets hit by a major power failure and is out for a week, surely you can't cope with every one of them needing the service at the same time?

Very best of luck though, it sounds like an interesting idea.

[davidd]

We are probably looking at around £300 per desk per year.

Yes it will be space, we'll have a number of measures to ensure there is always enough.
(multi site)

D

[MyNameIsMud]

Filled in.

[mikeyboy]

I know a guy who was running a similar idea out of a disused nuclear bunker. Don't know if its still going.
All the banks have to have it for compliance regs.
I guess any other newly regulated businesses such as Insurance companies and soon Hedge Funds would be a big audience for this service

[_dobbo_]

Davidd, I've seen figures on this and they are worse than your 70%.

92% of businesses without BCP (business continuity plan) do not survive a major disaster
40% never re-open
40% re-open but fail within 18 months
12% re-open but fail within five years
8% survive in the long-term.

I'm afraid I can't quote a source as I've lost the information. I think the 12% fail in five years is a stretching it a bit, who can say that the lack of a BCP was the cause of the company failing 5 years later. In any event, I'm off to fill in your survey now.

[Graham]

Hi, I've worked with this type of stuff, we did some mobile stuff for sme's a while ago but a different side of the business took off and we dropped it...

All of the big players have facilities they offer so its tough to go against them as a start up. and the sme side dont really want to pay...

I've also worked on the planning side more recently with Local govt customers and helped broker a solution where a number of lg users of a particualar s/w package all got together and bought into one DR agreement, on the basis that it was unlikley that they would all suffer the same problem at the same time. This dramatically cut the cost per site as they were effectivley only buying a share of one package. So one possibility is picking a couple of products, housing / benifits / income management etc looking at the hw requirements and then trying to put a package deal together to get into market..... Actually that end of it is somthing we might be interested in helping out with, as the LG market is where we live..


Cheers

Graham

[chilli]

FYI.....I was working for a smallish bank in the city, where I was the "Internal controller/Auditor". We had a proper disater recovery plan, including some lovely offices in docklands to go to in such an event. This was not cheap, and we went there a few times a year to make sure all was well, without really testing it. The day came to test it thoroughly. Even though senior managers were informed of the test (against my wishes)we spent 5 hours there before we called it off, as the site couldn't bring the SFIFT system up, and rendering us completely powerless to make or receive any treasury payments. A valuable lesson... you have to test these things 100%, and assume nothing!