Effective, compliant and credible business continuity planning recognised by your industry peers the world over. The selection of your planning system is an essential component of the success of your programme – and as market leader and primary choice for business continuity planners, LDRPS® can provide that foundation. Important considerations in making your planning software decision

1. AVAILABILITY SERVICES Living Disaster
Recovery Planning
LDRPS® System
Effective, compliant and Use of planning navigators reduces the
time needed to train users, and is a
credible business continuity powerful aid to plan maintenance.
planning recognised by your The administrator can set the navigator
so that certain review areas are included
industry peers the world over. in the plan maintenance activity, and
all planners using the navigator will be
The selection of your planning directed to those selected areas to review
and update.
system is an essential component
In addition, the Navigator provides
of the success of your programme – instruction on how to complete each step
and as market leader and primary by incorporating industry best practices
and methodology into plan construction
choice for business continuity based on the business continuity/
planners, LDRPS® can provide disaster recovery skills and knowledge of
SunGard’s experienced consultants and
that foundation. subject matter experts. This information
can also be easily tailored to align with
Important considerations your organisation’s terminology and
methodology if desired.
in making your planning
Building dynamic, more effective plans –
software decision systematically – LDRPS® offers pre-defined
standards to leverage when building
Powerful, yet easy to use recovery strategies, including a library of
GenNavigators – making the planning more than 200 reports used to present the
job easier – A Navigator is an interface information in your plan.
overlay that provides step-by-step
LDRPS® also gives you the ability to
guidance to users in the process of
customise and output plans for different
building plans. As plan builders perform
audiences, e.g., auditors, executives,
their work through the Navigator, they
recovery teams – allowing you to choose
track their progress by marking each step
the types of reports and documents in the
complete. Administrators can then rely
sequence they’ll appear in the plan.
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2. LDRPS®
Living Disaster Recovery Planning System
Flexible Scalable
Organisations typically build plans based There are three versions of LDRPS®, scaled to
on how their day-to-day operations work, provide the level of functionality you require.
though it is critical that they also design them
Essential: Offers the functionality that
according to how they would need to recover
SunGard’s products are known for,
the business. LDRPS® provides the ability to
but has been scaled to fit the needs of
structure plans around the strategies you
organisations that are in the emergent
choose, to maximise the effectiveness of
stages of programme development
your recovery by helping you define crisis,
technology and business recovery plans. Professional: Provides many customisation
With LDRPS®, you can build: options, a master interface for administrators
and increased user access security
Crisis management plans to fit the
organisation’s operational structure Enterprise: Includes full customisation
abilities, increased access security, e-mail
Technology recovery plans to match
notification, scheduled importing and
the matrix management approach
plan approval, enabling this product to
implemented, including infrastructural
be tailored to meet the needs of the most
strategies for hardware, SAN, network,
sophisticated planning programs.
or data administration
Critical application recovery plans to Whichever product you choose, you
smoothly interface with infrastructure have the flexibility to add any other of
recovery plans SunGard’s Continuity Management Solution
(CMS) modules over time as your BCM
Process or departmental recovery plans
requirements expand or change, without
around planning decisions and strategies,
conversion problems, retraining issues,
with dependencies between critical
or installation challenges.
business processes.
Flexible purchasing and installation options
LDRPS® offers the ability to define the
interdependencies between critical Whether through a perpetual license hosted
processes, applications, and hardware at the customer site, a perpetual license
devices. Once these dependencies are set, hosted by SunGard or by On-Demand
they can be viewed at the enterprise level in subscription (Software as a Service) we will
order to understand how the failure of one work with you to determine which type of
node impacts your organisation’s resiliency. solution is right for your organisation.

3. Customisation Secure
With LDRPS you can customise terms,
®
These days, security is almost as important as
screens, and features to meet your specific the information being protected. The incredible
business needs. This functionality, available rise in identity theft and the ever-increasing
in both Professional and Enterprise versions, security regulations are making information
supports your ability to customise data security more challenging every day.
entry screens, placing fields on the
screen where you want them to reside. LDRPS® has a sophisticated security
Additionally, you can change field labels, management system built within it:
names, even languages — all without Information access must be explicitly
leaving the user interface. granted. Access can be granted for add,
Since customisation is accomplished within update or read only, or explicitly denied
LDRPS®, there is no need for special tools at any level
or training to perform these actions. Access can be granted to a specific
individual logon, or through a defined
security role
Pre-defined security roles are
Save time and money using LDRPS ® provided, or can be customised
versus developing in-house to your specific requirements
Reduce training time and costs by Access to features must be explicitly
utilising Plan Navigators granted, either at a user level or
through a defined role
Reduce ‘service desk’ support with
built-in FAQs and SunGard support Security applies to all information within
LDRPS®, and to all report output.
Improve efficiency and accuracy with
standard reports and methodologies
Spend less time with your auditors
Import and update data faster with a
relational database.

4. Professional Professional Enterprise Enterprise
Essential
On Demand License License Hosted Option
Number of concurrent users 1-3 1-5 1-5 3 or More 3 or More
Number of named users Up to 30 Up to 50 Up to 50 Unlimited Unlimited
LDRPS® Version 10 features
Best Practices based Plan Navigators P P P P P
Built-in standard reports P P P P P
Customisable reports P P P
Dependency maps P P P P P
BIA Lite Feature P P P P P
Drag-and-drop call lists P P P P P
Location resource management P P P P P
Sample final plans P P P P P
Sophisticated user security P P P P
Online help P P P P P
24/7 customer support P P P P P
Ability to upgrade to other versions of LDRPS 10
®
P P P N/A N/A
Fully customisable Plan Navigators P P P P
Master interface P P P P
Customisable screens P P P P
Scheduled importing and Plan Publishing P P
E-mail notification P P
Plan approval P P
Integrated logon P
Technology
State-of-the-art technology platform P P P P P
SQL Server
SQL Server SQL Server SQL Server SQL Server
Relational database or Oracle
Database Database Express Database Database
Database
No SunGard software install required—
P P P
“Plug and Play”
No SunGard software updates required
P P P
at client site
Secure Browser Secure Browser Browser Browser Secure Browser
Browser
Access Access Enabled Enabled Access
Web server Shared Shared N/A N/A Shared
Encrypted Encrypted
backup on backup on a
Encrypted nightly
standby servers standby server
tape backup,
Secure data management and backup as well as nightly N/A N/A AND real time
weekly off-site
tape backup, replication to
storage service
weekly offsite alternate site
storage service. db server.
SunGard systems customer benefits
Quick Start package available P P P P P
Unlimited training at our USA and UK Facilities P P P P
Recovery Chronicles® P P P P P
User group conference P P P P P
Complimentary webinars P P P P P

5. Web hosting Easy to use
Many LDRPS® customers are choosing Individuals responsible to build and maintain
to have SunGard host their application plans will use LDRPS® frequently, but the
for a variety of reasons, not the least of administrator for LDRPS® will use it almost
which is the level of increased security every day. Ease of use is important to
that’s provided. these users.
LDRPS® in a SunGard-hosted environment
LDRPS® is designed to simplify plan
provides for secure information management
building, administration and maintenance
for both the production hosting sites, and
by allowing you to:
backup with real time replication to an
alternate processing centre. Build up planning dictionaries with
the import capability. This saves time,
SunGard maintains extremely rigid
both for administrators as well as for
policies and practices relating to customer
plan builders, and improves the accuracy
information, adhering to all information
and integrity of the information within
security regulations and standards,
your plans.
including SAS 70, ISO 27001 and Safe
Harbor. Hosted application recovery is Share information across plans,
tested regularly, addressing functionality, eliminating record duplication. With
information integrity, performance, and LDRPS® you can bring a vendor contract
backup access processes. into the documents dictionary, and link
it to the vendor associated with the
contract; or create a common list of
employee skills or experience (called
attributes) and link one or more attributes
to a specific employee.
Update and replace record data,
wherever the original record is used within
LDRPS®, without disruption to your plans.
The Related Records feature allows you to
change information about use of a specific
record throughout plans within the system.
Track planning progress, and quickly
gauge where attention may be required.
In addition, when it’s time for plan
maintenance, the administrator can reset
steps in the plan navigator, indicating
to the plan builder where maintenance
should be directed.

6. LDRPS®
Living Disaster Recovery
Planning System
Why SunGard for BCM Software?
Solid products become real solutions when through a variety of modes including
you listen to your customers – and when you formal training within the US and UK, or
choose a leader in business continuity services, online through our Web site delivered by
you’re also in good company. Our customer- our experienced team of instructors.
driven International User Group, Regional User Customer support available 24/7 to
Groups, and our Technical Advisory Groups all answer technical questions or provide
combine to help us identify, develop and refine software guidance.
our software products.
Access to continuity programme and
Here’s what else you can expect: software consulting services from
Unlimited, free product instruction. recognised industry experts.
Training is critically important, and
SunGard provides product instruction
SunGard’s Continuity
Management Solution
The SunGard Continuity Management
Solution leverages a common platform in a
relational database that enables information
consistency across multiple planning, testing
and execution management processes, as
well as standardised reporting for seamless
automation and management of business
continuity processes.
Save time with single
information entry
Simplify user setup with
centralised security.
Beyond the benefits of information
integration, CMS provides centralised
and secure access to individual modules.
LDRPS® is an application that assists an This flexible solution can be customised to
organisation in building, maintaining and fit your organisation’s specific needs to
executing business continuity and disaster support the full lifecycle of BCM. Building
recovery plans. on the strength and functionality of the
core platform, independent modules can be
LDRPS® functionality provides an easy-to-use, added over time as the BCM requirements
powerful, flexible and secure tool organisations of your company expand or change.
can tailor to their specific planning
requirements.
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