Five benefits of proper Disaster Recovery Plan

Improved business processes: Because business processes undergo such analysis and scrutiny, analysts almost can’t help but find areas for improvement.

Improved technology: Often, you need to improve IT systems to support recovery objectives that you develop in the disaster recovery plan. The attention you pay to recoverability also often leads to making your IT systems more consistent with each other and, hence, more easily and predictably managed.

Fewer disruptions: As a result of improved technology, IT systems tend to be more stable than in the past. Also, when you make changes to system architecture to meet recovery objectives, events that used to cause outages don’t do so anymore.

Higher quality services: Because of improved processes and technologies, you improve services, both internally and to customers and supplychain partners.

Competitive advantages: Having a good DR plan gives a company bragging rights that may outshine competitors. Price isn’t necessarily the only point on which companies compete for business. A DR plan allows a company to also claim higher availability and reliability of services.

IT DRP for dummies, Peter Gregory CISA, CISSP