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Efficient BIA and time criticality analysis

With the Business Impact Analysis (BIA), you systematically assess the impact of a disruption on your business processes. The analysis defines time criticality as well as recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) and thus forms the basis for business continuity management, IT security, and outsourcing management.

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Why conducting a BIA is a challenge

Business processes vary significantly in their criticality. Without a structured BIA, there are no clear priorities for recovery, emergency measures, or investment decisions. In practice, BIAs are often manual, inconsistent, and difficult to keep up to date.

Unclear time criticality

  • Critical and non-critical processes are not clearly distinguished
  • The impact of outages is assessed inconsistently
  • Priorities for recovery are not clearly defined

Manual and complex methodology

  • BIAs are conducted using spreadsheets or individual queries
  • Process owners must provide many unclear inputs
  • Calculations are performed manually and are prone to errors

High effort and low accuracy/up-to-dateness

  • Changes to processes are not systematically considered
  • Key figures must be maintained multiple times
  • Versioning is difficult to trace during audits
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How Leno supports the Business Impact Analysis

Leno enables the centralized, structured, and automated execution of BIAs across the entire process landscape – consistently, up-to-date, and audit-proof.

Structured collection of BIA data

  • Uniform recording of business processes and their assets
  • Standardized assessment logic across all organizational units
  • Clear assignment of responsibilities

Automatic determination of MTD, RTO, and RPO

  • Derivation of time criticality based on defined criteria
  • Automated calculation of recovery objectives
  • Reduction of manual sources of error

Inheritance and utilization of results

  • Inheritance of time criticality to applications, systems, and outsourcing
  • Use of BIA results in BCM and ICT risk management
  • Unified data basis for other modules in Leno
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Why the BIA can be implemented more efficiently with Leno

Many organizations conduct BIAs manually or with isolated tools. These approaches are time-consuming, error-prone, and hardly scalable.

Features
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Compliance
Generische Funktionen für DORA, MaRisk & EBA-Leitlinien
Vollständige Compliance mit automatisierten Informationsregsiter
Flexibilität
Statisch oder nur mit Programmierung
Konfigurierbar ohne Code
Modul-Integration
Getrennte Einzellösungen
Alles in einer Plattform, nahtlos verknüpft
Startgeschwindigkeit
Lange Implementierung
Sofort einsatzbereit mit Templates
KI-Funktionen
Oft nicht vorhanden
Oft nicht vorhanden

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Manual assessments, inconsistent results, and high maintenance effort.
Automated, consistent, and traceable BIA on an integrated platform.
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Consistency
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Different assessment approaches for each area.
Uniform assessment logic for all BIAs.
Efficiency
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High manual effort in data collection and calculation.
Automated calculation and maintenance of key figures.
Timeliness
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Results become outdated quickly.
Continuous updating upon changes.
Integration
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BIA results are isolated.
Direct linkage with protection needs analysis, criticality analysis of business functions according to DORA, and emergency plans.
Auditability
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Results are difficult to trace.
Structured and audit-proof documentation.
Flexibilität
Andere Tools sind statisch oder nur mit Programmierung
Leno ist konfigurierbar ohne Code
Modul-Integration
Andere Tools bilden getrennte Einzellösungen
Leno ist eine All-in-One-Plattform, nahtlos verknüpft
Startgeschwindigkeit
Andere Tools erfodern lange Implementierung
Leno ist sofort einsatzbereit mit Templates
KI-Funktionen
In anderen Tools oft nicht vorhanden
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Key questions about the Business Impact Analysis

What you should know about BIA and time criticality with Leno
What is a Business Impact Analysis (BIA)?

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The BIA assesses the impact of a business process failure in relation to its downtime and determines how quickly the process must be restored.

What does MTA or time criticality mean?

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The Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTA) determines the time criticality of a process and describes the point at which a process failure would cause unacceptable damage.

What are RTO and RPO?

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RTO (Recovery Time Objective) defines the maximum tolerable downtime of a process.
RPO (Recovery Point Objective) describes the maximum tolerable data loss, indicating the point in time from which a process failure would cause unacceptable damage.

How often should a Business Impact Analysis be updated?

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A Business Impact Analysis should be reviewed regularly—at least once a year—and updated as necessary. In addition, event-driven updates are required, for example in the case of process changes, new dependencies, or organizational changes. Leno supports the ongoing maintenance of the BIA and ensures that changes are handled consistently and transparently.

How are BIA results used in other areas?

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The BIA results form a central foundation for business continuity management, IT security, and outsourcing management. In Leno, the identified time criticalities and recovery objectives can be directly reused and linked with each other.

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