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Business contingency planning is all about having a backup plan. It is crucial in today’s unpredictable CX landscape, where CCaaS platforms can be disrupted by a range of risks. Formulating plans to counteract them allows your customers to always have access to your agents and resolve their issues on time.
Without these measures in place, your CX quality will suffer and that can ultimately lead your customers to abandon your business fully—which means you lose out on valuable prospects.
To add to this, operating CCaaS platforms can be a complex undertaking. Managing your CCaaS platform effectively requires a lot of time, effort, and knowledge. One wrong setting can lead to dropped calls, poor call quality, or even system downtime.
That’s where configuration automation comes into play. It helps ensure that your CCaaS solution is always set up correctly, reducing the risk of downtime and ensuring business continuity. Let’s see how it contributes to business contingency planning.
Downtime is disastrous to the performance of CCaaS platforms and your broader CX operations in general. This is why businesses need to take every measure possible to avoid downtime as much as possible. Here’s how CCaaS configuration automation contributes to these efforts:
Blackchair’s Symphony solution provides extensive CCaaS configuration auditing and automation capabilities to help your CCaaS environment thrive.
As an add-on to Symphony, Continuance takes this a step further—complementing your business continuance planning efforts by offering automated synchronization capabilities to track and implement changes between your production org and design org.
Get in touch with Blackchair to elevate your contingency planning capabilities and supercharge your BCP efforts.
Continuance is all you need—configuration tracking, automation, and consultancy services as an all-in-one solution for cloud operations. Learn more about how CCaaS migration contributes to BCP efforts here.
The 5 steps of business contingency planning are:
- Identify and prioritize risks
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Develop contingency plans
- Share and maintain the plan
- Test and refine the plan
An example of a contingency plan in a CCaaS context would be an automated failover system. This means that in the event of an outage, the system automatically switches to a backup, ensuring uninterrupted customer communications.
The 4 major components of contingency planning are:
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Incident Response Plan (IRP)
- Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
- Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
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