Reflective summary posting paper

During his discussion in his posting “ Business Community Planning” Alvin described the advantages and importance of devising a Business Community Planning or BCP. According to him it is a process which helps a business organization to stay operational and in business in case of any disaster or system failure. He gave an example of an industrial lightning components manufacturer Xenon Engineering currently developing a new enterprise application based on DBMS.

The company’s success depends of the core information regarding the customization of its products according to the customer demand. In order to prevent the loss of critical information XE needs an effective BCP in order to keep the essential functions of the company in running in case of disaster or application failure. Alvin primarily emphasized on complete support of the company’s management during organizing the BCP development team. The team members should be from various departments of the organization.

According to Alvin the physical design of the Database is extremely important regarding the efficiency of the database processing. Key Learning Points of Jeremiah: In his posting “ Business Continuity Planning” Jeremiah has explained in detail why a BCP is necessary for XE and what necessary steps should be taken in formulating a proper BCP. According to him because XE heavily relies on these databases it is essential to formulate a BCP. Creating and maintaining a BCP will ensure XE that its core operations are working during and after any disaster and failure.

In order to organize a BCP team XE should first conduct business impact analysis to establish most crucial system and effect of their disruption on the company. This may also help them identify the departments which may constitute the team. The team will have a senior manager to ensure senior management support and direction as well as appropriate funding, a coordinator who will clarify roles of different members etc, XE security officer and XE Chief Information Officer to coordinate with the IT Specialists of the company.

But denormalization may result in great loss of personal data. The database is sorted by department and indexed on job-group which though increases processing but requires large amount of storage. Complete removal of deleted data requires system reload which is seldom done resulting in unnecessary large database and reduced performance. Other factors may include type of processors, amount of memory, network speed and number of concurrent users. My Key Contribution: In the modern world of tough competition any business organization may only survive by providing undisrupted services to its customers.

This requires uninterrupted operation of relevant services regardless of calamities, disasters and failures. BCP is thus essential for every business organization. Same is the case of Xenon Engineering. Their heavy reliance on computers and databases requires formulating a proper BCP. The BCP establishing requires a team which should have direct support from senior management, coordinator which security department and IT department. All the core services must be identified and their minimum tolerable shut down time should be specified.