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With Continuity of Operations solutions from Microsoft, you can prepare your agency to sustain operations as you address and recover from crisis situations.
 

How quickly could your agency recover from a disaster? Can the collaboration tools you use every day safeguard your operations against the unexpected?

 
 
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Maintaining essential functions during an emergency and through recovery requires a combination of planning, preparation, agility, and adherence to your Continuity of Operations (COOP) plan. An effective COOP plan should:

  • Help ensure continuous performance during an emergency.
  • Take advantage of familiar tools that can serve as immediate lifelines when disaster strikes.
  • Support agency staff and partner agencies with reliable communications and access to vital information.
  • Facilitate work and collaboration from remote locations during a crisis.

Microsoft combines business intelligence (BI), collaborative emergency management, and unified communications and collaboration to help sustain your agency during emergency situations. Using the same applications and capabilities you use for telework support and long-term business performance, Microsoft can help you meet the federal COOP mandates and continue essential agency functions during situations that disrupt normal operations:

  • Leverage the same robust BI solutions that drive your business results to give your agency real-time access to accurate data during a crisis.
  • Make it easy for your staff and partners to access resources, stay productive, and collaborate from anywhere in a dynamic, permissions-controlled, virtual workspace.
  • Use familiar Microsoft applications with minimal additional training.
  • Employ Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) 2007 and Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 to help facilitate secure remote access.

You can get started now by contacting Microsoft Services (AskFed@microsoft.com) or a Microsoft partner:

If it’s vital to government, it’s mission critical to Microsoft.

The following Microsoft partner can help you implement a Continuity of Operations solution.

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E●Sponder is a software development company providing solutions to ensure continuity of operations in emergency situations. Corporations and Government agencies leverage these highly collaborative tools to assess risk, identify gaps, and build plans to manage their response across the enterprise. The same software that is used by emergency response agencies can then be utilized to provide incident command and management. E-SPONDER solutions are used extensively throughout the world in managing both planned and unplanned events.

Microsoft Services was established to help customers maximize the potential of their Microsoft technology investments. Through architecture, implementation, and sustainment services, customers receive a level of vision, expertise, and insight that only Microsoft provides. Microsoft Services, together with our partners, matches agency requirements with a safety net of support and direct access to the Microsoft teams that develop both the products and future product direction. Contact AskUSPSS@microsoft.com to talk with a services representative for Federal, State & Local government, or education.

Search for additional partners in the Microsoft Public Sector Partner Solution MarketPlace, an easy resource for finding technology partners that offer a broad range of products, services, and solutions based on Microsoft technologies. The marketplace includes packaged software, solutions offerings, and training from Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, Microsoft Certified Partners, and registered members.

Microsoft makes no representations or warranties, either expressed, implied or statutory, regarding any company presented herein or its products or services. The inclusion of a company does not imply endorsement by Microsoft of the company or its products or services. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

 
 

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