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Business continuity briefs:
20th October 2006

'Business continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services press releases and other useful resources published in the last 24 hours.

NDR in VAR recruitment drive
UK-based business continuity and disaster recovery company NDR has launched a formal partner scheme as it searches for more value added resellers. NDR aims to increase its reseller numbers to about 25 by the end of June 2007. NDR has already recruited two channel managers and will recruit another five channel managers next year. Source: CRN Read article

Tyler Technologies wins City of Lowell , Massachusetts, disaster recovery contract
Tyler Technologies, Inc. has announced today that it has signed a contract to provide disaster recovery services to the City of Lowell, Massachusetts, broadening its long- term relationship with the fourth-largest municipality in Massachusetts. Tyler 's disaster recovery team will help identify critical business processes and users, define and document recovery procedures, and test the disaster recovery plan. Tyler is also providing disaster recovery services for the City's Pension Management and MUNIS applications, which includes off site back-up, use of a recovery server, alternate processing locations and remote access. http://www.tylertech.com

Marsh expands business continuity management team
Marsh has expanded its business continuity management team in its Risk Consulting Practice across the UK with three appointments. Helen Sunderland joins Marsh in Manchester as a Consultant, delivering business continuity training, tools and templates while also developing business impact analyses and BCM plans. Ms Sunderland previously worked as an internal business continuity consultant for Scottish Power, where she was responsible for the development, management and testing of business continuity plans for all critical processes, functions and departments, including at board level.

Paul Robertson joins Marsh’s Milton Keynes’ office from Adtapt, a business continuity and crisis management company, where he was a senior consultant. In Mr Robertson’s role as a business development consultant at Marsh, he will tailor solutions to provide valuable business continuity management capability and improve clients’ resilience to business interruption impacts.

Heather Wilson joins Marsh as a business development consultant based in Reading and will be responsible for relationship management across a wide range of clients. Ms Wilson has spent the past three years as sales and marketing director of The Change Company and has previously worked for Deloitte, Hewlett Packard and Oracle.

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Date: 20th October 2006• Region: Various




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