{"id":21587,"date":"2021-04-28T17:01:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/?p=21587"},"modified":"2021-04-28T17:01:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:01:55","slug":"how-has-business-continuity-changed-post-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/21587\/how-has-business-continuity-changed-post-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"How Has Business Continuity Changed Post-COVID?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since our start in 1988, we have been preaching the value in protecting your critical assets from downtime with Room Alert environment monitoring. Unfortunately, there are many businesses who don\u2019t consider proactive planning until they\u2019ve already experienced the negative impacts of not having Business Continuity and Environment Monitoring in place. Never has this been more apparent than following the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic. One major lesson that has come out of this has been teaching businesses the importance of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/castellanbc.com\/blog\/changing-business-continuity-perspectives-in-a-post-covid-19-world\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">preparing for the unexpected<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Moving forward, facilities can\u2019t say \u201cWhat\u2019s the worst that could happen?\u201d because now we know how unexpectedly disaster can strike. A newfound emphasis on Business Continuity Planning &amp; Environment Monitoring is your organization\u2019s best approach to preventing and minimizing downtime in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><b>Business Continuity<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amidst the pandemic, we released a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/18896\/effective-business-continuity-leaves-no-ambiguity\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business Continuity Checklist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to provide a general guideline of how businesses of all sizes and types should be identifying potential threats of downtime such as environmental concerns, severe weather issues, cybersecurity problems, and proactively planning on how to tackle those threats in a way that causes as little business disruption as possible. We found this tool to be extremely well-received by customers who were able to identify weaknesses in their Business Continuity Planning and readjust accordingly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business Continuity Planning helps organizations understand the importance of proactive planning solutions, such as environment monitoring, to help minimize downtime and damage.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><b>Downtime Calculator<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/down-calc-article-768x354-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/down-calc-article-768x354-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21588\" width=\"241\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/down-calc-article-768x354-1.png 768w, https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/down-calc-article-768x354-1-300x138.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another tool that we launched during the pandemic to again re-emphasize the value in Business Continuity and Environment Monitoring is our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/avtech.com\/about\/downtime\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Downtime Calculator<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Anyone can use the interactive sliders to input the information that most closely represents your organization annual revenue, number of employees and average salary. You\u2019ll see a reflection of just how costly downtime can be if your routine business operations are if you\u2019re down for a few hours, days or weeks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understanding the cost and irreversible extent of downtime is vital in understanding the value in Business Continuity solutions such as environment monitoring. Our incredible Room Alert products serve to oversee your facilities and identify potential threats of downtime. Room Alert will promptly notify you as soon as potential threats begin to unfold. Room Alert ultimately provides peace of mind by monitoring your business environment conditions and informing you of any issues so your team can address the concern before it results in irreversible damage or downtime.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><b>Environmental Monitoring with Room Alert<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/room-alert-constant-contact-header-32S.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/room-alert-constant-contact-header-32S-1024x534.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21591\" width=\"280\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/room-alert-constant-contact-header-32S-1024x534.png 1024w, https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/room-alert-constant-contact-header-32S-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/room-alert-constant-contact-header-32S-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/room-alert-constant-contact-header-32S.png 1391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re slowly entering the Post-COVID world with a new understanding of how vital it is to protect your company\u2019s people, customers, equipment, reputation and any asset that can be negatively impacted by unmonitored environments. <\/span><b>Approximately 30% of all costly downtime is caused by environment-related threats such as high temperature &amp; humidity, water &amp; mold damage, power loss and more.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> By having Room Alert installed, you\u2019re immediately working to prevent 30% of all downtime that could lead to costly repairs, irreversible damage or even closing your doors for good. Without Room Alert, you\u2019re at an increased risk of these kinds of threats on top of not knowing an issue has occurred unless you\u2019re attentively on site.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Room Alert is easy-to-use environment monitoring that can be quickly installed. Most of our Room Alert monitors are powered by PoE. Our monitors work as stand-alone network appliances that could just be dropped into a DHCP network for immediate access. No additional hardware is required, so installing Room Alert is a very simple process.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Room Alert is just like having an extremely reliable employee on site 24\/7 to ensure your environmental conditions are within ranges that are promoting productivity and success. Our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/19339\/introducing-highest-security-room-alert-pro-line\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Room Alert PRO Line<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was designed to be ideal for high security settings with a focus on keeping data secure, providing high performance and following DFARS, NIST SP 800-171 and ISO\/IEC 27000 best practices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having Room Alert environment monitoring overseeing your valuable assets is absolutely crucial in surviving the next unexpected event whether it is a pandemic or smaller-scale problem.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><b>Contact Us<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For any questions about environment monitoring with Room Alert, you can speak with a dedicated Product Specialist via email at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sales@AVTECH.com<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, by phone at 401.628.1600, or through our Live Chat feature right here on our website for a <\/span><b>free consultation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For additional resources, please visit our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/AVTECHVideoChannel\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YouTube Channel<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and be sure to read more of our<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/avtech.com\/articles\/category\/news\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">articles<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to learn how Room Alert protects your assets and prevents costly damage. For all other information, please visit our<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/avtech.com\/contact\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact Page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Protect your facility\u2026don\u2019t wait until it\u2019s too late.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since our start in 1988, we have been preaching the value in protecting your critical assets from downtime with Room Alert environment monitoring. Unfortunately, there are many businesses who don\u2019t consider proactive planning until they\u2019ve already experienced the negative impacts of not having Business Continuity and Environment Monitoring in place. 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