Business Process Management for Smarter Decisions

BCM Software: Business Continuity Management with Aeneis

Protect your company against unexpected crises! With the GRC software Aeneis, you can optimize your business continuity management, minimize risks and ensure operational readiness even in emergencies.

Be part
of intellior

What is business continuity management?

A sudden IT failure, a natural disaster, or a cyber attack — unexpected events can affect any company. But while some organizations have to improvise in such situations, others are well prepared. The difference? Effective business continuity management (BCM).

BCM is a strategic approach that aims to maintain business-critical processes even in times of crisis. While risk management focuses on identifying and evaluating threats and taking preventive measures, BCM goes one step further: It ensures that companies remain able to act even in the event of a real damage event.

Through predictive emergency scenarios, structured emergency plans, and continuous optimization, BCM ensures that organizations remain resilient, minimize economic losses, and protect the company's reputation.

Why is BCM important for companies?

Every company faces a wide range of risks, from technical disruptions to geopolitical crises to supply chain issues. While risk management aims to identify and mitigate these risks, business continuity management is the decisive next step: It ensures that companies are not only prepared but also remain responsive in an emergency.

A well-thought-out BCM ensures that critical processes are restored as quickly as possible, business stability is maintained and economic damage is avoided. Companies that do not implement a robust BCM risk significant financial losses, regulatory penalties, and long-term reputation damage.

With the GRC software Aeneis, companies can professionally and digitally manage their BCM — from risk analysis and emergency planning to monitoring and optimization of their measures. Aeneis helps to identify risks at an early stage, to define clear escalation paths and to document processes in such a way that no valuable time is lost in an emergency.

BCMS in accordance with ISO 22301

The international standard ISO 22301 is an established framework for a powerful business continuity management system (BCMS).

ISO 22301 provides a globally recognized standard for the implementation and certification of processes. A BCMS in accordance with this standard ensures:

  • Standardised processes to ensure business continuity
  • Legal certainty and compliance with international requirements
  • Continuous improvement through regular audits and tests

With Aeneis, companies can implement this standard in a targeted manner to meet regulatory requirements and strengthen their resilience. Our software supports the modeling, documentation and continuous improvement of your BCMS — from risk analysis to comprehensive emergency plans.

BCMS App in the GRC Software Aeneis

What are the benefits of BCM software?

A BCM tool should specifically help companies with their crisis management and also contribute to identifying risks at an early stage, securing processes and making the entire organization more resilient. Aeneis specifically supports companies in strengthening their operational capacity in the long term:

  • Minimized business interruptions: Aeneis ensures that all critical business processes can be maintained or restored as quickly as possible, even in tricky situations.
  • Efficient emergency management: Emergency and recovery plans ensure that those responsible can take the right measures immediately.
  • Risk assessment & decision support: With Aeneis, companies can identify potential threats at an early stage and make well-founded decisions.
  • Central control & transparency: The entire emergency and crisis organization is managed in a central platform, so that those responsible have an overview at all times.
  • Legal security & compliance: Companies must increasingly meet regulatory requirements. Aeneis helps to document and implement all measures in accordance with the rules.

Aeneis is the software for business continuity management that companies use to digitally and proactively manage their crisis management. By seamlessly combining BCM, risk management, information security management, and other GRC functions, Aeneis provides a central platform for comprehensive corporate security.

Why combine BCMS and ISMS?

A Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) and a Information Security Management System (ISMS) are two central pillars of comprehensive corporate security. While the ISMS aims to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, the BCMS focuses on ensuring the operability of a company even in crisis situations.

An effective combination of both systems offers the following advantages:

  • Holistic security strategy: The integration of BCM and ISMS ensures continuous protection. This includes prevention, emergency response and the restoration of normal operation.
  • Efficient risk minimization: Security incidents involving IT systems or business processes can be identified, assessed and managed more quickly.
  • Optimized compliance: Companies are increasingly required to comply with regulatory requirements such as ISO 27001 (for ISMS) and ISO 22301 (for BCMS). Joint implementation ensures consistent processes and reduces administrative costs.

With Aeneis, you have a central platform that Seamlessly combines ISMS and BCMS and enables you to holistically manage your security and continuity measures. This allows you to specifically protect and manage both business-critical processes and IT security.

BIA and risk analysis

Introducing a BCMS

The introduction of a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) is a complex process that requires careful planning and strategic implementation. Several aspects are decisive here:

  • Identification of critical business processes: Companies must know exactly which processes are essential for their business activities and which processes must be prioritized in an emergency. With Aeneis, these processes can be recorded, documented and prioritized systematically
  • Carrying out a risk analysis and impact assessment: Risks must not only be identified, but also assessed in terms of their effects and probabilities of occurrence. Various scenarios should be played out. Aeneis provides powerful analysis tools to efficiently manage risks and make informed decisions.
  • Development and documentation of emergency plans: A well-structured emergency concept defines measures, escalation levels and responsibilities to be able to act quickly in the event of a crisis. With Aeneis, companies can centrally manage and update emergency plans.
  • Staff training and awareness raising: A BCMS is only as effective as the people who implement it. Regular training and exercises are essential to ensure that everyone involved is aware of their role in a crisis situation.
  • Regular testing and continuous improvement: Once an emergency plan has been drawn up, it is not enough. Companies must regularly carry out emergency exercises, identify weak points and continuously optimize their plan.

In addition, it is important that the BCMS is not considered in isolation. It should be integrated into existing management systems and coordinated with IT security measures, data protection requirements and regulatory requirements. With Aeneis, companies have a central platform to efficiently manage their BCMS, automatically manage emergency plans and sustainably strengthen the resilience of the organization.

Find out more about BCMS in Aeneis!

Learn more

Customer stories about the impact of Aeneis on their day-to-day operations

Thumbnail video Success Story Infraserv
BCM & ICS at Infraserv Höchst
Business Continuity Management with Aeneis I Infraserv GmbH & Co. Höchst KG - Bernd Hientzsch

Bernd Hientzsch from Industriepark Höchst, leading site developer and expert in chemistry-related services, not only provides insights into the world of risk management, but also sheds light on why solid preparation for emergencies is crucial.

Thumbnail Video presentation PMS success story
Process management at PMS Elektro- & Automationstechnik
Process Management with Aeneis | PMS Elektro- und Automationstechnik GmbH - Martin Grünwald

Martin Grünwald reports on what process management looks like in everyday life at PMS Electrical and Automation Technology and gives practical insights into how they maintain their high quality standards and constantly improve their efficiency with Aeneis.

Thumbnail video success story KABEG
Process management at KABEG Clinic Klagenfurt
Process Management Software Aeneis at KABEG Clinic Klagenfurt - Michael Baumann

Michael Baumann shows how Aeneis reduced manual work at Klagenfurt Hospital and freed up more time for core medical business and patients. More quality and fewer risks through improved processes through process management in Aeneis.

Latest success stories

Optimized processes for 8,000 employees: Our Aeneis experience

From paper chaos to digital audit management: Aeneis makes risk management and process maintenance efficient and structured.

Better customer processes with Aeneis: TRILUX and the Simplify concept

Process management redefined: TRILUX relies on Aeneis for company-wide standards.

Process excellence: A successful example of integrated management systems at ATLAS ELEKTRONIK

ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GmbH was able to successfully implement the Aeneis BPM software in just six months. Despite some challenges, such as the integration of various management systems, Aeneis was established as a central platform. Through an effective communication strategy and continuous development, Aeneis became a central component of the integrated management system, which contributed to an increase in efficiency and the quality of processes.

“We design our process management from functional documentation to an instrument for overall process control. In doing so, we transform our document management system into a lively, always up-to-date process management system and implement the regulatory requirements in Aeneis in a legally secure and digital manner. A core element of this is, for example, the connection of the policy structure with a customer and value-added oriented process structure. ”

#be part of the process
Portrait von Tobias Hehn von der Deka-Bank

“It is particularly valuable for us that Aeneis optimally supports TRILUX's Simplify philosophy: Our employees have easy access to all relevant processes, which results in significantly improved collaboration.
In addition, we can effectively map all touchpoints with our customers and their dependencies in order to align our processes even better with customer needs. ”

#be part of the process
Portrait von Stefan Köster von TRILUX

“Before implementing Aeneids, there was no uniform process model in our company. Our goal was to create a central port for all business areas and management systems, supported by a uniform process model. By using Aeneis as BPM and GRC software, we can digitize our processes in a validated environment and integrate them into a central platform. This enables us to consolidate our global business processes and management systems and laid the foundation for merging the process-supporting application structure. ”

#be part of the process
Portrait von Robin Schmalz von Ottobock

In the past, data maintenance was cumbersome and paper-based. With Aeneis, we have significantly reduced effort, simplified complexity and can now fully concentrate on our actual profession again. Aeneis combines all the important functions we need: process descriptions, risk management, audits, error reporting systems, and much more. The big advantage is that we can adapt it exactly to our structures and needs, which is often not possible with other solutions.

#be part of the process

“Until 12 years ago, we had not documented any processes, just a few work instructions and a few organizational guidelines. Then we got to know Aeneis through an external consultant. With Aeneis as BPM software, we have now mapped our key business processes and organizational structure and integrated everything into a central quality management system down to employee level. This is fully accessible to all our employees and integrated into our existing intranet. The GoToMarket process, which is very important to us, forms the core of documenting our process organization and the organizational chart, which is very conveniently structured in Aeneis, provides guidance about our organizational structure. ”

#be part of the process
Portrait von René Slavik von MHZ

Leading experts from the industry — including in-house consulting managers, quality management representatives, process managers, organizational development managers and risk management experts — presented their valuable experiences and successes with Aeneis at the BPM|Symposium. They shared exciting insights into integrated management systems, process-oriented organizations in critical infrastructures, and interesting best practices. In this video, you can see brief statements about their experiences with Aeneis in everyday business. Have fun watching!

#be part of the process

“We didn't have any process documentation before, just a few instructions and forms. But then, as part of further training, we got to know another company that had already successfully used the system. With Aeneis as BPM and GRC software, we have now documented our processes and integrated them together with our documents, instructions and forms into a central management system. This led to improved knowledge of processes and cooperation and thus to fewer frictional losses and extra work. ”

#be part of the process
Portrait von Nils Werner von ppg

“In the Infraserv Höchst Group, I worked for over 15 years as a responsible coordinator for process management and as a management representative responsible for the PRISMA integrated management system (software Aeneis) and the associated certifications. Aeneis has given us the flexibility to successfully implement the many requirements with an integrated management system and to be 'compliant'. The modules offered or our own customizing provided us with very good support.”

#be part of the process
Bernd Hientzsch von Infraserv Höchst

“Since 1990, SHD has developed into one of the market-leading companies in the areas of IT infrastructure and process digitization.
Among other things, we recommend ISMS @Aeneis to our customers so that they can master ISO 27001 and NIS2, take their risk management to a new level and to protect them in emergencies (business continuity management). The innovative power is unwavering, so with Aeneis we are looking forward to implementing our clients' great ideas.”

#be part of the process

“As an official service partner of intellior, we offer you a first-class solution for GoBD-compliant process documentation with GoBD@aeneis. This platform not only serves as a basis for tax compliance, but also enables precise monitoring and management of tax risks. By comprehensively documenting IT systems and interfaces, Aeneis maximizes application acceptance and effectively supports you in optimizing your tax processes and preparing for tax audits — everything is fully integrated and automated. With Aeneis, you can rely on efficiency, compliance and future security for your business processes. ”

#be part of the process
For secure business continuity management.
Strengthen your company's resilience!

Contact our experts:
Book a free demo