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Business continuity management planning (BCMP) software tools are the key tools used to manage business continuity management (BCM) programs. They provide risk assessment, business impact analysis, business process, vendor and IT dependency mapping, and plan management functionality. Some products also offer plan exercising capability, resource modeling capability and crisis/incident management “lite” support.

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