A recovery plan that always matches the business you run
Processes, applications, facilities, and suppliers sit in one dependency map, so the plan you approved last quarter still fits the company today.
1,200+ organizations run risk and resilience on Archer
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1,500+
Clients across 48 countries
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50%
Of clients in the Fortune 500
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65%
Of organizations putting more effort into quantification
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15,000+
Members in the Archer risk community
The plan holds because the data underneath it always stays current
A site closes on a Tuesday. In Archer, the plan automatically plan opens with the processes that ran there, the applications they depend on, the people who own each step, and a recovery order already set by analysis. Your team can begin executing right away, rather than reconstructing everything first.
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Plans that carry their own dependencies
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Recovery order set by analysis, not argument
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Test results attached to the plan they tested
Workflows that take a plan from documented to demonstrated
The hallmarks of a recovery program that works
Criticality that holds up
Business impact analysis sets recovery objectives from evidence, so the order of recovery holds up when two leaders each call their process critical.
Every dependency attached
Each plan links the strategies, tasks, requirements, contacts, and call trees it needs, so activation hands real work to named roles instead of a PDF.
Testing that leaves proof
Exercises record what passed, what failed, and how long each task actually took, then route findings to owners so the next test starts from a better plan.
Everything you need, nothing you don’t
Eight foundational capabilities keep the program current and running.
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Recovery strategy library
Approved approaches sit in one catalog by loss type, with duration built from the tasks underneath, so a strategy’s recovery time reflects work rather than hope.
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Requirements catalog
Equipment, applications, facilities, and vital records link to every plan that needs them, so one change to an asset surfaces on each plan that depended on it.
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Roles and responsibilities
Plans assign organizational roles rather than named individuals, so a resignation, a reorganization, or a transfer leaves no recovery task without an owner.
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Notifications and call trees
Call trees document initiators and recipients before you need them, and notification history records how many people you reached and how long reaching them took.
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Activated plan tracking
During an exercise or a live event, activated strategies and tasks show status and elapsed time, so the person coordinating watches progress instead of chasing it.
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Continuity risk register
Threats carry likelihood, impact, and category, with mitigation tied back to the plans that address them, so the register drives planning rather than describing it.
How the platform works across your resilience program
Business Continuity and IT DR
Every plan links to the processes, applications, facilities, and people it protects, with strategies and tasks sequenced underneath. Automated review keeps plans from expiring quietly, and each test writes its results back to the plan it tested.
Business Impact Analysis
One process for every analysis and one repository for every result. Criticality, recovery objectives, and dependencies come from a consistent questionnaire, so recovery order reflects what the business needs rather than who argued for it most recently.
Incident and Crisis Management
Incidents route to investigators with evidence attached, and the ones that escalate become crisis events that activate the plans already written for them. Lessons learned convert into findings, so the next version of the plan improves on this one.
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What your team gains with Archer
Archer Evolv enables an integrated strategy across your risk and compliance functions.
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Faster audits
Cut audit prep time by up to 40% with reusable evidence and automated collection.
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Fewer surprises
Continuous monitoring surfaces emerging risk before it becomes an incident.
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Lower tooling cost
Consolidate overlapping GRC tools into one platform and reduce license sprawl.
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Board-ready reporting
Generate executive and board reports in minutes instead of days.
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Confident compliance
Stay continuously audit-ready across every framework you operate under.
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Scales with you
Onboard new units, frameworks, and regions without rebuilding your program.
Where most continuity programs sit today, and where yours goes
The distance between standard practice and a program that survives a test.
Most programs today
Dependency picture
Here’s what you get
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Rebuilt for each analysis
Most programs today
Plan currency
Here’s what you get
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Reviewed when someone remembers
Most programs today
Recovery order
Here’s what you get
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Negotiated between leaders
Explore Our Case Studies
Eastern Bank Uses Archer to Drive Business Processes and Streamline Compliance
Eastern Bank Uses Archer to Drive Business Processes and Streamline Compliance
Banorte Bank Gains Accurate Picture of Risk with Archer
Intuitive Surgical Migrated to Archer SaaS for their journey to empowered risk management
Operational Resilience for Financial Services Institutions
Trusted by the teams who carry the risk
Risk, compliance, and audit leaders on what changed after Archer Evolv.
We recognized the need for a GRC software platform that would be central to our ability to improve and transform our enterprise risk and compliance processes.
Archer is the source of truth, and it creates a nice audit trail for us. As an insurance company, we're audited by every governmental entity. Now we can say, here's our repository, take a look.
Risk aggregation is a big point for us, to see where our risk is located within the organization, and to give greater visibility for boards and executives.
Turkcell is using Archer as the main GRC tool in the company. It provides us a transparent and safe governance framework.
Archer gives us the ability to boil things down into numbers and specifics versus generalities. It's management by fact versus intuition or feel.
It connects all the different applications together, so you can use those cross-references and connections to make better business decisions, because you have it all in one place.
Questions we hear from continuity directors
Answers to what buyers ask before choosing Archer.
Most programs stand up BC/DR planning in weeks on prebuilt content, starting with one business unit or one set of critical processes. Business impact analysis, incident management, and crisis management layer on afterward on the same platform.
No. Existing analyses load into the BIA repository, and campaigns refresh them on a schedule rather than restarting from scratch. What changes is that criticality and recovery objectives now sit beside the plans and dependencies they govern.
Applications, devices, facilities, information assets, and third parties come from the enterprise catalog, which integrates with the systems that own that data. Plans reference those records, not copies, so a change surfaces on every plan it touches.
Plan owners work through role-based dashboards and assigned tasks rather than the full application. Reviews, tests, and approvals arrive as work items with due dates, so taking part in the program does not require learning a governance platform.
Each plan carries its review history, its test results, the findings testing produced, and the remediation that closed them. That trail answers the question supervisors now ask: not whether a plan exists, but whether you have shown that it works.
