Disaster Recovery

Every day, companies generate billions of invoices, financial statements, healthcare/insurance documents, payroll cheques, payments, customer communications and critical internal communications and reports. Those documents are imaged, printed, sorted and mailed to customers, shareholders, regulatory agencies, employees and vendors.

A business interruption-human error, power outage, natural disaster-can occur at any moment to any business. When systems fail, a print-to-mail recovery plan can be triggered at a remote facility, seamlessly continuing your day-to-day business operations.

Without a proper plan, the complex nature of print-to-mail operations can take weeks, even months, to resume fully and outsourcing printing or labour can be extremely expensive, if available at all. Should the plan be needed, your company has the ability to quickly trigger full-scale duplicate operations at the alternative site. A company can shorten its total recovery time, reduce its risk and exposure to financial loss, comply with regulatory and legal requirements and maintain smooth communications with critical audiences - all primary benchmarks of a successful recovery and business continuity strategy.

A plan can be incorporated into your company's overall business continuity or recovery plan with relative ease. In as little as a few months, the pre-planning and concept testing can be completed. Once your plan is in place, annual or semi-annual testing will accommodate and integrate any systems changes in data, print or mail requirements.

A company should take the same steps to protect its print-to-mail operations as it does to protect any other day-to-day function. Your company must determine how long it can operate without the ability to disseminate its critical documents, by analysing the impact of each hour or day that it is unable to generate, process, print and mail such documents.

MBA are a resilient organisation with multiple platforms of the same or similar configuration and on-site full-time maintenance engineers. As such, MBA do not suffer from the associated issues that some organisations have with the downtime of machinery.

MBA also have multiple file servers in all areas, which mirror each other in case of technical issues and all IT platforms are covered by 24-hour call out cover.

From a complete site disaster point of view, MBA have established a separate production site in Warrington which is more than 200 miles from London. The Warrington site is extensively equipped with printing and enclosing resources and can be offered as a high-level disaster recovery facility.

Additionally, MBA have an independent UPS facility on-site and a diesel generator. This generator allows the whole of our London facility to operate independently of mains power. In addition to this, an extensive Business Continuity plan is embedded within MBA. We work hard to ensure that we can take care of our Clients, whatever the situation.