CUNA Strategic Services: SunGard Availability Services

Products and Services Offered Through This Provider

Business continuity planning software and disaster recovery consulting

Who is SunGard?

SunGard Availability Services provides operations support to IT departments that need to ensure business viability by keeping mission critical information and applications up and running. CUNA Strategic Services began an alliance in 2004 with Strohl Systems to offer their Internet-based business continuity planning software, PLANet® for Credit Unions. Strohl Systems was subsequently acquired by SunGard in 2008. Our agreement was renewed with SunGard following our usual due diligence review.

How do credit unions benefit from this strategic alliance?

PLANet® for Credit Unions provides users with a cost-effective solution that simplifies the planning process to develop, test, and maintain a comprehensive plan that covers all business processes and functions.

WHY THIS PROVIDER OVER ANOTHER?

PLANet® is the industry’s only Internet-based business continuity planning tool designed specifically to help credit unions meet NCUA and FFIEC regulations for business continuity and disaster recovery.

Ready to get started?

Contact Debbie Bergenske, CSS alliance manager, at 800-356-9655, ext. 4340, or email dbergenske@cuna.com.

More Information About SunGard Products and Solutions

PLANet for Credit Unions Consulting Services - In the event you do not have the time or internal resources, SunGard Consulting Services is there to help. Our certified experts will work directly with your credit union to discover weaknesses and provide guidance through the entire planning process. Some of the standard consulting offerings include:

Getting Started – Designed to help you hit the ground running, SunGard’s Getting Started offering ensures your credit union’s success in the planning process.
Plan Conversion – SunGard will take your existing plan and populate PLANet® with your plan information, including vendor, employee, equipment, software, and key business unit process data.
Recovery Readiness & Review – With the Recovery Readiness Review, certified business continuity professionals assess your PLANet® plans, meet with your staff to clear up any inconsistencies, and look for any critical interdependencies that you may have missed.
Plan Testing – The SunGard consultants, who have worked with countless organizations like yours, will develop relevant testing scenarios and conduct a comprehensive tabletop exercise, which is required by the FFIEC and NCUA guidelines.
Plan Development – SunGard will come to your credit union and develop your plan from start to finish or will provide you with on-site project management and assistance for your BCP staff.