Johannesburg, 18 Sep 2020
ContinuitySA has once again been recognised for excellence at the annual Business Continuity Institute (BCI) Africa awards ceremony. The awards were announced on 17 September as part of the ongoing, virtual BCI Africa Conference.
- ContinuitySA was awarded the coveted title of Continuity and Resilience Provider of the Year for its innovative response to the current pandemic. The company’s Work-Area Recovery, Planned Invocation for COVID-19 Resilience was designed to provide a way for clients to respond rapidly to the challenges of lockdown. The company has won this award multiple times in the past, and was inaugurated into the BCI’s Hall of Fame in 2016, which rendered it ineligible to participate in this award category for three years. This award marks its return to eligibility for this category, and underlines the company’s position as the leading supplier of business continuity and resilience services across the African continent.
- ContinuitySA was also honoured with the Collaboration in Resilience Award at the ceremony. The award recognises the sustained efforts mounted by ContinuitySA to take its own business continuity to the next level in recognition of the fact that it had a key role to play in helping clients respond to rapidly changing business conditions related to the COVID-19 lockdowns. The initiative was so successful that ContinuitySA was also able to assist non-clients in various ways, including a government department offering an essential service. The company also made training and thought leadership available publicly for those organisations that did not have the resources to pay for help at a time of national crisis.
- Michael Davies, CEO of ContinuitySA, was named Continuity and Resilience Contributor of the Year in recognition of the leading role he plays in the local business continuity and resilience community and his overall contribution the profession.
In response to these awards, Davies said: “This year has been one of the most challenging for the business community profession – our services have literally been the difference between success and failure for many clients. For the company to have received these two awards at this time speaks volumes about the quality of its people and the collaboration between our teams and with clients, to whom these awards are dedicated.
“On a personal level, I am humbled to have been singled out in this way. I pay tribute to the colleagues and clients with whom I have worked over the years – my success is in large part due to them.”
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ContinuitySA, part of the Dimension Data Group is Africa’s leading provider of business continuity management (BCM) and resilience services and has been helping the continent’s public and private organisations become more resilient for more than 30 years. Delivered by highly skilled experts, its fully managed services include ICT and cyber resilience, enterprise risk management, work area recovery and BCM advisory—all designed to enhance business resilience in an age of escalating threat. By helping clients understand their risk profile, and then develop an appropriate risk-mitigation strategy, including the ability to recover swiftly from a disaster, ContinuitySA provides peace of mind for all stakeholders.
ContinuitySA operates the continent’s biggest network of recovery centres, with more than 20 000m of space in Gauteng (Midrand and Randburg), the Western Cape (Tyger Valley), in Kwa-Zulu Natal (Westville) as well in Botswana, Mozambique, Kenya and Mauritius.
ContinuitySA is a Gold Partner of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) and was inducted into the prestigious BCI Hall of Fame in 2016. It is also a Gold Partner of Veeam, a leading global provider of software enabling Disaster Recovery as a Service and Backup as a Service.
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