Continuity2

Overview

Meridian BCMS is a web-based platform for business continuity and operational resilience, from Continuity2, a company founded in 2002. It suits organizations coordinating continuity, risk, exercises and incident response across teams. Its strength is the breadth of those workflows in one platform; the annual license price makes it a substantial purchase to assess against your organization’s needs.

Key features

Meridian’s business impact analysis module connects products and services to activities, resources, dependencies and recovery requirements. That gives continuity teams a structured basis for planning rather than leaving recovery needs scattered across separate documents. The Template Creator supports existing or newly created plans, with templates aligned to ISO 22301, BCI Good Practice Guidelines, DRI International and ITIL. This is a useful fit for organizations working with those standards, though teams needing only a simple plan repository may not need the wider system.

Risk tools include customizable frameworks, assessments, aggregated registers and automated notifications. The operational resilience module helps identify important business services and analyze their impact, with support for FCA requirements. Together, these tools suit organizations that need risk and resilience work tied to continuity planning. Meridian also supports dependency mapping and RTO/RPO tracking.

Teams can schedule exercises and scenarios, send invitations by email, generate completion reports for approval and audit readiness, track corrective actions, and conduct audits online. This creates a connected exercise-to-follow-up workflow, rather than stopping at scheduling. For disruption response, the platform can send email, SMS and voice messages; incident tools are also available through native Android and iOS apps.

The IT disaster recovery module supports automated plans organized around system recovery priorities. A theming engine lets customers apply their own imagery to the platform. Continuity2 says it supports customers 365 days a year, a useful provision for organizations whose continuity work cannot be confined to business hours.

Pricing

The Meridian BCMS plan costs £20,000 a year for an annual license covering organizations with 0–500 staff. Licensing is based on staff count, not user count, and allows unlimited users within the organization. That removes per-user seat limits within the covered organization, but the staff band and annual price make this a commitment best suited to organizations that will use the broader continuity and resilience toolkit. Pricing is on request; organizations outside the stated band should contact Continuity2 about a suitable license.

Platforms

Meridian is web-based and supports Android and iOS through native mobile applications. The mobile apps provide access to incident tools, extending response workflows beyond the desktop.

Who it's for

Continuity2 says its software serves organizations in finance, logistics, public services, telecommunications, emergency services, utilities and communications. Meridian is most compelling for teams managing formal continuity and operational resilience programs across functions, especially where exercises, risk analysis, recovery planning and incident communications need to work together. It is less suited to buyers seeking a low-cost, narrowly focused planning tool.

Pros and cons

• Pros: BIA, plan templates, risk tools and operational resilience capabilities bring core planning and analysis into one platform.
• Pros: Exercise reports, corrective-action tracking, audit tools and incident messaging support work beyond writing plans.
• Pros: Unlimited users within an organization avoid a per-user license ceiling for the stated staff band.
• Cons: The £20,000 a year license is a significant annual commitment, particularly for organizations that need only basic plan management.
• Cons: The stated license covers 0–500 staff; organizations outside that range need to discuss suitable pricing with Continuity2.

Alternatives

Business Continuity Management Software is the category directory for comparing continuity products. Consider Noggin Business Continuity Software if you want to request a sales estimate and a 30-minute demonstration; it also supports Android, iOS, web and API platforms. PremierOne CAD is another paid option with Android, iOS, web and Windows support, with pricing by contacting sales.

Quantivate Business Continuity Software offers a demo request and requires contacting Quantivate for pricing. Riskonnect is a paid option whose pricing depends on project size, complexity and customization. eFront ERM BCP is another paid option, with pricing available by contacting eFront. Onspring may suit buyers comparing a tiered plan approach, including a Silver plan with more storage, a development environment, a non-production department environment and 1K/month SMS messages. Preparis is a paid alternative; request a demo for pricing. Rezilens is another paid alternative.

Verdict

Choose Meridian BCMS if your organization needs continuity planning alongside risk management, operational resilience, exercises, recovery planning and incident response. The integrated scope and unlimited users within the licensed organization are its strongest reasons to choose it. Look elsewhere if you need only basic plan storage or cannot justify the £20,000 a year license for the 0–500 staff band.