Richard Fleischman & Associates (rfa) Announces Business Continuity Service Against Mass Closing

May 22, 2009 - PRLog -- NEW YORK – Richard Fleischman & Associates (RFA), the premier provider of outsourced technology and IT services, and the trusted technology advisor to more than 400 firms in the alternative asset space, today announced business continuity assurance against the looming threat of swine flu and massive business closings. The roll out of the RFA Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Service brings to market simplified business resumption tools needed for recovery of operations and to satisfy operational investor due diligence.  

The new RFA product surpasses others in the industry through a unique combination of advanced technology and expert consulting services. The H1N1 virus, or swine flu, is a daily headline that underscores the necessity of backup systems and advance planning as a mission-critical hedge against mass staff and system stoppages.  In this climate, RFA is seeing a rapid increase in interest for flexible, turnkey products that enable and facilitate business continuity planning and disaster recovery (DR). RFA has experienced a demand so marked that it launched a broad set of BCP/DR products as an integrated product offering.

RFA’s DR/BCP Service rolled out to an existing customer base representing more than $20 billion under management. The service enables firms like GSO Capital Partners and Marathon Asset Management to simplify and automate continuation of business operations. Using integrated software and services, clients source business continuity, crisis management and disaster recovery from a single provider.

"In a time of swine flu and other emerging menaces to an ideal world of seamless business continuity, RFA addresses heightened pressures from investors for improved security, redundancy and processes that protect against threats to systems, facilities, data, inventory and personnel," said Richard Fleischman, president, RFA. "Particularly critical to small and medium sized businesses, our solution affords institutional-style disaster recovery and business continuity scaled for smaller alternative asset firms. We customize combinations of documented process, software and hardware tools, and dedicated real estate, to satisfy investor-driven compliance essential for the SMB market."

A swine flu pandemic is the latest risk primed to disrupt the SMB sector disproportionately. Unlike a loss of technology or the primary work location, pandemics affect a small or medium sized firm’s ability to maintain key personnel on duty, and on site. These businesses, particularly those in the alternative asset sector, are overly vulnerable as a handful of key employees possess essential intellectual property. No IT outsource provider offers a more comprehensive suite of scalable and customizable solutions for small and medium sized funds and business.

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Richard Fleischman & Associates (RFA), established in 1990 and headquartered in New York, is a trusted technology advisor to 400+ hedge funds, private equity funds and fund of funds globally.