Local South Carolina Insight

Atlantic Business Continuity Services (ABCS) is a division of KFR Services, Inc., and a women-owned, family-owned small business operating since 1975. Located in Summerville, South Carolina, we appreciate and enjoy the many benefits Lowcountry life offers.

Our journey into Business Continuity Planning actually began from our own needs as a small company in the Charleston area. Because we wanted to protect the investments that were made to grow our organization, we set out several years ago to find help developing our own Business Continuity Plan.

• What we needed was a partner who understood small business operations in a unique coastal area - a partner who would have more of an interest in us than just how much we could pay for a plan.
  
  
• What we wanted was a company that was nearby, easy to reach and familiar with our community. We were searching for a neighbor-business that was vested in the Charleston area.
  
  
• What we found was that most experts – very few local - only offered technology specific services or provided solutions targeted to large corporations with big budgets for Business Continuity Planning.
  
  
• What we did was develop our own expertise. Being dissatisfied with the available resources and unable to find a Business Continuity Consultant capable of addressing our situation and circumstances – we invested the time and effort to develop our own expertise. The end result was certification in Business Continuity Planning, with special interest and focus on the particular needs of the Charleston, South Carolina, area.

Local Charleston Area Connections

ABCS owners and staff live in the Charleston metro area; we’re patrons of fellow local businesses; we support local charities, schools and interests; and, our team members volunteer their time in the community. This is our home!

• As active community members, we realize the impact of business disruptions on the Charleston area.
  
  
• As neighbors and business owners, we understand an organization’s ability to quickly recover from interruptions is fundamental to its existence.
  
  
• As South Carolina Business Continuity Planners, our goal is to use our local knowledge, combined with our professional expertise, to ensure we provide the best continuity preparations possible so that organizations are able to resume operations quickly in the event of a disruption.

Local South Carolina Expertise

We not only live here, we understand the unique characteristics of this area – and we are very active participants in South Carolina Continuity of Operations efforts. A few highlights of our local involvement include sitting, chairing, or otherwise participating with the following:

• ThinkTEC Business Continuity Planning Council – a division of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce
  
  
• Contingency Planning Association of the Carolinas (CPAC) – an organization of Professional Contingency Planners focused on needs in North and South Carolina
  
  
• Tri-County Recovery Communications Network (RCN), associated with the Community and Regional Resilience Institute (CRRI) – a committee dedicated to strengthen communication channels needed to support rapid recovery from a disaster event

ABCS’s planner is certified through Disaster Recovery Institute International. As a Lowcountry business, we combine our Professional Business Continuity credentials with local insight to ensure the best risk assessment and preparedness planning possible to our South Carolina neighbors.

So, now that you know a little about us… we’d like to ask you a question: who’s minding your Ps - and do you have any Qs? Now, the Ps and Qs we’re talking about may be a little different than what you’re thinking.

• The Ps we’re referring to are: the Four Ps -- people, places, property and processes. So, who’s minding your Ps – are they protected?
  
  
• And, by Qs, we mean questions. Do you have any questions? If so, we’d like to help.

Let a Certified Business Continuity Planner help ensure your business is prepared and protected – and your Ps are being minded! ABCS – your South Carolina resource for Continuity of Operations Planning.