Readiness Associates, a Portland-based international health, safety and preparedness consultancy, has formed a strategic partnership with CloudOak of Oakville, Ontario, Canada, an award-winning Cloud Technology Service Provider.

Readiness Associates, which partners with workplaces looking to improve their disaster preparedness, business resiliency, and the health and well-being of their employees, adds CloudOak’s “Plan4Continuity” to its preparedness and risk portfolio.

Businesses across the world today are facing the challenge of ensuring business continuity more than ever. The current pandemic has seen private organizations and government institutions scrambling to set up and launch business continuity planning measures to counter as much of the business and human consequences of the coronavirus as possible. Plan4Continuity’s business continuity and business process automation plans are uniquely developed to go beyond the traditional disaster scenarios to address events that can naturally occur in the scope of business.

Plan4Continuity, an innovative SaaS solution, accelerates business continuity planning by converting manual business continuity processes into intelligent, automated workflows across any vertical with a live, cloud-based application. The best moniker with which to describe Plan4Continuity is ACORN: Automate, Communicate, Orchestrate, Report, and Neutralize.

“We identified CloudOak as a key partner because of their high-quality solutions, aggressive price points and service excellence,” said Michael J. Boardman, Readiness Associates founder and CEO. “A key attribute of the Plan4Continuity SaaS solution is its adherence to the ISO 22301 Standards for Business Continuity and the ability to automate processes and provide audit-worthy reports and 24/7 services via a secure cloud connection. We believe our Readiness Associates clients and partners will easily build, maintain and utilize Plan4Continuity for all disruptive events.”

Read the full announcement here.