Business Impact Analysis is just a fraction of entire Business Continuity, Business Resumption, and Disaster Recovery Plan which needs to be established correctly by an organization to fulfill the overall Business Continuity Plan. The most important reason of BIA is to develop a strategy which will facilitate organization to reduce considerable amount of risk associated to vital data information which if by any artificial or natural disaster will get totally destroy creating a heavy loss to organization by not able to continue the business function on time and as well not able to recuperate those most important vital data information in completely suitable way.

The main intention of business impact analysis is to help organization to reduce extenuating risk of any fallacious disaster by implementing an effectual strategy. The BIA will facilitate organization to discover more important data information along with the most crucial business division, operations and process that are vulnerable to disaster and will provide an estimated timeframe in which the most crucial business operations must be re-established to full functionality following a disaster event . The BIA will also make available information such as if any disaster occurs then the overall operating cost associated to recovery of data loss, period of time that will need to recover the loss data, time of manpower that will engage along with their wages, replacement of lost equipment, loss of profit, short and long term effect of disaster event, etc

After the event of September 11 and Katrina ended many regulatory authorities plus organization coming under those regulatory authority to seriously think about to put into practice proper business resumption plan which will facilitate their organization to run their normal function even after any small or big disaster occurs.

It is having said that BIA is fortitude of Business Resumption or Business Continuity Plan. Executing BIA along with disaster recovery plan will facilitate organization to immediately recuperate their loss vital data information and resume the normal business function in easier way.