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Emergency An actual or impending situation that may cause injury, loss of life, destruction of property or interfere with normal business operations to such an extent to pose a threat of disaster.   Emergency control centre The location from which disaster recovery is directed and tracked; it may also serve as a reporting point for deliveries, services, press and all external contacts.   Emergency data services Remote capture and storage of electronic data, such as journalling, electronic vaulting and database shadowing.   Emergency management plan A plan which supports the emergency management team by providing them with information and guidelines.   Emergency management team The group of staff who command the resources needed to recover the enterprise's operations.   Enterprise An organisation, a corporate entity; a firm, an establishment, a public or government body, department or agency; a business or a charity.   Enterprise (large scale or super) An enterprise that is large and complex, in the sense that it could absorb the impact of losing a complete location or business unit. The normal terminology, and perspective, needs to be scaled down by regarding individual locations or business units as self-sustaining entities.   Exercising Activity in which the business continuity plan(s) is rehearsed in part or in whole to ensure that the plan(s) contains the appropriate information and produces the desired result when put into effect. Note. An exercise can involve invoking business continuity procedures, but is more likely to involve the simulation of a business continuity incident, announced or unannounced, in which participants role-play in order to assess what issues might arise, prior to a real invocation.