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Desktop PC SupportPC Support is offered at three service Levels. Our basic package provides a backbone service which our clients can supplement on an individual PC basis. Clients are free to choose the required service level on a per-PC basis and even revue and change service levels with a month's notice. All of our clients benefit from service level revue's where we can work together to give the most suitable support on a per PC basis. Our support levels are based on contracts and SLA's which are written specifically to provide problem resolution by fixing the root cause not by one-off patches. Payment per incident is avoided wherever possible while still allowing incident based services where it provides the client with greater flexibility‡. Our philosophy is quite simple, we increase our profit margin by a process of identifying and fixing your recurring problems thus making our support more efficient, not by charging you repeatedly to fix the same problem. The result, from our experience is that we benefit mutually from solving your problems holistically not by providing one-off patches and fixes. All of our support is vendor neutral. We do not support nor insist on a single OS, hardware platform nor a single software suite, even on our basic plan we are quite flexible with what we define as your basic suite of software and operating systems so long as this is pre-defined. Basic Service:Basic Support is the ideal level for basic office requirements The base package for Desktop Support is that we keep the PC's running. If it was previously working and breaks it will be returned to a pre-agreed standard. UK based Helpdesk: Our helpdesk is the keystone to our support services. We operate a web based ticket system which allows your problems to be monitored by our clients and ourselves and passed to our experts in particular fields as required. The ticket system and its underlying database provides the basis of our reporting and identification of recurring problems which can then be addressed via their root cause and provides the basis for our regular service revues. Our help desk operates 24x7 however our basic plan operates 09:00 – 17:30* (weekdays except bank holidays). Out-of-hours response however is still possible via our Premium Level service or a per-incident call-out, even for our basic level. It's all about providing flexibility to our clients. Secure PC Remote Support: In order to support our clients efficiently and effectively all supported PC's have an agent installed to allow our team to log-in remotely (with the users knowledge). Our experience has shown that almost all support problems can be solved with remote access and tele-conversations. On-site support is available in our Premium Service or as a per-incident call-out. The extras: All PC's on our service plans benefit from having the latest operating system patches, anti-virus installation and maintainance in addition to being included in our asset management. Desktop lock-down can be provided as part of our basic service at no extra cost. Advanced Service :Advanced Service is the ideal level for PC's used by specialists or using specialist software which needs to be supported alongside basic office type requirements. Our advanced support adds vendor management, automated installs and Adware/Spyware removal to our basic service. Although this may not appear a great leap in terms of tickboxes on a product plan it allows us to offer a different level of service, vendor management being the key to providing this level. Vendor management allows us to extend this support into specialist applications and make sure all parts of your infrastructure are all working in sync. Automated installs are a part and parcel of this level for your specialist software. Advanced support means keeping these specialist applications running not configuring or application user support which is part of the premium level service. Defining your standard applications and specialist applications is undertaken on a client by client basis. We do this to prevent being restrictive and because practical experience has shown that this is better defined as a part of the SLA than within the standard package. Premium Service:Premium Support is the ideal level for business critical PC's Premium Support adds on-site support‡ and out-of-hours support as standard for those PC's which must be available for business critical functions 24x7. As with advanced level we work with your software vendors on your specialist software but with our premium service we will undertake (with the support of your vendor) to provide a first line configuration or user support. Again this is a service which we prefer to define in an SLA on a per-client basis. |