Support Features At-a-glance
At the heart of our Support plans is the Remote Support Service desk, this is open from 9am - 5.30pm on the Support Assist and Managed Support Plans. For the Enhanced Support plan extended hours are from 8am - 6pm. This represents the response-arm of our business. Behind that is the 24x7 Monitoring Team that represent the more preventive and proactive arm, identify issues before they occur.
All plans include:
Remote Support Service Desk
- Our Team of Microsoft Certified Technicians are readily available to assist in any IT problem you may have.
- Telephone between 9am - 5.30pm
- Extended Hours 8am - 6pm (Enhanced Plan only)
- All Calls answered in 6 rings or less
24 x 7 System & Network Monitoring
- We monitor your Server for conditions that could cause disruptions in service and lead to unwanted downtime
- We manage and monitor your backups
- We even monitor your workstations to ensure we are minimise support incidences and remediating conditions behind the scenes
Maintenance Nights
- Leave your PC switched on so that automated maintenance can take place out of business hours, minimising disruption and maximising performance of the PCs
- The installation of critical and security updates are applied, Anti-Virus software is updated and also a full scan is run.
- Be confident that your PC gets a performance tune-up and health check automatically.
Security - Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam
- Managed Support and Enhanced Support receive Anti-Virus software. We monitor updating, and identification of any viruses.
Management Features
Service Level Agreement (Enhanced Plan only)
- 1 Hour Response Guarantee
- Call answered within 6 rings or 60 seconds
Dedicated IT Manager (Enhanced Plan only)
- Your own appointed IT Manager
- Weekly Performance Reports
- Asset Management, Forecasting and budgeting
Extras
Scheduled Onsite Support
- Included in Enhanced Support plan.
- A day onsite per month or quarter can be useful for project work or tasks that require an onsite presence.
- Fixed price day rate.
Emergency Onsite Support
- An Engineer will be dispatched to site immediately if required if there is a Priority 1 incident that cannot be resolved remotely e.g. Network down, Email down for whole company, or Server down.
Out of Hours Support
- Included for Enhanced Support plan
- Only for Priority 1 incidences, e.g. Server down, Network Down.
Projects
Projects can be defined as items of work that require scheduling of resource, planning, a delivery date and usually take longer than 3 contiguous hours. Project work is quoted at the Contracted Hourly Rate and discount is received dependant upon which plan you are subscribed to.
Business Continuity
- Redundant WAN links, load-balancing and fail-over in event of line failure
- Email continuity in event of network failure
- Data Recovery
Office Relocation
- Project Manage Internet Lines and Domain Name updates
- Interim Email solutions for transparent office move
- Network cabling, patch and point installation, data/server rack mount cabinets