Business Assurance Continuity Service Level Agreement

Business Assurance Continuity SLA

1. Business Hours: Regular business hours are Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm (EST), excluding SWK and national holidays. Extended On-Call service hours are Monday – Friday, 5:30 pm – 10:00 pm (EST), and weekends and holidays 9:00 am – 10:00 pm (EST).

2. Agreement Support Levels: The following table describes SWK’s Support Priority Levels, Response Times, and Escalation Thresholds.

Issue Priority Response Time Target - During Business Hours Response Time Target - During Extended On-Call Hours Escalation Threshold Target

Service not available (all users and functions unavailable).

1

Within .5 hour

Within 1 hour

2 hours

Significant degradation of service (large number of users or business critical functions affected).

2

Within 1 hour

Within 2 hours

4 hours

Limited degradation of service (limited number of users or functions affected, business process can continue).

3

Within 2 hours

Next Business Day

8 hours

Data Usage

% Utilized Risk Level Snapshot Backup Backup Process

95%

1

High

Non-Functional

High

  • Notify Customer
  • BDR failure eminent

85% - 95%

2

High

Not Possible

Medium

  • Notify Customer
  • Obtain Customer approval to adjust retention periods as temporary measure
  • BDR failure likely
  • SWK support becomes billable

75% - 85%

3

Medium

High

Low

  • Notify Customer
  • Propose upgrade of BDR appliance
  • Continue evaluating data reduction options

65% - 75%

4

Low

Medium

-

  • Open Ticket
  • Notify Customer
  • Customer evaluate purge/archive of data
  • SWK to review logs for anomalies, run chkdsk and/or defrag
  • Ticket remains open until <65%

3. The SWK help desk will act as the central point of contact for all technical support included under this SLA. Incident reports may be obtained by SWK as a result of its monitoring activities hereunder. Incidents may also be reported to SWK by the Customer.  

4. Incident reports/service requests will be handled based upon priority level and in the order they are received. SWK will create or update a ticket for each email or phone request received; provided that email requests must include (i) a detailed description of the incident, (ii) the requester’s full name, (iii) the Customer’s company name, and (iv) a call-back number.

5. Should the SWK help desk not resolve the matter remotely and SWK determines, at its own discretion, that it will provide onsite support an additional hourly fee may apply. In the event of inclement weather, SWK will make every reasonable effort to arrive at the Customer’s site when it is deemed necessary to provide on-site support. However, the SWK staff will have the final determination to postpone the site visit in the interest of safety.

6. SWK will use commercially reasonable efforts to resolve incidents. However, resolution times will vary based upon the type, scope, location and complexity of the incident. The Customer shall provide SWK with names and contact information for escalation purposes.

7. CUSTOMER RESPONSIBILITIES: In order for SWK to maintain service standards, the Customer shall be responsible for the following:

i. Email to networksupport@swktech.com.  

ii. Phone by calling 856-956-5800 and selecting option 1

iii. Important Note - Attempts by the Customer to submit a ticket in any other way than described above, including contacting an individual engineer or technician by phone or direct email, will void SWK’s response time SLA requirements