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Service level agreements

The goal of  Service Level Management is to improve business aligned IT service quality, through a constant cycle of agreeing, monitoring, reporting and reviewing IT service achievements and through instigating actions to eradicate unacceptable levels of service.

Service Level Management qualifies and quantifies customer expectations and the ability and preparedness of IT to deliver on those expectations. The result of negotiations is a Service Level Agreement (SLA), the performance of which can then be tracked and reviewed.

Service Level Management is the ultimate determiner of customer satisfaction

HelpMaster uses intelligent business rules to apply the commitments of SLAs to Job activity.  Job resolutions time frames as well as customer notifications and call backs are all managed within HelpMaster. Jobs threatening to breach SLA generate warning notifications to officers and key stakeholders allowing them time to reallocate resources and increase priorities, ensuring the minimisation of such events.

Pre-breach warnings to relevant parties maximises SLA success

Flexible rule design allows SLAs to be configured for a range of requirements, whether the agreement is by priority, customer, organisation, location, asset of any combination of these, HelpMaster can accommodate it.

Complex agreement requirements need a flexible business rule builder

Performance reporting on SLAs provides demonstrable metrics to customers on the capabilities and successes of IT. The HelpMaster reporting suite can deliver SLA reports to customers without requiring additional licensing and in formats accessible to the user.


Introducing the Priority Manager module

The Priority Manager is a powerful escalation and service level agreement (SLA) management tool.  It can be used to automatically modify existing helpdesk jobs, send email to both staff and clients, and perform other actions relevant to your helpdesk environment.  By using the Priority Manager, the helpdesk can build up a rich set of escalation and service level agreement profiles that will help your helpdesk achieve goals and provide useful managerial reporting.

How does it work?

At the heart of the Priority Manager are “priority profiles".  Think of these profiles as the “business rules” that are defined by your helpdesk - they are your service level agreements.  These profiles are “run” at regular intervals against your HelpMaster database and can perform a wide variety of functions with your helpdesk data.

Profiles are created via a wizard that will guide you through each stage of the process.  Once they are operational, the Priority Manager will keep a close eye on your HelpMaster database and enforcing the rules that you have specified.

You work in business hours - so does the Priority Manager

Unlike many other helpdesk solutions on the market today, HelpMaster keeps track of the actual "business hours" that have elapsed since a job was logged.  System administrators can configure each day of the week to specify the start and end time of each day, as well as any holidays or non-work days that affect your business.  Once this has been done, the Priority Manager can use this informatin to work with jobs in "Office time"


 
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