Service Level Agreements
Our Service Level Agreements (SLAs) determine how we respond to your IT requestsAt MFG, we understand our responsibility to provide high quality and timely IT support when you need it. Our Service Level Agreements (SLAs) details our commitment to our clients and defines how we respond to your IT issues and requests.
MFG’s SLAs
Managing expectations is part of our culture at MFG. It’s important for us that our customers know what to expect from us, so that they have full confidence in us. These expectations are set using our Service Level Agreements (SLAs), which have been built around two key factors, urgency, and impact. This represents a promise to deal with customers’ IT issues and requests within a certain timeframe. It is really important to us that our clients understand the service terms in their contract.
Service Delivery KPIs
Each month we report on our SLA response time within our Service Desk updates, as well as various other metrics like customer happiness and tickets closed in under an hour. Our SLA KPI helps us to monitor and ensure we’re meeting and exceeding our clients expectations.
Download our SLA Guide
Simply input your email address to download our SLA Guide,
which details everything you need to know…
Standard Hours of Operation
- Our standard business hours are 8am to 6pm (GMT/BST), Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays for England.
- Some clients have extended hours covering weekends (out-of-hours of support)
How we determine our priorities:
Urgency
LOW – there’s a simple workaround and this is not an issue that stops the user from working
MEDIUM – service is reduced, but there is feasible workaround
HIGH – the issue is critical and it’s affecting a major business service
Impact
LOW – One user has an issue
MEDIUM – More than one user is affected
HIGH – All users affected
First Response & Resolution Plan
The First Response SLA is the maximum time before one of our Service Desk Engineers will update you that the ticket has been accepted and that they are now reviewing the incident or request.
The Resolution Plan SLA is the maximum time before you can expect a meaningful update or fix to your incident.
Our Priority Matrix
Priority Examples & Exceptions:
Priority Examples
- Priority 1 –There is a major IT issue affecting everyone, such as not being able to send or receive emails and a workaround is not available.
- Priority 2 – There is an IT issue affecting everyone, such as: Internet access for the whole organisation is intermittent or slow but you are still able to work.
- Priority 3 – Your desktop email client isn’t loading new emails; however you can access your emails via your web browser. Everyone is affected but you have a work around.
- Priority 4 – Your computer is slow starting up in the morning, but everybody else is fine (your efficiency is lower but you’re the only person affected).
- Priority 5 – Any type of request for information that is not incident related.
Priority Exceptions
The following are exceptions to our priority indicators
- Paid repairs – what are dependent on supply of parts and require lead times for collections and returns.
- Quotes – we do our best to provide quotes as quickly as possible, but sometimes they take time as they require investigation.
- Admin requests – Generally, we get plenty of advance notice and these requests are marked as not urgent. For example, Invoice or account queries.
Sound good?
Having a Managed IT Support Plan in place is critical for reaching your goals in the ever evolving and competitive modern business landscape.
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Our Service Desk KPIs
Here's how we performed in March 2021
1110
Number of Tickets Resolved
99.8%
SLAs Met
93.8%
Tickets Resolved in Under 1Hr
100%
