General SLA Terms
Fault Management:
Severity | Critical | Major | Minor |
Entire system is down OR Key application is down | Part of the system is down OR Degraded performance OR Incorrect behavior in key application | Faults which do not result in downtime of system or application OR UI issues | |
Notification Time | Immediately | Immediately | Immediately |
Response Time | Thirty (30) Minutes | One (1) hour | Two (2) hours |
Tech Support (24*7) Service Availability | 24hours of a day/7 days in a week/365 days in a year | 24hours of a day/7 days in a week/365 days in a year | 24hours of a day/7 days in a week/365 days in a year |
Time to recover service to operational condition (For software issues) | Hundred percent (100%) within two (2) hours | Hundred percent (100%) within two (2) hours | Hundred percent (100%) within twenty (24) hours |
Maintenance Activity based Escalation:
Activities/ Fault | Notification Time | Response Time | Restoration Time | Interface |
Planned maintenance work which may cause traffic/service interruption in the software. | · COMPANY X shall notify A2I-BASIS JOINT INITIATIVE in writing at least ninety six (96) hours prior. · Notification must contain the Start time, End time and consequence or Impact analysis. | · Notification must be acknowledged within two (2) days by the counter part · Planned work must be reconfirmed by the respective Party’s Project/Technical manager to the other Party’s Project/Technical manager on the day of execution. · Project/Technical manager Counterpart must also be informed when the planned work is completed. | Notification and acknowledgement by mail | |
Emergency situations. | · Immediately over phone (maximum: 10 minutes). · E-mail notification after phone. | · Over phone: Maximum 15 minutes after the start of fault repair. | Two(2) hours
| Project/Technical manager |
Any other fault (non emergency) that causes or may cause traffic/service interruption | · Over phone: Maximum 1 hr. · Followed by e-mail. | · Over phone: Max 15 min after the start of fault repair. | Five(5) hours | Project/Technical manager |
Fault where both Parties are involved | · Over phone: Maximum 1 hour · Followed by e-mail. | Five(5) hours | Project/Technical manager |
Escalation Process
Level | Escalation | Client’s Response | ECRAFT’s Response | |
1 | Fault Reception | 1. Report fault to ECRAFT in phone and email communication 2. Log down date and time. | 1. Confirm in writing receipt of fault report from COMPANY X Representative (phone and email communication) 2. Log down date and time. 3. Begin investigation into fault. | |
2 | Service Restoration | 1. Confirm successful restoration of service from the ECRAFT in writing. 2. Log down date and time. | 1. Report in writing successful restoration of service to Client. 2. Log down date and time. | |
3 | Fault Resolution | 1. Accept successful resolution of fault from the ECARFT. 2. Log down date and time. | 1. Report in writing successful resolution of fault to Client. 2. Log down date and time. |
If ECRAFT discovers the unavailability of Service:
Level | Escalation | ECARFT’s Response | Client’s Response | |
1 | Fault Reception | 1. Report the fault to Client both in phone and email communication. 2. Log down date and time. 3. Begin investigation of fault. | 1. Confirm receipt of fault report from ECARFT in phone and email communication. 2. Log down date and time. | |
2 | Service Restoration | 1. Report successful restoration of service to Client in writing. 2. Log down date and time. | 1. Confirm successful restoration of service from ECRAFT in writing. 2. Log down date and time. | |
3 | Fault Resolution | 1. Report successful resolution of fault to the Client in writing. 2. Log down date and time. | 1. Accept successful resolution of fault from the EACRFT in writing. 2. Log down date and time. |