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Service Name
IT Service Center Support
Description This service provides a single point of contact and communications for resolving incidents, fulfilling requests, providing multimedia support and dealing with a variety of service events.  
Service Line
IT Service Center and Multimedia Services 
Features
  • Provide first level call investigation and diagnosis of reporting incidents.
  • Fulfill general multimedia service requests for broadcast, duplication, editing and consultation within university policies and copyright guidelines.
  • Escalate incidents and requests that cannot be resolved within agreed timescales or with IT Service Center capabilities.
  • Coordinate resolution of incidents when reported to the IT Service Center.
  • Plan, install, configure, and maintain records of incident and request calls and categorize these for historical retrieval by others.
  • Communicate incident and request status to others.
  • Record, route and track service requests until they are fulfilled.
  • Close incidents when resolved.
  • Provide consulting services and skill/labor estimates to support release package testing, installation, deployment and operation.
  • Conduct customer satisfaction call-backs or surveys to assess quality of provided services.
  • Plan, install, configure and test call management hardware, software and network configurations to manage calls to the IT Service Center.
  • Maintain adequate levels of staffing skills to meet IT Service Center goals and objectives.
  • Recruit and train student staff.
  • Monitor and manage calling queues to make sure calls are handled in a timely manner.
  • Integrate Knowledge Management databases and repositories for call agent access.  
Service Administrator (owner) Jean Childress
VP Customer Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean
Availability In person and phone support during academic year.
  • Monday through Thursday 8 am - 9 pm
  • Friday 8 am - 5 pm
  • Saturday 1 pm - 6 pm
Public Safety has emergency call list for emergencies during off hours 864-294-2111
Support
  • This is the first level support resources for most IT services, telephone 864-294-3277 or email help.desk@furman.edu
  • Web site self-help facility:http://squirt.fu.campus/TIWEB8/ntauth/selfservice.asp
  • Web Chat request from ITS website
  • Automated alert 
Initiated Call, email, work order, web request, referral from ITS staff 
Charges Services are provided at no charge to students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors
Delivery channels
  • Telephone response
  • Email response
  • Web site self-help facility
  • Formal Service Disruption Notice (IT Outages)
  • Consulting support 
 Prerequisites Must be a member of the campus community, or a campus visitor.  
 Key Service Targets

Track-It feedback 90%+ positive.

TechQual survey within expectations for minimum and desirable or beyond

Start and complete times for various call types are listed below with respective reliability for SLA compliance

  • Restore service to customer’s primary computer when there is no functionality
  • Password resets

Time to start (contact) < 4 business hours

Time to complete < 9 business hours

Reliability 90%

  • Requests for email restores, new accounts, conferences, group calendars etc.
  • Computer failure that does not result in inoperability
  • Supply deliveries (toner, cables, paper, keyboards, mouses)
  • Virus /malware disinfections
  • Wireless configurations
  • Reimaging (backups)
  • Supported applications question responses
  • Printer failure (not hardware)
  • Content Management requests

Time to start (contact) < 9 hours

Time to complete < 5 days

Reliability 90% all work orders

Connect With Furman

     
3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, SC, 29613
Phone: 864-294-2000