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1. Support

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Standard Hours: 0900 EST - 1700 EST Mon- Fri

Extended Hours*: 17:01 EST - 08:59 EST Mon - Fri | 00:00 EST - 23:59 EST Sat - Sun

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If the designated customer contact on the request is not available to engage in this effort, or the customer's authorized agent(s) refuses to implement the steps suggested to troubleshoot or correct the issue, Phonism may reduce the severity level.


Level1

Severity

Description and Qualifications

Support Hours

Response Time

Resolution Effort

Emergency

Emergency on-call support is available please contact your account manager for more information.

An emergency incident occurring outside standard support hours.

Major malfunction impacting an entire customer site or geographic region, a single brand of a device across the entire network, multiple brands of a device across a single customer site.

Many users are unable to reasonably perform their normal functions.

The specific functionality is mission-critical to the business and the situation is considered Critical.

Extended*

<10 Minutes

Oncall Incident Coordination between Phonism and Designated Customer resources.

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Critical

A critical incident with a very high impact.

Major malfunction impacting an entire customer site or geographic region, a single brand of a device across the entire network, multiple brands of a device across a single customer site.

Many users are unable to reasonably perform their normal functions.

The specific functionality is mission-critical to the business and the situation is considered Critical.

Standard

<30 Minutes

Requires maximum effort from Phonism and Customer, until a fix is developed or workaround is available.3

Major

A major incident with a significant impact.

Critical loss of platform functionality or performance resulting in a high number of users unable to perform their normal functions.

Major feature/product failure; inconvenient workaround or no workaround exists.

The platform is usable but severely limited.

Standard

1 Hour 

Requires intensive effort from Phonism and Customer, until a fix is developed or workaround is available.

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Moderate

A moderate incident with production impact

Moderate loss of platform functionality or performance resulting in multiple production users impacted in their normal functions.

Minor feature/product failure, a convenient workaround exists/minor performance degradation

Standard

4 Hours

Requires moderate support effort from Company and Customer, until a fix is developed or workaround is available.5

Minor

Bugs or support issues that don’t impact product usability.

Minor loss of application functionality, product feature requests, how-to questions.

The issue consists of "how-to" questions related to configuration, best practices, implementation, specific product features

enhancement or feature requests

documentation questions.

Standard

1 Calendar Day

Requires low support effort from Phonism and Customer, until a fix is developed, a workaround is available or an answer to the customer question has been provided.

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