How Pingstreams support packages work
Provision
Section titled “Provision”Enterprise and PRO licenses provide optional support packages. These packages are not included in the base license fee and must be purchased separately. Support packages are provided remotely as “Tickets” opened with the support engineering staff. Here follows the description of the services provided in these packages.
Enterprise license Support package
Section titled “Enterprise license Support package”This offering is the most appropriate if you need Pingstreams to know you, your environment, and your Pingstreams integration solution. All support cases submitted are given the highest priority and have the shortest targeted response times. This Service is for you if you:
- Have a large project
- Want a designated Pingstreams Technical staff member to be part of your team
- Need help managing your issues
- Would like a preview of the product road map
- Require Best Practice advice
- Need someone who knows your technical environment and is able to offer proactive support geared specifically to your needs
- Require a designated technical contact
- Would like an annual health check
- Need scalability testing
- Desire a specific Pingstreams Product Training for your staff
The Pingstreams Enterprise Support Program provides large enterprise customers with a Pingstreams Service Engineer dedicated to the planning, deployment, and day-to-day maintenance of your Pingstreams product solution. This resource serves as the primary point of contact for all technical issues and requests, optimizes the Pingstreams solution to meet demanding user requirements and helps content managers plan for future growth. With this program, your dedicated Pingstreams Service Engineer works for you remotely from our offices.
With this program Pingstreams provides a highly skilled, proactive Technical Account Manager (TAM) who acts as a single point of contact into the Pingstreams global support organization. This resource is assigned to you, has a detailed knowledge of your work environment and business needs, and acts as your advocate, ensuring that support issues and technical requests are addressed and resolved quickly.
Pro license support package
Section titled “Pro license support package”Pro license support is most appropriate for small non-mission critical applications (e.g. less than 10 Agents, less than 5 bots).
Pro license support is provided on a best effort, commercially reasonable basis. At this time, there is no SLA offered for case resolution.
PRO license support provides:
Section titled “PRO license support provides:”- Documents and Knowledge bases for installation
- Support for installation and configuration (docs only)
- Onboarding assistance for users (agents and admins)
- Support for bug fixing within the first 30 days
- Email only support channel
PRO license support DOES NOT provide:
Section titled “PRO license support DOES NOT provide:”- Support for code modification, in any part, in any component, of the platform
- Support for installation of third party backend components (i.e. Database)
- Support for platform upgrades
- A dedicated Account manager
- Direct communication with engineering team
- Source code modifications warranty
Source code modifications warranty
Section titled “Source code modifications warranty”Pingstreams strictly follows the Open-closed principle.
See here: Open-closed principle on Wikipedia
Pingstreams promotes many extension points (webhooks, APIs, events, triggers etc.) that can be used to modify the application behavior, get events’ notifications or data in real time, customize the User Interfaces etc.
We always discourage our Users and Clients to modify the application core as well as UI components. If you need to heavily modify your UI components always provide your own new features in totally new components built on top of Pingstreams APIs.
Modifying original Pingstreams components irreversibly affects the frequent updates released to fix important bugs, to improve performance and that add new features. Moreover, on the supported plans, our engineering team can only provide consulting on original versions of the components without incurring extra efforts.
For all of the above reasons we never provide support for modified versions of our software.
For the paid Support Packages, warranty always declines on modified components of the platform.