national support organization
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National Support Organization
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Discussion overview
• Walkthrough of the organization• Strengths and weaknesses• Services we offer• Current service levels• How to nationalize the organization• How to reduce costs w/o affecting service• Overall strategy• “Where we’ve been, where we’re going”
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Walkthrough of the Organization“Who we are”
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Walkthrough of the Organization“Who we are”
• Experience levels (on average):
• Certifications:
Sr. Mgmt DTM Sys Admin Techs
13 years 14 years 11 years 13 years
MCSE MCSA MCDST MCP
8 11 17 47
A+ Network+ Project+ Security+ ITIL CNA/CNE
8 4 2 5 1 2
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Walkthrough of the Organization“Recent IPM goals”
• Metrics• Cross training• Brown-bag lunches• Certifications
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Walkthrough of the Organization“Our support environment”
• 85 offices across the country• 3,800 clients• Standardized hardware and software• Dell notebooks, desktops, and servers• Microsoft Windows XP operating system• Microsoft Office 2003 Professional
• 3,000+ software titles
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Walkthrough of the Organization“Our support environment”
• Software license pools• New offices, relocations, and expansions• Video conferencing • 20 sites standardized on Polycom hardware
with dedicated circuits
• Blackberries and broadband air cards
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Strengths
• Experience / skillsets• Customer service• Ability to get/keep our clients chargeable• Collaboration and teamwork• Collective talents• Knowledge of client-driven applications• Proactive monitoring of equipment and
environment
Impacts PBS&J’s bottom line
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Areas for improvement
• CADD• Remote office support• Standardization
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Services we offer
• Remote and on-site installation and support• After-hours maintenance and support• Technology hardware support• Remote access support• Home offices, hotel offices, client-side offices
• Office planning• Relocations, expansions, closings
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Services we offer
• Software licensing, inventory, and supportMicrostation Geopak ArcGIS AutoCAD InDesign CS2
Photoshop HEC-RAS FDOT client Acrobat BDE
Civil 3D SelectCAD Illustrator Flowmaster Office 2003
Windows AEView Civil InRoads Project Primavera
Crystal Reports
HCS StormCAD STAAD Pro GuideSIGN
FloodMap VISSIM XPSWIMM SureTrak EPASWIMM
WinBDS SewerCAD ICPR SAP SignCAD
WordPerfect H2ONET XTOOLS MDX MWH
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Services we offer
• Consultant role to technology issues• Data backup/restore/recovery operations• Severe weather preparations• Disaster recovery• Company mergers and acquisitions• Telephony moves, adds, changes• Asset inventory
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Service levels
• 47 employees in national support• 1,800 support requests per week• 68.5% weekly closed request ratio• How requests get to national support• 30% via online help desk• 10% via toll free phone number• 38% via in-person communication• 22% via application auto-generation
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Nationalize the Organization
• Continue standardizing the enviornment• Expand the Help Desk using VoIP• CADD license pooling• Control the desktop via GPO
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Reduce costs w/o impacting service
• Computer, printer, fax assets• Distribution, allocation, procurement• Does 45% of population need a notebook?• Reduce trickle down
• Webex• Asset management and disposal
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Reduce costs w/o impacting service
• POTS line based fax machines• User education and training• Local printers / 3rd party printer services• Virtualization• Centralized data backup• NAS instead of file servers
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Overall strategy
• Maintain chargeability of our clients• High level of satisfaction• Courteous, knowledgeable support• Reliable systems
• Provide a productive computing platform• Keep PBS&J’s edge on competition
• Continue our staff’s professional growth• Reward and retain valuable employees
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“Where we’ve been, where we’re going”
• Minimum hardware recommendation• Enterprise-wide deployments• Risk and Emergency Management (REM)• Security Initiatives• Consolidation / virtualization• Community Involvement – KidsCLASS• Centralized backup• Wide Area File System
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Questions?