BCA TOTALCare™ IT Description of Services, Features & Benefits
The BCA TOTALCare™ IT Services program provides affordable proactive IT management and support to growing businesses. Utilizing our unique framework for providing TOTALCare™ IT Services, BCA provides a range of proactive services to keep your computer systems up and running and your people and business productive.
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Our goal is to serve as your business with a focus on providing technology solutions. We use a consultative approach to evaluate your business and technology needs and then advise on the best solutions for your current and future needs. BCA can save your organization time and money, through better use of appropriate technologies.
Your TOTALCare™ IT Service agreement can be bundled with
unlimited discretionary on-site/off-site “system administration” hours that you can use whenever you need our engineers to perform break/fix, maintenance and administration tasks on-site/off-site. These hours can also be used for:
You may also purchase additional “as-needed” hours, for such tasks as initial system deployment, major OS, software and hardware upgrades, and other projects. See rates listed in Exhibit B under TOTALCare™ service agreement. During the initial implementation, our engineers will discuss all steps of the implementation with you prior to beginning. They will then install the software necessary for remote administration, performing any reconfiguration required to bring all administered systems to a known state for easier monitoring and management. Configuration changes are documented and provided to you.
The BCA TOTALCare™ IT Service program provides the critical tasks to keep your system up and running. Tasks conducted by our TOTALCare™ Service engineers/technicians to enable TOTALCare™ IT Service include:
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Scheduled Maintenance Windows
BCA will regularly install patches and critical updates to your server to help ensure that you are guarded against the latest vulnerability threats …Read More
Scheduled Maintenance Windows BCA will regularly install patches and critical updates to your server to help ensure that you are guarded against the latest vulnerability threats. For many of these updates to be installed properly, your server must be restarted, but with prior approval from client. BCA will restart your servers, as necessary with prior approval of client, between our regular maintenance window of 11PM and 4AM Sunday through Saturday. You reserve the right to request that BCA reschedule the outage to align with your business needs.
Disaster Recovery Guarantee
If your TOTALCare™ IT Service agreement is bundled with unlimited discretionary hours, BCA guarantees in the event of a hardware failure …Read More
Disaster Recovery Guarantee If your TOTALCare™ IT Service agreement is bundled with unlimited discretionary hours, BCA guarantees in the event of a hardware failure, an OS security exploitation, or a server-side virus infection that you will not be billed for the labor required to spin-up (turn on) your server to the point provided by the last good and available backup onto a Backup Disaster Recovery (BDR) Device. A BCA authorized BDR device must be in place prior to the disaster, otherwise this service is not included. After the failed server(s) are repaired or replaced, BCA will restore the infrastructure from the BDR back to the repaired server(s). This restore process will be considered as billable project work.
Qualifications
In order to qualify for BCA Disaster Recovery Coverage your environment must also comply with the following requirements …Read More
Qualifications In order to qualify for BCA Disaster Recovery Coverage your environment must also comply with the following requirements: Server hardware is under current warranty coverage from Dell, HP, or Lenovo; Server operating system is Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019; Client network is protected by a hardware-based firewall from SonicWall, Cisco, or Watchguard and is running the latest firmware; Server file-system and email-system (if applicable) is protected by licensed and up-to-date virus protection software provided by BCA; Server is connected to a working UPS; Client network is ONLY administered by BCA personnel and approved Client personnel; and, Recovery coverage assumes data integrity on the client’s backup media. BCA does not guarantee the integrity of the backups or the data stored on the backup media. Client provides all software installation media and key codes in the event of a failure.
Disaster Recovery Service Exclusions
BCA also reserves the right to bill for labor incurred during a server recovery if circumstances surrounding the client’s server …Read More
Disaster Recovery Service Exclusions BCA also reserves the right to bill for labor incurred during a server recovery if circumstances surrounding the client’s server failure meet the following codifications in whole or in part: a.) Client fails to adhere to all of the requirements outlined in the above “Qualifications” section; b.) Environmental failure events that render hardware unusable; c.) Force majeure events beyond BCA’s reasonable control, including but not limited to, acts of God, government regulation, labor strikes, natural disaster, and national emergency; and, d.) Any act or omission on the part of any third party other than BCA.
Exclusions
Projects are outside the scope of this agreement and will be invoiced separately; Line of Business applications, including ERP …Read More
Exclusions Projects are outside the scope of this agreement and will be invoiced separately; Line of Business applications, including ERP, accounting applications, and CRM applications—reasonable attempts will be made to correct issues through Third-Party Software Support Coordination, and clients must have a current maintenance subscription. Specific problems with the application itself must be escalated to and handled by the Third-Party Software Vendor; Re-configuration; end-user training; support for end-of-life equipment or software is excluded, and only pre-approved hardware and software will be supported.