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<p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:24px"><strong>Operational Level Agreements Standard Requirements</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:20px">Crucial Requirements:</span></span></p>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">If a customer complains that service levels are below those agreed in the sla, apparently due to a number of related hardware incidents, who is responsible for ensuring the cause is investigated?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">Do you have performance measures in place from the customer point of view? For instance: How many minutes has the service not responded within its SLA the number of affected customers within a given week?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">If SLAs are already negotiated and reference the Catalogue for documentation of the service levels, how do you change service level in the Catalogue without renegotiating the SLA?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">Service Delivery: Are the security controls, service definitions and delivery levels included in the 3rd party delivery agreement implemented, operated and maintained by the 3rd party?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">If SLAs are already negotiated and reference the Catalogue for documentation of the service levels, how do you change service level in the Catalogue without renegotiating the SLA?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">The SLAs also have to discuss about how the security is maintained, what are the methods used in maintaining security and how customer complaints are taken care?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">Service level agreement - assess each vendor for the level of future service and support that others offer. What does it cost for the level of service that you require?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">Service-level requirement, how can the IT or business unit meet the internal marketing departments availability expectation based on the SaaS providers SLA?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">Determine if the data center has Service Level Agreements with the clients it serves. if so, do they measure themselves for compliance with the agreement?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">Contract Management Are the Vendor contracts deliverables-based, with specific Service Level Agreements (SLAs) including penalties and liquidated damages?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-family:verdana"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-family:verdana">Ensuring that plans of action include every Operational Level Agreements task and that every Operational Level Agreements outcome is in place</span></span></span></span><br />
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