Sitecore Support – Service Levels

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  • Purpose

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    The purpose of this document is to describe details of Support Service Levels associated with different Support Programs offered by Sitecore to its customers and partners.

    This document is provided as a convenience for our customers. It contains support service level details in effect at the time of article publication. Details associated with your specific License may be different. Please contact your Account Manager for more information on the service levels included with your License.

    For high-level overview of Support Programs and scope of services provided by Sitecore Support, refer to the following article: KB463549.

  • Severity definitions and Response Times

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    Sitecore defines the following Severity Levels and Target Response Times depending on the Support Program associated with cases created via Sitecore Support Portal.

    Severity Level Criteria Standard Support 24x7 Premium Support
    Critical
    P1

    Meets all of the following criteria:

    • Impacts the production environment; 
    • A significant impact on site visitor's experience such as an outage, unacceptable performance, or poor buying experience impacting revenue;
    • No workaround is available.
    		 1 Business Day
    		 1 Hour
    (Issues must be followed up via Support Hotline)
    High
    P2

    Meets one of the following criteria with no workaround available:

    • In a production environment, severe impact on content authoring or an intermittent issue impacting visitor experience;
    • In a production environment, issues highly affecting normal business operations or critical marketing capabilities;
    • In a pre-production environment, an immediate impact on deployment activities affecting imminent production project plans.
    		 1 Business Day 2 Hours
    (Issues must be followed up via Support Hotline)
    Medium
    P3

    Meets one of the following criteria:

    • In a production environment, intermittent impact and does not critically affect normal business operations;
    • In a production environment, the impact of the problem is alleviated by the availability of a workaround;
    • In a pre-production environment, a moderate impact and does not critically affect business operations;
    • In a development environment, an immediate impact on a development activity affecting upcoming project plans.
    		 2 Business Days 1 Business Day
    Low
    P4

    Meets one of the following criteria:

    • In a production environment, causes minor or no impact on business operations;
    • In a non-production environment, causes minor development delays or impact of the problem is alleviated by the availability of a workaround;
    • Documentation related queries or requests for product enhancements;
    • Issues that do not meet any of the higher severity criteria.
    		 3 Business Days 2 Business Days

  • Support Case Resolution

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    Sitecore will seek to find a resolution to support cases in accordance with the standards and/or timeframes set out in the table below.


    Severity Level

    		 Standard Support
    		 24x7 Premium Support
    Critical
    		 Sitecore will make best effort to work on the problem during Business Hours until it has been resolved or a workaround has been provided.
    		 Sitecore will continue to work on the problem until it has been resolved or a workaround has been provided.
    High
    		 Sitecore will make best effort to work on the problem during Business Hours until it has been resolved or a workaround has been provided.
    		 Sitecore will continue to work on the problem until it has been resolved or a workaround has been provided.
    Medium
    		 Sitecore will make reasonable efforts to resolve the problem or provide a workaround.
    		 Sitecore will make reasonable efforts to resolve the problem or provide a workaround.
    Low
    		 Sitecore will make reasonable efforts to resolve the problem or provide a workaround if such a problem has not been resolved in the next maintenance release of Sitecore Software.
    		 Sitecore will make reasonable efforts to resolve the problem or provide a workaround if such a problem has not been resolved in the next maintenance release of Sitecore Software.

  • Determining Severity Level and Support Program

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    Severity Level for support cases is determined by the Sitecore Support Team.

    We encourage customers and partners to provide detailed information in the support cases to allow Support Team to precisely determine the appropriate Severity Level.

    For 24x7 Premium Support program, Sitecore provides Support Hotline Number that must be used for indicating Critical or High severity situations.

    For Standard Support program, severity can be escalated by contacting the regional Sitecore office.

    Support Program is determined according to the Sitecore License used to open the support case.

    When Partner license is used to open a support case, Standard Support program is applied in accordance with the other terms and conditions of the Partner license.

  • Business Hours

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    Business Days are calculated as any day other than Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday in Licensee’s country of residence.

    Business Hours are calculated as follows:

    • For Americas, 8am-6pm CST (2pm-12am UTC)
    • For Europe, 7am-5pm UTC
    • For Greater Asia, 6am-6pm MYT (10pm-10am UTC)

  • Historical Notes

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    • Standard Support has previously been known as Bronze Support.
    • 24x7 Premium Support has previously been known as 24x7 Priority Support as well as Gold Support.
    • Sitecore used to provide Priority Support / Silver Support offering. This option is no longer offered to new Sitecore customers. It is also not available as an upgrade option for existing Sitecore customers. The offering remains valid for existing Sitecore customers who are currently using this support program.

Applies to:

Sitecore Support Portal 1+

August 04, 2015
May 14, 2020