PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Fairfax Imaging complements its world-class products and solutions with world-class IT talent to help make the system installation and deployment smooth and worry-free. Our IT professionals' experience spans the spectrum of the field. They also understand Quick Modules as well as the third party products used in our solutions such as Microsoft, Oracle, Mitek and other reputable organizations. We also offer comprehensive training for end users and integrators. The range and breadth of our engineering and professional services help us tailor and integrate the best solution to meet and in most cases exceed our customer's requirements. Our professionals cover systems analysis, program management, integration, testing and training.
SYSTEM ANALYSIS:

Fairfax Imaging's system analysts get involved at the early stages of system planning, and they present our customers and our design and development teams with a system architecture that takes into account volume, throughput, and sizing data. This analysis is presented to our customers as well as the program managers to develop a solution that is properly sized and properly scoped.

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT:

Fairfax Imaging program managers have implemented and managed complex systems both large and small to meet our customers expectations and needs. We pride ourselves on our success, but we also understand that our successful installations have been due to:

  • Experienced technical and program management
  • Seasoned professionals and designers
  • Communication and cooperation between our team and yours
  • Adherence to timelines and schedules
  • Execution of sound technical program management principles
  • Exercising the latest technologies in our area of expertise
  • Reliance on our proficiency in our market niche.
INTEGRATION PROFESSIONALS:

Fairfax Imaging actively recruits, motivates, and nurtures our technical talent. Our professionals' experience spans technologies in the following IT domains:

  • Database development
  • Scanner interfaces
  • Check transport interfaces
  • Web development
  • Graphical User Interface (GUI) development
  • Fundamental imaging algorithm development
  • Character recognition algorithm development (machine-print and hand-print)
  • Image manipulation techniques
  • Multi-media extraction
  • Inter networking
  • Interface to legacy systems
Under the guidance of our program managers, our professionals ensure that our systems integrate with our customers' environments in a seamless and error-free manner. As required by our customers, we develop the interfaces to existing legacy and main frame systems to ensure a worry-free transition.
 
TRAINING:

Fairfax Imaging pays particular attention to comprehensive operator and system administrator training.  We believe that well trained operators are important to enable a robust system to show its merits, and well trained system administrators are important to harness the full power of the installed system.  Our goal with every installation is to ensure that operators are fully fluent with system features and operations and that system administrators are able to provide proper operation of the system on a day-to-day basis.


  MAINTENANCE SUPPORT

Fairfax Imaging’s long-standing commitment to serving and responding to the Quick Modules software user community is exemplified by the goals of our Maintenance Support Services:

To promote success with the Quick Modules software and carry forward suggestions for continuing improvement of Quick Module software products.

The Quick Module Software Maintenance Program is a cost-effective and comprehensive program that includes technical support, software updates, and many other benefits. When you participate in the software maintenance program, you receive the latest versions of the Quick Modules software upon release at no additional cost (nominal service charges may apply depending on the amount of support required for installation and test). This allows you and your organization to keep up with the latest software technology developments, take advantage of usability improvements, and manage software licenses more easily.

The Hardware Maintenance program is also is a cost-effective and comprehensive program that includes on-site hardware support, software and or firmware updates, and preventive maintenance cleanings.

To further your success in using our software products, Fairfax Imaging offers flexibility to suit a set of needs and requirements as diverse as our customer base.

Each customer receives their own customized “Maintenance Plan” outlining in detail their individual maintenance support coverage and procedures. Associated user manuals are provided along with the Maintenance Plan.

 
  • LEVEL 1 Support:  Our customers receive standard Level 1 support immediately upon system acceptance. Fairfax Imaging provides a Problem/Change Request Form that the customer submits to the support group email address, support@ffximg.com. The customer may also call our toll-free hotline during regular or individually custom business hours, to confirm receipt of their submission or to request status. A Level 1 Technical Support Specialist clearly understands the system operation and error conditions, and can lead the customer to problem resolution.

     
  • LEVEL 2 Support:  If necessary, Level 1 support can escalate the call to a more advanced, Level 2 Technical Support Specialist base. The Level 2 Technical Support Specialist will call on their greater experience to  address issues that Level 1 support is unable to resolve. Level 2 Technical Support Specialists are experienced in data base configuration, management, networking and operating system issues.
HARDWARE SUPPORT SERVICES

Hardware support will be performed on-site by a local factory certified hardware engineer. Support includes non-consumable parts and labor for malfunctions that the operator or System Administrator are not authorized to carry out.

Consumable items are the responsibility of the end user and are sold separately from the maintenance plan. Each customer receives hardware user manuals and a list of consumables during installation
 

Maintenance Support Services Hours:

Fairfax Imaging customers may contact the Maintenance Support Group between 8:00AM and 5:00PM, Eastern Standard Time, Monday – Friday, excluding Fairfax Imaging holidays.
 

Accessing Maintenance Support By E-mail or Fax:

Tel: 1-877-OCR-TECK (1-877-627-8325), Option 1
Fax: 1-703-802-2878
Email: support@ffximg.com

Each reported Maintenance Support request is logged as an incident and given a unique identification number for reference and tracking. After an incident is logged, it is assigned to a Level 1 Technical Support Specialist dedicated to the incident until is it resolved. If the Level 1 Technical Specialist is unable to solve the problem the incident is escalated to a Level 2 Technical Specialist.

For customers who cannot reach the Maintenance Support Group during normal business hours, fax, and e-mail support are available. Requests are received 24 hours a days, 7 days a week and are logged and assigned to a technical specialist the next business day.

Requests for support should contain detailed information about your technical issue. To help expedite a solution, technical specialists need information that includes which Quick Modules application and hardware is associated with the problem. The assigned technical specialist will review the problem and respond by telephone or e-mail.
 

Response time:

Our standard response time is four hours from the time of receipt of the incident report.

We can accommodate customers that require special response times, coverage hours, and days outside of our standard Monday – Friday 8:00AM – 5:00PM Eastern Standard Time coverage’s. These coverage arrangements can be set up during the sale.
 

Resolution Time:

The time required to resolve support incidents varies depending on the type of problem and whether we are able to reproduce it in-house. Usually, we are able to answer questions and suggest solutions to problems on the same day we receive requests, but the turnaround time for a response will depend on the complexity of the problem.

If research or consultation with another technical specialist or programmer is required, a response may take longer, especially if working with an item that requires extensive coding. If the problem turns out to be software for which there is no workaround, a final resolution may have to wait for future programming modifications. However, satisfactory workarounds can usually be found.
 

Remote connection to customers system:

Having remote access, such as Virtual Private Network or PC Anywhere, will help the Support Group  research and resolve problems. These types of remote access will allow us to navigate through your system without having to involve you in trying to send us files, etc. We can download the necessary information from your system to assist us with our research.  We can then run the system in-house to reproduce the problem and more quickly determine the cause.

Having remote access also allows us to be able to implement updates and fixes if you choose to have us perform these types of implementations. We typically implement updates and fixes onto your “test system”  then move them into production once the tests have been passed.
 

Quick Module Upgrades/Releases:

Maintenance Support includes software releases that are available to the customer when they are released.  Phone support for assisting in implementing the software releases is at no additional charge.  If a technician is requested to be on site for the upgrade; labor, travel, expenses, and training are billed separately as incurred.

 


  PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
  System Analysis
  Program Management
  Integration Professionals
  Training

  MAINTENANCE SUPPORT
  Level 1 Support
  Level 2 Support
  Hardware Support Services
  Maintenance Support Service Hours
  Accessing Maintenance Support
  Response Time
  Resolution Time
  Remote Connection to Customer's system
  Quick Modules Upgrades / Releases

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