Monthly proactive updates to all escalated incidents, hotfixes provided and open / resolved incident summary by technology area.

GISTEC’s support team is capable of providing major local language support.

Extended Premium Support customers may utilize the 24/7 online private support portal to track and update their incidents in real-time.

For new customers, GISTEC will provide onsite GIS product installation using standard configuration settings utilizing the assigned TAM to document the process. Existing customers may also request help and advisory assistance for GIS product upgrades, migration and hotfix implementations limited to core product compatibility, installation, and
certification issues.

In a high priority incidents (such as system is down), GISTEC support staff will work onsite as required to help expedite the incident resolution.

All Premium Support incident requests are acknowledged within one hour, are automatically set with a higher priority and are immediately be assigned to a Premium Support Level Analyst.

A Technical Account Lead provides daily status updates on all active Premium Support incidents of high priority.

Premium Technical Account Leads proactively provide the latest software news and updates.

A key component of the program is a service review that is attended by your Account Manager, Technical Account Lead, the Premium Support Services Manager and other Esri staff as required. The objective of this meeting is to review your Premium Support incidents, as well as proactively communicate software news and updates.

New software releases are automatically shipped to all customers who are current on maintenance. These releases contain feature enhancements including new functionality and technology, and provide improved performance.

Service packs are minor feature maintenance releases and are generally released on a quarterly schedule. Service packs address issues with the software that have been reported by our users or uncovered through Esri’s own investigations. Service packs are generally available via the Web, through CD distribution, or upon request.
Patches can be single fixes or a set of related fixes in a specific functional area of the software and are available by way of the Web. Once a patch is released, it is incorporated into subsequent service pack releases.

Standard Maintenance with Basic Support are entitled to complimentary unlimited Telephone and e-mail support to assist customers with product configuration, deployment and upgrade inquiries. Premium customers may submit their inquiries through their assigned TAM.

If you require a more hands-on approach for resolving an incident, Technical Support representatives are equipped with remote support tools to assist you. Each member of the Support Services staff can directly interact with your system remotely.

The Esri Online Support Center is a dynamic Web site that communicates new technical information to you and the Esri user community in the form of updated product documentation, blog posts, technology announcements, and more. You can also submit a Support Request using the Esri Support Services Online Support Center.

The main mission of the User Advocacy Group (UAG) is to understand and respond to your concerns. The UAG seeks to engage the user community in providing feedback to Esri and collect this information to help shape the direction of GIS software at Esri. This will be done through Esri Support Services, beta programs, holistic testing, and direct feedback from you.

The extensive text-based knowledge base provides easily accessible solutions to technical questions. An advanced search engine enables you to rapidly search the entire Web site for the information you need.

Web-based help is an up-to-date version of the help system that was shipped with the product; new information is added and existing topics are updated as necessary.

Product documentation includes how-tos, FAQs, tutorials, tips and tricks, functionality matrixes, best practices, and “What’s New?” articles on Esri’s past and current products.

All Support customers can subscribe to ArcUser, which contains articles specific to Support Services. These articles contain technical and product information designed to enable our customers to work more effectively with Esri software.

The Esri software user forums are intended to provide you with a place to discuss your software questions with your peers. This is a helpful venue to ask questions and share knowledge about technical details and techniques for accomplishing tasks.