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1. Description of Service
The Information Technology Division (ITD) provides access to archived reports, documents, audio/video files, images etc, via ViewDirect Content Management solution.
This service includes:
ViewDirect Database Management:
Report definition
- Report ID
- Archive name template used for chargeback
- Report retention
- Indexing - either section or enterprise indexing
Recipient definition
- Customers Universal Access ID (UAID)
- Customer name
- Customer department
- Customer address
Hard copy distribution
- Centralized printing to production printers in Chelsea Data Center
- Customized packet production of reports/letters/mailers, etc.
- Reprint full, partial or individual pages damaged in printing/mailing process
Archive management
- Migrate long-term archives to new media
- Consolidate offsite archives to high capacity tapes
Viewing access - administered by ITD Security Group
- Define viewing profiles
- Assign access via RACF on mainframe
- Grant individual viewing access for some non state-wide reports
Version maintenance
- Delete report versions per customer request
- Increase or reduce the retention of existing archives
Monitoring and support for daily scheduled batch processes:
- Report archive creation and print distribution throughout the day
- Daily archive migration process
- Copy archives to virtual tape media for long-term storage
- Copy archives to tape media for offsite Disaster Recovery storage
- Purge expired archives
- Replication process of archives created on Windows ViewDirect to main repository
- Daily viewing statistics
- Daily backup/reorganization of repository databases
Note: This service does not include coverage for Disaster Recovery.
Support services include:
- A Service Account Manager to answer any questions or concerns regarding ITD Services.
- Services offered through our Operations Office; including Change Management and customer access to incident management via email, phone (CommonHelp)
- The online COMiT service management portal
2. Service Targets/Hours of Availability
Service Requirement | Description |
|---|---|
| Service Availability | Service availability hours are 7:00 am - 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday excluding holidays and planned maintenance (1:00 am - 3:00 am) and unplanned outages. Customers provide ITD with a 4 hour window within normal service hours each month for systems maintenance. |
| Incident Management | ITD Service Management Office has standard processes to managing incidents, requests, change orders and problems. Outages or urgent issues should be reported by phone to receive the quickest response 1-866-888-2808. |
3. Service Reporting
The following reporting information is provided to customers as part of this service:
Report | Description | Reporting Interval |
|---|---|---|
| RECXREF | Various recipient cross reference reports.
| Monthly request through ViewDirect |
| REPXREF | Various report cross reference reports. | Monthly request through ViewDirect |
| VIEWRET | The retention in days of each report stored in ViewDirect. | Monthly request through ViewDirect |
| VIEWSTAT | This report contains daily viewing statistics. | Daily request through ViewDirect |
| VIEWST01 | This report contains month to date viewing statistics. | Monthly request through ViewDirect |
| VIEWST02 | This report contains year to date viewing statistics. | Monthly request through ViewDirect |
4. Service Requests
| Description | Lead Time-Business Days | |
|---|---|---|
| Add a New Report for ViewDirect/Doc Direct | View Direct or Document Direct is an online report viewing and hardcopy report distribution system. This service request includes:
| 5 Days |
| View Direct Routine Requests | This request is to modify viewing access and create an enterprise index. This service request includes:
| 10 Days |
*For new service requests only. To manage existing requests, please log into COMiT.
5. Customer Responsibilities
The customer will provide all key characteristics of the report content as well as the recipient UAID, name and address. For hardcopy distribution of documents the customer will provide detail on what is to be printed (entire document or particular sections). The customer must submit viewing requests through the Security Group and define the viewing profile to Security.
For your convenience, you may view a
content_mgmt_services_definition.doc
6. Chargeback Rate Information
For more information on Chargeback, including an overview of the program as well as current and previous fiscal year rates, please visit our Chargeback Services webpage.
Cost Framework: View Direct Content Management
Direct Costs:
Customer Specific - Costs Directly Charged to Customers | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Description | Cost | Assumptions /Comments |
| 1 | View Direct NT, Mobius Image, Mobius Immediate Archive, Centera for newMMIS (5 yr. prepaid maintenance) (Prior to FY13, covered under Unit 2706)- | $1,817 | |
| ViewDirect for Network Replication Software for NewMMIS (from Schedule J)- | $2,196 | ||
| Total Customer Specific Costs | $4,013 | ||
Salaries (AA) and Fringe (DD) Costs, Contract Support (HH/U05) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Description | Cost | Assumptions /Comments |
| 2a | Salaries (AA) and Fringe (DD) Costs, Contract Support (HH/U05) | $321,961 | 4 FTEs |
| Total Salaries (AA) and Fringe (DD) Costs, Contract Support (HH/U05) | $321,961 | ||
Direct Dedicated Resources | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Description | Cost | Assumptions /Comments |
| 2b | Allen Systems Group (formerly Mobius Management Systems, Inc)-Software Maintenance-View Direct & Document Direct (Will Roll each year thru FY13) (Prior to FY13, covered under Unit 2706)- | $56,000 | |
| Computer Associates-New CA Mainframe Contract thru 6/30/10 includes upgrade to 1040 mps & 2nd data center (includes JCL Utility Check)(Will Roll in FY11) Effective FY12 New Amendment 13 (Will Roll in FY13 and FY14) (Prior to FY13, covered under Unit 2 | $52,886 | ||
| Dell Software-NASTEL (Will not need to renew after FY11. Moving to a new environmentent that is not supported by Nastel) (In FY11, moved from Unit 1105)(FY12, support needed) | $64,802 | ||
| 2c | Other Costs, Re-classifications, Adjustments-VIEW DIRECT CONTENT MGT | $44,935 | |
Total Direct Dedicated Costs | $218,623 | ||
Indirect Costs:
Allocated Shared Resources | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Description | Cost | Assumptions /Comments |
| 3a | Allocated Shared Resources | $2,506 |
|
| Total Allocated Shared Resources Costs | $2,506 | ||
Allocated Costs:
Allocated Costs Not Specific to Service | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Description | Cost | Assumptions /Comments |
| 5 | Allocated Costs Not Specific to Service | $147,405 |
|
| Total Allocated Costs Not Specific to Service | $147,405 | ||
Adjustments:
Less: Customer Specific - Costs Directly Charged to Customers | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Description | Cost | Assumptions /Comments |
| 6 | Less: Customer Specific - Costs Directly Charged to Customers | ($4,013) | |
| Total Adjustments | ($4,013) | ||
Total expenses for View Direct Content Management | $690,495 |
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Rates pertaining to this service offering include:
Rate Code | Title | Billable Unit | Planned FY2013 Units | Cost | FY 2013 Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SH100 | View Direct Content | 1,000 Pages/Day | 155,924,127 | $117,384 | $0.0008 |
ViewDirect report storage is compressed so these costs are less than other on-line and off-line storage charges. Archived reports can be retrieved, viewed and printed locally (whole or partial) by the user. Archived report costs are .001 cents (SH100) per thousand pages for each day. On-line reports are charged at the 1000 track-day rate .041 cents (SF090) the same as for all on-line storage (DASD) files. The duration of a report on-line vs. off-line is controlled by the customer. On-line viewing also incurs a CICS transaction charge. Reports printed via DocDirect (local) do not incur print charges.
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Updated December 19, 2012
Published August 14, 2009
Created July 6, 2009: Information provided by the Operations Team