Records Management as a Service (RMaaS) Service Description
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Overview
Here are just a few ways the RecordPoint RMaaS service supports our customers’ business.
- Reduce Operational Risk: RecordPoint will assume responsibility for your records management operations, ensuring that your information is always governed and managed.
- Lower Operational Cost: Our ability to scale our team with a blend of technical and records management experience, allows our clients to minimize the cost and challenge of hiring, training and maintaining staff with the relevant experience.
- Maintain focus on your core business: Allowing RecordPoint to oversee your records management function, which is our core business, allows you to stay focused on what you do best – your core business.
- Expert knowledge and advice to drive compliance: Our team of experts are knowledgeable with real world records management experience, to provide you with the expertise required to ensure your processes and configuration of Records365 are aligned with your regulatory obligations and best practice.
Last Updated: May 22, 2022
RMaaS Features
Service Responsibilities
The responsibilities for each party relating to the RMaaS service are outlined below.
Customer
- The customer has the below responsibilities in relation to the service:
- Defined a process for approval for disposition of records;
- For Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, customer must have identified and provided the criteria for the search request;
- Provide access to Records365 production tenant to the nominated RecordPoint staff
- If the customer wishes new sites to be managed by Records365, they must request and approve the sites
- If the Customer has NAP delete as part of their service offering, customer must define a process for approving records to be deleted
- Customer must provide details of any holds they wish placed
- Submit requests through Zendesk for these services:
- Application and maintenance of retention and disposal schedules;
- Review and maintenance of rules;
- Management of legal holds in Records365 on approval from legal;
- Assistance with Freedom of Information (FOI) requests;
- Defensible disposition of all records approved for disposal (on business approval)
- Identification of new electronic repositories that do not have records management applied;
RecordPoint
RecordPoint has the below responsibilities in relation to the service:
- Processing requests in a timely manner and ensuring service levels are met
- Ensuring customer data remains confidential
- Ensure access to customer production tenant is limited to authorized RecordPoint staff
- Reporting monthly on work completed during the previous month
- Records365 is operating based on best practice configuration and processes;
- Data in Records365 is being classified based on the file plan and classification intelligence;
- Disposals are carried out based on agreed retention schedules;
- Records365 licensed connectors are configured, data is being managed correctly and the system complies with legislation; and
- Stakeholders can get analytics and reporting once a month from Records365.
Last Updated: May 22, 2022
Service Exclusions
The following are excluded from the RMaaS service:
- Records365 implementation
- New connector deployment
- Initial establishment of Retention and disposal schedules
- Initial established of rules
- Any service not listed as part of the RMaaS features
- Deployment of additional modules
- Records365 Health Checks
- Services not consumed within the month cannot be rolled over
Last Updated: May 22, 2022
RMaaS Prerequisites
The following must be in place ahead of the RMaaS service commencing:
- Records365 implementation complete;
- Retention and disposal schedule established in Records365;
- Rules exist within Records365;
- An agreed process exists for approval for disposal of records and has been communicated to RecordPoint;
- Health Check completed by RecordPoint of Records365;
- Access to Records365 production instance has been provided to nominated RecordPoint staff by customer;
- % of existing records classified is within 10% of SLA;
- Physical records module has been fully setup if the optional physical records activity is part of the service;
- Classification Intelligence module has a minimum 6 trained categories if part of scope
- Customer has Zendesk Access
Last Updated: May 22, 2022
Service Levels
The RMaaS service is available 8 hours per day, 5 days per week from 8.30am to 5.30pm AEDT. The RMaaS service is governed by a service level agreement (SLA) which is specific to you as a customer and forms part of your customer agreement. The service level is as follows:
- Twelve times a year classification of unclassified content is 90%
- Legal holds will be actioned within 48 hours of receiving criteria for hold;
- New sites placed under management within 48 hours of notification;
- Requested changes to Retention and Disposal Schedules occur within 72 hours of notification;
- Freedom of Information (FOI) assistance begins within 48 hours of receiving the request criteria;
- Monthly dispositions are executed per agreed defined work process;
- Key stakeholder collaborations occur the last Monday of every month (or another mutually agreed to time and date);
- Service Reports are delivered by the last day of every month;
- Services not consumed within the month cannot be rolled over
Last Updated: May 22, 2022
Onboarding and Offboarding
Service Activation
The RMaaS service activation process consists of capturing information in the RMaaS data sheet that outline the service requirements.
Information relevant to the service activation include items such as:
- Records365 modules
- Records365 Connectors in use
- Number of records
- Customer contacts for service
- % of records classified
The activation process then consists of the following:
- Appointment of a RecordPoint RMaaS consultant/manager
- Kick-off meeting
- Customer to provide Records365 Administration access to Records365 production tenant for authorized RecordPoint staff
Service Activation Prerequisites
The following are prerequisites to onboarding:
- Signed customer contract/agreement
- Customer purchase order
- Customer setup in Zendesk
Offboarding
The service offboarding process consists of the following:
- Customer providing three (3) month notice to terminate service
- RecordPoint providing final summary of work completed in last month and status of Records365
- Customer removes RecordPoint access to customer production tenant
- Final invoicing
- Customer satisfaction survey
Last Updated: May 22, 2022