BMC Helix Applications Managed Service Additional Service and Coverage Options

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For BMC Helix Applications Managed Service (AMS) - Foundation Subscription customers, these options provide supplemental assistance.

What you get:

BMC Helix will upgrade your AMS based on the options selected below

Service Coverage option Additional Tickets Supported Success Credits Required
16x5 Service Coverage with Offshore SDM
600
86
16x5 Service Coverage with Onshore SDM*
600
146
24x5 Service Coverage with Offshore SDM
1200
190
24x5 Service Coverage with Onshore SDM
1200
369
Additional Service Options Additional Tickets Supported Success Credits Required
300 Additional Tickets Pack
300
35
On-Premises / Container Coverage For Each Product
NA
35
Add Onshore Service Delivery Manager (SDM)
NA
77
Additional In-Scope Product
600 for Each Product
86
AMS On-Call Support For Each Product
NA
17

You may choose one or any combination of the additional service options listed above.

Access to AMS resources is limited to local business hours 6:00am to 10:00pm Monday through Friday (16x5) and 12:00 am to 12:00 am (24x5) in the Customer time zone, excluding Customer public holidays. On-call service is provided for Severity 1 issues outside of contracted business hours coverage.

The AMS option for 16x5 coverage is scoped according to the following assumptions:

  • Application Administration Requests – up to 480
  • Incidents/problems and changes – up to 120

The AMS option for 24x5 coverage is scoped according to the following assumptions:

  • Application Administration Requests – up to 960
  • Incidents/problems and changes – up to 240

Pre-requisites:

  • Customer must have purchased the BMC Helix Applications Managed Service – Foundation Subscription
  • Customer must have at least nine months remaining on their BMC Helix Applications Managed Service – Foundation Subscription

Additional information:

  • Estimated Duration: 1 Year
  • In-Scope Products:
  • Service Type: Technical Assistance
  • Availability: Active
  • Success Service Codes:
    • Additional Tickets    AMSX_ADDN_002
    • On-Premises Container Coverage     AMSX_ONPM_003
    • Add Onshore SDM    AMSX_ONSH_002
    • Additional In-Scope Product    AMSX_PROD_003
    • On-Call Support    AMSX_OCSP_001
    • 16x5 Service Coverage with Offshore SDM    A165_OFFS_002 
    • 16x5 Service Coverage with Onshore SDM    A165_ONSH_002 
    • 24x5 Service Coverage with Offshore SDM    A245_OFFS_002 
    • 24x5 Service Coverage with Onshore SDM    A245_ONSH_002
  • Date Last Updated: 03/20/2025

Related Resources:


Additional BMC Helix Services: 

As part of your ongoing adoption and extension of BMC Helix capabilities and solutions, the following services complement this one:

  • BMC Helix Applications Managed Services Foundation
  • BMC Helix Day 2 Operations
  • BMC Helix Access to an Applications Managed Service Specialist

Definitions:

Additional Tickets – The AMS service will be upgraded to include 300 additional  tickets per year. 240- of which may be used for administrative requests and 60 of which may be used for incidents, problems or changes.

Additional Product Family (In-Scope Products) – The following is a list of eligible BMC Helix products for management under AMS. Each bulleted item represents one In Scope Product for one instance (e.g., Development, QA, Production) 

  • BMC Helix IT Service Management (ITSM), BMC Helix Digital Workplace, Helix Digital Workplace Advanced (DWPA), BMC Helix Innovation Suite, BMC Helix Virtual Agent 
  • BMC Helix Business Workflows
  • BMC Helix Discovery
  • BMC Helix Operations Management 
  • Entuity Network Monitoring for BMC Helix Operations Management
  • BMC Helix Continuous Optimization

On Premises Container Coverage - The AMS service will be upgraded to support BMC Helix applications hosted on an on-premises container environment. 

These activities related to BMC Helix Applications will be included

  • Patch Management - Applying Patches, Security fixes, PTF, Service Packs
  • Release management (Code release etc)
  • Backup and recovery activities
  • DR Activities
  • Performance Tuning as per best practices

Please note, this service does NOT include management of the actual containers.

Onshore Service Delivery Manager (SDM) – is responsible for the governance and delivery of the service. 

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