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Subject: Re: Securid BAD Tech Support
From: Doug Small - OSU Medical Center Network Analyst <small-1 @ medctr . osu . edu>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 15:31:40 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Todd R. Zimmerman" <snd1trz @ snd10 . med . navy . mil>
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com, SMALL_DO @ NORSE . MEDCTR . OHIO-STATE . EDU
In-reply-to: "Your message dated Tue, 02 Apr 1996 12:14:07 -0800" <2 . 2 . 32 . 19960402201407 . 0067d7bc @ snd10 . med . navy . mil>

> I have been trying desperately to speak with technical support personnel at
> Security Dynamics in Cambridge, MA.  Over the last week I have spent a total
> of 165 minutes on hold waiting to speak with the help desk.  Leaving
> messages does not work because I must sit at my desk until they call back.
> If I leave for some reason and miss the return call I then must call
> Security Dynamics and start the process all over again.  It really pisses me
> off...This is totally unsatisfactory tech support.

	We use securid here and up until feb 96 or so the tech support was
wonderful.  I frequently got right to a support engineer after little or no
wait.  Around feb I began experiencing exactly what Todd did with customer 
support.  As the slow response was happening fairly frequently I took the
issue up with our salesperson.
	What I got back from them was that they are in the process of 
implementing a new call ticketing system as well as hiring a significant 
number of additional people for support.  Because of all the new people a 
large portion of the original support engineer's time was being spent training
the new people.  I was assurred that response time would improve as people
got trained.
	I have no affiliation with Security Dynamics other than as a customer
and am passing this info along to provide an alternative viewpoint for the
other subsribers of this list.

				-Doug Small

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Doug Small               The Ohio State University Medical Center 
small-1 @
 medctr .
 osu .
 edu             Network Engineer        
Work: (614) 293-2034
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