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ITS Key Performance Indicators - December 2008

Published : 5 January 2008

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  1. IT Support for Students
  2. Staff IT Work Environment
  3. Centrally Programmed Space
  4. IT Support for Research
  5. Network Support
  6. Telephone Services
  7. University Applications - For Faculties
  8. Security

IT Support for Students

Service Components & Key Performance Indicators KPI Results Frequency to be reported Graphs and supporting documents
Provide student desktop computing environment
The servers supporting student laboratory workstations are available during 99% of supported hours.
  • Supported Hours - Data was not available during this period.
  • 24 Hours - Data was not available during this period.
 Quarterly Supported hours & 24 hrs

Currently compiled and calculated manually from statistics gathered from specific servers supporting the student lab environment. 

Additional details
Provide student messaging
The Student email service is available during 99% of supported hours
  • 99.98%
 Quarterly Student Email

The automated collection of data from key processes 
Provide IT support and training
On a six-monthly basis, ITS will publish Service Desk statistics including: the number of requests received from students (by Faculty); the number of requests resolved on the spot (target 30%); the number of requests resolved within 5 working days (target 95%)
Total Calls:615 % Resolved on the Spot % Resolved within 5 Working Days
Overall 67% 96%
Faculty
Art & Design 7 43 86
Arts 68 60 94
Bus Eco 102 66 96
Education 40 58 95
Engineering 16 50 88
FIT 22 55 95
Law 27 52 93
Medicine 69 52 99
Pharmacy 8 75 100
Science 18 39 89
Six-Monthly Student Calls

Reported from call logging system (HEAT). Additional Details

Staff IT Work Environment

Service Components & Key Performance Indicators KPI Results Frequency to be reported Graphs and supporting documents
Provide staff desktop computing environment
The servers supporting staff computer workstations are available during 99% of supported hours
  • Supported hours - Data was not available during this period.
  • 24 hours - Data was not available during this period.
 Quarterly Supported hours & 24 hrs

Currently compiled and calculated manually from statistics gathered from the specific servers supporting the staff environment. Additional details
The Monash Directory Service (MDS) is available during 99% of supported hours
  • 100%
 Quarterly Directory graph

The automated collection of data from key processes.
Provide messaging and scheduling services for staff
The Staff email service is available during 99% of supported hours
  • 99.89%
 Quarterly Staff Email

The automated collection of data from key processes
Provide video conference services
ITS will regularly publish statistics including the number of video conference sessions held supported by ITS staff, sessions affected by service issues such as equipment failure and customer satisfaction with the service.
  • Data was not available during this period.
 Quarterly Sessions & Attendance

Currently compiled and calculated manually from statistics gathered from video conferencing bookings and customer feedback.
Provide information technology support and training for staff
On a six-monthly basis, ITS will publish Service Desk statistics including: the number of requests received from staff (by Faculty); the number of requests resolved within 2 working days (target 50%); the number of requests resolved within 5 working days (target 80%)

Requests from faculty staff will generally be more complex issues which have been referred by Faculty IT support staff, and hence will take longer to resolve than most student enquires.
Total Calls:2,897 % Resolved within 2 Working Days % Resolved within 5 Working Days
Overall 80% 85%
Faculty
Art & Design 24 83 92
Arts 160 86 90
Bus Eco 269 79 84
Education 88 83 90
Engineering 76 93 96
FIT 54 70 76
Law 30 90 90
Medicine 416 86 90
Pharmacy 35 86 89
Science 87 87 94
Six-monthly Staff Calls

Reported from call logging system (HEAT). Additional details

Provide Centrally Programmed Space

Service Components & Key Performance Indicators KPI Results Frequency to be reported Graphs and supporting documents
Provide teaching space IT equipment upgrade and support
On a six-monthly basis, ITS will publish statistics including the total number of lectures attended by ITS staff, lectures affected by service issues such as equipment failure, and the number of complaints.
  • Sessions - 183
  • Attended - 384
 Six-Monthly Sessions & Attendance
Problems & Complaints

Currently compiled and calculated manually from statistics gathered from video conferencing bookings and customer feedback.

IT Support for Research

Service Components & Key Performance Indicators KPI Results Frequency to be reported Graphs and supporting documents
Provide research administration systems
ITS will report annually on discussions, with members of the Committee of Associate Deans Research, that are designed to assess the future needs and satisfaction with research computing services (e.g. storage, backups, ftp, software, access and advice) provided by Monash.
 Reporting method not yet finalised

Quarterly Discussions and engagement with Research community to determine IT requirements undertaken through the ITSP process and ITS staff attendance at the Research forum. Report not yet available.

Provide Network Support

Service Components & Key Performance Indicators KPI Results Frequency to be reported Graphs and supporting documents
Provide data network services
The fixed data network service is available during 99% of supported hours
  • 99.98%
 Quarterly Supported hours

24Hrs

Additional details and historic information
The Monash provided internet access service is available during 99% of supported hours
  • 100%
 Quarterly Supported hours

24Hrs

Additional details and historic information
95% of Data network service priority 1 and priority 2 faults logged in the HEAT Service Desk system by Faculty IT support staff are acted on within 30 minutes during supported hours
  • 100%
 Quarterly Response Graph

Reported from call logging system (HEAT). Source report not yet available on the intranet.
On a six-monthly basis, ITS will report on the response times of the network, during supported hours, as measured by a PC located at each campus.
Site Average Delay (ms)
Alfred 0
Berwick 0
Boxhill 1
Caulfield 0
Clayton 0
Collins 1
Gippsland 2
MMCC 0
Peninsula 1
VCP 0
Six-Monthly Link Response

Additional details and historic information

Provide Telephone Services

Service Components & Key Performance Indicators KPI Results Frequency to be reported Graphs and supporting documents
Provide telephone services
The fixed telephone service is available during 99% of supported hours
  • Supported hours - 99.88%
  • 24 Hrs - 99.96%
 Quarterly Supported hours & 24 hrs

Calls logged to the ITS call tracking system (HEAT)

Additional details

University Applications - For Faculties

Service Components & Key Performance Indicators KPI Results Frequency to be reported Graphs and supporting documents
Develop and maintain a learning management system Monash University Studies Online (MUSO) - WebCT
The Learning Management (WebCT) service is available during 98% of supported hours.
  • Availability - 99.93%
  • Responsiveness - (page load within 8 seconds) - 100%
 Quarterly WebCT graph

The automated loading of a web page is used to collect the availability data.  Additional information

Develop and maintain a portal (my.monash)
The Intranet Portal (my.Monash) service is available during 98% of supported hours.
  • 99.86%
 Quarterly Portal graph

The automated loading of a web page used to collect response data is also used to determine availability  
In 90% of attempts, a non-customised, main portal page loads within 8 seconds following a request from an automatic agent (PC) located on a nominated campus.
  • 100%
 Quarterly

Portal graph

The automated loading of a web page is used to collect the load time data
Provide web facilities and services
The web hosting service is available during 98% of supported hours.
  • 100%
 Quarterly Supported hours

Security

Service Components & Key Performance Indicators KPI Results Frequency to be reported Graphs and supporting documents
Security
The fixed telephone service is available during 99% of supported hours

External Audit Completed (Sept03)

 Annually Measured by an annual external audit 

Rating scale explanation
Rating table

Executive Summary report