PLATINUM SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS
Last Updated: May 22, 2025
These Platinum Service Level Agreements (“SLAs”) describe the service
levels and support commitments available to Customers who purchase
Seismic’s Platinum, Platinum Plus, or Platinum Care SLA offerings. These
SLAs are subject to the Seismic Subscription Services Agreement (“SSA”)
and capitalized terms not defined here have the meanings set forth in the
SSA.
Table of Contents
- Overview of Platinum SLA Levels
- Service Level Commitments
- APDex Performance Metrics
- Maintenance and Downtime Exclusions
- Support Access and Response Times
- Service Credits and Exclusive Remedies
- Credit Request Process
- Definitions
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OVERVIEW OF PLATINUM SLA LEVELS
Seismic offers three Platinum SLA tiers. The features and commitments
for each are summarized below:
| SLA Level |
Uptime Commitment |
APDex Commitment |
Support Response Times |
Additional Features |
| Platinum |
99.9% |
0.90 |
P1: 1hr, P2: 2hr |
Sandbox, TAA, RCA |
| Platinum Plus |
99.9% |
0.90 |
P1: 1hr, P2: 2hr |
Sandbox, TAA, RCA |
| Platinum Care |
N/A (APDex only) |
0.90 |
P1: 2hr, P2: 4hr |
RCA |
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PLATINUM SERVICE LEVEL COMMITMENTS
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Platinum & Platinum Plus.
For Platinum and
Platinum Plus only, Seismic will provide 99.9% Production System
Uptime with respect to Customer’s Subscription Services during each
Fiscal Quarter of the Term, excluding Scheduled Maintenance,
Excusable Delay and Non-Seismic Delay as defined in Section 4.3 below.
If in any Fiscal Quarter, an Uptime of 99.9% is not met by Seismic,
and Customer was materially negatively impacted, Seismic shall
provide as Customer’s sole and exclusive remedy a service credit
equal to 10% of one Fiscal Quarter’s fees for the impacted
Subscription Service(s).
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Platinum Care.
APDex Commitment Only: No Uptime
SLA. Commitment is to maintain an APDex score of 0.90 per Fiscal
Quarter.
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APDEX PERFORMANCE METRICS
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APDex. The APDex score is a method of converting
many performance measurements into one uniform score of 0 to 1. The
APDex formula is the number of satisfied samples plus half of the
tolerating samples plus none of the frustrated samples, divided by
all samples: Satisfied samples are transactions at or below targeted
response times and tolerating samples are transactions above target
response times but below two times the target response times.
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APDex Parameters.
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Seismic agrees to collect APDex calculations for User
Interface transactions within the Seismic Content
application with a target response time of five (5) seconds
and provide this data to Customer.
- Seismic will publish the monthly APDex score.
- Seismic agrees to maintain an APDex score of point ninety
(.90) in each Fiscal Quarter.
- APDex scores are only calculated from Seismic Content, and
not calculated for any other Seismic product.
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MAINTENANCE AND DOWNTIME EXCLUSIONS
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Scheduled Maintenance and Delays: Scheduled
Maintenance, Excusable Delay and Non-Seismic Delay time does not
count as Downtime. “Scheduled Maintenance” includes (i) planned
downtime, which may be scheduled during any period outside of the
hours of Monday through Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. in
Customer’s tenant time zone, or on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays
from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Customer’s tenant time zone or (ii)
any downtime for which Seismic gives eight (8) hours or more notice
that the Subscription Services will be unavailable. “Excusable
Delay” means any delay or failure in the Subscription Services which
is due to causes beyond the reasonable control of either Party
hereto, including, but not limited to, acts of God, acts of the
public enemy, acts of any governmental authority in its sovereign
capacity, fires, floods, power outages, hurricanes, earthquakes,
epidemics, quarantine restrictions, strikes or other labor disputes
and freight embargoes. “Non Seismic Delay” means (i) issues caused
by telecommunications and internet service provider(s); (ii) delays
or failures involving hardware or software not within Seismic’s
possession or control including third party services and Non-Seismic
Materials; (iii) delays caused by Customer in providing access to
Seismic support in the event that Customer has opted not to allow
Seismic support to have automatic access to its tenant or has
restricted access to specific Seismic personnel or to Seismic
personnel within specific geographic locations.
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Seismic in its sole discretion may take the Services down for
unscheduled maintenance and in that event will attempt to notify
Customer in advance. Such unscheduled maintenance will be counted
against the Uptime goal.
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SUPPORT ACCESS AND RESPONSE TIMES
| SLA Level |
Support Access |
Priority 1 Response |
Priority 2 Response |
Additional Notes |
| Platinum |
24x7x365 Platinum Team |
1 hour |
2 hours |
TAA, RCA on request |
| Platinum Plus |
24x7x365 Platinum Team |
1 hour |
2 hours |
TAA, RCA on request |
| Platinum Care |
24x7x365 Platinum Team |
2 hours |
4 hours |
RCA on request |
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For Platinum and Platinum Plus only, Seismic shall provide a
“Sandbox Environment” as part of these SLAs. This Sandbox
Environment will be separate from the “Production Environment” and
will be available for use by Customer. Service levels for system
availability for the "Sandbox Environment" are not subject to service
credits pursuant to Section 6 of these SLAs.
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For Platinum and Platinum Plus only, Seismic shall monitor the
performance of Customer’s Production Environment for Seismic Content
and adjust resources needed based on historical performance metrics
and usage patterns. The services outlined in this Section 5.2 are
not available for Seismic Learning or LiveSocial.
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Seismic allows 24x7x365 access to the Platinum Support team. The
Platinum Support team can be reached via email at
support@seismic.com, using
the chat function available in the platform, or via the Support
Portal in Seismic Community.
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As a general guideline, Priority 1 cases are critical, and the
Subscription Services are completely unusable. Priority 2 cases are
urgent; all users are affected and are unable to easily use
business critical functionality. Seismic reserves the right to
change ticket priority in our sole reasonable discretion based on
these guidelines, our knowledge of the customer’s use case, and
conversations with the ticket reporter.
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A Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is provided upon request for Priority 1
or 2 issues or Seismic identified outages.
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Customers acknowledge that it may take up to four (4) weeks for
Seismic to properly staff Customer’s Technical Account Advisor
(TAA). For avoidance of doubt, Platinum Care does not include a TAA.
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In the event that Customer chooses not to renew a Platinum SLA,
Customer will revert to Seismic’s standard Support Level Agreement.
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SERVICE CREDITS AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDIES
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Service Credits: Available for Platinum and
Platinum Plus only. Capped at two Fiscal Quarters per year, as
further described in 6.2 below.
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Exclusive Remedy: Platinum and Platinum Plus
customers may receive service credits only for up to two Fiscal
Quarters in any given Seismic fiscal year. Customer shall not
exercise these rights without a reasonable basis or belief that the
applicable Uptime goal was not satisfied.
THIS SLA SETS FORTH CUSTOMER’S SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY, AND
SEISMIC’S ENTIRE LIABILITY, FOR ANY FAILURE TO MEET THE
UPTIME.
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CREDIT REQUEST PROCESS
In order to receive a credit under Platinum or Platinum Plus, Customer
must request such credit by emailing Seismic at
support@seismic.com within 30
days following the end of the Fiscal Quarter in which the Downtime
occurred. If Customer submits a credit request and does not receive a
prompt automated response indicating that the request was received,
Customer must resubmit the request because the submission was not
properly received and will not result in a credit. Customers who are
past due or in default with respect to any payment or any material
contractual obligations to Seismic are not eligible for any credit
under this SLA. Seismic shall calculate any service-level downtime
using Seismic’s system logs and other records. Service credits will be
applied on Customer’s next Seismic invoice following Seismic’s receipt
of Customer’s request for credit and Seismic’s verification that the
uptime goal was not met.
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DEFINITIONS
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“Production System” or
“Production Environment” refers to the primary
environment containing live content, real user data and business
functionality for Customer.
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“User Interface” means access points by which a
user logs into the Services to initiate workflows.
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“Sandbox Environment” means secondary environment
isolated from the Production System or Environment used for
development, validation and testing.
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“Fiscal Quarter” means a consecutive three (3)
month period beginning on February 1 of each year (e.g., the first
Fiscal Quarter shall run from February 1 to April 30).
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“Uptime” means all other time that is not Downtime.
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“Downtime” means the Subscription Services are
materially unavailable or inaccessible to Customer to perform
business-critical functions, there are no workarounds for such
functions, and such functions cannot be reasonably postponed until
the feature is available again without having a material adverse
impact on the Customer. Possible examples of such business-critical
functions, depending on Customer’s use case, include Customer’s
complete inability to: log into the Subscription Services platform,
distribute content, load Learning and access learning paths,
generate LiveDocs, and/or view content from at least one of the
following: DocCenter, NewsCenter, HomePage, or Search.