METRO COMMUNICATIONS LTD

TeamViewer Frontline

Frontline empowers workers in an increasingly digitized working environment. A fully integrated immersive reality solution for devices such as Hololens2, RealWear and Vuzix. Remote expert support enables expert knowledge to be available to more people and develops skills. Guided learning by creating step-by-step holographic instructions for users where work happens.

Features

  • Remote expert
  • Guided digital workflow
  • elearning (training workflows)
  • Assisted reality (RealWear) and mixed reality (Hololens 2) device support
  • Artificial intelligence

Benefits

  • Cut the time to support a remote worker
  • Reduce the cost of supporting a remote worker
  • Make expert knowledge available to remote workers
  • Reduced time to train, fewer errors and greater skill retention
  • Richer training means learners see what needs to be done
  • Real time feedback and audit
  • Faster inspections
  • Reduce changeover times
  • Highly scalable

Pricing

£1,400 to £1,400 a unit a year

  • Education pricing available
  • Free trial available

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at peter.matthews@metrocomms.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

8 0 5 0 4 3 9 5 3 2 1 0 0 6 6

Contact

METRO COMMUNICATIONS LTD Peter Matthews
Telephone: 07595024999
Email: peter.matthews@metrocomms.co.uk

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
What software services is the service an extension to
RealWear, Hololens and TeamViewer tested assisted, mixed and augmented reality device operating systems
Cloud deployment model
  • Private cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
Service constraints
None known
System requirements
Ability to access a browser (see list of browsers)

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Yes, at extra cost
Support response times
4 hours
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support
Yes, at an extra cost
Web chat support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support accessibility standard
None or don’t know
How the web chat support is accessible
It's not available today because no one wanted it. However we can spin it up quickly.
Web chat accessibility testing
We haven't yet tested with assistive technology users
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
Business hours 9 to 5
Technical Account Manager
If we need supplier support then that will be provided if contracted.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
We can off all 3 options i.e. onsite training, online training and user documentation with 24 x 365 support too via Metro's customer contact centre if needed.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
When the contract expires then on request teamViewer deletes all data in accordance with GDPR

https://www.teamviewer.com/en/dpa-annex/#annex-1
End-of-contract process
You are provided with an isolated instance in the cloud where all of your data is held. At the end of the contract that instance is deleted.

Further information is available here

https://www.teamviewer.com/en/trust-center/

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
Application to install
Yes
Compatible operating systems
  • Android
  • IOS
  • Windows
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
The service can be used on mobile phones, smart glasses and immersive devices as well as tablets.

Holographic effect on Hololens only

2d on smart glasses and mobiles

3d on hololens and tablets / mobiles
Service interface
Yes
User support accessibility
None or don’t know
Description of service interface
Administration interface
Accessibility standards
None or don’t know
Description of accessibility
Users use the applications on the device to get instructions and perform their tasks
Accessibility testing
Not carried out yet
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
Manage the user interface
Set up calls
Integrate into 3rd party solutions such as SAP
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
HTML
API sandbox or test environment
No
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Extensive customisation available e.g. white label. For example the logos, design, the entire user interface.

No code and low code options available for developers and non-developers.

Customers can also do some customisation subject to full onboarding.

Scaling

Independence of resources
You have your own fully scalable instance that is "technically" infinitely scalable.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Teamviewer provides extensive servie usage metrics including, but not limited to:

Who made the calls
Who did they
Call duration
Who performed the tasks
Start and end time stamps
Reporting types
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra features and support
Organisation whose services are being resold
Teamviewer

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
European Economic Area (EEA)
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Managed by a third party
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
Another external penetration testing organisation
Protecting data at rest
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Other
Other data at rest protection approach
Teamviewer cloud services are hosted at Microsoft Azure so all Microsoft Azure compliances apply automatically.
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Via the API with a back end integration into your systems.

Using a "standard browser" for basic data download of data once a task has been carried out e.,g. data, photos, videos.
Data export formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data export formats
  • PDF
  • XML
  • MP4 for video
  • JPEG for photos
  • Audio
Data import formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data import formats
  • PDF
  • XML
  • MP4 for video
  • JPEG for photos
  • Audio

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Data protection within supplier network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • Other
Other protection within supplier network
Please refer to this page for information about TeamViewer's security posture. We recognise the importance of security, both inside the TeamViewer network and also connecting to Government and Government agency/partner networks. We welcome a more detailed in depth discussion about information security.

https://www.teamviewer.com/en/trust-center/industry-leading-security/

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
Where contractually agreed Teamviewer offers guaranteed levels of availability and uptime.

These are subject to negotiation and we welcome a discussion to focus a solution on your exact requirements.

Teamviewer strives to achieve 100% uptime and availability. Teamviewer's historic performance can be viewed here.

https://status.teamviewer.com/uptime
Approach to resilience
Master and slave data centres.

https://www.teamviewer.com/en/trust-center/industry-leading-security/

Teamviewer welcomes a detailed discussion about their approach to service resilience.
Outage reporting
Public URL
https://status.teamviewer.com/uptime

API
Email alerts

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Teamviewer Frontline has user permission management and user access control with granular permissions based on role and group based authentication.
Access restriction testing frequency
At least once a year
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
No audit information available
Access to supplier activity audit information
No audit information available
How long system logs are stored for
User-defined

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
No
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
Yes
Any other security certifications
  • SOC 2
  • SOC 3
  • ISO 9001 (2015)
  • HIPAA/HITECH
  • TISAX label

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security policies and processes
Teamviewer has published it's security stance on it's website.

https://www.teamviewer.com/en/trust-center/industry-leading-security/

Teamviewer has a dedicated information security team who welcome the opportunity to discuss these matters and to clarify all questions you might have.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
Teamviewer uses tools including but not limited to Gitlab and Jenkins for development engineering.

A typical approach could be to have a development, staging and production environments. Code is version controlled. Application security is reviewed throughout the development cycle.

Merge requests are required and have to be accepted by the Senior Architect.

External security professionals may, given the view of the allocated technical lead, be called in to carry out independent application security testing prior to release.

Where security vetting is required then Metro can provide Programme / Project leadership to manage these.

Further information can be provided on request.
Vulnerability management type
Undisclosed
Vulnerability management approach
TeamViewer has a vulnerability management process owned by IT sec. That includes components that take place in the service deliverable and monitoring. From R&D we do monitors as well libraries in used.
Regarding Vulnerability handling.
For R&D we do have a Product Security Incident Response Team and a CSIRT team for IT sec. For R&D side we have a dedicated team of members joining from across the R&D organization to respond to incidents in the product that ultimately feed its findings back into product security improvements
In case of event we do communicate via our trust center update and recommendation.
Protective monitoring type
Undisclosed
Protective monitoring approach
TeamViewer uses Microsoft Azure. Please refer to the Azure monitoring documents
Incident management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Incident management approach
TeamViewer has established a streamlined data breach notification process in accordance with Art. 33 and 34 GDPR. Includes the exact and comprehensive documentation of each incident by using a standardized template. Also detailed risk assessment by the legal department in accordance with the risk assessment matrix provided by the body of the independent German data protection supervisory authorities of the federal and state governments. Each incident is assessed within the target timeframe of 72 hours and concludes with a decision of whether the regulating authorities need to be notified. Management is informed about all incidents. Internal records are maintained

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
Yes
Connected networks
NHS Network (N3)

Social Value

Fighting climate change

Fighting climate change

Teamviewer Frontline empowers individuals by removing the need for travel by enabling an expert to connect with and support a competent individual. For example, faced with a challenging situation someone like a First Responder can engage the services of an Accident and Emergency Consultant to receive instruction and guidance to apply more advanced treatment.

Pricing

Price
£1,400 to £1,400 a unit a year
Discount for educational organisations
Yes
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
Free trials are subject to a discussion regarding the details of the pilot e.g. objectives, who will be involved, the use case, potential scope of supply, total number of users and when the full project will start when the pilot has achieved it's objectives.

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at peter.matthews@metrocomms.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.