Professional Services

Realize your workflow goals faster

Our team is with you every step of the way. For when you need additional support, our services team is here to accelerate and increase the value you get from Tines.

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Fine-tuning every stage of workflow automation maturity

Advisory

The path to workflow maturity is evolving as technologies change. Our advisory services provide coaching and consulting on how to optimize your workflows.

Automation workshop

These offer an assessment of your workflow environment to identify new use cases and iterate on your processes. We’ll identify whitespace, develop a short-and long-term plan.

Technical training

At any stage in your automation journey, hands-on training provides your team with the guidance and coaching they need from our expert trainers.

Story building

We’ll jump-start your journey by building a selection of end-to-end use cases while your team goes through onboarding and initial training.

Migration

Our experts provide the project management and technical expertise to support you. We look for opportunities to optimize your workflow strategy and embed your team into Tines.

Don’t take our word for it

This proactive support helped us overcome initial deployment challenges and optimize our use of the platform.
Abubakar Mohd
Chief Technology Officer,
Beyon Cyber
Tines’ service has made a huge impact on our decision-making with the product and internally.
Security Leader
National Research Firm
faster product adoption with professional services
30%more workflows compared to the average

Why professional services?

The service isn't complete until you achieve your project outcomes. Uniquely positioned to set you up for success.

Momentum

Realize near immediate time to value with our professional services experts.

Transparency

Each initiative is tracked by our project management team with weekly milestone reports.

Goal-oriented

Everything about the program, including any modifications, are aligned with your goals and timelines.

Meet the team

We’re proud of and regularly recognized for our people. Meet your partners for your Tines journey.

FAQs about
Tines professional services

What is Tines’ approach to packaging professional services?

We package our services in hours and fixed cost. Hours can be used towards story building, advisory: story assessment and review, or advisory: sessions. We have a fixed cost for technical training and roadmap workshops. You purchase a volume of hours based on your needs.

Is there a recommended number of hours to start with?

The number of hours you need will depend highly on the stage of maturity for your workflow program and which service offerings you need. 

  • If this is your first time building a workflow program, 115-170 hours is recommended. 

  • If you are migrating from an existing platform to Tines, 190-300 hours are recommended.

  • If you are running a large-scale program, 100-180 hours is recommended. 

Our highest impact programs include a mix of technical training, story building, and advisory services.

Estimating hours for story building depends on complexity. Asking the following questions in advance can help our team scope your needs with you:

  • How complex will the logic be?

  • How many formulas and loops will be required?

  • Will there be advanced formulas?

  • Are we hitting multiple API endpoints? How many tools are you looking to interact with throughout the workflow?

  • How much user interaction is required?

  • Is there branching logic?

  • Will it call on other workflows (i.e. send to story)?

Can I re-allocate story building or advisory hours for technical training or a roadmap workshop? Can I re-allocate advisory session hours for story building?

Since hours are scoped based on the type of work, we tend to stick to the original definition. However, we understand plans change and are open to reviewing the hours on a case by case basis.

What if I don’t use all of my hours?

You have the duration of your contract to use your hours. Hours expire at contract end and do not carry over to renewals. Having scoping conversations early on helps mitigate the risk of unused hours.

What if my goals aren’t achieved by the time my hours run out? Will I have to buy more?

Yes, you always have the option to purchase additional hours if necessary to help achieve business outcomes. For story building and advisory hours, you will receive weekly progress reporting on your hours utilization.

Is there a max on advisory sessions hours that can be purchased in a year?

The max hours bucket for advisory sessions that can be purchased is 30 hours. We will review exceptions on a case by case basis.

Approximately how long do services take to complete?

The Tines professional services team will work with you to meet your goals and objectives within your desired timeframe. Our project manager will work with you to get to a plan both teams are aligned on.

Tines reserves the right to require additional hours as needed.You can accelerate services timelines by contracting a dedicated resource or multiple resources. These are considerations we can discuss during the SOW process.

What are the Terms & Conditions for the professional services hours model?

Please see our professional services agreement here.

What does an ideal scoping call look like?

The call is 60 minutes to discuss your workflow initiative and goals. 

Ahead of the scoping call, potential subscribers will fill in a scoping spreadsheet. During the call, we'll talk through the spreadsheet and you will walk Tines through the following:

  • High level description of each priority you’re looking to achieve

  • Existing steps for the workflows today

  • Any tooling that will need to interact with the workflows 

Within 72 hours of the call, we'll share an estimated level of effort (hours) and associated cost with you to review.

Will Tines employees need access to my tenant to deliver the services? If so, how is that managed?

Yes. To deliver the services effectively, we’ll need to grant your dedicated Tines team temporary access to your tenant. We can discuss how to provision this with our roles and your SSO provider, if needed, and this is typically done via some combination of VPN, VDI and contractor / service account access.

What is the difference between professional services and support?

Support is there to answer technical questions and troubleshoot issues within your Tines tenant. Services are to deliver outcomes, support your building, and discuss your business strategy with Tines. For a full overview of our support services, please see our Support Reference Guide.

I’m a partner. How can I learn more about delivering services related to the Tines platform?

You can find information on our partner portal here. If you already have a signed agreement in place but don’t have access to the portal, contact partnerportal@tines.com.

What should I do to prepare for a migration?

There are three tactical areas to focus on in preparation for a migration. For a more detailed look at migration, see our blog post, ‘Migrating from legacy SOAR platform to Tines: a step-by-step guide.’

1. Set up

Does our team have the necessary access to your systems included those that are on-prem?

2.  Prerequisites 

Execute on the prework like: 

  • Identifying your top use cases by priority

  • Documenting any existing workflows

  • Testing your credentials for your tools

  • Identifying stakeholders within your team

3. Collaboration

The key to migration success is close-collaboration between your team and ours. The best, most efficient programs include our teams meeting regularly for office hours and your team providing timely feedback on each use case. 

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