ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus Erfahrungen

Vorteile

It sports a complete set of well-designed and ITIL-oriented functions; it can fit both a small firm and an enterprise - with proper licensing and setup.
Complete, customizable, easy to use, clear to setup, integrated with other Managengine (and 3rd party) solutions.

Nachteile

As per my latest experience (2019) workflow management could be improved; while it's not its primary focus, still it could give great advantages in automating service workflows (eg joiner & leavers).

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Spiceworks, SysAid, ServiceNow und osTicket

Gründe für den Wechsel zu ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus

Completeness of functions, ITIL orientation, ease of use

Vorteile

The interface is very friendly, you don't need to have so many knowledge about ITIL and ServiceDesk Plus will help you to improve your Help Desk service.

Nachteile

The ZIA bot that is bundled only works in english, there are so many customers that needs spanish support and ZIA doesn't support it.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

ServiceNow Customer Service Management und Zendesk Suite

Warum ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus gewählt wurde

The interface of ServiceDesk Plus is most friendly for the end users and technicians.

Zuvor genutzte Software

FootPrints

Gründe für den Wechsel zu ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus

ServiceDesk Plus offered the same functionalities of ServiceNow for less money and ZenDesk didn't has the required modules.

Vorteile

When it comes to bare basics, ServiceDesk Plus can get the job done. The sorting by order of attributes is easy enough. Simple ticket resolution is easy enough. Inputting attributes such as location and the nature of the request is easy enough. Picking up unassigned requests is easy. The asset search function is actually quite useful when doing a quick track of company assets.

Nachteile

The search function is nearly useless and if you have a LOT of tickets in the immediate archive, good luck finding it. The inability to search tickets by requester name is non-existent, the inline reply of ticket requests is extremely limited to the point that you might as well simply contact the client directly through your own company email rather than SDP itself.

Vorteile

All the customization options. We were really able to tailor the product to our processes. The pricing is fantastic and saved us thousands. Sdplus just integrates with nearly all other ME products. You can make your ticketing systems a one-stop shop for supporting users. Love that there is a mobile app that our staff can use. Specifically our IT staff when it comes to inventory as they can use their phones as a barcode scanner to track inventory. One less device they need.

Nachteile

There are so many features, initial setup can take a while to configure everything.

Vorteile

I have used this Cloud Based Servicedesk for some time now. I find that the interface is very nice to look at. Customization to the templates is very easy to manage and create. The permissions behind the system is also very easy to manage.
We use it for Asset Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Service Tickets. Also, we have some users that use it for internal Project Management. The application owners also like the reporting side of this application.

The ticket automation is also good in that we can get third-party systems to email the service desk and then automation can look at this email and then create a ticket based on a template designed for that service and then open it in the service desk without any end-user requirement. This saves on having to get a user to create the ticket. We us this automation a lot within our environment to save time on manual processes.

There is also a Contracts part to this system which we also use to create a ticket when a certificate is required or if a IT Service Contact is due to be renewed very useful these days.

Nachteile

As the interface is very heavy on JAVA I find that sometimes the system will just throw a wobbly and then do a random refresh and in some cases, you end up losing a lot of text you had just put in.

We have also had some issues with the Asset Management side of the system where we have just randomly lost some assets which have resulted in a call/ticket to ManageEngine. That said these have been sorted in a timely manner.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

ServiceNow Customer Service Management und ConnectWise ScreenConnect

Warum ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus gewählt wurde

The Jira was an on-premis system that was getting old.

Zuvor genutzte Software

Jira

Gründe für den Wechsel zu ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus

There were some great deals with ManageEngine at the time. Plus the cost of the service was very competitive in the marketplace.

Vorteile

Easy to setup and get started, mostly conforms to ITIL standards

Nachteile

Lacks some configurability and isn't as flexible as top-tier products like ServiceNow

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Freshservice und SysAid

Warum ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus gewählt wurde

Limited functionality and was unstable

Zuvor genutzte Software

Spiceworks

Gründe für den Wechsel zu ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus

Best combination of price, configurability, usability

Vorteile

In general, if you're just looking for helpdesk software to get started, but something you can expand later, this is a great option.

Nachteile

Some of the options are not fully integrated and it's obvious they were completed by different design teams. For example, the Change Log and Project management sections don't seem to flow with the rest of the ticketing and service sections.

Vorteile

It's pretty cheap and easy to setup. It is a basic helpdesk service out of the box, ready to go. There are no agents to install on computers, a plus for us. Updates are pretty easy to do as well.

Nachteile

The product is updated almost monthly and when we do get time to update, there are a bunch of them to do. They are all incremental and can't just run the latest.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Zendesk Suite

Gründe für den Wechsel zu ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus

It was cheaper and seemed to do the basics we needed it to.

Vorteile

The integration with the rest of the applications Zoho and ManageEngine have. Easy to set up and fast to be deployed.

Nachteile

If you are a small company, the best recommendation must work On a Cloud solution they provide.

Vorteile

It is very easy to implement, very friendly and out of the box "install and use"

Nachteile

The manufacturer invests a lot in developing the part of requests and incidents but has left aside modules such as problems, projects or changes.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Freshdesk und SolarWinds Service Desk

Gründe für den Wechsel zu ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus

The cost is within budget and the functionalities are aligned to ITIL

Vorteile

1. Light-weight and highly responsive. Intuitive interface.
2. Wonderful 'Solutions Knowledge Base' side feature based on articles and with an excellent search functionality. (We no longer use Media Wiki, however I'm doubtful about dropping MediaWiki).
3. The ServiceDesk API gives you unlimited abilities to automate and integrate with other applications. For example, we were able to integrate Nagios Network Monitoring tool so that a high priority alarm could automatically open a ticket on ServiceDesk Plus.

4. I admire the effort they placed on their online documention with their and searchable online you'll hardly need to contact support.

Nachteile

Nothing major, but would like to see improvements in the following areas:
1. Provide a visual view of all entities in the system. Virtual Machines, Routers, Physical Servers, etc. using graphing tools.
2. Provide a searchable menu. For example, if I type "LDAP Authentication" this would show me the "Domain Controllers" in the setup menu (Similar to CPanel's menu search feature).
3. More help notes & tips on 'what to do next' and on 'keyboard shortcuts'.

Vorteile

So far, this the best ServiceDesk solution in the market. It is bundled with almost everything that can be expected in these kinds of solution. Actually, we have never used some of the features included with this. However, we are privileged to receive updates from the vendor itself. We are extremely satisfied with the overall product capabilities, comparing verdict solutions.

Following are the most impressive features of the Service Desk

+ Easy Cloud integration
+ Best Asset management tools.
+ Best Reporting Tools.
+ Quality management capability of the staff

Nachteile

+ Hard to implements
+ Lack of administration documentation
+ Quite Expensive( but worth for money)

Vorteile

It's easy to use and configure! Their support staff and community are absolutely incredible. They even have FREE master classes to help you learn more about how it works, and user conferences where the actual developers give you hands-on training, so you find out even more about administering it. You get a head's up about new features coming down the pipe. I just can't say enough good things about it!

Nachteile

The feature requests sometimes take a while to come through, but that you can put them in at all is a definite pro. They listen to their users!

Vorteile

ServiceDesk Plus from ManageEngine is fairly easy to implement and provides the most basic needs of an IT support application.

Nachteile

ServiceDesk Plus from ManageEngine is very limited in features and functionality. It also has a fairly complex interface that is out of date. Our company has trouble tracking IT support tickets because of this limitation.

Vorteile

Workflows for tickets such as automatic approvals for new hires by a hiring manager
Multiple forms of entering a ticket (web, email, keywords in email)
Replying to user within ticket for a seamless end user experience
Separation of tasks within a ticket for different groups
Management of our contracts with automated reminders
Ability to import asset information and create relationships for identifying staff ownership of assets
Easily create solutions that both end users and technicians can refer to
Software is constantly being updated to meet needs of user base

Nachteile

- Support can take a bit to get back to you on issues
- It would be nice to be able to be able set up different support groups that could have tickets round robin assigned instead of the auto assigning applying to the entire set up technicians.

Vorteile

The software is great for tracking our IT helpdesk tickets. It provides easy to configure analysis options. Another plus is the option to keep and manage a knowledgebase of common solutions.

Nachteile

You have to be careful when assigning tickets from the main menu. I once clicked on the wrong check box when wanting just to select the very first ticket and thereby assigned all open tickets to one technician. Took us a few minutes to get all the tickets reassigned to the correct tech.

Vorteile

Feature rich! Automation ability is great. Affordable if you are going to use the features that it ships with. Additional modules available for additional features.

Nachteile

Setup is a bit intensive since there are so many pieces parts and features to configure and setup. A bit difficult to navigate at first when everything is enabled.

Vorteile

ServiceDesk Plus is one of the software I've used with the feature of having on-prem or cloud version as well. It allows the organization to have the data in its own infrastructure or in ManageEngine's cloud. ServiceDesk Plus is ITIL ready with processes as Incident, Problem, Change, Service Catalog, CMDB, etc. Also includes automation features, mobile access, reports configuration, and asset management.

Nachteile

It's poor in integration variety as integrates mostly with other ManageEngine solutions which I see as barely limitative if you want to expand your approach with other solutions.

Vorteile

It works great for our help desk needs. There are plenty of other features that we still need to explore such as creating multiple groups to add in departments.

Nachteile

Some of the features can be a little better such as the contracts section. That being said I haven't found a great contracts section for any of the products I have used.

Vorteile

ServiceDesk is a great tool to manage the tickets you are working on, as well as, keeping a track of all the assets within your company. This provides great audit trail for all of the work that we do

Nachteile

I am not too fond of the general user interface but it gets the job done nonetheless.

Vorteile

I really like the fact that ServiceDesk Plus can be installed on Premises or can be run from the cloud depending customer needs.

Nachteile

We cant add Video tutorials to our knowledge base

Vorteile

I like so many of the features available in the system for managing the ticketing system and integrating with Office365. I like to ability to manage change control, incidents and assign tasks, drop notes.

Nachteile

Searching is not as good as I like it to be. sometimes it is not easy to search for a previous incident by keywords.

Vorteile

Reliable, yet easy to use ticketing system. Provides great configuration options, get hold of open requests, tasks, projects. Great way to organize teams.

Nachteile

Projects module still leaves a lot to be desired. Good for basic stuff only, although it is not meant to replace more complete (and expensive) project management solutions.

Vorteile

single software for complete operations need, cmdb, purchase, change management integration with other manageengine softwares

Nachteile

Asset inventory part needs improvement. currently if we format it detects 2 devices there should be some eay that it detect same system even tho we change OS

Vorteile

Very user friendly interface and easy to manage all software's from one location. Also all there products are very cheap to purchase

Nachteile

updates. Making sure that you are updated to the latest version. If you miss an update you will have to install many service packs before getting to the latest