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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Agiloft's Flexible Service Desk Suite included an Internal Help Desk, External Customer Support, Change Management, Asset Management, RMA Management, and ITIL/ITSM capability. The product is no longer available.

    $65

    per month

    Microsoft System Center

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft System Center is an enterprise-grade IT Operations Management (ITOM) suite designed for the centralized administration of data center infrastructure, virtualized environments, and hybrid cloud workloads. The platform provides unified management across heterogeneous environments, including support for Windows Server, Linux, and Azure Stack HCI. System Center is Microsoft's ITOM stack for organizations that maintain a significant on-premise footprint, vs the company's Azure-based…

    $1,323

    per month

    Pricing
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)Microsoft System Center
    Editions & Modules
    Free Trial
    $0
    per license/per month
    Professional
    Contact sales team
    Professional Extended
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    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Enterprise Extended
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    Standard Edition
    $1323
    Datacenter Edition
    $3607
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)Microsoft System Center
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)Microsoft System Center
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    91%
    Would buy again
    31 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    33 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
    Features
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)Microsoft System Center
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued) and Microsoft System Center
    Feature
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    9.4
    2 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Microsoft System Center
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service restoration10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards7.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued) and Microsoft System Center
    Feature
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Microsoft System Center
    -
    Ratings
    Configuration mangement8.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued) and Microsoft System Center
    Feature
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Microsoft System Center
    -
    Ratings
    Change requests repository10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)Microsoft System Center
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.3 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)Microsoft System Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.3
    (58 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)Microsoft System Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Agiloft is most suited to meeting the needs of an organization that requires rapid and frequent process changes for critical processes, and values empowering the people who do the job to determine how best to automate it - essentially rapidly growing, democratic organization.It's hard to imagine an inappropriate scenario to use Agiloft, but one that comes to mind is organzations requiring a complete, finished, highly structured solution that they do not want to change over time. Agiloft is designed with the expectation that clients will adapt it to their needs so many functions are left undone, rather than throwing a "kitchen sink" at the customer and letting them choose what they need.The best way to work with Agiloft is to take the training class, then have a small success with a small team, involving the employees and first level management in the deployment. They'll tell everyone else how much they like it. This reduces the possibility of slow development cycles and an undue dependence on outside expertise, while maximizing the return on Agiloft's investment in easy customizability.
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    Microsoft
    For companies with more than 10 Windows devices and needing to standardize the OS, AV, access, share resources, and install software. SCCM is the way to go. This software is unnecessary if the business is all remote users and not in an office-type setting. There are cloud offerings or none to accomplish what a business needs.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Fully GUI based interface that has drastically reduced the time to add new features/workflows.
    • The product was very easy to deploy and add features like Single-Sign On and user provisioning from our internal DataWarehouse. Again, vendor support was a big help while implementing those features.
    • The workflows include a very comprehensive rule-based system that can trigger various actions like escalations, emails, changes of request state and more. All without any coding. Again, fully GUI based.
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    Microsoft
    • Allows the grouping of devices by user.
    • Allows controlling updates being deployed to user devices.
    • Allows for the repurposing of machines by being able to load new or updated software on machines that already are in the system.
    • Allows us the ability to wipe a machine clean and restore it back to the configuration that was assigned the machine.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • With flexibility comes complexity, so we have needed to use consulting time to implement some of our needs. The learning curve can be steep, but the product can accommodate nearly any scenario.
    • At one point we seemed to have some performance issues, but those seem to be in the past.
    • The text messaging integration would be nice.
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    Microsoft
    • The product could improve in the area of having better mechanisms in place with how the SCEP client is deployed/installed from the server on the management side. We have run into this firsthand with the client not installing on an endpoint, and then having to take the time to investigate why it was not installing.
    • A second improvement that can be made is to keep trying to improve the products detection rate for finding malware/viruses. The case can be made that there are some products out there that do a better job at this and have a higher detection rate.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    We're comfortable and happy with our purchase of Agiloft. Our end users have been happy with the tool, and appreciate the time savings and efficiency it has gave them. Agiloft also appears to actually care about you being a customer, which makes a difference to me.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is tightly integrated to Microsoft Windows servers os monitoring with great product support.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    For the most part, it is an easy and intuitive system to use. There are many small things that could be improved to make the system work even easier. However, overall it is very easy to use if you have a good grasp on computer programs and using them to build things. I do not have any computer science or programming background, and I am able to use this system with few problems.
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    Microsoft
    It is not user-friendly for the most part. With IT infrastructure, sometimes it cannot handle excess requests. Every few months, you will need an upgrade in terms of server resources to keep up with incoming alerts and requests. This does not happen all of the time, but it does happen when there are too many requests.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    We often hear back very quickly with answers to our questions. They also support their answers at times with screenshots and videos to help further explain their advice and suggestions. The only reason it isn't a 10 is because sometimes using only the online support system, sometimes things aren't communicated as well as they would be over the phone. However, we know if there is a major issue going on, we can call Agiloft for support.
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    Microsoft
    There is a fair amount of documentation out there to help you when you have questions or run into issues with this product as well as tutorials on some of the more common tasks. Between the documentation and the overall ease of use we haven't had to deal with direct Microsoft support for this product.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Easy to install with intuitive interactive interface during the installation process a and integration to MS SQL was smooth
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Most of the other CRM software packages we evaluated were either too complicated or time
    consuming to setup and customize, or they were too expensive, especially since many
    of the companies charge additional fees for each additional module or function
    you want to use.
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    Microsoft
    We previously used a mix of FOG and Clonezilla to image machines. The biggest issues with these products is that changing one piece of the image required you to rebuild the entire image itself. These pieces of software also did not allow you to manage applications and Windows Updates, causing IT to have to constantly touch machines after they were imaged and update or manage them with a much more hands on approach.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Helps us organize tasks and projects and the data associated with each project
    • Helps us organize our resources to meet the demand of issues and events
    • This has helped us keep moving forward during times we otherwise would have pulled back.
    • Completely revolutionized our way of work life. Upwards of approx 300 percent productivity and complexity..
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    Microsoft
    • It has allowed the enterprise to standardize on a single platform for monitoring.
    • Easier troubleshooting of issues with Microsoft platforms.
    • Greater visibility of issues across platforms when applications are hosted in a mixed environment.
    • Additional costs for monitoring systems that are not directly supported with additional packs (iSeries, Linux on Power).
    Incentivized
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