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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

    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ASpiceworks offers a set of free tools for IT network management and help desk support ticketing. The inventory management system essentially provides comprehensive device information for asset management.

    $0

    (free for 1-5 Seats)

    Pricing
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Editions & Modules
    Free Trial
    $0
    per license/per month
    Professional
    Contact sales team
    Professional Extended
    Contact sales team
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Enterprise Extended
    Contact sales team
    Core Plan
    $0
    Premium
    $6
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional Details
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    97%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    27 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    31 Answers
    Features
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued) and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    9.4
    2 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.1
    56 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets10.02 Ratings8.855 Ratings
    Service restoration10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications10.01 Ratings4.943 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards7.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings5.648 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings9.346 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings10.055 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings10.054 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued) and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    -
    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 Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Change requests repository10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued) and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    9.4
    53 Ratings
    16% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings9.449 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.449 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued) and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.7
    53 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings9.847 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings4.612 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings10.047 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings10.029 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Small Businesses
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    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.3 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (84 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.8
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (26 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    It's a great helpdesk solution - we currently have five years of data within it, roughly 25,000 tickets. The older edition is a great inventory and software license tracking tool. It is easy for users to use the interface and submit tickets and requests on the web, and its email integration is solid. The new version is a below-average system monitoring tool, only giving up/down status and a few other metrics.
    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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • It helps to multitask, even on the go with the mobile App.
    • We can customize to meet your needs with automated responses, notifications, and templates.
    • Detailed reports allow managers to keep track [of] and analyze data.
    • Allows for a database to store notes helpful for future tickets.
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    Cons
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    • 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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • I have always wanted a way to redirect a support request into another IS bin, such as a development task.
    • It's possible to extract the data from the Spiceworks database, but it would be helpful if the process to do so were easier.
    • Improved ability to customize the system generated emails to improve the formatting and company branding.
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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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks is a free tool, so there would be no hesitation if we are required to upgrade it. We have installed Spiceworks on a dedicated server with more than enough resources to get the most from this tool, so we will have this running in our department for years to come.
    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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks is user friendly and easy to set up. It can be customized to suit your needs. If there are any problems, you can go to the community forums for support and be in contact with many IT Pros, as well as the Spiceworks support staff and development teams who are always happy to help users out
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    We use it both locally on our own server so up time is decided by us and we also use the hosted help desk. We have never had an outage of that.
    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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks has been working out of the box, and some of the basic customizations have been successful with just our internal staff handling. We don't have any other issues with the tool. It provides us with the inventory information we want in a quick and concise report in a variety of formats for our team.
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    If you can spin up a VM to run it on, you'll thank yourself later. If you have remote sites, set up a local server (or dedicated computer) at each site and set them up as remote collectors for the main site. You'll save time and bandwidth
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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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    EGroupware UI is clunky and hard to use, Jira is great but the pricing is expensive in comparison with spice works that has a free version and you can test it out properly before buying and make a correct decision based on your business plan and company objectives with the right software.
    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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • Positive - Allow organizations to implement structured Help Desk procedures.
    • Positive - IT can begin to quantify their tickets and uncover needs within the organization.
    • Positive - IT can develop a solid roadmap with [the] management of future needs, equipment refresh schedules, etc.
    • Positive - IT can pinpoint employees who may need extra training or updated equipment based on historical ticketing data.
    Incentivized
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