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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Atlassian Service Collection

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe Atlassian Service Collection, including the no longer available standalone Jira Service Management, is an integrated suite of service management applications built on Atlassian's unified Jira platform architecture. Designed to bring development, operations, internal IT, and external support teams onto a single workflow engine, the Service Collection consolidates support infrastructures to deliver service at high velocity.

    $0

    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
    Atlassian Service CollectionSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    per month
    Standard
    $20
    per agent/per month
    Premium
    $40
    per agent/per month
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Core Plan
    $0
    Premium
    $6
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Atlassian Service CollectionSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Atlassian Service CollectionSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Considered Both Products
    Atlassian
    Chose Atlassian Service Collection
    When I evaluated Spiceworks, it was not going to be replacing any ticketing systems. However, I did evaluate it and was not extremely impressed by the short demo I did.
    JIRA was selected because a branch of our company was already using it, so it made sense to consolidate into …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atlassian Service Collection
    Very cost effective and you receive full service help desk software system and network monitor all-inclusive. It is capable of productivity and easy to maintain. It is a easy to use help desk solution that includes a ticketing system, inventory system and a network monitor. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Atlassian Service Collection
    When we completed our merger with another company, they were already using Jira so it made sense for us to use a common solution. Their experience and investment with the package was a major factor in choosing it over our current tools and those we were researching for future …
    Incentivized
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Chose Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Spiceworks Help Desk is basic software for start ups or entry level organization
    Incentivized
    Chose Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    [Its] simplicity, [the] easy user interface for both technicians and end-users, and stability, plus the ability to locally control data access (we're highly regulated regarding privacy and records rights), puts it in its own class. While it may not do everything larger systems …
    Incentivized
    Chose Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    36 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    42 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    27 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    27 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    31 Answers
    Features
    Atlassian Service CollectionSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Atlassian Service Collection, with Jira Service Management and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Atlassian Service Collection, with Jira Service Management
    9.0
    86 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.1
    56 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.385 Ratings8.855 Ratings
    Expert directory9.02 Ratings5.548 Ratings
    Service restoration9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools8.977 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications10.01 Ratings4.943 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.472 Ratings9.346 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards7.573 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings10.055 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings10.054 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Atlassian Service Collection, with Jira Service Management and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Atlassian Service Collection, with Jira Service Management
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Configuration mangement10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of Atlassian Service Collection, with Jira Service Management and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Atlassian Service Collection, with Jira Service Management
    7.9
    80 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Change requests repository8.873 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar6.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management8.578 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Atlassian Service Collection, with Jira Service Management and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Atlassian Service Collection, with Jira Service Management
    -
    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 Atlassian Service Collection, with Jira Service Management and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Atlassian Service Collection, with Jira Service Management
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.7
    53 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings9.847 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings4.512 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings10.047 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings10.029 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Atlassian Service CollectionSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (87 ratings)
    10.0
    (84 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (12 ratings)
    9.8
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (26 ratings)
    8.7
    (26 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Atlassian Service CollectionSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Atlassian
    I think using a ticketing system is very easy to use and allows multiple teams to create help desks in the same portal. In terms of internal usage, I think this is a great option. However, suppose you're trying to keep internal items and external helpdesks in the same instance. In that case, this is not ideal, as there is no effective way to separate the two instances to protect internal data better.
    Incentivized
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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
    Atlassian
    • Integration with many of the most common tools companies are using (Slack, MS Teams, Salesforce, ... etc)
    • Natural workflow with Jira (as product development / project management tool) which makes the full fix and follow up of the tickets / issues very easy to follow
    • Allow multiple different entry points and work flows for as many different needs your teams / company have
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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
    Atlassian
    • Navigating through issues outside of a kan ban board can be confusing and task heavy.
    • It's easy to clutter up the tool. It could use some easy clean up capabilities.
    • User interface is decent, but could use work to make it more intuitive.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Atlassian
    Pricing is attractive
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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
    Atlassian
    If you're used to other tools in the Atlassian ecosystem, you'll feel right at home with JSM. It's also a platform that technical folk can easily pick up. However, I wouldn't recommend using JSM as a company's first jumping off point into Atlassian. There are a lot of other 'newer' tools that provide sleeker ITSM systems at a similar cost.
    Incentivized
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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
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    Reliability and Availability
    Atlassian
    Product is stable and it improved the availability
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    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.
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    Performance
    Atlassian
    Accessing Jira Service Management is easy and fast.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Atlassian
    I gave JIRA a 9 rating since for me JIRA works according to its purpose. Since there is a customer portal, our clients can leave a comment or communicate with us using the PR ticket that way it is easier for us to also request any additional information we need for our investigation.
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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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    In-Person Training
    Atlassian
    Online Training from Atlassian was really Good to effectively deploy, manage, and utilize Jira Service Management. It really improved the overall Operational Efficiency and productivity of end users in the organization. Training gives the confidence to use Jira Service Management for all of the Product engineering, Application support, and Infrastructure engineering support team members.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Atlassian
    Online Training was good and informative for new users adopting Jira Service Management. The Training helped to understand the product features, customization capabilities, and integration options with various tools in an enterprise organization, so the overall productivity and efficiency are improved at Blue Yonder. It also helps to timely address the incident tickets, user stories, and track and close them in a timely manner.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Atlassian
    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
    Atlassian
    Zendesk is a similar ticketing system that our organization used before JIRA Service Desk. The main drawback of Zendesk was that it can only be used as a cloud service. This means that our company data would be living on the internet at the hands of their security team. Another drawback of this is the price is significantly more expensive rather than hosting it yourself. Zendesk does have some additional features such as commenting on multiple tickets at once that JSD does lack. However, switching to JSD was significantly more cost effective because we have the ability and the infrastructure to host our own ticketing system, something that Zendesk could not provide. Ultimatley switching to JSD saved us money and allows the ability for integration with all of the other Atlassian Suite products that we use on a day to day basis.
    Incentivized
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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.
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    Scalability
    Atlassian
    In Blue Yonder, we have deployed across multiple departments and geographical sites as needed.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Atlassian
    Professional Service support was Awesome during Cloud Migration.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Atlassian
    • It is definitely cheaper than Salesforce
    • It allows the IT service desk to be more organized and respond more quickly to tickets, which can save time for both agent and requester.
    • Some things are "not quite there" developmentally, so this means that internal IT will need to spend more time developing and testing the product.
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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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    ScreenShots

    Atlassian Service Collection Screenshots

    Screenshot of Drive IT best practices with ITIL-ready templates. Get everything your IT teams need out of the box for service request, incident, problem, and change management.Screenshot of Get an ITIL certified service desk. Everything your IT teams need out-of-the-box for service request, incident, problem, and change management. Jira Service Desk is PinkVERIFY™ certified.Screenshot of Deliver a better service experience. Customers or employees can submit requests with an easy-to-use help center and add Confluence to Jira Service Desk to get an integrated knowledge base. Machine learning intelligently recommends the right service and learns from every interaction, so answers are easy to find.Screenshot of Stay in the loop with developers. y linking Jira Service Desk with Jira Software, IT and developer teams can collaborate on one platform to fix incidents faster and push changes with confidence.Screenshot of Deliver on SLA's. Nail your Service Level Agreements, every time. Your agents get a simple queue so they get the important things done first. Configure and get going in minutes.Screenshot of Automate those repetitive tasks. Is your team stuck in gear with repetitive tasks or missing priority requests? Setup automations so your agents can focus on solving the important stuff and help lighten the workload.