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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    atSpoke (discontinued)

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AatSpoke was a ticketing and request management app designed to support IT help desks, HR, or management with handling employee requests and assistance needs. It was acquired by Okta in 2021, and is no longer available.N/A

    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.

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    Pricing
    atSpoke (discontinued)Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Core Plan
    $0
    Premium
    $6
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    atSpoke (discontinued)Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    atSpoke (discontinued)Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    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
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    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    27 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    31 Answers
    Features
    atSpoke (discontinued)Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of atSpoke (discontinued) and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    atSpoke (discontinued)
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.1
    56 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets7.34 Ratings8.855 Ratings
    Expert directory8.32 Ratings5.648 Ratings
    Service restoration10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.43 Ratings5.043 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.23 Ratings9.246 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings10.055 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings10.054 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of atSpoke (discontinued) and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    atSpoke (discontinued)
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Configuration mangement9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of atSpoke (discontinued) and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    atSpoke (discontinued)
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
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    Ratings
    Change requests repository8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar8.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of atSpoke (discontinued) and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    atSpoke (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 atSpoke (discontinued) and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
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    -
    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
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    atSpoke (discontinued)Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
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    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    atSpoke (discontinued)Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (84 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (26 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    atSpoke (discontinued)Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Spoke is well suited to ingesting the myriad questions and requests I get throughout my workday. If I receive requests directly, they make it easy to change those requests into tickets, which helps my team track and demonstrate the work that we do. Spoke is also great for auto-answering common issues and questions. It only takes three of the same general question for it to start recognizing and offering the answer from our KB. Spoke has also been a great partner in helping our team be more efficient and more effective, something we never got with our old provider. I can’t emphasize enough that Spoke is NOT for external-facing helpdesks. It’s just not. It works best for teams that are supporting their own colleagues. I would also say that, at the moment, it doesn’t scale well past a few hundred users. They’re implementing features this year that will be more helpful for that sort of thing. But it does work great for remote support!
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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.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Routes questions to the right team or person via Slack, email or text
    • Obtain status updates on current job requests
    • Allows IT to follow up more efficiently on the job requests from employees
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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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    • Newer company, a lot of features on the road map that aren't yet available.
    • A few bugs with the Slack integration.
    • Filtering/searching tickets is not intuitive.
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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
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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.
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    Usability
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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
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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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    Support Rating
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    Any questions we've had were fielded in a very timely manner and their staff have been very helpful in our launch and ongoing inquiries. Internally, it has been very well received amongst staff and has increased efficiency, company wide
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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
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    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
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    Spoke is just... easier. Easier to set up and easier to use, for both admins and users. We already have asset management and didn’t necessarily need our ticketing system to be directly connected to it. We wanted a product that was friendly to use, not crazy expensive, and didn’t require us to purchase an implementation package and/or a multi-day training package to roll-out. It’s not rocket science!
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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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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Spoke has been very cost efficient, more than paying for itself in gained productivity hours.
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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.
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