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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Desk.com (discontinued)

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ADesk.com was a helpdesk, ticketing, and customer support product offered by Salesforce, and oriented towards the needs of small businesses. It is no longer sold and support has been discontinued. Salesforce recommends its modern Service Cloud as a replacement.N/A

    IBM Maximo Application Suite

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Maximo Application Suite is an enterprise asset management (EAM) platform.N/A
    Pricing
    Desk.com (discontinued)IBM Maximo Application Suite
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Desk.com (discontinued)IBM Maximo Application Suite
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—The IBM® Maximo® Application Suite (MAS) comes in two packages: client managed software or software as a service (SaaS). MAS is purchased using a simplified licensing and usage model leveraging a credit-based system called AppPoints. This provides the flexibility to easily add functionality and users, scale your business, and pay only for what you use with a single entitlement.
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    Community Pulse
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    75 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    57 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    75 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    50 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    57 Answers
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    User Ratings
    Desk.com (discontinued)IBM Maximo Application Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (38 ratings)
    6.8
    (86 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    7.7
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (19 ratings)
    9.5
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
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    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    8.2
    (21 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    1.0
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    User Testimonials
    Desk.com (discontinued)IBM Maximo Application Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Once I had to search the logs to find cases and data on a particular keyword, but I was not able to do so as there was no search tool available, nor was there a sort or filter tool. I was totally frustrated as I had to skim through the data to complete my task manually.
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    IBM
    The software is very well-suited to asset lifecycle management and system condition monitoring. User-friendliness of the product and effectiveness in managing work orders. The software's pricing is much more affordable than that of other EAM systems. Many improvements are needed in the customer support services department. Delays in response are costly.
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    Pros
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    • Desk.com automatically tracks analytics on all cases coming in and going out.
    • Desk.com helps prevent multiple people from working on the same case. However, it does allow us to assign the case to someone else if we feel that person is more qualified to address the case.
    • Desk.com has very few bugs or server issues that we've seen. This helps prevent any delays in communicating with our customers.
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    IBM
    • Delivers Out-of-Box solutions for various industries without the need for customization and configuration
    • Modules and Applications are well developed and linked in an orderly way, with proper documentation and help guides that allow end users to start using the system with ease
    • Powerful Work Management, Contracts, Inventory, and Purchasing applications and features that are a better match to other ERP applications today
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    Cons
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    • Internal knowledge tools are clunky and annoying to access, outside the regular workflow of everyday staff
    • Arbitrary and confusing limitations in business rules and custom fields
    • Arbitrary and confusing limitations in case handling - for example, if you begin a case as a phone call you CANNOT email the customer from the case. As though no one working at Desk has ever sent a follow-up email...?
    • Not very good for B2B, mid-to-large businesses. Difficult to set business rules based on company information (for example, service level/tier) and nearly impossible to track key stakeholders and get clear insight into the relationship at a high level
    • Reporting tools are clunky, slow, and just all-around pretty useless
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    IBM
    • Usually, we have problems with the mobile apps. For about seven out of ten customers, we need to use third-party mobile applications. It’s been a rollercoaster — Anywhere was terrible, then Maximo Mobile for 8 was pretty good, and now with Maximo 9, it’s problematic again. So it’s been ups and downs. But the good thing is that the architecture is open, so we can use third-party applications or even develop our own add-ons. Still, IBM could do this better.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    We will be very likely to renew our contract with Desk.com. It is easy to use, and provides us with everything we need to keep our customers and employees happy. They have also been very helpful in catering the application to our specific and unique needs, including working across brands and adding specific content for our products
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    IBM
    IBM Maximo Application Suite has provided a solution to our desire to consolidate the multiple applications serving the layers of the Procurement process we has been accustomed to using. By consolidating applications, licensing and software costs are reduced, and the overall headcount to support the various applications was able to be minimized.
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    Usability
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    Desk.com and Salesforce Service Cloud's usability is seamless to get up and running, administer, and scale across the organization. It allows us to get up and running in days rather than weeks and has transformed our customer support teams globally into efficient, world-class teams. The best practices that the Salesforce and Desk.com teams provide are also very valuable, as we have the right case studies and tips to implement right away in our organization.
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    IBM
    The IBM Maximo Application Suite is well known for inventory management solutions. This solution is in use by many corporations but mostly I have seen its use in Ports, defense and aerospace industries. Some of the benefits are 1. asset tracking is amazing 2. Maintenance cost is less 3. Reduced inspection costs 4. Less downtime 5. It allows customization 6 Simplify data management 7. Highly adaptable
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    Reliability and Availability
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    We've never had a problem with Desk.com's availability.
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    IBM
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    Performance
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    Fast, responsive, gorgeous, and fun. It's always run like a thoroughbred for me.
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    IBM
    Depends on DB tuning, Query builds etc
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    Support Rating
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    Their support leaves much to be desired. They do not respond quickly and do not follow up with feature requests. There is also a lack of on-demand or live training available for the teams to use as they learn a new tool. Because there is so much customization, a lot of questions do come up regularly.
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    IBM
    I have regularly contacted IBM Support to report issues and raise requests for issues we face during project implementations. The response from them has overall been good and to the point, and they get back to us within a day or 2 and guide us through the process of fixing it or providing an interim fix of the product
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    In-Person Training
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    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    As expected, good content and instructions
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    Implementation Rating
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    As I stated earlier, implementation of Desk.com went more smoothly than most. The resources in the "Support Center" are fantastic, and I never ran into anything that left me stumped, angry, or disappointed.
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    IBM
    Implementation of IBM MAS as a service provider has been easy. The functionality in the OEM space has been the best of its class with all related modules and application subject to maintenance
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    Alternatives Considered
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    Overall, it performs a lot better than all three combined, with a lot fewer glitches and a lot more user-friendly and user experience efficiency. Any new link that needs to be done, takes a lot less time to execute on desk compared to the three others. Simply advanced when it comes to execution this platform is.
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    IBM
    As a computerized maintenance management system i do not have experience of any other system. The only experience I have is for Maximo and it works excellent for me. I am using many modules available in Maximo and all of these modules are almost fulfilling all of my business needs.
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    Scalability
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    IBM
    i dont use it
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    Return on Investment
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    • Better customer service and employee efficiency when dealing with cases
    • It's so universal, meaning that everyone can use it and it's easy to understand.
    • The only negative impact is that our IT department who is assigned tickets has responded to customers instead of to the local reps and we have to ensure they know to change the email if it's assigned to them.
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    IBM
    • Being the core business of my organization, IBM Maximo had a complete ROI for our objectives. We are able to successfully maintain and offer multiple solutions based on our interaction with Maximo.
    • Based on our contracts, we are able to provide a great partnership with IBM thru Maximo and it's tools.
    • We are able to maintain our business with steady market growth based mainly on our offer of the IBM Maximo in various layers.
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