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    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

    OpenText Service Manager

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOpenText™ Service Manager (formerly from Micro Focus) is scalable service desk software powered by machine learning, analytics, and automation. It provides an ITSM platform for standardizing service delivery and support across the enterprise.N/A
    Pricing
    Desk.com (discontinued)OpenText Service Manager
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Desk.com (discontinued)OpenText Service Manager
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Desk.com (discontinued)OpenText Service Manager
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    OpenText
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Desk.com (discontinued)OpenText Service Manager
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Desk.com (discontinued) and OpenText Service Manager
    Feature
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    Ratings
    OpenText Service Manager
    9.4
    2 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.62 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings9.62 Ratings
    Service restoration00 Ratings8.72 Ratings
    Self-service tools00 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards00 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Desk.com (discontinued) and OpenText Service Manager
    Feature
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    Ratings
    OpenText Service Manager
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Configuration mangement00 Ratings9.72 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard00 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of Desk.com (discontinued) and OpenText Service Manager
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    Ratings
    OpenText Service Manager
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Change requests repository00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Change calendar00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Service-level management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Desk.com (discontinued)OpenText Service Manager
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    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score6.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Desk.com (discontinued)OpenText Service Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (38 ratings)
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (19 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (21 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Desk.com (discontinued)OpenText Service Manager
    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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    OpenText
    HP Service Manager (HPSM) is well suited for a big company and it does the job that it's intended to do but it's not perfect. It has a fairly large learning curve for searching Knowledge Management (KMs) and it takes time to learn how to be fast at creating/resolving tickets while on calls. I have been using HPSM for about 2 years now and we recently moved from the desk client to the web client and we are seeing a lot more issues than we did with the desk client. They keep coming out with updates for it so eventually most of our issues will hopefully be resolved. Overall the web experience is better as it looks more modern than what we used in the past.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    OpenText
    • Capacity management like maintaining CI's and their relations is good.
    • Approvals with HPSM is a cake walk and quite logical.
    • There is no wait for troubleshooting or help, HPSM tech help is always there.
    Incentivized
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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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    OpenText
    • When you search Knowledge Articles, it is not like Google, and you need to learn how to search for what you need.
    • It takes a very long time to close tickets in HPSM. Here are the steps to close a ticket. 1. Add notes. 2. Add KM 3. Click Resolve 4.Click Save 5.Click Close 6.Click Okay to Message (ticket has recently been modified) 7. Click Close.
    • It's slow and sometimes crashes/freezes and you lose all the information you may have entered. I usually use notepad++ to gather all my notes and paste them into HPSM.
    • When searching previous tickets the preview pane does not allow for sorting by date to have the most recent at the very top every time you pull up previous tickets. Sometimes there are pages and pages of previous tickets and you have to click and scroll to get what you need.
    • I click on search KMs and it takes me to a blank page and I have to click the back button which then brings me to the search KM page.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    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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    OpenText
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    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.
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    We've never had a problem with Desk.com's availability.
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    OpenText
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    Fast, responsive, gorgeous, and fun. It's always run like a thoroughbred for me.
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    OpenText
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    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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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    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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    OpenText
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    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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    OpenText
    [We selected HP Service Manager because] HPSM is reliable.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    OpenText
    • We take anywhere from between 850-1400 calls a day and overall the whole opening tickets to close process goes pretty smoothly.
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