Freshservice is a cloud-based service desk and IT service management (ITSM) solution that currently serves more than 10,000 SMB, mid-market, and enterprise customers worldwide.
$29
per month per agent
ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
Score9.2 out of 10
N/A
ServiceDesk Plus is free help desk software from ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation.
ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus was a good product that offered good value for money but its automation is quite poor for us and the support we received from them was very hit and miss. The product is also looks dated and has not changed much over the years. Jira Service …
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Verified User
Chose Freshservice
Freshservice is on par with ManageEngine SD Plus in terms of: 1. No/Low code configuration, 2. ITSM module certification 3. SLA 4. CMDB etc. However, the level of support that ManageEngine offers with its post-sales engineer is better than that of Freshservice. While using …
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Verified User
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The user-interface, Marketplace, out-of-box Orchestrations and ability for Admins to perform product specific configurations at much easier and faster pace is a much loved feature of Freshservice, when comparing it with other ITSM solutions.
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Verified User
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I have selected to go with Freshservice since it seemed easy to configure and maintain.
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Verified User
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Freshservice is much faster and sleek and easier to use. if you want easy setup go with Freshservice. if you want to have clunky, hard to edit, etc. go with ManageEngine. The problem is ME has too much stuff it offers and not enough room to fit it.
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Sysadmin and Secadmin in Information Technology at Grant Thornton Spain (Financial Services, 501-1000 employees)
Chose Freshservice
FreshService is easier to use and to train your team. It is cheaper too and the support it gives is really nice. You can feel that are not alone while you are setting up the portal and the feedback is very prompt. I do not say that the others are bad, but they really do not fit …
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Brilliant for an ITIL Service Desk solution for use by IT department.
Can be used to manage incoming IT emails automatically ticketing them
and replying to users reducing work load of first line support. Can be
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We've been operating in Freshservice for the past 3 years and frankly I wouldn't replace it with anything else now. Freshservice has done a great job at keeping our support teams organized and accountable for the work that they receive from the business. We have even branched its use out into other non-IT supporting groups in the business to allow them to bring work that was previously managed in shared mailboxes into the platform to improve on how work is assigned and tracked with individuals.
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We use the free version, it allows up to 10 technicians to be added to the system, but that has never been an issue, as we are a small team. The functionality and usability of MESDP are great and can work with larger teams too. It is well suited to be used as a main Ticketing system, and this is not limited to IT only, I am sure other teams that need to keep track and log issues will be able to utilize MESDP without any issues. There is a self-service portal as an option, however, we do not use it as of yet, as there has not been the need for it. If you would need to use the same instance within multiple departments, this may be a bit tricky to achieve, as there is no easy way to limit visibility to tickets from other departments, however, I am sure there is a way around it.
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It is very easy to create business rules that automatically route email tickets to the correct department and apply templates to correctly categorize the incident.
The technician auto-assign function allows email tickets to be fairly apportioned using a round robin technique. We do not cuurently use the load balancing technique which is also available.
It is very easy to bulk edit requests to correct miscatergorization by Analysts. (i.e. Incidents vs. Service Requests)
Coordinating communications and notifying ticket holders when a network or application event is resolved is very simple.
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It would be nice to have a way to receive a weekly summary of the tickets you worked on. It doesn't have to be overly detailed, but it should show how many new tickets you got, what kind of tickets they were, and whether they were resolved.
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Reporting tools; the report features can be a little limited, it can be quite tricky to get the information you want displayed in detail
You can set required fields within the ticket template, which should mean the user has to complete them before they can submit the ticket, however this often doesn't enforce correctly
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We are pretty invested in Freshservice right now and have integrated it pretty heavily into our environment, so it would be hard to move away from it. For the most part, we are happy with Freshservice and the ease of use it gives us in managing tickets through the system. The only complaint we've had is customer service.
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Because this is the best tool, we have given ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus a rating of 9 out of 10 because it provides a good overall IT service management experience, especially for ticketing, asset management, automation, and reporting. It has helped us organize IT support processes and improve visibility. For ticketing.
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The UI design of Freshservice is simple and intuitive. You don't have to be a technical expert to navigate your way into the different pages/modules available. There are no buttons that are hidden in plain sight. Even our HR team required little to no help when they started using Freshservice.
As any other feature-rich software package, starting out with ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus has a little bit of a learning curve, but it usually doesn't take very long until you can use the basic features. Training new technicians on the use of the software does not take very long, and for users to submit tickets it is as easy as sending an email.
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In our 3 years of using Freshservice, we've experienced several outages in the first 2 years. There were times where it only took minutes or hours but there are also times where it took a few days. Each time, Freshservice remained transparent and constantly communicated their progress. We haven't had one in the past year which indicates Freshservice have improved their servers.
Pages load quickly but internet connectivity can also play a big role. Integrations doesn't affect the performance but internet connectivity may be a big factor. As a company with most employees working from home, different network providers from different areas/countries can have different experiences. Search load time needs improvement.
Excellent response whenever it matters to us. The email is sufficient; the turnaround time is very fast, and most importantly, they provide product information before onboarding, and their resource center includes features, FAQs, and common issues, so we can review them and implement them ourselves.
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I have a few issues with MESDP and even though we use the free version, the support staff was very quick to respond and extremely competent and helpful. Luckily, I have only had to use them a couple of times over the 2.5 years I have been using their product, but they strike me as very competent, friendly and helpful, regardless of the version of their product you use.
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Their documentation is pretty good, but only available in English. This makes it difficult for some of our users to understand. There are also some basic video courses available.
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Creating the correct groups for the stakeholders and enabling the right notifications are one of the most important aspect of the implementation. Creating Change templates will also help in the long run and it's a good practice to create one, if applicable.
The responsiveness and sheer number of features are really where they shine above the rest. Also the fact that the support team really cares about the product and the users using everything they've paid for. While other software such as TOPdesk has a lot of the same features they are always missing something, the ticketing package isn't as complete as Freshdesk and the automation features/ onboarding for new employees is a great and easy to follow part of the solution.
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Spiceworks was free, which obviously had both benefits and limitations - I will say that the community around Spiceworks has always been great. If we could replicate that experience with the ME user base, it would be terrific.
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Freshservice allows flexibility with contract terms and pricing model. Monthly and annual payments are allowed. The unit pricing needs a bit of improvement. It would be great if they offer unit pricing per capability instead of one pricing for all the capabilities. Small businesses have different use cases and not every agent needs all the modules available.
We were able to scale easily across multiple departments. As our company keeps growing, we have not needed to change anything in terms of scaling since we started using Freshservice. There were no changes to the admin and end-user experience from when we were a 1,000-employee company vs to our current head count of 2,000+.
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Alleviate our support team by providing knowledge directly to the end users.
Better response times from our IT support team, thanks to automation and dashboard use.
Better tracking of our assets by assigning them to users so we know which device was handed out to who. During off-boarding, we know which devices to ask back.
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The tool does not scale well from an ROI perspective. As you add a customer, you must add a new instance, hence a new license.
The tool is probably on the expensive side (34,000 USD per 130 technicians per year).
There is no usage beyond incident, change, and problem management. The CMDB feature is extremely limited and cannot generate additional ROI. There is no knowledge-base or integration with other software (other than ME Desktop Central).
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