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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HaloITSM

    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    HaloITSM provides ITIL aligned help desk software that can be installed on premise or in the cloud. Boasting over 25 years of experience, HaloITSM has been developed to offer a feature rich application whilst maintaining a simple to use interface. Features include: Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Asset Management, Service Catalogue, Telephony Integration, as well as the best of breed mobile apps. The vendor describes the following five differentiators: 1.…

    $49

    per month per user

    Redmine

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/ARedmine is a project management web application written using the Ruby on Rails framework. It is cross-platform and cross-database, and free to download and use as an open source project available on the GNU 2.0 license.

    $0

    per month

    Pricing
    HaloITSMRedmine
    Editions & Modules
    On Premise
    $49
    per month per user
    Cloud
    $49
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HaloITSMRedmine
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThere is 15% discount for all charities, educational institutions and non-profit organisations.—
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    Community Pulse
    HaloITSMRedmine
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    Halo Service Solutions
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    Open Source
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
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    Features
    HaloITSMRedmine
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of HaloITSM and Redmine
    Feature
    HaloITSM
    8.4
    12 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Redmine
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.612 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory8.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service restoration8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools8.611 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.612 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.39 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards7.712 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of HaloITSM and Redmine
    Feature
    HaloITSM
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Redmine
    -
    Ratings
    Configuration mangement8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard7.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of HaloITSM and Redmine
    Feature
    HaloITSM
    8.8
    9 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Redmine
    -
    Ratings
    Change requests repository8.79 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of HaloITSM and Redmine
    Feature
    HaloITSM
    -
    Ratings
    Redmine
    8.2
    13 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings7.012 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings10.012 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings6.910 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings5.59 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings7.012 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of HaloITSM and Redmine
    Feature
    HaloITSM
    -
    Ratings
    Redmine
    8.0
    8 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings7.33 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings7.82 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings7.92 Ratings
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Ivanti ITSM
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    User Ratings
    HaloITSMRedmine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HaloITSMRedmine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Halo Service Solutions
    If you want a value for money full system, which you could use out of the box then this is the one for you. If you want a system that can take care of tasks then this is the one for you. [HaloITSM] is easily scalable with very competitive pricing. New features are added regularly based on best practices and customer requirements.
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    Open Source
    Redmine is a perfect solution for businesses that are looking for a FREE and open source solution for project management. It is great for teams that are managing numerous tasks or projects at one time. Redmine is easy to set up and is fairly self-explanatory for anyone who is semi tech-savvy.
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    Pros
    Halo Service Solutions
    • The Self Service Portal is very easy to configure and the end-users have commented on how easy it is to log and manage their own calls.
    • Asset and User Management works very well and it is simple to link them to tickets. Looking up ticket history for particular Users or Assets is also very useful.
    • The ability [to] use different ticket types and templates is fantastic. The added ability to merge and clone tickets is also a great benefit.
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    Open Source
    • Issue Tracker - Redmine allows in-depth issue tracking complete with workflows and customization.
    • Release Tracker - Redmine allows releases to be tracked by milestones, collecting relevant issues in each milestone.
    • Agile Management - With a few free or low-cost add-ons, Redmine becomes a great tool for Agile project management
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    Cons
    Halo Service Solutions
    • Support for M365 \ Power Platform, Power Bi reporting in particular
    • Feel the asset management side of the product is not as good as the ticket management
    • Support is excellent but maybe an old school user forum where other admins can share and discuss ideas
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    Open Source
    • The design and user-interface are a little outdated. It looks like a product that was designed ten years ago and doesn't have a polished look and feel like newer apps have.
    • It's not particularly designed to support agile-based project management methodologies such as Scrum.
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    Usability
    Halo Service Solutions
    Its simple and intuitiuve - requires minimal training to get people in and working at speed
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    Open Source
    Redmine is a great product to have in an organization. It's extremely flexible, costs much less to maintain than other alternatives, and as a tool, it is relatively fast to get experienced with. The primary advantages of working with Redmine are: flexible platform, API, open-source and highly configurable, stability.
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    Support Rating
    Halo Service Solutions
    I've made overall positive experiences with the Halo support. The only thing to increase would be some follow ups on feature requests. If someone would reach out to me, telling me wheter or not my feature request will be considered in future updates or not.
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    Open Source
    Redmine is free, easy to use and it's everything you could want in a free project management program. The fact that it has wiki integration and that it can track on such a granular level is amazing. Assigning tasks to other users, such as our development team, is fantastic and ensures we are always up-to-date on where we are what - on what projects.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Halo Service Solutions
    HaloITSM offered the highest level of functionality, available as standard, at our price level. Halo support during our trial period was second to none and unrestricted. We had a list of deciding factors covering the most important areas of functionality and HaloITSM covered all of these.
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    Open Source
    Jira is a great project management tool for software product life cycle management for an agile environment based on agile methodologies. Jira is an intuitive and modernized user interface design compared with Redmine but Redmine is a lightweight and affordable project management and task tracking solution with its essential features and functionalities.
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    Return on Investment
    Halo Service Solutions
    • It enabled us to allow our Service Desk Staff to work from home during COVID and this has continued ever since.
    • We have halved our average resolution time.
    • Some of the automation processes, when implemented alongside the MS Power Platform, have saved approximately 30 hours a month. This includes times when customers were unable to access the system until they had been trained. This is now automated via Halo and they get sent to on-demand training, instead of waiting up to 3 weeks for the next scheduled session.
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    Open Source
    • Customers receive updates on all progress made for their issues -- this results in an informed customer who is being given transparency on all steps of our process.
    • Customers have responded well from being able to not have to track down emails and instead come to a central place for requests.
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