JitBit Help Desk vs. OpenText Service Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
JitBit Help Desk
Score 8.9 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
JitBit Help Desk from JitBit Software is a cloud-based or installed help desk solution with a ticketing system, knowledge base, and related features.
$2,199
one-time fee
OpenText Service Manager
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
OpenText™ 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
JitBit Help DeskOpenText Service Manager
Editions & Modules
Small
$2,199
one-time fee
Company
$3,799
one-time fee
Enterprise
$6,499
one-time fee
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
JitBit Help DeskOpenText Service Manager
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
JitBit Help DeskOpenText Service Manager
Considered Both Products
JitBit Help Desk
Chose JitBit Help Desk
JitBit Help Desk is more modern and easy to use (web-based). Customizing different areas is also simpler. Product is still receiving feature updates.
Chose JitBit Help Desk
JitBit just had the feature set at the cost point we were willing to spend. Nothing against the other products, but this one just fit our model better.
Chose JitBit Help Desk
We've looked at several different Help Desk solutions, but the names escape me at the moment. We looked at Spiceworks and didn't find it to be bad but we didn't like the ads. There is a purchase version for about $500/year, but we still decided against it--I can't recall why. …
Chose JitBit Help Desk
JitBit is great. The price is great. The support is great. You can feel that it's growing in the right direction.

JitBit is one of those tools that I mention in converstaion. There's lots of systems that I hate talking about because you just think of the headaches, regret, and …
OpenText Service Manager
Chose OpenText Service Manager
[We selected HP Service Manager because] HPSM is reliable.
Features
JitBit Help DeskOpenText Service Manager
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
JitBit Help Desk
9.6
Ratings
16% above category average
OpenText Service Manager
9.4
Ratings
14% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets10.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications10.00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation10.00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Service restoration00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Self-service tools00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
ITSM reports and dashboards00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
JitBit Help Desk
8.0
Ratings
0% below category average
OpenText Service Manager
-
Ratings
External knowledge base8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
JitBit Help Desk
8.0
Ratings
0% above category average
OpenText Service Manager
-
Ratings
Customer portal8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM asset management
Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Product A and Product B
JitBit Help Desk
-
Ratings
OpenText Service Manager
9.7
Ratings
17% above category average
Configuration mangement00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Asset management dashboard00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Policy and contract enforcement00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Change management
Comparison of Change management features of Product A and Product B
JitBit Help Desk
-
Ratings
OpenText Service Manager
10.0
Ratings
16% above category average
Change requests repository00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Change calendar00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Service-level management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
JitBit Help DeskOpenText Service Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
9.6
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
JitBit Help DeskOpenText Service Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
Helps to create a continuous conversation between our team and the user. It was clean and easy to understand, training was less than a day for most newbies. Your Devs, Sales, Marketing Support, Management can all use one hub to talk to your users and gather feedback. Helped us expand our teams and realize what directions we needed to expand in. Support supports, Sales sells, Marketing markets... It's like a beautiful dance! It's hard to say that JitBit is right for you, but I can't imagine the industry that JitBit wouldn't work in. You put it in front of an employee, and they know what to do next.
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I would definitely recommend HPSM after working with various other ticketing tools, as it supports and provides the best value and user friendly and quite adaptive to the modern technology mainly the SMS feature, where users were notified for any issues when there are tickets raised. Upgrades and the support provided by the HPSM tech staff is commendable.
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Pros
  • Flexibility.
  • Customizability.
  • Effective communication.
  • Historical tracking of issues and requests.
  • Reporting.
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  • 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.
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Cons
  • JitBit HelpDesk is not free. There is no free version. It would be nice if they had a free, limited version that would allow 100 tickets to get used to it before buying as it is pretty expensive, even for the lowest end implementation.
  • I wish it were easy to integrate forms into. I've seen numerous questions around the Net about integrating Google Forms or creating forms.
  • There is a strong push from JitBit to use the cloud version but some companies really have to use an on-premise solution.
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  • 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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Alternatives Considered
We've looked at several different Help Desk solutions, but the names escape me at the moment. We looked at Spiceworks and didn't find it to be bad but we didn't like the ads. There is a purchase version for about $500/year, but we still decided against it--I can't recall why. JitBit's reviews and history are both very good. And if two years worth of no issues is any indication of how well it works, then that alone speaks for itself. I have used other Help Desk applications over the past 20 years and none are perfect, but a hassle-free experience gets a gold star from me.
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I have seen other products but I have only worked with HPSM.
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Return on Investment
  • Our old Help Desk product was outdated so JitBit Help Desk improved our helpdesk productivity
  • We can also offer help desk product to other groups besides IT
  • End users are better serviced with modern product
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  • 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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