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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    JitBit Help Desk

    Score8.9 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

    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
    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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    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
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    Features
    JitBit Help DeskOpenText Service Manager
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of JitBit Help Desk and OpenText Service Manager
    Feature
    JitBit Help Desk
    9.6
    4 Ratings
    16% above category average
    OpenText Service Manager
    9.4
    2 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets10.03 Ratings8.62 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications10.02 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation10.01 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings9.62 Ratings
    Service restoration00 Ratings8.72 Ratings
    Self-service tools00 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards00 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of JitBit Help Desk and OpenText Service Manager
    Feature
    JitBit Help Desk
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    0% below category average
    OpenText Service Manager
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of JitBit Help Desk and OpenText Service Manager
    Feature
    JitBit Help Desk
    8.0
    3 Ratings
    0% below category average
    OpenText Service Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of JitBit Help Desk and OpenText Service Manager
    Feature
    JitBit Help Desk
    -
    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 JitBit Help Desk and OpenText Service Manager
    Feature
    JitBit Help Desk
    -
    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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    User Ratings
    JitBit Help DeskOpenText Service Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    JitBit Help DeskOpenText Service Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    JitBit Software
    If your budget is really tight, then JitBit is not for you. It's kind of pricey. That said, JitBit HelpDesk is very robust--we've never had one second of downtime in my two years of using it. It depends on what's important to you. If you need rock-solid Help Desk and stellar, trouble-free performance, then JitBit it. If not, there are alternatives that are much less expensive. The cloud version might be less expensive for companies that don't need an on-premise solution.
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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
    JitBit Software
    • Fantastic ticketing system to keep track of old conversations from clients.
    • Fantastic analytics and metric tracking.
    • Fantastic for sharing relationships with a customer. Generally, this would be a salesperson sharing an onboarding with a support person, but I think you could get creative with it. JitBit is very flexible.
    • Super easy to learn and use. If you can use your email, you can use JitBit.
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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.
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    Cons
    JitBit Software
    • Reporting functionalities could be better
    • Improvements to user management
    • Expansion to AI functionalities
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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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    Alternatives Considered
    JitBit Software
    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.
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    OpenText
    [We selected HP Service Manager because] HPSM is reliable.
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    Return on Investment
    JitBit Software
    • JitBit has neither had a positive nor a negative effect on our ROI. The reason is that we had to have a Help Desk solution that is secure and well-supported.
    • JitBit does cost real money. The least expensive on-premise option is $1,699, which might have a negative impact on your budget, but I'd have to say that it's worth it--at least for us.
    • Trouble-free, practically maintenance-free, Help Desk software has a positive impact on our technician time spent on it.
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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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