KACE Asset Management Appliance vs. SymphonyAI IT Service Management

The KACE Management Appliance does many different things, but does not do them as well as other products. It is an all-in-one system for Asset tracking, software management, ticketing system, Contact management, and reporting. If you require basic functionality for these, then this product will meet your needs. But when you begin needing advanced/granular functions from the appliance, it will fall short.

Incentivized

It is best for handling daily incidents and change records in the organization. And also provide features like which incident will have higher priority, and which have less and on the basis of that developer do their daily activities to resolve them. It also helps in managing our compliance change logs, which help the compliance team.

Incentivized

• Gives you real time data to systems on my network.
• I can get information on all applications running on devices on my network.
• I can get information on what systems are not currently patched and up to date with MS and Virus definitions!

Incentivized

• The Design Studio is an easy solution for L3 support professionals to improve existing workflows without technical support quickly.
• The process and UI are more seamless, robust, and attractive than existing solutions.
• The copilot AI addition has removed a lot of repetitive tasks and improved UX.

Incentivized

• The UI is clunky and could use a redesign
• Support is good but sometimes it's hard to get someone right away or a response in a timely manner
• expand some support beyond dell and others to include something like Microsoft Surfaces, etc.
• KB articles need a refresh, there are a lot of older things out there that don't apply anymore.

Incentivized

• Business Rule Designer - Since it has many automation we are unable to use it properly, because of BRD related jobs not getting executed
• Creation of sub tenant under tenant
• 5 why analysis method in the problem management can be designed more efficiently rather than its designed now

Incentivized

The overall satisfaction is great and it offers great features. By expanding to using AI feature of Symphony Summit, we look forward to automate even ticket tracking and ticket resolution. The support provided by the symphony SummitAI team is also robust compared to industry standards and the team also conducts regular reviews to find out any dissatisfaction from the clients.

Incentivized

The appliance and software does its job, as it's intended to. There aren't many other bells and whistles. integrates well with MFA (okta), integrates well with KACES SDA. The modules it has will suit most needs. If you have the money in the budge, i'd suggest going with professional services to help with the setup/integration. There are some parts that are cumbersome and may require support. Save yourself the headache

Incentivized

We were not able to get SCCM to stabilize and work, it would continually fail to add computers to groups and fail to install programs/updates to computers in a defined group. Continually, user community forums kept recommending to replace it with another solution. JIRA is a much more efficient ticketing system, and we migrated the ticketing system from KACE to JIRA.

Incentivized

The main reason for choosing Symphony Summit is the customization. We wanted to have a separate tool for our business unit. Compared to ServiceNow, which requires a license to approve a request, Symphony does not require a license. In addition, it is much easier to customize and scale.

Incentivized

• Original investment was very substantial but I believe will be well worth it in the long run!
• DAM gives us a great view of what happening and whats on out network as far as PC, Laptops and Servers.
• The reporting function will help with budget proposals to BOS for County Budgets and giving exact numbers of systems and software and devices on the County Domain

Incentivized

• When rolled out in its entirety, SymphonyAI is expected to directly reduce the CTC of technical user support by 40%.
• SymphonyAI has dramatically improved user experience, helping NPS levels cross over 60%.
• It has been instrumental in deploying workflows to production by more than 50%.

Incentivized