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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Pega Platform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APega Platform is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform with advanced workforce analytics from Pegasystems.

    $0.45

    one-time fee per case**

    Pricing
    OpenText Service ManagerPega Platform
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Low-code Factory Edition
    $0.45
    one-time fee per case**
    Standard Edition
    $0.80
    one-time fee per case**
    Enterprise Edition
    Custom Quote
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText Service ManagerPega Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—**350,000 cases / year minimum. Additional cases available in blocks of 150,000.
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    Community Pulse
    OpenText Service ManagerPega Platform
    Considered Both Products
    OpenText
    No answer on this topic
    Pegasystems
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    78%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    OpenText Service ManagerPega Platform
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of OpenText Service Manager and Pega Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Service Manager
    9.4
    2 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Pega Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory9.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service restoration8.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools9.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications9.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation9.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards9.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of OpenText Service Manager and Pega Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Service Manager
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Pega Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Configuration mangement9.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard9.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of OpenText Service Manager and Pega Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Service Manager
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Pega Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Change requests repository10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of OpenText Service Manager and Pega Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Service Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    5.3
    63 Ratings
    37% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings4.062 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.062 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.061 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of OpenText Service Manager and Pega Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Service Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    8.0
    66 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Process designer00 Ratings9.065 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings7.957 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings10.065 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings7.151 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings7.048 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings5.46 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings9.059 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings8.956 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of OpenText Service Manager and Pega Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Service Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    9.0
    50 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.050 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of OpenText Service Manager and Pega Platform
    Feature
    OpenText Service Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    4.4
    9 Ratings
    59% below category average
    Content management00 Ratings4.49 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    OpenText Service ManagerPega Platform
    Small Businesses
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.4 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OpenText Service ManagerPega Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    7.9
    (74 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpenText Service ManagerPega Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform has introduced the low code feature, using app studio seasonal and professional developer can develop application easily and quickly. The initial application can be build by Business analyst and product owner who has less knowledge of Pega Platform, further application can be enhanced/extended by professional developer. We can develop end to end application and promote to higher environment. Easily we can perform parallel development using branch.
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    Pros
    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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    Pegasystems
    • Quick development time. Much of the Pega "rules" are easy to configure and implement.
    • Visually friendly and modern. Much of the UI/UX elements in the system are continuously supported and updated, giving a nice feel to the apps.
    • Many of the configurations and rules Pega gives to the developers can also be delegated to business users. The organization and structure of the client's business can easily be adapted in the Pega platform.
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    Cons
    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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    Pegasystems
    • Need more learning materials. For Beginners who have previous programming experience with another language takes more time to learn.
    • If the developer is met with an issue in pega platform , they have to rely on Pega supporting team to fix it.
    • Customization is available but is not encouraged. Pega does not support faults that occur in customized solutions.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Pegasystems
    Pegasystems has continued to demonstrate a strong partnership with our organization and investment in their product that aligns with our overall vision and need. Pegasystems has engaged us at every level, with the assistance of minor defects to the overall roadmap planning and alignment of our goals
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    Usability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform is enhancing its product and launching new features day by day which help to achieve customers needs. If I talk about the earlier version of Pega Platform (i.e. pega v5 and 6.3) there were many numbers of limitations in Pega Platform and if we need to do some customization then needed to write custom java and jave scripts to achieve the functionally. Now I can say Pega Platform is running with market trends and demand. Pega Platform is giving all the options which support the current technologies like decisioning capabilities, real time processing, mashup, process fabrics etc..
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Pegasystems
    It’s very slow sometimes, but that may be our servers. Also the Knowledge Library needs some work - again, not sure if it’s our setup or what- but I’m unable to search the body of an article for content, so I have to be very intentional with tagging, but it’s not ideal.
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    Online Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Pegasystems
    The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.
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    Implementation Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Pegasystems
    Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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    Alternatives Considered
    OpenText
    [We selected HP Service Manager because] HPSM is reliable.
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    Pegasystems
    We did evaluate multiple products offerings with Pega Platform capabilities and observed that Pega PRPC rules engine and case management capabilities are better over so many BPM Tools. We also conducted a detailed study with developers to identify the best products out of Suite of BPM products. It's observed that Rules engines integration is very streamlined with forms in Pega whereas other tools multiple have powerful data model capabilities but lacks the ease of creating business rules.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Pegasystems
    • For one of the applications we worked on, we were able to reduce the processing time on a case from 2 days to 20 minutes by utilizing Pega
    • We were able to resolve the issue of the routing of cases to users based on a specific algorithm by use of Pega
    • Pega case management feature was extensively used in one of the application to establish a parent-child relationship which was very helpful for all the business users
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