OpenText Service Manager vs. SymphonyAI IT Service Management

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

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.

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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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• 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.

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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.

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

[We selected HP Service Manager because] HPSM is reliable.

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

• We take anywhere from between 850-1400 calls a day and overall the whole opening tickets to close process goes pretty smoothly.

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