OpsGenie vs. Spiceworks Help Desk

Well suited for cases where you just need to alert relevant team members when alerts and incidents come in and make sure that nothing falls through the cracks. Generally OpsGenie just forwards the alerts it receives and allows you to schedule team members to be on-call. It's good for that simple use case and extra helpful if you have Jira or Atlassian Open DevOps since it has nice integrations with those platforms and you can easily monitor ticket progress. If you don't have those, it would be good to check and see if they integrate with whatever you use to track tickets or bugs. The dashboarding and analytics are relatively basic so if you're looking for extensive and highly customizable analytics, this might not be the right solution.

Incentivized

It's a great helpdesk solution - we currently have five years of data within it, roughly 25,000 tickets. The older edition is a great inventory and software license tracking tool. It is easy for users to use the interface and submit tickets and requests on the web, and its email integration is solid. The new version is a below-average system monitoring tool, only giving up/down status and a few other metrics.

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• Notifying through all the possible way like sms,mail and call.
• Ita shows the activity log it is usefull when your paging team through the incident through that you can check who has acknowledged or not.
• Notify the alerts to engineer as well as you can also add the description about alerts related what is it.
• Here you can schedule for on-call engineers

Incentivized

• It helps to multitask, even on the go with the mobile App.
• We can customize to meet your needs with automated responses, notifications, and templates.
• Detailed reports allow managers to keep track [of] and analyze data.
• Allows for a database to store notes helpful for future tickets.

Incentivized

• OpsGenie New Jira design has made it difficult for those not familiar with that style.
• OpsGenie could benefit from nested escalation flows for team schedules. Creating a product alert that uses and Tech Schedule as well as an Incident Manager Schedule that already exists would create less overhead and ease management.

Incentivized

• I have always wanted a way to redirect a support request into another IS bin, such as a development task.
• It's possible to extract the data from the Spiceworks database, but it would be helpful if the process to do so were easier.
• Improved ability to customize the system generated emails to improve the formatting and company branding.

Incentivized

Spiceworks is a free tool, so there would be no hesitation if we are required to upgrade it. We have installed Spiceworks on a dedicated server with more than enough resources to get the most from this tool, so we will have this running in our department for years to come.

Incentivized

Spiceworks is user friendly and easy to set up. It can be customized to suit your needs. If there are any problems, you can go to the community forums for support and be in contact with many IT Pros, as well as the Spiceworks support staff and development teams who are always happy to help users out

Incentivized

We use it both locally on our own server so up time is decided by us and we also use the hosted help desk. We have never had an outage of that.

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They are fully available at all times via chat, phone, or email and follow up thoroughly.

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Spiceworks has been working out of the box, and some of the basic customizations have been successful with just our internal staff handling. We don't have any other issues with the tool. It provides us with the inventory information we want in a quick and concise report in a variety of formats for our team.

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If you can spin up a VM to run it on, you'll thank yourself later. If you have remote sites, set up a local server (or dedicated computer) at each site and set them up as remote collectors for the main site. You'll save time and bandwidth

Incentivized

We also looked at PagerDuty but decided to go with OpsGenie as it had more features on the plan we needed compared to PagerDuty which would have required us to spend a lot more for what we felt were non-premium features. Everything felt like an add-on - automation for an additional $20 a user per month seemed like a lot on top of the base plan

Incentivized

EGroupware UI is clunky and hard to use, Jira is great but the pricing is expensive in comparison with spice works that has a free version and you can test it out properly before buying and make a correct decision based on your business plan and company objectives with the right software.

Incentivized

• Time savings with configuration of on call schedules and personnel. Quick and easy to make changes on short notice.
• We have essentially eliminated the dropped/missed call complaints which used to be routine. Now customers are quickly connected to us hassle free.

Incentivized

• Positive - Allow organizations to implement structured Help Desk procedures.
• Positive - IT can begin to quantify their tickets and uncover needs within the organization.
• Positive - IT can develop a solid roadmap with [the] management of future needs, equipment refresh schedules, etc.
• Positive - IT can pinpoint employees who may need extra training or updated equipment based on historical ticketing data.

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