Oracle IT Service Management Suite vs. Spiceworks Help Desk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle IT Service Management Suite
Score 1.5 out of 10
N/A
Oracle ITSM suite for enterprises was a suite of tools for managing, tracking, and servicing IT based on the Siebel HelpDesk. The suite is now End of Life, Oracle no longer offers the suite for sale.N/A
Spiceworks Help Desk
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Spiceworks offers a set of free tools for IT network management and help desk support ticketing. The inventory management system essentially provides comprehensive device information for asset management. The Spiceworks Network Monitor provides information on observed IT for problem tracking and server performance monitoring. And finally, the Spiceworks Help Desk Software lets IT personnel stay on top of issues across the network with a ticketing system. Help desk roles with role-based…N/A
Pricing
Oracle IT Service Management SuiteSpiceworks Help Desk
Editions & Modules
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All Tiers
Free
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle IT Service Management SuiteSpiceworks Help Desk
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Oracle IT Service Management SuiteSpiceworks Help Desk
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Oracle IT Service Management SuiteSpiceworks Help Desk
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Oracle IT Service Management Suite
6.8
1 Ratings
18% below category average
Spiceworks Help Desk
7.4
54 Ratings
6% below category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets5.01 Ratings7.453 Ratings
Expert directory8.01 Ratings5.646 Ratings
Service restoration6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-service tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings7.241 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings6.444 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.153 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings8.752 Ratings
Change management
Comparison of Change management features of Product A and Product B
Oracle IT Service Management Suite
6.0
1 Ratings
33% below category average
Spiceworks Help Desk
-
Ratings
Change requests repository7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Change calendar4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Service-level management7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Oracle IT Service Management Suite
-
Ratings
Spiceworks Help Desk
7.3
51 Ratings
6% below category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings8.847 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings5.947 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Oracle IT Service Management Suite
-
Ratings
Spiceworks Help Desk
5.3
51 Ratings
37% below category average
Customer portal00 Ratings6.145 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings4.010 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings3.126 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings8.045 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings5.027 Ratings
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User Ratings
Oracle IT Service Management SuiteSpiceworks Help Desk
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(82 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(29 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(8 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(26 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle IT Service Management SuiteSpiceworks Help Desk
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle
It is helpful when someone wants to reassign issues and delegate tasks to other co-workers. However, it is not a good place for documentation because it is difficult to navigate older issue tickets. This is my personal experience with RightNow, an Oracle application used to manage our incident reports and project tracking documents
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Spiceworks Ziff Davis
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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Pros
Oracle
  • It kept a log of all our issue tickets going back many years.
  • Oracle made it easy to collaborate on issue tickets and work with my team members.
  • It offered a number of features for formatting and inserting images and links, to make our issue tickets resemble an email.
  • Oracle helped our department to delegate issue tickets and monitor each other's projects.
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Spiceworks Ziff Davis
  • 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.
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Cons
Oracle
  • The search function was very poor, which made it difficult to find our issue tickets in RightNow.
  • The Reply feature was kind of messy at times, it was difficult to find out who originally sent in tickets and reply all to people.
  • It could have looked a bit sleeker, it looked somewhat outdated in the RightNow function.
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Spiceworks Ziff Davis
  • 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.
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Likelihood to Renew
Oracle
No answers on this topic
Spiceworks Ziff Davis
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.
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Usability
Oracle
No answers on this topic
Spiceworks Ziff Davis
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
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Reliability and Availability
Oracle
No answers on this topic
Spiceworks Ziff Davis
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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Support Rating
Oracle
No answers on this topic
Spiceworks Ziff Davis
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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Implementation Rating
Oracle
No answers on this topic
Spiceworks Ziff Davis
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
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Alternatives Considered
Oracle
No answers on this topic
Spiceworks Ziff Davis
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.
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Return on Investment
Oracle
  • It was helpful because it was our only system for organizing incident reports, and it was where I worked 70% of the time to correspond with our customers.
  • The interface was sometimes time-consuming to use, and I wondered if there would have been a more streamlined program to use. It made our work seem slow at times.
  • This program did provide us with a back-log of all of our issues, so it was important for us to use to in order to find repeated incident reports.
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Spiceworks Ziff Davis
  • 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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