ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus vs. ServiceNow App Engine

ServiceDesk Plus is very easy to configure at the start, and then adjust the categories and rules as the implementation is refined. Its greatest strength is the ability to program without requiring a full time administrator. There is very little jargon involved. Reporting not so much. The canned reports are useful but do not always cover some of the basics. Fortunately, the user groups freely share report definitions so one could springboard from something close to your desired result.

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Well suited - for someone who enjoys minimal coding with maximum throughput. For organisations who look for IT solutions basis customer a priority. Very well suited for creating tickets for incidents, changes etc Not well suited - for small scale organisations where the customers are less and managing them is easy

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• Ticket logging for end users, so they can see the progress on their help requests
• Asset management; it has an agent that can be installed on machines which can then feed back information on installed software, active times, logged on user etc
• Project management; larger projects can be managed within ManageEngine ServiceDesk as well as end user help tickets, where progress/milestones etc can be recorded
• Active Directory import of users, so that it automatically updates when users are created/deleted and links their accounts in ManageEngine ServiceDesk with their email address as well to enable email alerts

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• Workflows
• Notifications
• Management

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• When trying to select the top row ticket, you have to be careful not to select all tickets. Happened to us twice and we assigned all open tickets to one technician. Took a few minutes to correct.
• Site is sometimes a bit sluggish to respond. Don't know if that is an issue with our network infrastructure or the program itself, though.
• When users send emails to the help desk, we sometimes experience delays until the tickets appear on the site for the technicians.

Incentivized

• Not much for this tool, just the deep setting to new users.
• Managing multiple project data.
• Huge amount of data migration to new user.

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we are looking at other tools like Zendesk which may replace ServiceDesk. We are currently evaluating both tools to see which one would serve our needs better

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There are limited use cases where we are just using the service now app engine as of now

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It is still very cumbersome, lots of data entry on the back end to build how we want it but it is still not completely user friendly. Many functions still dont work and contacting someone for help isnt always easy or we get told solutions for issues we have just arent built yet.

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Since people can handle the tool without any development background, this was really helpful and can be adopted by anyone, as reusability functions and drag-and-drop features are very easy. Many in-built features and functionality for integrating other applications are handy and adaptable.

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Almost 100% available on time

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Our network administrator usually gets a good response when contacting ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus customer service. They are quick to respond and so far have been able to eliminate most of our issues. We have been through several upgrades of the software over the years and have no issues to report in regards to customer service.

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They tried their best to resolve our queries every time we contacted them about any technical support

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App engine can be used just to process the minimal amount of the data which is being received from the user. We are service now catalogue items or any other data technology.

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Spiceworks was free, which obviously had both benefits and limitations - I will say that the community around Spiceworks has always been great. If we could replicate that experience with the ME user base, it would be terrific.

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ServiceNow App Engine is best among all the competitors. Its integration is best with Outlook and ERP, its SLA management is best, and very organized filters are very useful. Categorization of tickets is something that is very useful. It's very easy to search the tasks/order with limited keywords and very easy to customize. The best part is we can simply reply on mails using ServiceNow App Engine and keep a proper log of the tickets.

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It is scalable but not reliable

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• The tool does not scale well from an ROI perspective. As you add a customer, you must add a new instance, hence a new license.
• The tool is probably on the expensive side (34,000 USD per 130 technicians per year).
• There is no usage beyond incident, change, and problem management. The CMDB feature is extremely limited and cannot generate additional ROI. There is no knowledge-base or integration with other software (other than ME Desktop Central).

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• We have managed to close the un applied cash item from 56% to 89% in a given five working days period by using ServiceNow App Engine
• By automating and entire money laundering process, we have managed to provide the background check data as quickly as within a day, which was actually taking weeks Same reports when we were doing the things manually.

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