ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus vs. ServicePro

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.

Incentivized

ServicePro has been a reliable tool to associate field service work orders to our NetSuite data. Our company has some niche and specific business use cases - so while I think it has good out of the box functionality, it has not been the easiest tool to build customizations around.

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• Mobile Application
• Job Scheduling

Incentivized

• 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

• Rigid System Design / complex backend model for api access
• Cumbersome to build inspections
• Inability to associate Inspections to Appointments, only work orders
• No batch update capabilities

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

We originally tried Next Serice - We had a need to batch create work orders from a NetSuite Sales Order to a related work order - Our ServicePro development integration team was able to build this in our production environment, Next Service was not able to build this for us during our trial period with them.

Incentivized

• 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).

Incentivized

• Positive ROI: Increased order fulfillment qty
• Positive ROI: Eliminated errors in our work order process
• Negative ROI: Limited visibility to track work order success rates, poor association of inspection to appointment record

Incentivized