Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk vs. Virima

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
Score 8.1 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.
$0
(free for 1-5 Seats)
Virima
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
Virima is a SaaS platform from Virima Technologies in Atlanta, that aims to solve the toughest IT Operations management and reporting challenges. With Virima’s automated Infrastructure Discovery, trustworthy CMDB, and Service Mapping visualizations, the vendor says IT staff will be ready to make informed decisions with fast-tracked insights.N/A
Pricing
Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskVirima
Editions & Modules
Core Plan
$0
Premium
$6
per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskVirima
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskVirima
Features
Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskVirima
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
8.2
56 Ratings
0% below category average
Virima
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.555 Ratings00 Ratings
Expert directory6.448 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications6.343 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation8.146 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission10.055 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response10.054 Ratings00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
8.6
53 Ratings
7% above category average
Virima
-
Ratings
External knowledge base8.649 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base8.549 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
8.7
53 Ratings
8% above category average
Virima
-
Ratings
Customer portal9.447 Ratings00 Ratings
IVR5.312 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration8.828 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support9.947 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration9.929 Ratings00 Ratings
IT Asset Management
Comparison of IT Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
-
Ratings
Virima
9.4
3 Ratings
20% above category average
Software and hardware inventory tracking00 Ratings9.63 Ratings
License management00 Ratings9.63 Ratings
Asset lifecycle monitoring00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Contract management00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Asset relationship management00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
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User Ratings
Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskVirima
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(84 ratings)
9.6
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(29 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.5
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.7
(26 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskVirima
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Virima Technologies
The reason why i would recommend Virima its because they offer most excellent SaaS solution which is bound to solve the most stringent IT assets and services management problems. Has a graphical representation for changes to provide better insights. Helps to monitor our network and enhance security highly. I love the support team they are very responsive and easy to reach at.
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Pros
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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  • Virima is outstanding in relation to information Technology asset tracking.
  • Great in in terms of company or organization contract management.
  • excellent in terms of license management.
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Cons
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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Virima Technologies
  • Offers a vivid service mapping feature that represents the full picture of how business services are supported and what is occurring at the application, computes, and network layer that could be impacting availability performance.
  • Application dependency mapping.
  • IT Assets Management.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Virima Technologies
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Usability
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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Virima Technologies
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
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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Virima Technologies
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Support Rating
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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Virima Technologies
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
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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Virima Technologies
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Alternatives Considered
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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Virima Technologies
Accessing and Managing Virima is easy. Great support team very responsive,but i would like to have more visibility into the product management space. Nevertheless its a considerable tool that does what it was deployed to do.
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Return on Investment
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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Virima Technologies
  • Excellence in our company licensing management.
  • Outstanding in terms of Information Technology asset tracking.
  • Services mapping in the company.
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