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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    TOPdesk

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    TOPdesk is the flagship highly-modular cloud-based or installed ITSM service desk and asset management solution from the Dutch company of the same name, for enterprise companies.

    $76

    per month Per agent

    UKG Pro

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AUKG delivers cloud-based HCM solutions including UKG Pro that help businesses simplify payroll computations, accelerate talent acquisition, manage time and attendance, and support proactive, strategic talent management on a global level.N/A
    Pricing
    TOPdeskUKG Pro
    Editions & Modules
    Essential
    $76
    per month Per agent
    Engaged
    $109
    per month Per agent
    Excellent
    $155
    per month Per agent
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    TOPdeskUKG Pro
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThe TOPdesk license model: - Modular: Organizations purchase only the modules needed - Saas or On premise - Supports unlimited number of assets. - Service agents based. - Discount available for annual pricing.—
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    Features
    TOPdeskUKG Pro
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of TOPdesk and UKG Pro
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    7.5
    254 Ratings
    8% below category average
    UKG Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.4254 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory7.6181 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service restoration7.3174 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools7.7236 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications7.5178 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation7.3199 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards6.7211 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of TOPdesk and UKG Pro
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    7.5
    213 Ratings
    8% below category average
    UKG Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Configuration mangement7.8200 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard7.5185 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement7.4142 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of TOPdesk and UKG Pro
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    7.5
    207 Ratings
    12% below category average
    UKG Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Change requests repository7.9200 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar7.0157 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management7.6172 Ratings00 Ratings
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of TOPdesk and UKG Pro
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.8
    955 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.5865 Ratings
    Employment history00 Ratings8.2890 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration00 Ratings8.0861 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings7.5842 Ratings
    Organizational charting00 Ratings7.2755 Ratings
    Organization and location management00 Ratings8.0768 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings7.3606 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of TOPdesk and UKG Pro
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.9
    869 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Pay calculation00 Ratings8.0823 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings7.6414 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings8.0328 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration00 Ratings7.5739 Ratings
    Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.3809 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings8.1667 Ratings
    Reimbursement management00 Ratings8.057 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of TOPdesk and UKG Pro
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.6
    677 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Approval workflow00 Ratings7.5603 Ratings
    Balance details00 Ratings7.6633 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings7.6524 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of TOPdesk and UKG Pro
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.8
    922 Ratings
    6% below category average
    View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings8.0889 Ratings
    Update personal information00 Ratings8.2894 Ratings
    View company policy documentation00 Ratings7.7659 Ratings
    Employee recognition00 Ratings7.1346 Ratings
    View job history00 Ratings8.0873 Ratings
    Asset Management
    Comparison of Asset Management features of TOPdesk and UKG Pro
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.6
    233 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings7.6233 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of TOPdesk and UKG Pro
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.0
    857 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Report builder00 Ratings7.2831 Ratings
    Pre-built reports00 Ratings7.2846 Ratings
    Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings6.6590 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of TOPdesk and UKG Pro
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.8
    651 Ratings
    3% below category average
    New hire portal00 Ratings8.1644 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools00 Ratings7.5523 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of TOPdesk and UKG Pro
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.4
    443 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Corporate goal setting00 Ratings7.3349 Ratings
    Individual goal setting00 Ratings7.4422 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings7.5303 Ratings
    Performance tracking00 Ratings7.5391 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of TOPdesk and UKG Pro
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.4
    548 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Performance plans00 Ratings7.5490 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans00 Ratings6.9387 Ratings
    Review status tracking00 Ratings7.6504 Ratings
    Review reminders00 Ratings7.5474 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency00 Ratings7.5398 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of TOPdesk and UKG Pro
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.1
    239 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings6.8192 Ratings
    Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.3206 Ratings
    Candidate search00 Ratings7.5210 Ratings
    Candidate development00 Ratings7.0190 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of TOPdesk and UKG Pro
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.4
    537 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Job Requisition Management00 Ratings7.5505 Ratings
    Company Website Posting00 Ratings7.4496 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media00 Ratings7.1393 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings7.3458 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.1388 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking00 Ratings7.6493 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings7.5458 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    TOPdeskUKG Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (255 ratings)
    8.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (166 ratings)
    10.0
    (197 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (35 ratings)
    7.9
    (334 ratings)
    Availability
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (76 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (333 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (215 ratings)
    7.6
    (496 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (88 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (206 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    4.8
    (20 ratings)
    9.1
    (87 ratings)
    Configurability
    4.5
    (10 ratings)
    8.7
    (78 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (20 ratings)
    5.9
    (68 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (95 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    8.4
    (57 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (50 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    TOPdeskUKG Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    TOPdesk
    It is an easy-to-use platform with a lot of capabilities. We use it for knowledge databases and it makes my work as Application Owner way easier and faster. It also provides a clear view of the issues running in our organization. We can clearly see where our colleagues are having problems. It also provides a clear view of my support tickets. Also, the reporting tools and the asset management are very nice.
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    UKG
    I feel UKG Pro has been so horribly rolled out at the City of Houston. I'm amazed that, as a system administrator, it even works at all. In my opinion, the greatest expense the city has budgeted is managed by a shoe-string, janky, bug-ridden mess. I truly hope UKG is bought out for 2 cents and scattered to dust. In my opinion, terrible maintenance and support, the worst consultants money can buy, the sleaziest sales accountants. This system tries my patience as a lead system administrator and I would caution anyone considering bringing in this mess to their business. It's been a year now, and we still have workarounds and bugs daily.
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    Pros
    TOPdesk
    • TOPdesk's UI is pretty intuitive. Its often not needed to explain colleagues new functionalities as they are self-explaining.
    • TOPdesk is visually cleaner compared to interfaces of other ITSM tools
    • TOPdesk offers a lot of UI's that are easy to customize, like the home dashboard
    • TOPdesk support is really good. Once we notice we do not get an answer that works for us, the issue is escalated directly to a specialist on demand.
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    UKG
    • UKG has an amazing support team to reach out to if assistance is needed
    • All add-ons of UKG Pro integrate seamlessly making it a powerful software program
    • UKG Pro is very configurable to meet the specific needs of companies
    • It is easy to use and navigate
    • The mobile app is loved by all employees and provides on-demand access
    • The Ultimate Community is amazing!! On-demand information on all products and how they are used. Connect with other companies that use UKG Pro and learn from each other.
    • The Learning Centre is also amazing!! Learning right at your fingertips anytime, anywhere.
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    Cons
    TOPdesk
    • assigning rights is too extensive, making it very complex to manage this up to date.
    • Topdesk has gained so many features that it is difficult for a new user to become familiar with it.
    • action sequences remain tricky and certainly not for everyone to understand.
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    UKG
    • Teachers that are hard functionality. Okay. I would say the most issues that we've had is the admins or the HR department losing their access and it throws us for a loop. It's like, what happened? What's going on? So that's the main thing. And then some of our employees struggle with the hourly employees try to struggle with timekeeping as in clocking in and clocking out. But we got that resolved. Thank you UKG Pro. And our employees are happy again. I would recommend UKG Pro.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    TOPdesk
    If I could choose a new ticketing/asset/ITSM tool and a company I would definitely go with TOPdesk. I like the fact that the support team is also in Dutch and the pricing at the time we purchased it was very affordable. It had all the features we needed and since then the product has come a long way and has many built in out-of-box features that require much less config and setup time. However still very customizable so can be adapted to any customer/environment.
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    UKG
    We have been a customer since 2015, we have gone to market and find that UKG Pro product is both user friendly for administrators as well as the employee. The qualify of support and service of UKG team is valued and we trust the product.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    TOPdesk
    In short, we've been able to remove many pain points, automate multiple things, and empowered the end-user by being able to manage more items via the Self Service Portal. We've been able to do more than we were able to do with our previous ITSM platform. The TOPdesk development team added some things recently that will allow us to make some other things more efficient.
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    UKG
    It gets the job done, but not with a few deep sighs. Once you know where stuff lives, it's manageable, but the first learning curve is steep, some menus feel buried. However, it's consistent, reliable and doesn't crash on me, which counts for a lot. With a little UI glow up it could push into a 9 zone.
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    Reliability and Availability
    TOPdesk
    Like I said somewhere else in this review: the helpdesk of TOPdesk is top of the bill! In the Netherlands, that is. I can not plea for the helpdesks in other countries, but I guess the TOPdesk organization will make sure the quality of the helpdesk is the same in every country.
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    UKG
    For the most part UltiPro has been reliable, but it could definitely be better. There have been several notable server issues where we were unable to access the product or unable to utilize some of the features. Customer support is usually quick to respond to questions about these issues, but they do not proactively reach out to customers whose environments have been effected by outages
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    Performance
    TOPdesk
    Although being a SAAS solution, TOPdesk performs pretty fast. One can imagine that any SAAS solution is slow or has hiccups, but we have not experienced such with TOPdesk. Pages load quickly, logging in goes smoothly. We have made reports on premise in the past - that always took some time, as you might expect with such complex tasks. It seems that in the SAAS solution TOPdesk somehow has managed to make it even faster!
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    UKG
    Normally UKG Pro loads quickly. We had been having major issues with reports running in a timely manner but recently they broke out our virtual server to another instance where is wasn't sharing resources and that seems to have helped reporting run more efficiently.
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    Support Rating
    TOPdesk
    Most if not nearly all questions are answered within the same or a few days. The helpdesk is very knowledgable about their product and are always willing to help. The only downside is that for more difficult questions it can take a while due to the experts being further removed from the helpdesk. But they are always willing to answer questions, even if they are not directly related to a problem with the service.
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    UKG
    The quality of UKG Support is related directly to the UKG rep. who handles the issue. In some cases you get someone who really is good at supporting the product and others may not have as much experience and it shows
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    In-Person Training
    TOPdesk
    We had Topdesk in-house here training staff for almost a month (2-3 hour meetings 3x a week.) It was invaluable and we were able to take that training and share with the rest of our IT staff. Once implemented we were able to fly from there. The challenges we found were in how to get started. Once started the knowledge base offered from Topdesk has been invaluable.
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    UKG
    I've been to a few in-person (hands on) training sessions and it is very similar to the online classes. You have the same reference material to look back on after the training. So regardless of in person training or online you really get the same thing.
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    Online Training
    TOPdesk
    Online training documentation is easy to access and consume. There is no real challenges with finding information on how to use the product and some really helpful knowledge base items that show us how valuable these options are in our own implementation of it. The online training we've used has been self driven
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    UKG
    Most of the online training was very generic (to be expected) but we had specific requirements for configuration that could have been better addressed with more individual sessions earlier on from our project team. However, we did finally begin booking training sessions with our implementation team which were recorded, and so provided additional information for how to correctly configure and test the system.
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    Implementation Rating
    TOPdesk
    It was a challenge to port over years of the same thing and we ended up keeping old ideas in Topdesk that we will eventually weed out as time passes and we learn how users view categories and flows of tickets. Planning is key but bear in mind that just because you used to do it this way doesn't mean you still have to
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    UKG
    Make sure you have all of your tax account information with all the states you are registered in available and that you are knowledgeable about the filing status, frequency, etc. We had some unique challenges with our state unemployment tax set up that I was not aware of and needed to be addressed prior to going live. Working with the state unemployment office can be a challenge.
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    Alternatives Considered
    TOPdesk
    Spiceworks is an easier-to-use Help Desk solution but it lacks all other features that Topdesk has. Freshdesk was just too much for our environment. It was cost-prohibitive for our intended use. TOPdesk fit our org size and budget better than the others.
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    UKG
    We used ADP WFN prior to switching to UKG. We interviewed three different payroll companies to see what our options were. UKG stood out and aligned with our company values. The sales team was very helpful and asked questions about what we were currently doing and how they could assist with simplifying things. I personally had a side meeting with them to see if there were options for a process that we manually process and if UKG could actually eliminate the process. We came to the conclusion that we weren't able to get it 100%, but we could pull 80% of what we needed from UKG, and then we would only need to manipulate 20% of the information. It was also determined from that meeting that we wouldn't need to pay extra to have a special report built. The customer service is what we were sold on. The other companies that we looked at didn't give us the confidence that their customer service would be any better than what we previously had.
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    Scalability
    TOPdesk
    TOPdesk is very flexible and scalable. Every department in you organization can you the software. Perhaps some persons need some training, but that can be provided by TOPdesk ot some keyusers.
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    UKG
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    Return on Investment
    TOPdesk
    • A good number of incidents can solved more quickly. Those cases can be solved by the customer itself and in TOPdesk it is very easy to send the self-service-solution with your answer.
    • It is easier to report some things based on categorization and good search filtering
    • If there are two or more tickets, they are difficult (or impossible) to merge correctly. There is a merge function, but there is for example, only one client possible. A solution where you close one merged ticket and send separate emails to every single customer would be really nice!
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    UKG
    • My company acquired another company, and with a UKG partner, we were able to bring them online in UKG within two months of the acquisition date.
    • When COVID sent us remote, we could configure custom fields to track vaccination status.
    • The C-suite can get custom reports done in minutes, or ours, where our previous HRIS would have taken days to accomplish, as data would have had to have been exported to Excel and then manipulated inside Excel.
    • UKG has allowed to go virtual paper free as both a candidate and employee.
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    ScreenShots

    TOPdesk Screenshots

    Screenshot of TOPdesk plan boardScreenshot of TOPdesk portal designerScreenshot of TOPdesk service desk KPIsScreenshot of TOPdesk asset management overviewScreenshot of TOPdesk call managementScreenshot of TOPdesk asset management dashboard

    UKG Pro Screenshots

    Screenshot of included workforce analytics.Screenshot of the payroll gateway.