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    Overview
    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

    Vanta

    Score1 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Vanta is an automated security and compliance platform. Vanta helps businesses get and stay compliant by continuously monitoring people, systems and tools to improve security posture.N/A
    Pricing
    TOPdeskVanta
    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
    TOPdeskVanta
    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
    TOPdeskVanta
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of TOPdesk and Vanta
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    7.5
    254 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Vanta
    -
    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 Vanta
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    7.5
    213 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Vanta
    -
    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 Vanta
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    7.5
    207 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Vanta
    -
    Ratings
    Change requests repository7.9200 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar7.0157 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management7.6172 Ratings00 Ratings
    Governance, Risk & Compliance
    Comparison of Governance, Risk & Compliance features of TOPdesk and Vanta
    Feature
    TOPdesk
    -
    Ratings
    Vanta
    1.0
    9 Ratings
    152% below category average
    Common repository of GRC items00 Ratings1.09 Ratings
    Risk management00 Ratings1.08 Ratings
    Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems00 Ratings1.05 Ratings
    GRC policy management00 Ratings1.06 Ratings
    Incident management00 Ratings1.07 Ratings
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    TOPdeskVanta
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    Enterprises
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    TOPdeskVanta
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (255 ratings)
    1.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (166 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (35 ratings)
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (215 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    4.7
    (20 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    4.5
    (10 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (20 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    TOPdeskVanta
    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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    Vanta
    Vanta seems excellent for startups, but I expect that they would be even more useful at bigger companies. I think it really helps people that haven't done SOC2 before. I also think it would help in monitoring compliance across teams with many users. If the budget is extremely tight, I think it would be possible to save money by not using it.
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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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    Vanta
    • API driven capabilities offer a very easy way to connect your systems to their application.
    • It was mostly intuitive to figure out what needed to be configured.
    • I like how responsive they have been and how they have been able to outline the entire process for us from the start to the end.
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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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    Vanta
    • In my opinion, they make it very hard to contact them when you need something.
    • In my experience, they write their contracts to make it difficult to cancel service.
    • In my experience, they have no policy for refunds in addition to their [...] contacts.
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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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    Vanta
    Great to maintain for our SOC2 compliance and further compliance evolutions
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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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    Vanta
    In my experience, the sheer volume of tasks and to do items is a bit inundating.
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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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    Vanta
    Always available
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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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    Vanta
    Fast although the agent may take some time to reping on checks
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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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    Vanta
    Direct support and replies in a timely manner to tickets submitted
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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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    Vanta
    Pretty straight forward
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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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    Vanta
    Straight Forward
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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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    Vanta
    Pretty seemless and did it almost entirely myself
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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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    Vanta
    Vanta's reporting was far superior, the price was competitive but my engineers running the project said that working with vanta would save them significant amount of time. Secondly vanta had more integrations so they could plug directly into the systems we use!
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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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    Vanta
    Works as intended
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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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    Vanta
    • We were able to close contracts because we had our SOCII compliance in place
    • SOCII certification process was reduced by at least 80%
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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

    Vanta Screenshots

    Screenshot of Vanta's task management, used to monitor a control system and take action on outstanding configuration issues, security issues, and required compliance tasks.Screenshot of the results of a risk assessment and identified risks to a business.Screenshot of policy that can be generated from templates or by uploading a company's existing policies that describe the business' internal and external commitments to security and compliance.Screenshot of vendor assessments.Screenshot of employee and contractor task completion status monitoring. Take action to flag ex-employee accounts to be deprovisioned or service accounts that are not included in onboarding processes.Screenshot of Vanta's monitoring, used to take action to remediate package vulnerabilities that have been detected on a company servers.