IT Service Management (ITSM) Tools

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NinjaOne

NinjaOne (formerly NinjaRMM) is a security-oriented remote monitoring and management platform. It allows for manual customization as well as scripting and automation.

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Atera

Atera is a platform that enables IT professionals to gain access, visibility, and control over all their networks and devices from anywhere. Users can manage their IT operation from patch management, IT automations, advanced reporting, alerts, helpdesk, ticketing, and it features…

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Freshservice

Freshservice is a cloud-based service desk and IT service management (ITSM) solution that currently serves more than 10,000 SMB, mid-market, and enterprise customers worldwide.

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TOPdesk

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.

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SysAid

SysAid is presented as comprehensive ITSM platform with generative AI baked into every element of service management. With a fully conversational experience wrapped into the UI, SysAid aims to empower organizations to unleash their full potential for productivity.

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Motadata ServiceOps

Motadata ServiceOps is an ITIL compliant IT Service Management platform built on DFIT (Deep Learning Framework for IT Operation). It is an AI-enabled platform that enables IT organizations to rapidly adopt changes across People, Processes, and Technology to improve service delivery…

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4me.com

Next-Generation Enterprise Service ManagementBuilt for the world’s most demanding enterprises.4me® combines ITSM with ESM and SIAM capabilities making it possible for all internal departments, such as IT, HR and Facilities, to work seamlessly with each other, as well as with external…

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EasyVista Service Manager

EasyVista Service Manager is the New York company's ITIL / ITSM service solution.

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Nexoid ERP and ITSM solution

An advanced enterprise resource planning solution with an ERP system. Nexoid is an ERP system designed to merge the best of ITIL and other practices to offer a robust, adaptable solution.It features complete code transparency, from back-end processes to the color of a button, so…

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ConSol CM/Helpdesk

Workflow-based IT help desk and support software with self-service portal The software solution ConSol CM/Helpdesk offers users important functionalities for IT support and helpdesk for customers and employees. Incidents and inquiries can be processed and solved. The causes of…

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OpSmart ITSM / CMDB

OpsSmart offers ITIL Driven Service Management Solutions that promise to help improve user experience and lower service desk costs.

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Ceeview Service & Business Monitoring

Ceeview Service and Business Monitoring is a software solution that allows businesses to see their service and business processes through the eyes of their end-users. This helps resolution teams resolve outages more effectively, and also facilitates efficient incident management.…

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Tesseron ASM
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Tesseron ASM is an IT service management solution providing a ticketing system and task distribution system, planboard, a knowledge database, escalation system, and analytics support for monitoring ticket management. Also, Tesseron ASM has an AI driven tagging and sorting system…

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Desk365
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Desk365 is a cloud-based modern helpdesk for the Microsoft 365 workplace that enables users to deliver customer service through channels like Microsoft Teams, Email, and Web Forms/Widgets. Desk365 automates repetitive work with a web app that comes with a unified inbox to manage…

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Rezolve.ai
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Rezolve.ai is an AI-enabled employee service desk software from the company of the same name in Dublin, California, designed to bring employee support within Microsoft Teams and Slack. The solution can also support HR service operations (e.g. case management with automated AI support)…

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Mint Service Desk

Mint Service Desk is divided into two main areas - Incident Management and Asset Management. It's available and distributed as On-Premise solution. Incident Management main features:Ticket Types - Define ticket types like Change Request or Incident and attach additional attributes…

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Back
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Back is a collaboration and automation platform that enables internal service and business operations teams to manage workplace requests in one platform. The digital workplace promised to improve work for humans. But instead of removing distractions, it multiplies them. Finding or…

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unitworx
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unitworx is an all-in-one ITSM software that integrates three modules - IT Documentation, IT Monitoring and IT Ticketing in one system. The vendor’s value proposition is that users will benefit from the interaction of these modules, an easy-to-use interface, pre-defined workflows…

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CA Business Service Insight

CA Business Service Insight is software that provides performance management of IT services and service level agreements. This solution is designed to help businesses determine what services are being used and how they are performing against service level agreements (SLAs)

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EZPro Service Desk

EZPro is a cloud-based service management software. It automates and simplifies incident, service, problem and change management for service desk and other operations. It is a complete solution for an entire organization.

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Serviceaide Intelligent Service Management (former CA Cloud Service Management)

Serviceaide Intelligent Service Management is an ITSM solution acquired by Serviceaide from their partner CA Technologies (now a Broadcom company) in October 2016. The product is based on the former CA Cloud Service Management product.

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Qualiparc.net by METALINE

ASG provides ITSM, ITAM, as well as change and configuration management (e.g. patch management, dependency mapping) via its modular offering ITAM Center.

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SapphireIMS
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ky2help
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Rexpondo
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Learn More About IT Service Management (ITSM) Tools

What is IT Service Management (ITSM)?

IT Service Management (ITSM) is a process-based practice intended to align the delivery of information technology (IT) services with needs of the enterprise, emphasizing benefits to customers.

The main focus is to deliver satisfactory service to the end user customer. ITSM involves a shift from managing IT as stacks of individual components to focusing on the delivery of end-to-end services using best practice process models.

Enterprise Service Management (ESM)

Enterprise Service Management is, in many ways, the next evolution of ITSM—just outside of the IT department. The main difference between the two is that enterprise service management has evolved to include non-IT business processes, departments, and business goals within its scope.

ESM primarily applies IT service management best practices traditionally used in ITSM and confined to IT departments across enterprise businesses. Other teams and departments have been adopting these best practices to help run non-IT business functions more efficiently and deliver business outcomes faster. Traditional ITSM products have substantial overlap in functionality with ESM products and have been applied to broader enterprises successfully. However, traditional IT-focused service management products may be less optimized or flexible for non-IT users.

Beyond IT and help desk service management, many ESM vendors now offer modules for customer success, field, telecommunication, HR, legal, case management, and financial service management. One of the main benefits ESM provides is the ability to unite service management efforts across the organization under the one platform. This centralization allows for easier scalability and efficiency for IT and business users alike.

IT Service Management Tools Features

Tools in this category will support a variety of managed IT services. The leading ITSM software will include most or all of these capabilities:

  • Incident and problem management
  • Standard processes and procedures for change management
  • Configuration and inventory/asset management, including application access requests
  • Knowledge management repository documenting common issues / known resolutions
  • Service catalog ensuring tickets are routed to appropriate subject management expert
  • Service level agreement process
  • Managing ticket workflow, occasionally including project management
  • Reports and dashboards indicating key performance and capacity data

ITSM vs. ITIL

ITSM is often associated or referred to as ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library), but these two things are not identical.

ITIL is concerned with an integrated set of best-practice processes for delivering IT services to customers, and aligning IT resources with business needs. But it is a highly specific guidance framework that was developed in the UK and contains very specific process descriptions, success factors, and metrics in a series of documents.

ITSM, on the other hand, is a more generic term describing the broad area of providing IT services to users. ITSM projects often implement the ITIL framework for specific guidelines, but they don't have to. There are alternative frameworks like Cobit, Lean Six Sigma, DevOps, and others.

ITSM Tools vs. Help Desks

From a software product standpoint, ITSM tools focus on the specific area of what most users think of as help-desk. Within the ITSM world, this is often referred to as a service desk. The main difference between help-desk and service desk as part of an ITSM implementation is that help desk or ticketing software products are typically designed for external users of an application.

The focus of service desk products is on streamlining service delivery within the IT domain. ITSM service desk tools also have broader functionality than standard help desk tools. For example, ITSM tools also have capabilities such as incident management, change management and configuration and asset management. They also have some proactive and monitoring capabilities designed to anticipate problems before they occur.

Convergence between these two markets is beginning to occur. For example, some help desk system vendors are repackaging their products to be used in an IT-centric or ITSM context.

IT Service Management Software Comparison

When comparing different IT service management tools, consider these aspects of the products:

  1. IT vs. Enterprise Service Management: Does the business need a service management platform exclusively for IT processes, or should it be applied elsewhere in the business as well? Many vendors have built out more tailored offerings for ESM, but this functionality may be underutilized if the organization only uses it in the IT department. Buyers should adopt a platform with the scope of functionality that meets the scope of their needs.
  2. User-friendliness: How easy is each product to use, learn, and manage? Many ITSM reviewers identify the user-friendliness or usability as a leading pro, or con, for a variety of tools. Consider the ease of use for both routine IT users in your organization, as well as other users in your business and any external customers who will interact with the system.
  3. Customizability: How flexible is the tool to your business’s processes, workflows, and ticketing requirements? ITSM systems can vary in their absolute capacity for customization, how easy they can be customized, and how well customizations will age with new system updates. ITSM systems that can be heavily customized may require more regular reconfigurations when the software vendor pushes an update.
  4. Integrations: Your IT service management tools will likely need to integrate with the rest of your business’s tech stack. ITSM tools frequently integrate software development platforms, IT monitoring tools, and remote access tools. The more prebuilt integrations a tool has with the rest of your software, the more streamlined IT workflows will become.

Pricing Information

ITSM solutions are often priced based on the number of agents, or users, with login credentials to the system. Monthly subscription price can be anywhere between about $20 and $100 depending on capabilities. But subscription price is only one component of the overall cost. Customizations, integrations, and consulting can dramatically increase the overall cost.

Some ITSM provide some free tools, or in cases like Spiceworks, provide their entire platform free to users. However, free ITSM software is only a small minority of providers.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is managed IT services/ITSM?

ITSM is a set of processed supported by specific tools that IT professionals use to deliver various IT services to the business or enterprise. It frequently includes processes to manage IT changes, asset management, and service requests.

Why do I need IT service management?

IT service management tools are necessary for servicing IT requests to the rest of the business and managing various IT processes at scale.

How much do managed IT services tools cost?

There are some free or freemium options, but most ITSM tools are priced per user, per month. Pricing usually starts at $15-40 per user, per month.

What is the difference between ITSM and ITIL?

ITSM is a broad set of variable processes and workflows, while ITIL has a strictly defined structure and framework that guides IT processes and provides prebuilt metrics and measures for success.

What are the benefits of ITSM?

ITSM tools streamline your IT processes and provide clear avenues for internal and external end users to submit requests. These tools enhance users’ experiences and save time managing IT processes.