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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Jira Service Management in office as the single source of truth for enterprise service desk related functions. Jira Service Management covers incident, problem and service request management. Jira Service Management is customised in terms of Technical vertical units where Managed services, Shared Services and IT Admin team have heavily customised profiles and dashboards for their presepctive individual purposes and KPI's for their specific funtional unit objectives. We have a focussed Team performing backend customizations starting from Basic setup, complex automations to bespoke functionality. We have performed in-house customizations in designing the portal, build workflows, create forms, automated workflows and rest api's.
Pros
- Seamless devops integration - As Jira Service Management is an integrated platform it offers easy integration with jira software and when a customer reports a bug via service desk agents are able to link it back directly to the respective developers backlog items which can be pulled into sprint backlogs in return
- Customizations - Jira Service Management has incredible customization capabilities which can be used to build aautomated workflows, custom service requests types and detailed sla's which can be tailored to specific business needs
- Portal based end user experience - The end user portal is an easy to use interface which can be heavily customised and it serves as a self-service portal which is also a one-stop-shop for end users which is a great convinience
Cons
- Compleixity and steep learning curve - while Jira Service Management is powerful its a bit difficult for the average tech guy to setup correctly during a short time period, backend is a bit overhelming with similar looking features which leads to confusion
- Pricing and licensing model - Jira Service Management is quite expensive compared to its competitors in the market, especially considering that its charging model aims the number of service desk agents and the licensing for end-users is free. Further many advanced features required higher-tier plans
- Performance clutter - The interfaces can sometimes feel cluttered and heavy, when the instance is heavily customised with complex automation and plugins the users may fell slow loads times.
Likelihood to Recommend
A mid sized technology company which needs to support 500+ employees and where the engineering team already uses Jira software for coding and bug tracking the devops bridge where employee reports a bug in the portal and support agent can directly link it to the developers backlog will definately support the operations further with the Jira ITIL readiness and inbuilt asset management features will greatly support. However considering an organization such as a retail company handling thousands of user complaints daily will have issues as the Jira Service Management interface is aligned towards a ticket based apprach rather than a user centric approach.
