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OpenText Service Manager

OpenText Service Manager
Formerly Micro Focus Service Manager

Overview

What is OpenText Service Manager?

OpenTextâ„¢ Service Manager (formerly from Micro Focus) is scalable service desk software powered by machine learning, analytics, and automation. It provides an ITSM platform for standardizing service delivery and support across the enterprise.

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10 out of 10
December 16, 2016
Incentivized
HPSM is a very powerful tool out of all the ticketing tools I have used in all my 8 years of IT industry. It has lesser downtime when …
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What is OpenText Service Manager?

OpenTextâ„¢ Service Manager (formerly from Micro Focus) is scalable service desk software powered by machine learning, analytics, and automation. It provides an ITSM platform for standardizing service delivery and support across the enterprise.

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Product Details

What is OpenText Service Manager?

OpenTextâ„¢ Service Manager (formerly from Micro Focus) is scalable service desk software powered by machine learning, analytics, and automation. It provides an ITSM platform for standardizing service delivery and support across the enterprise.

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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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The product has been praised by users for its ability to effectively manage customer relationships, allowing them to track interactions and maintain a comprehensive database. Customers have appreciated the user-friendly interface and intuitive navigation, making it easy to learn and use. Reviewers have highlighted the robust reporting capabilities of the product, enabling them to generate detailed insights and effectively analyze data. Users have found value in the seamless integration with other tools and platforms, enhancing productivity and enabling efficient data transfer. The product has garnered praise for its reliability and stability, experiencing minimal downtime or technical issues. The customization options have been commended by reviewers, allowing businesses to tailor the product to their specific needs and workflows. Automation features have improved efficiency for users by streamlining repetitive tasks. Customers have cited prompt responses and helpful assistance from customer support as a positive aspect of the product. The mobile app has been found convenient by reviewers, enabling access and updates on the go. Improved team collaboration and communication have been reported by users, fostering better coordination and information sharing.

Well-designed User Interface: Multiple users have praised the product's well-designed and intuitive user interface. They have found it easy to navigate and perform tasks efficiently, resulting in a smooth user experience.

User-friendly: Many reviewers have mentioned that the product is user-friendly. They appreciate how easily they can understand and use the features without any confusion or complications. This has helped them complete their work quickly and efficiently.

Efficient Task Completion: Several users have highlighted the efficiency of the product in helping them complete tasks. They feel that the user interface allows them to quickly access the necessary tools and functionalities, enabling them to accomplish their work in a timely manner.

Slow and Unresponsive Performance: Several users have expressed frustration with the software's slow and unresponsive performance, leading to inefficiency in completing tasks. This has hindered their productivity and caused frustration.

Lack of Important Features: Many reviewers have mentioned that the software lacks important features, making it difficult for them to perform certain actions and achieve desired results. This limitation has affected their ability to fully utilize the software's capabilities.

Unhelpful Customer Support: A number of users have been disappointed with the customer support provided by the company. They have found it to be unresponsive and unhelpful in resolving issues, which has left them feeling frustrated and unsupported when encountering problems with the software.

Reviews

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December 16, 2016

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
HPSM is a very powerful tool out of all the ticketing tools I have used in all my 8 years of IT industry. It has lesser downtime when compared to others and is properly synced w.r.t [with regard to] CI's and stuff. The best part is that it has various sections like change, request, Incident and problem and a chance of adding others. I have supported even the infrastructure level of HPSM and feel that it is very easy to upgrade and very convienient for patching. We have 24*7 support from HPSM which is the wonderful part when compared to other tools and technologies. Catering user needs secially with the approvals is a cherry on the top. Really enjoyed and appreciated every moment I worked with HPSM
  • Capacity management like maintaining CI's and their relations is good.
  • Approvals with HPSM is a cake walk and quite logical.
  • There is no wait for troubleshooting or help, HPSM tech help is always there.
  • I find it as a wonderful tool, no improvements needs as of now w.r.t [with regard to] performance.
I would definitely recommend HPSM after working with various other ticketing tools, as it supports and provides the best value and user friendly and quite adaptive to the modern technology mainly the SMS feature, where users were notified for any issues when there are tickets raised. Upgrades and the support provided by the HPSM tech staff is commendable.
Incident and problem management (7)
97.14285714285714%
9.7
Organize and prioritize service tickets
90%
9.0
Expert directory
100%
10.0
Service restoration
90%
9.0
Self-service tools
100%
10.0
Subscription-based notifications
100%
10.0
ITSM collaboration and documentation
100%
10.0
ITSM reports and dashboards
100%
10.0
ITSM asset management (3)
100%
10.0
Configuration mangement
100%
10.0
Asset management dashboard
100%
10.0
Policy and contract enforcement
100%
10.0
Change management (3)
100%
10.0
Change requests repository
100%
10.0
Change calendar
100%
10.0
Service-level management
100%
10.0
  • It would help for proper management.
  • Help in auditing.
[We selected HP Service Manager because] HPSM is reliable.
Sebastian Torres | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
HP Service Manager is used at Northwestern Mutual as a tool for the service desk, and "n-tiers" to document their work. It is used by the majority of the IT area to be able to resolve issues in the field and the home office. It addresses all technical issues addressed to us by the field including but not limited to: computer issues, computer setups, application issues, LAN/WAN issues, password support, etc.
  • We have a web based version and it's nice logging into it from the web.
  • It is nice that it has a favorites/dashboard where you can save your Knowledge Articles, open a new ticket, and access other shortcuts quickly.
  • When you search Knowledge Articles, it is not like Google, and you need to learn how to search for what you need.
  • It takes a very long time to close tickets in HPSM. Here are the steps to close a ticket. 1. Add notes. 2. Add KM 3. Click Resolve 4.Click Save 5.Click Close 6.Click Okay to Message (ticket has recently been modified) 7. Click Close.
  • It's slow and sometimes crashes/freezes and you lose all the information you may have entered. I usually use notepad++ to gather all my notes and paste them into HPSM.
  • When searching previous tickets the preview pane does not allow for sorting by date to have the most recent at the very top every time you pull up previous tickets. Sometimes there are pages and pages of previous tickets and you have to click and scroll to get what you need.
  • I click on search KMs and it takes me to a blank page and I have to click the back button which then brings me to the search KM page.
HP Service Manager (HPSM) is well suited for a big company and it does the job that it's intended to do but it's not perfect. It has a fairly large learning curve for searching Knowledge Management (KMs) and it takes time to learn how to be fast at creating/resolving tickets while on calls. I have been using HPSM for about 2 years now and we recently moved from the desk client to the web client and we are seeing a lot more issues than we did with the desk client. They keep coming out with updates for it so eventually most of our issues will hopefully be resolved. Overall the web experience is better as it looks more modern than what we used in the past.
Incident and problem management (7)
61.42857142857143%
6.1
Organize and prioritize service tickets
40%
4.0
Expert directory
50%
5.0
Service restoration
50%
5.0
Self-service tools
70%
7.0
Subscription-based notifications
80%
8.0
ITSM collaboration and documentation
70%
7.0
ITSM reports and dashboards
70%
7.0
ITSM asset management (3)
60%
6.0
Configuration mangement
60%
6.0
Asset management dashboard
80%
8.0
Policy and contract enforcement
40%
4.0
Change management (3)
N/A
N/A
Change requests repository
N/A
N/A
Change calendar
N/A
N/A
Service-level management
N/A
N/A
  • We take anywhere from between 850-1400 calls a day and overall the whole opening tickets to close process goes pretty smoothly.
I have seen other products but I have only worked with HPSM.
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