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SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)

SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)

Overview

What is SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)?

SolarWinds Web Help Desk is ticketing and IT asset management software. It is designed to simplify help desk management. This solution includes built-in ticketing management, asset management, change management, and knowledge base capabilities.

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SolarWinds Web Help Desk has proven to be a valuable tool for various organizations and institutions. For example, in a school district, …
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7 out of 10
July 25, 2017
We use SolarWinds web help desk across the enterprise. We are using internally and with our customer facing services.
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Popular Features

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  • Expert directory (13)
    10.0
    100%
  • Subscription-based notifications (17)
    9.8
    98%
  • Organize and prioritize service tickets (19)
    9.8
    98%
  • ITSM collaboration and documentation (14)
    9.0
    90%
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What is SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)?

SolarWinds Web Help Desk is ticketing and IT asset management software. It is designed to simplify help desk management. This solution includes built-in ticketing management, asset management, change management, and knowledge base capabilities.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Incident and problem management

Streamlining ticketing and service restoration processes

9.8
Avg 7.9

Self Help Community

Features that allow customers to self-service for support issues.

9.4
Avg 7.7

Multi-Channel Help

Features related to providing customer service and support via different communication channels. Communications are organized by ticket/customer/channel for the convenience of agents.

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Product Details

What is SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)?

SolarWinds Web Help Desk is ticketing and IT asset management software. It is designed to simplify help desk management. This solution includes built-in ticketing management, asset management, change management, and knowledge base capabilities.

SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) Features

Incident and problem management Features

  • Supported: Organize and prioritize service tickets
  • Supported: Expert directory
  • Supported: Subscription-based notifications
  • Supported: ITSM collaboration and documentation
  • Supported: Ticket creation and submission
  • Supported: Ticket response
  • Supported: Automated responses
  • Supported: Attachments/Screencasts
  • Supported: SLA management

Self Help Community Features

  • Supported: External knowledge base
  • Supported: Internal knowledge base
  • Supported: Q and A
  • Supported: Surveys/polls

Multi-Channel Help Features

  • Supported: Customer portal
  • Supported: Social integration
  • Supported: Email support
  • Supported: Help Desk CRM integration

SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) Screenshots

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SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) Videos

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SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Zendesk Suite, Freshdesk, and ConnectWise PSA are common alternatives for SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD).

Reviewers rate Expert directory and Social integration highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

SolarWinds Web Help Desk has proven to be a valuable tool for various organizations and institutions. For example, in a school district, teachers and administrators utilize the software to report technology issues, providing the Tech Department with important information to address these problems. This has resulted in improved efficiency in the ticketing system and better support for end users. Additionally, SolarWinds WHD is used by multiple departments within the district, such as IT, Data, Facilities/Maintenance, and HR, to support users and provide application support.

Furthermore, universities have found great value in using SolarWinds Web Help Desk as their primary ticketing system. By automatically delegating tasks to the appropriate technicians and integrating with other systems like mobile device management or email, the software streamlines the process of addressing technical issues and requests from students, faculty, and staff.

In another instance, a college's IT Helpdesk relies on SolarWinds Web Help Desk to manage work orders and trouble tickets. By providing a central management point for data and enabling effective communication with both internal and external users, the software helps track issues, manage workload, and effectively prioritize tasks.

Additionally, SolarWinds Web Help Desk serves as a centralized help desk platform for various organizations. It supports IT support teams as well as those focusing on EMR support, data analytics support, and facilities/supply requests. The software's ability to effectively communicate with a large user base while providing a centralized tracking database for performance metrics has proven invaluable.

Overall, SolarWinds Web Help Desk caters to the diverse needs of different organizations by offering a flexible and efficient solution for managing technical issues, improving responsiveness, and providing clear reporting for problem areas. Users have praised its customization options, fast tech assistance, centralized database features, and integration capabilities with other systems.

The users have made several recommendations for SolarWinds Web Help Desk based on their experiences. Here are the three most common recommendations:

  1. Consider other options instead of SolarWinds Web Help Desk: Some users suggest exploring alternative help desk solutions, indicating that SolarWinds Web Help Desk may not meet all their requirements. This recommendation highlights the importance of thoroughly evaluating different options before making a decision.

  2. Try the trial version first: Users recommend taking advantage of the trial offer provided by SolarWinds Web Help Desk. By using the trial, organizations can assess the versatility and ease of use in organizing help desk needs, helping them determine if it aligns with their requirements.

  3. Customize and configure carefully: Reviewers emphasize the need to take time and carefully customize and configure SolarWinds Web Help Desk to suit specific organizational needs. They advise organizations to evaluate which features will be most beneficial before going live with the product.

These recommendations provide valuable insights into how users perceive SolarWinds Web Help Desk, helping potential customers make informed decisions about whether it is the right solution for them.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Jennifer Aguilar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize the SolarWinds Web Help Desk both internally within our organization and we support "outside" entities that utilize our Public Safety Application and/or hardware. We tried out a demo and the product and decided to make it permanent in our environment. We use this track for re-occurring issues, as a knowledge base, and to measure the performance of our service. This has been a very valuable tool for our organization.
  • SolarWinds Web Help Desk was easy to implement and maintain
  • Support behind the product is phenomenal
  • SolarWinds is great about notifying customers about product updates
  • Owners / Users of the product can make suggestions to SolarWinds to help make improvements or feature requests
  • I have been a user for over 8 years and the product continues to exceed my expectations!
  • I am amazed at the fact that the users have an impact on how the product continues to evolve
  • Continued efforts put forth on the security of all the SolarWinds products have been amazing
I can't think of any areas where SolarWinds Web Help Desk would not be appropriate. The software can scale to any size organization. You get out of the product what you put into the product if you know what I mean. CaCa in = Caca out! We put forth a good effort in creating groups and categories. I am quite pleased with how we have leveraged the product in our organization. I am also pleased with the support of the product; you have the user group called THWACK and then you always have a direct line into Support or you can open up a case from your Orion console if you have the SWID linked to your installation.
Jonathan Sorrenti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) as our ticketing system for IT Helpdesk at the college. It addresses any and all technical issues and account creation requests through the college systems. End users who have issues can send in an email and leave a voice message and those are created into tickets. Use can also log into SolarWinds Web Help Desk and manually create their own ticket.
  • Ticket Creation and Completion Tracking
  • Assets Management and Reservations
  • FAQs management
  • Mobile App
This is a great ticketing system for users to submit issues for technicians to fix. This is a great system for tracking the work technicians complete. This software is great for asset tracking. This system is great at displaying FAQs that are tied to ticket issues. This wouldn't be a great system for scheduling appointments.
John Mahlman IV | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our university uses Solarwinds Web help Desk as our primary ticketing system for students, faculty, and staff. It helps delegate tasks automatically to the appropriate techs within the information systems department. We also have it connected to our mobile device management system which allows asset information to be added to each ticket automatically if a user has a system enrolled.
  • Email notifications are pretty good; you can add hidden notes, close/resolve/update tickets just by selecting the appropriate link in the email that is sent when a ticket is created or edited.
  • It provides a great deal of information to both the user and tech.
  • It allows us to automatically update asset information with our mobile device management system by using an extension.
  • The Web Help Desk mobile application for iOS is severely lacking.
  • Sometimes email notifications can be very cluttered.
  • It's built on WebObjects which has been deprecated by Apple for many years.
  • It's a little click-heavy.
I feel that Web Help Desk would be appropriate for technical users or for people that require a great deal of customization without a lot of frills.

A small organization, or an organization that employs many non-technical people may find Web help Desk to be too utilitarian and/or difficult to use.
Tim Twiss | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) is utilized by the IT department to manage work orders and trouble tickets. The tickets are generated via email from the end users, or manually by the technician. This allows us to monitor the time and resources it takes to support our organization and also provides us with a central managing point for data regarding work orders or trouble tickets.
  • Automatically creates trouble tickets via email. This allows our users to create their own tickets and allows the technicians to review the queue and prioritize the work, allowing for more efficient production.
  • Automatically corresponds with end users and technicians. Any changes made to a ticket can be automatically sent to all parties referenced in a ticket.
  • Ticket updates via email. WHD also allows for tickets to be modified by email responses by clicking links in the corresponding emails it modifies the subject line which in turn updates the ticket when it is processed. For example, I can click the link to close the ticket in the email, type up a solution, and send the email and the ticket will automatically update and close out.
  • Built-in inventory scanning. This system is very cumbersome and problematic. We eventually gave up on utilizing it as it was generating numerous duplicate entries.
  • Software tracking. When the inventory scanning did work, the end results were not very efficient. We would have liked to have the ability to search for systems with Office 2013 installed on them for example, but their was no easy way to do that.
  • Reliability. We find the server needs to be rebooted every couple of weeks as it slows to a crawl. This isn't a huge inconvenience to our small IT department, but it is an annoyance.
SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) is best suited for a smaller environment, at least with its built-in resources. Perhaps using third party scanners or database engines would provide better results, but we wanted to keep the costs down.
September 25, 2015

District Approved

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SolarWinds Web Help Desk was used by all district staff to open and track the status on technology related request. Our technical support staff used the system to update their tickets, track trends, create an FAQ database to assist teachers with some initial troubleshooting, notify the district of a outage or maintenance. We also used it track district inventory on all district owned equipment, this included of over 5000 student iPads and chargers.
  • I love the dashboard. Being about to see a quick snapshot into what is going on was helpful when tracking trends and see where we were as a whole.
  • The system is very user friendly for the end user. It makes entering a ticket very easy. This is one place that we continued to struggle before moving to SolarWinds Web Help Desk and our staff was ecstatic at will how easy it was to enter tickets and find out the status of an existing ticket
  • Custom and automatic reports. We found this to be extremely helpful and it was not dependent on someone pulling the trigger.
  • We did struggle with some of the inventory features. Because we were dealing with over 5000 iPads we found the check in and check out process very cumbersome and difficult to complete in a timely manner. There were to many steps where people had to type, click and some times we found that it would time out and not save the changes
  • When creating invoices, we were not able to get the student name to be the bill to. It would always default to the Client Admin for the location. Again, we did find a work around but it takes more time and sometimes we were short on time
  • Students would make payments on their invoices but we also found that was not something that worked well in this system.
SolarWinds Web Help Desk works well to enter, track and update service requests. The reporting features are wonderful and it provides great information that can be used to make decisions. There is some set up that needs to take place to use this product but the consultant we worked with was very helpful and the documentation that they provided us allowed us to customize the product as we saw fit. This was also a huge bonus.
Michael Santangelo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We deployed SolarWinds Web Help Desk in a school district for use by teachers and administrators to report issues with technology in our district. The Tech Department (6 people) access the technician side, while just about 800 teachers and administration staff access the client portion of the system. The only people who do not have access to put in tickets are the students - they have to ask teachers to report the issues directly to us. It really helps get a handle on what issues are occurring, the frequency with which they occur, and which people we can count on to give us the best information.
  • Client/Location History Is Very Helpful
  • AD/LDAP Integration Is Easy
  • SolarWinds Support Is Very Responsive
  • DameWare Remote Control Integration Is Useful
  • FAQ System Is A Big Time Saver
  • Messages System Helps Prevent A Flood Of Tickets Over Known Issues
  • Support occasionally misses the mark (e.g. usually simple misunderstandings or mis-communications)
  • Intermittent UI bugs (e.g.: fields disappear until page refreshes)
  • AD/LDAP imports can be quirky (e.g.: user name changes, deactivates old user, makes new user instead of just renaming user)
  • Reports can be tricky to write
I think it is well suited for an environment where AD/LDAP integration is a must, and in situations where tracking individual part prices for billing purposes. It's also great where you need to track problematic users or rooms. The ticket history is amazing. This might be too much for a small-ish shop, but for large to medium groups this is a great piece of help desk software.
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