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Spiceworks Help Desk
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Spiceworks Help Desk
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What is Spiceworks Help Desk?
Spiceworks offers a set of free tools for IT network management and help desk support ticketing. The inventory management system essentially provides comprehensive device information for asset management. The Spiceworks Network Monitor provides information on observed IT for problem tracking...
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2022
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2022
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View all 13 features- External knowledge base (46)8.787%
- Ticket creation and submission (52)8.585%
- Ticket response (51)8.181%
- Organize and prioritize service tickets (52)8.080%
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What is Spiceworks Help Desk?
Spiceworks offers a set of free tools for IT network management and help desk support ticketing. The inventory management system essentially provides comprehensive device information for asset management. The Spiceworks Network Monitor provides information on observed IT for problem tracking and server performance monitoring. And finally, the Spiceworks Help Desk Software lets IT personnel stay on top of issues across the network with a ticketing system. Help desk roles with role-based permissions and notifications allow tasks to be allocated across team members. If the user wishes to host Spiceworks apps and tools locally, then they are free. For cloud-based service, Spiceworks bills $12 per IT user per month, or $10 monthly per user if paid annually.
Spiceworks was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, also with a European headquarters in London (since 2012), and was backed by multiple investors, notably Goldman Sachs. In 2019 Spiceworks was acquired by Ziff Davis, a division of J2 Global. It is now a J2 Global company, operating under the name Spiceworks Ziff Davis.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Spiceworks offers a set of free tools for IT network management and help desk support ticketing. The inventory management system essentially provides comprehensive device information for asset management. The Spiceworks Network Monitor provides information on observed IT for problem tracking and server performance monitoring. And finally, the Spiceworks Help Desk Software lets IT personnel stay on top of issues across the network with a ticketing system. Help desk roles with role-based permissions and notifications allow tasks to be allocated across team members. If the user wishes to host Spiceworks apps and tools locally, then they are free. For cloud-based service, Spiceworks bills $12 per IT user per month, or $10 monthly per user if paid annually.
Spiceworks was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, also with a European headquarters in London (since 2012), and is generously backed by multiple investors, most notably Goldman Sachs.
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April 26, 2021
Spiceworks Help Desk Review
Spiceworks Help Desk is used to manage our entire IT helpdesk operation. Users across the entire company access it to submit helpdesk tickets, make purchase requests, and check status. The IT department I oversee works the individual ticket items.
- Workflow
- Customization
- Inventory
- Response Management
- Escalation
- The desktop version has been supplanted by the online version (and a local version of that online version), losing a lot of core functionality
- Ticket collision
- Ticketing
- Reporting
- Inventory
- System Alerts
- The Community
- Spiceworks Live Events
91.66666666666666%
9.2
90%
9.0
72.5%
7.3
- At the low price of free, it has had instant ROI over previous helpdesk tracking, even when including the value of labor spent on ticket management
- The live events are always educational and worth the time.
- The community is top notch
- The product reviews are unbiased and fair, as well as coming from real-world users
[Its] simplicity, [the] easy user interface for both technicians and end-users, and stability, plus the ability to locally control data access (we're highly regulated regarding privacy and records rights), puts it in its own class. While it may not do everything larger systems do, it does all of the things our company needs. It performs well even after five years and two migrations in server operating systems, and the reporting tools are available in both simple and complex (SQL-based) formats for deep capabilities.
The community is top-tier, and their use of gamification principles goes beyond other communities to being an honestly fun system. The live events are worth every second spent watching them, and their annual conference is, in my opinion, the best conference of the year.
The community is top-tier, and their use of gamification principles goes beyond other communities to being an honestly fun system. The live events are worth every second spent watching them, and their annual conference is, in my opinion, the best conference of the year.
900
All business functions. The IT Department are the heaviest users, but the helpdesk is accessible to all staff in order to help them process technology support, project, and purchase questions.
5
We have four technical staff and me (the director). Three are helpdesk support specialists, one is a healthcare informatics specialist.
- IT Support
- IT Projects
- IT Purchases
- We track project timelines in it
- Other service departments - HR, Finance, etc. that are service oriented.
Yes
It replaced an old Excel tracking sheet my predecessor used.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
Product usability is key - free is great, but if the users can't make use of the helpdesk easily then free has no value.
I would not change my decision at all.
- Implemented in-house
Yes
First phase was IT-use only, replacing the tracking system.
Second phase was taking that data, reviewing it, and setting items like categories and SLAs
Third phase was implementing those items into Spiceworks
Fourth phase was setting up email integration to our helpdesk email
Fifth phase was opening up the web interface
Sixth was launch
Second phase was taking that data, reviewing it, and setting items like categories and SLAs
Third phase was implementing those items into Spiceworks
Fourth phase was setting up email integration to our helpdesk email
Fifth phase was opening up the web interface
Sixth was launch
Change management was a minor issue with the implementation
We had been using a dedicated helpdesk email since before my hire, so staff [was] used to using the email. We added website support, which required notification but not much change management.
- No major issues were encountered.
No, we did not. We had not need of it, and I'm not even sure its available.
No
We had a log and temp file issue crash our database, the team (even though the product is free!) worked incredibly diligently to get us back up and running in a single evening.
- Task and follow-up entry
- Reporting
- Inventory
- Add-ons and plugins (like every system)
Yes
The community and helpdesk are separated, which is smart - we can handle tickets on the go easily, and my team updates in the field frequently.
April 04, 2016
Spiceworks Review
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Spiceworks is being used by our IT department only, currently. We installed it initially to use it to inventory our network. We have recently started using it for service monitoring and various other uses via plugins and add-ons.
- Network device inventorying.
- Locating new devices and rogue devices.
- Inventorying installed software to maintain compliance with guidelines.
- Keeping up with hardware specs for life-cycle management.
- Identifying unusual network traffic.
- Keeping up with server up-time and alerting if a server or cloud service is down.
- Asset location tracking.
- Verifying Warranty information on brand name PCs.
- Their help desk feature, while robust, tends to be a little quirky for end users.
75%
7.5
85%
8.5
80%
8.0
- Most parts of Spiceworks are Free, so how can one complain about that!
Footprints, Zendesk, and TrackIt.
IT, Administration, Inventory, Security, Helpdesk, Technicians
4
Sys Admins, dba's, repoting, techs
- Device Inventory management
- Rogue Device detection
- Network Mapping
- Identification of Applications on Workstations.
- Workstation hardware specifications analysis.
- Lifecycle management of Workstations
- Looking into the helpdesk features which appear quite robust.
- Internal FAQ and Knowledgebase.
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Third-party Reviews
Trial use of the product.
Would not change this process
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
N/A
- The fact that it cannot use Microsoft SQL for its db, but instead it self-install it own little SQL lite.
- This makes it difficult for us to use with our primary reporting server/service.
No
It is vendor and ad supported for most options.
No
Setup
- Overall the product is simple to set up and get up and running in a minimal amount of time.
- I wish Spiceworks would support installation on Microsoft SQL as opposed to forcing the use of its built in SQL-lite which makes reporting outside of the UI difficult at best.
August 19, 2015
Spicetabulous
Within our organization, Spiceworks is being implemented as a ticketing and inventory solution for the helpdesk team. It has been instrumental in providing my team with the tools required to quantify our achievements, simplify our job, and give us a level of transparency that our branch managers appreciate. The ability to generate monthly and quarterly reports and show our productivity levels is definitely a tremendous asset, in addition to having the ability to quantify our daily/weekly workload.
- Allows my team to quantify their daily workload and predict heightened workload based on trends.
- Allows me to provide my employer with solid tangible data when it comes to proposals, or requests for additional budget/head count.
- Provides a simpler means to inventory our hardware.
- Better ticketing views. I would like to see nested ticket attributes and categories.
- SpiceWorks as a non web-based app would be nice to have.
- More bandwidth, network, and hardware monitoring features would be a big plus.
- Faster helpdesk turn-around.
- More efficient inventory management.
- Transparency.
At first I was drawn to the fact that this was a free tool, but in time I began exploring functions that I had not originally considered useful or critical. Coming for a diverse background, I have used a number of ticketing tools, but Spiceworks covers all your basics well, as well as providing the end user with plug ins to expand it's functionality to an impressive extent.
5
Company's product and support team.
2
STandard IT and networking.
- cost
- functionality
- ease of use
- report function
- predicting demand trends
- network diagnostic
- hardware diagnostic
No
No
Originally when I had questions when selecting a ticketing system. Spiceworks was shown as a great tool in both function, and implementation.
June 06, 2014
Spiceworks, Where IT goes to work
The IT department uses Spiceworks as our ticketing software for internal support. We were looking for somthing to replace the very bulky ticketing software we had been using.
- But it's created and supported as if it was a very expensive program.
- Web-based. Got a browser? You can get your tickets.
- MUCH. INFORMATION. If you know a little SQL, you can get it to tell you just about anything about your network.
- Community. Adjacent to the program is a flourishing community of, I think at this point, over 5 million users. Reviews, how-tos, vendors, anything you could need in a forum, plus a plate of bacon.
- Access to devs. Not only is their support great, but through the community, you can get some access to the developers. I'm currently bugging them over some feature requests. :)
- Plug-ins. There are a few features, like nesting sub categories when creating a ticket that you would expect to be standard, but are only supported by plugins. It's not fun when you depend on a feature you get from a plugin, and the creator stops working on it.
- SQLite isn't my favorite thing in the world, but it's what I have to fight to write custom reports.
- It takes a lot less time to open tickets
- Track-it and Service Center
Spiceworks does so much more than any of the ticketing systems I've used. The inventory feature is so helpful.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- Learning how to get a third-party plugin to play right.
Yes
Yes. I reported an issue I had in a non-official venue on the forum. Within a few hours, a member of the support team had reached out to me for more information, which I got to him. He recognized it as a bug, gave me a workaround until it was fixed, and the same time, helped me find a work around for another issue that came up due to using an older version.
Every time I have contacted support (which has not been often), I have gotten wonderful support. Quick response times, coherent and detailed explanations, and they stick it it out until you're happy.
- Creating/working with tickets
- Inventory
- Reporting
- Everything
- writing custom reports in SQLite
Yes
Very well. They have done so much more with the recent updates to the mobile apps.