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April 01, 2020

Spiceworks, all the spice and none of the heartburn.

Dan Sarauer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dan Sarauer
Score 9 out of 10
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My company uses Spiceworks to track our IT inventory and help desk tickets along with the projects we have going in our department. We selected it because it has a broader community than our previous solution and offered better adoption and ease of use for our technicians.
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February 18, 2020

Spiceworks is a great free option

Barrett Ford | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 9 out of 10
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We used it exclusively as a ticketing system to start with. As we have gone on and refined things we are slowly adding to it more and more. At the moment, the main use it still as a ticketing system, but we have recently added inventory information and started using the purchasing section of it. It is being used in the Department of Residence at the moment.
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October 04, 2019

Hey Security Practitioners! Here is the perfect free tool to install for performing a risk analysis on your network!

BART HUNTER | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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I use it to scan our entire network infrastructure. I use it primarily as a tool to inform me of our security posture. It identified gaps such as workstations without antivirus installed and even how many workstations running a particular operating system is on our network. This tool is very cost efficient (free to be exact) that a security practitioner can use to perform risk analysis. I highly recommend this for security administrators who have a limited budget but still need an effective tool to help in identifying security vulnerabilities on their network.
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January 15, 2020

Great Free Product

Sam Othman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sam Othman
Score 6 out of 10
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We are mostly using Spiceworks to complete auditing and reporting across our network. IT automatically inventories all of our devices and lets us see at a glance the key metrics and measurements that we need to know. We can also put specific notes regarding each device to help us to keep track of things such as hardware faults/fixes/upgrades. We have over 250 devices and counting so it is critical we keep track of these types of things in a central location.
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December 10, 2019

The good way to assess your enviroment

Cesare Arienti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Cesare Arienti
Score 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spiceworks has been used to assess our domain network of the whole organization. With its free license up to 100 devices has been useful to:
- Understand vulnerability on our network devices
- Patch level of Windows OS
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December 05, 2019

Spiceworks Rulez!

Sam Fowler | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sam Fowler
Score 10 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Spiceworks for IT helpdesk ticket submission, reporting, and as a knowledge base repository. We are also using it to track purchases. It is used solely in IT as a way to keep IT issues at the forefront and as a way for users to keep in constant contact with the ticket owner.
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January 24, 2020

Spiceworks

Jewitt Bradley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jewitt Bradley
Score 10 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the help desk and inventory applications.
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January 16, 2020

Spiceworks, can't miss!

Jamie Abraham | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jamie Abraham
Score 10 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Spiceworks in a variety of ways.
It addresses our need to maintain software and hardware inventories, as well as deal with any of our help desk ticketing. We have, in the past used it in order to ensure that products and services are currently online. The other thing that it addresses is our ability to put any questions out to their community and have valuable feedback provided by community members.
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February 19, 2020

Spiceworks tool for inventory auditing of hardware and software

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 9 out of 10
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The IT Dept is using Spiceworks. It provides us with a great level of detail right down to the memory in a workstation or laptop. The tool provides us with all the information we need to make informed decisions about hardware and software on any of our devices.
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January 23, 2020

Spiceworks Works!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 6 out of 10
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Spiceworks is being used to manage our general mailbox for our service team. Our mail program did not keep replies with the incoming messages, and messages could be deleted from our inbox and not be able to recover them.
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January 23, 2020

Free and Wonderful!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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We use this for both maintenance and IT for their free cloud ticketing system (on.spiceworks.com) in order to keep things organized. I also use it for asset tracking and am a member of their online community. This has been a blessing for us, as all of it is free. The community is also very knowledgeable, being able to help me with various problems I run into. Also, I am a member of what they call SpiceCorps, which is a local group of IT people who meet up periodically, just be social, share knowledge, and general friendship.
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January 22, 2020

Spiceworks is an awesome community with great tools and features.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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We use Spiceworks as our help desk ticketing system and as a resource for learning and troubleshooting issues. The help desk ticketing tool is very useful and cost effective, it is free! The Spiceworks community has been great, there are a lot of technical professionals and the wealth of experience is tremendous.
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December 12, 2019

Spiceworks - if I can use it, you can too!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 8 out of 10
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We use Spiceworks as a help desk/ticketing system for tracking problems, questions and feature requests throughout our entire organization. We have a few users that manage the ticketing system (myself included) and we encourage everyone at our company to submit all IT related concerns through Spiceworks. It helps us to address anything from a question on system usage to requests for new hardware, or software troubleshooting as well. It also gives us the opportunity to track these requests and see what issues are trending, and time spent on certain issues as well.
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December 05, 2019

Spiceworks: Need to know, Need to go

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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I use Spiceworks to help get answers on questions that I cannot seem to find answers for elsewhere. Spiceheads get together and help each other out and it is a wonderful thing. There is so much knowledge between the users that it is priceless. I use it here in the IT department.
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October 23, 2019

Spiceworks for Spiceheads

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Spiceworks to manage help desk tickets and prepare KPI reports on the type of issues faced by our internal users as well as the time it takes to resolve and the notes on the resolution. We also link KB articles where relevant. In addition, we also use Spiceworks to manage Contact Us tickets we receive from our website and combined with ticket rules, assign them automatically depending on the issue subject and category
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October 22, 2019

The best software that I didn't have to open a helpdesk ticket to get to work

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 8 out of 10
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WE have been using Spiceworks in our environment for about a decade to inventory hardware and software. We also rely heavily on the Helpdesk for internal users to open tickets for help with IT needs. This has been a great software to use in this way for multiple reasons. It has been great with getting more people in the IT department to be able to assign tickets and leave notes and other things that email just doesn't do.
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December 05, 2019

Free can be better!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Spiceworks is being used as an inventory management system for us. We use it to both track our count of devices and if devices are online. This has made life much easier with monitoring switches and servers without having to pay for a service. We have tried some paid services, but have found that this meets our needs currently. We also use this as our ticketing system since it pulls in all the inventory automatically.
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July 15, 2019

Most effective and powerful ticketing platform

Martha Batruny | TrustRadius Reviewer
Martha Batruny
Score 9 out of 10
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I would say Spiceworks is very easy to set up. It is no doubt simple but most functional tool. It's clean, clear and polished interface is highly appreciable. It consists of incredibly amazing monitoring features. It is indeed incomparable free IT software with plenty of benefits. It works more than our expectations. It comprises of a variety of customization options with wonderful performance.
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April 10, 2019

Spiceworks works best for smaller MSPs.

Leonard Johnson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Leonard Johnson
Score 6 out of 10
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Spiceworks was used as a help desk system, inventory management, as well as a knowledge base center. It helped us manage customer tickets as well as assign workflow for each tech. Techs were assigned a ticket, they commented on each ticket, and they provided documentation for that particular issue. We were able to discuss tech issues with other people using Spiceworks which helped us solve issues faster.
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August 01, 2019

Just a thought

Armando Alvarado | TrustRadius Reviewer
Armando Alvarado
Score 6 out of 10
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Well, we used it for monitoring device switches. We were in the process of looking around for something to use. This free version was a good start. The problem we had was just finding something to do what we wanted since our network is pretty large.
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July 24, 2019

Spiceworks makes submitting and managing IT support requests a breeze!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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We use Spiceworks to manage all IT support requests for our team. Since we recently expanded our team and users are across the entire United States, we needed a better solution to manage these requests. Previously users would text, email, AND call for assistance which did not allow for easy tracking of requests for the IT team.
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June 20, 2019

Spiceworks Help Desk -- a basic ticketing system

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Spiceworks (on premises, not the cloud version) as a ticketing system across our entire organization. One of our locations is also using Spiceworks Inventory to keep track of workstations, printers, and other devices. We have more than 10+ IT support techs, 1000+ users submitting tickets, and 10000+ supported devices (1 for 1 school district). Users submit tickets via email. IT support mostly uses the web interface; the mobile app is used less often. Management tracks time spent on tickets via reports. Nothing groundbreaking --a normal ticketing system in a mid-size organization.
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December 11, 2018

Spiceworks: the best help desk and inventory program by far, and its FREE!!

Andrew Shannon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Andrew Shannon
Score 10 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Spiceworks for two purposes: for its inventory tracking capabilities to keep track of all our our IT infrastructure, and also we heavily use the help desk feature across our whole organization, which allows us to manage and track support issues and their solutions all within one central place, and to easily recall past issues and their solutions.
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December 11, 2018

Spiceworks is a friend to the small IT shop

Andrew Murphy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Andrew Murphy
Score 7 out of 10
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We use Spiceworks as our help desk ticketing solution. We tried it for Inventory and the scanning slows down the network. If you scan your network do it during off hours so not to impact your users. However the Help Desk ticket software is great as well as linking to the spiceworks.com site. Spiceworks.com has a great forum to get answers for your tech issues.
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December 06, 2018

Excellent Software, Outstanding Price!

Michael Timms | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Timms
Score 10 out of 10
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My organization encourages the use of open source software when it can be used to cut costs. We were testing multiple asin set management softwares, and I was asked to test Spiceworks as I had experience with it. I set up a virtual server, installed Spiceworks and began to test. Let me say from the start that scanning in all the devices it in my plans took an incredible amount of time, but now that they are scanned in, it is not that bad. Spiceworks is built and maintained by all of the "spiceheads" on the Spiceworks forums, and they are very proud of what they have built, as well they should be. This software, in my opinion, is second only to PDQInventory for asset management.
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Spiceworks Help Desk Scorecard Summary

Likelihood to Recommend (209)
8.7
Likelihood to Renew (28)
9.1
Usability (6)
10.0
Availability (6)
10.0
Performance (2)
8.0
Support Rating (47)
8.6
Implementation Rating (12)
10.0
Product Scalability (1)
10.0

Feature Scorecard Summary

Incident and problem management
8.8
Organize and prioritize service tickets (36)
9.0
Expert directory (31)
8.4
Subscription-based notifications (27)
8.4
ITSM collaboration and documentation (29)
8.2
Ticket creation and submission (36)
9.4
Ticket response (35)
9.2
Self Help Community
8.8
External knowledge base (34)
9.2
Internal knowledge base (31)
8.4
Multi-Channel Help
8.6
Customer portal (30)
9.0
IVR (7)
9.0
Social integration (18)
8.5
Email support (29)
8.5
Help Desk CRM integration (19)
8.1

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.

Categories:  IT Asset Management,  IT Infrastructure Monitoring,  IT Service Management (ITSM),  Help Desk

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