TOPdesk Review
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What is TOPdesk?
TOPdesk is the flagship highly-modular cloud-based or installed ITSM service desk and asset management solution from the Dutch company of the same name, for enterprise companies.
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- Self-service tools (179)8.484%
- Organize and prioritize service tickets (193)8.282%
- ITSM collaboration and documentation (147)8.282%
- ITSM reports and dashboards (155)7.474%
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What is TOPdesk?
TOPdesk is the flagship highly-modular cloud-based or installed ITSM service desk and asset management solution from the Dutch company of the same name, for enterprise companies.
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What is TOPdesk?
TOPdesk is a service management solution that aims to help users improve customer communication, manage workflows and keep track of assets. According to the vendor, the software is simple and attractive, making it pleasant to use and quick to adopt. On-premises and SaaS deployments are available.
- Is suitable for IT, FM or HR.
- Includes integrations with other packages.
TOPdesk Features
Incident and problem management Features
- Supported: Organize and prioritize service tickets
- Supported: Expert directory
- Supported: Service restoration
- Supported: Self-service tools
- Supported: Subscription-based notifications
- Supported: ITSM collaboration and documentation
- Supported: ITSM reports and dashboards
ITSM asset management Features
- Supported: Configuration mangement
- Supported: Asset management dashboard
- Supported: Policy and contract enforcement
Change management Features
- Supported: Change requests repository
- Supported: Change calendar
- Supported: Service-level management
Additional Features
- Supported: Resource Plan Board
- Supported: Operations Management
- Supported: Open API
- Supported: Integrations Market Place
- Supported: Reservations Management
TOPdesk Integrations
- Snow License Manager
- QlikView
- Qlik Sense
- Lansweeper
- Nagios Core
- The Okta Identity Cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- OneLogin by One Identity
- Microsoft System Center
- Microsoft BI (MSBI)
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- BeyondTrust Remote Support
- Microsoft Intune
- Ivanti Neurons for ITAM
- Ivanti Endpoint Manager
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Ivanti Automation
- Tools4ever UMRA
- Mavim
- ERP Solutions by ISM
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TOPdesk Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries | Global |
| Supported Languages | English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Norwegian |
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TOPdesk is the flagship highly-modular cloud-based or installed ITSM service desk and asset management solution from the Dutch company of the same name, for enterprise companies.
ServiceNow IT Service Management, Planon Universe, and Cherwell Service Management are common alternatives for TOPdesk.
Reviewers rate Self-service tools and Configuration mangement highest, with a score of 8.4.
The most common users of TOPdesk are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
TOPdesk Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 5% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 55% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 40% |
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April 12, 2024
TOPdesk review
We use TOPdesk as a ticket system for our health care organisation. Most of the problems we address with TOPdesk are tickets sent about applications, passwords, questions, our saas products, clients, sales, etc. TOPdesk makes it easier for our IT administration to have an overview of the problems in our organisation.
- Administration
- Registration
- Knowledge centre
- Intuitivity
- Better overview in knowledge service
- Easier to make a ticket
June 16, 2023
Topdesk can be used in more ways that shown
Incident management, customer complaints and claims management, facility management, webshop, contracts,
- User friendly design so quick learning for new employees
- Saas app is usefull
- Open tickets and reports
- More optional fields for forms
- More details on extranet on modules. Not all are well explained
December 22, 2022
TOPdesk is TOPs in the field of Helpdesk/Knowledge Base systems.
The ECNO Shared Technology Services team uses TOPdesk as a one-stop ticket management and queue system for both our internal processes via Change Management, and for our external clients at 33 different school boards to enter support requests for our products and services. It provides both real-time monitoring of our current support requests shared between a team of 3 remote technicians, and allows historical data to be stored and accessed by both our clients and internal teams.
- TOPdesk provides easy to customize reports based on user or organization designed selections, allowing the data stored inside the helpdesk solution to be extracted, analyzed, and acted upon. Using simple visual queries, any user is able to build data extracts on the fly
- Importation of data is easy to arrange and insert into the system. From existing support requests to a customer knowledge database, the data can be imported once, or as part of a constantly updating system for user changes, asset management, or user-facing data.
- The ability to reply to emails to update tickets, both as the person making the support request and as the person working on the support request, makes it much easier to keep everyone informed as to the progress of the tickets and the eventual resolution.
- The initial setup curve is very high, with it being strongly recommended that you involve the company in the design and setup phases to be able to get the most out of the program. The complexity of the setup is more than offset by the functionality of the product.
October 25, 2022
TOPdesk Review -- 10 years of TOPdesk
We use TOPdesk for incident, change and asset management internally and also for our B2B customer base. It gives us a central location to manage our global customer's issues and needs, and provides a simple way to delegate and track workflow. Additionally, the data we are able to report on allows us to pinpoint areas of improvement.
- Versatility. The ability to customize the interface.
- The ability to customize workflows for Incident and Change management is the best I have seen.
- The ability to segregate customer groups and manage them in one instance of TOPdesk is great.
- Would love to see stronger Self Service functionality, such as AI.
- Would like to see TOPdesk further embrace customer management of the platform.
- This is a bit more subjective: The interface continues to improve, but I would like to see it be a bit more intuitive.
November 09, 2021
Welcome to the modern age of the Help Desk.
We have recently moved from BMC Track-It! to TOPdesk for our Information Technology support tickets and change management needs. Other departments such as word processing and online learning also use TOPdesk to manage their work requests. We needed a modern solution to provide all levels of technical support to our users, as well as better visibility into our operations for our managers. We plan on rolling out the usage of TOPdesk for asset inventory, and we are using TOPdesk for supplying our end users with self-help and submitting their own trouble tickets via the web.
- Clear correspondence with our users.
- An easy to view list of past ad future change management items.
- An easy to navigate self help knowlegebase.
- The widgets are helpful, but being able to have separate ones for specific ticket types would be helpful.
- The ability to integrate into a departmental google calendar for change management would be helpful.
- Displaying dates in a short numeric format would save on screen real estate.
- This one is highest on my list - the ability to mass edit / assign tickets!
November 02, 2021
TOPdesk has a lot of features but Help Desk is its strongest
We use TOPdesk for our front-line support Help Desk. All tickets come in from users via email, telephone, and chat. We are also utilizing the asset feature for inventory.
- TOPdesk has a great web interface that is always responsive.
- The tracking information is second to none. It has a field for everything.
- The integration with Azure AD is very easy to implement and work with.
- The requirement to fill out certain fields before a ticket can be closed can be cumbersome. This could be a requirement for some organizations though.
- The field mappings from Azure AD to user data could be a little more precise. Some of the fields just don't translate.
- When setting up the system to intake emails as trouble tickets, it can be tricky when people reply after a ticket is closed. It will create multiple tickets from this.
We use TOPdesk within different parts of the organization: IT, reception, planning, CRM.
It's mainly used as a helpdesk tool in which colleagues can address problems/questions/whatever. Besides that, the meetingplanner is a very powerful tool which prevents people to book meetingrooms which are already given.
Once every 3 months we use the possibility of making an overview of incoming calls, which come with ratings of how much time is spent on each call and which sort of call is being made most frequently.
It's mainly used as a helpdesk tool in which colleagues can address problems/questions/whatever. Besides that, the meetingplanner is a very powerful tool which prevents people to book meetingrooms which are already given.
Once every 3 months we use the possibility of making an overview of incoming calls, which come with ratings of how much time is spent on each call and which sort of call is being made most frequently.
- Making forms of standard routines.
- Making overviews of activities made.
- Integration with intranet (you have to set up that yourself though).
- In the SAAS version the most usual Windows shortcuts don't work.
- Using the TAB-key doesn't always work as you'd expect.
- TOPdesk is not quite pro-active in advising/schooling in different not-so-many used modules.
When fully implemented, TOPdesk will be used across my whole organization. It will be primarily used to manage ticketing (help desk, maintenance, etc...), as well as to provide a nice front-end for the user community.
We also hope to implement the project management and change control modules in the near future.
- Provides a very nice front-end interface for the end-user community.
- Provides a thorough web-based interface for the operators (back-end technicians).
- Provides a great deal of flexibility concerning the organization of operators into groups, as well as delegating very granular control over what they can/cannot do in the operators interface.
- The inventory system - while boasting some cool features such as historical modifications to a system - suffers from one core issue: It is very easy to introduce duplicate records into the system and lose connections between PCs and other objects (licenses, users, support tickets) due to TOPdesk's use of the host name as the primary key in their database.
- The AD import system is not properly fleshed out, and requires extensive modifications by TOPdesk before it will work. For instance, it won't pull in any addressing information for any of your users by default. It will also pull in blank entries if an account lives in the OU structure you're scanning and that account has a manager whose account lives outside the OU structure in question. Likewise, similar blank entries can be created if an Exchange contact is set as the manager of a user account within your OU.
- The knowledgebase is decent, but it lacks [A] any real formatting (no numbered or bulleted lists, making procedures difficult to write) and [B] granular control over who can do what (if you give someone in HR the ability to write/edit knowledgebase articles, they also have access to all the IT knowledgebase articles). I believe TOPdesk will be improving this approach in the future, but nothing yet.
- The trigger/action system (handles all email notifications) is very difficult to set up. It's a powerful system in that you can compose highly customized emails, but without any sort of basic guide or templates it's a very steep learning curve to get working. In my own system I have nearly 40 triggers and nearly 70 actions just to handle who should get what, and it took months to set up - a core reason it took so long to roll out the product. These triggers are not well documented either, so many of them require trial and error to the nth degree.
- Some aspects of the system are inherently broken. For instance, you can create a trigger to trip whenever someone posts a comment to a ticket, then have an action set up to email all the linked users of a ticket. But if there aren't any linked users then the operator gets a post-comment prompt asking who they want to send the email to, instead of the system being smart enough to know that it shouldn't try sending the email at all.
- Linked users have no visibility into someone else's ticket. This is odd, because TOPdesk has enabled this feature for [A] users of the same location (where it isn't always applicable) and/or [B] users of the same department (where again, it isn't always applicable). What TOPdesk should do is give *ANY* linked user the ability to see another user's ticket via the self-service portal, but they haven't done this. The result would be a linked user getting an email notification for a ticket which they don't have visibility on, resulting on additional emails back and forth looking for information.
- On a related note, the two existing visibility options listed above (location-based and department-based) can introduce security holes. Consider a handful of users at a single location or within a single department, then consider that two or three of them are basic users, then there is an assistant manager, and finally there is a manager above everyone. You can easily give the manager visibility of all of his/her subordinates' tickets, but if in order to give the assistant manager visibility over his/her subordinates, you must also give him/her visibility to the manager's tickets.
- The mobile operators site restricts ticket visibility to only [A] an operator's own tickets and [B] unassigned tickets within that operator's group. So if you have a 10-person support team with a single manager, then as soon as the manager assigns at ticket to one of his/her techs, the manager loses visibility of the ticket. This is especially problematic if you have a manager working in the field on a mobile device 100% of the time (as I do). The only way for the manager to see all tickets is to simply not assign them to anyone, a pretty dumb approach to a problem introduced as part of a poor design choice.
- As a general rule, TOPdesk has introduced many great ideas, but they are often burdened by the singular approach the TOPdesk designers have taken. As stated above, yes, you have an inventory, but it's borderline unusable because of their choice of primary keys. Or yes, you can link multiple users to a single ticket, but they can't actually SEE the ticket. Or an operator can use the mobile website, but they can't SEE tickets assigned to other members of their team within the mobile website. Things like that. And the most frustrating element is that when you bring these points up their response is almost always 'Why is that a problem?', or 'Why would you want to do it that way?', or something similar which avoids confronting the design issue head on in favor of putting the onus on the customer to justify why something should work the way it works in countless other help desk applications.
- Don't get me wrong - TOPdesk is a very decent product and has the potential to be GREAT - but after 8 months of prepping before we turned it on, it didn't surprise me in the least that so many individuals (operators) in our organization reported problems and frustrations with it.
- UPDATE: Since my first review we have upgraded TOPdesk to the latest version and found several previous problems have been fixed (so they no longer appear in this review). One such example was documents attached to KB articles, which show up out of alphabetical order (still a problem), but which previously were not returned during searches. They now are, making the misordering of the files not much of a problem any longer.
- The point is that TOPdesk is always improving their products, and this gives me great hope going forward that our satisfaction with it will only grow.
August 26, 2016
Easy to use Service Management solution
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use one TOPdesk installation to enable a service management solution for 9 of our business units in Europe. These business units can use the tool locally to deal with their issues (incidents/changes) or they can escalate their calls to the European IT organisation, all in one TOPdesk installation. The TOPdesk SelfServiceDesk portal is used to raise the calls and to provide the end user realtime status updates on their issues.
- Easy to use Incident Management.
- Performance/stability.
- The TOPdesk vendor has a very good support team.
- Reporting and selections. The reporting options are easy to use, but also limited in functionality. Reports can be scheduled to run automatically and to provide output per mail or in a document. Selections are more powerful, but there is no option to schedule them.
- Change Management module is powerful, but has a steep learning curve.
- The SelfServiceDesk. Good to see that there are great improvements in the latest TOPdesk version.