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
TOPdesk Competitors
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 Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 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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September 28, 2018
Smooth transition from on premise servers to SaaS
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Incident management
- Custom made portals and web interface
- Reporting and monitoring
- A public web - space or forum without the need for login would be a welcome addition.
September 19, 2018
Topdesk a must do
- Servicedesk ticketing
- ITIL based
- IT calls
- Change management
- Reservation system
- User management
- Administration tasks
August 30, 2018
TOPdesk helps to organise your IT department
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- It is a easy to use tool, with many out of the box standard utilities which help defining the IT process.
- The CMDB module is a great way of keeping sight of hardware en software. We use it for creating reports and keeping track of our items.
- The change process is very comprehensive and can be used for different types of workflows.
- For us the change module is to comprehensive, and we use it only in a light form.
July 17, 2018
TOPdesk
- Inventory Management
- User information
- User management
- Nothing [needs improvement]
July 13, 2018
A good product & professional people
- Dashboards, it is possible to create all kind of dashboards in Topdesk, that help us to improve our services
- Self Service Portal, the Self Service Portal is very user friendly. We don't even need manuals for our customers.
- Monitoring, it's very easy to monitor all tickets & changes from all our customers. With one click you can see the status overview
- More detailed financial reports
July 09, 2018
Review of TOPdesk
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- The signaling system is outstanding. Everybody can work with it. It is clear and easy to use. Information can never be lost.
- The new knowledge system works really well. Colleagues are able to search for items. The connections between several items make it all easier.
- The variety of possibilities and connections between items is very nice.
- Some features within the knowledge database could improve. Such as layout possibilities, inserting images (quite difficult), search possibilities (does not search for half words for example).
- We would like to have more flexibility within the system. For example, we would like to be able to determine which items are obliged within the reservation module.
- The possibility for more 'open' courses at TOPdesk would be nice. I would like to follow some courses, but most are for a team internally. I'm alas alone.
July 09, 2018
Happy TOPdesk user
- Self service portal so customers can register their own issues
- Automatic reply when registering, updating incidents and changes
- Automatic mail import into TOPdesk
- Using multiple mail server accounts when sending updates to customers. Now you can only use one email account with aliases.
- Directly pasting pictures in incident comments without having to save them first.
- Registration of spend time on incident and changes could be better.
July 09, 2018
Excellent versatile service management tool
- It's very easy for users to log calls.
- The knowledge base is a very powerful tool to assist in self-service.
- Since TOPdesk is based on ITIL it's very easy to grasp how the individual modules relate to one another.
- Insightful reports are relatively easy to set up.
- The ability to use a smartphone (or even tablet) to scan a barcode or QR-code to log a call relating to that asset would be a great improvement.
- When logging a call, the user could benefit from instant suggestions taken from the knowledge base.
- Integrated chat w/ internal support staff would be a nice feature.
- For the (client)user: easy to use Self Service portal
- If a flow is set-up, it works like a charm
- Possibility to build your own dashboards
- It takes quite some time to master TOPdesk enough. You need some dedicated people then to do this (we have version 5.7).
- Some functionality that I would perceive as basic these days, is not standard. The extra modules you'll have to buy then are then full of stuff you don't need...
- The new SaaS-version is quite costly.
- Interfacing with some other applications (for instance HR) comes with some hassle and consultancy. Feels like you have to tailor too much. Should we not be the only company with some interfaces?
- Very intuative for our end-users
- Easy to make adjustments in forms and pages
- Nice self-service portal functions for out-of-the-box use
- Copy and past-ing of images isn't possible
- E-mail forms will Always need to create a ticket. It would be nice to create forms without a ticket function.
June 27, 2018
TOPview of TOPdesk
- Providing an overview on messages
- Possibilities for reports
- Monitoring solution time
- Connecting with other users in similar departments
- More graphic report possibilities
June 27, 2018
TOPdesk helped us to be the best
- Great self-service portal
- Extensive repporting features
- The support and consultancy from TOPdesk are helpful
- Integrations with other tooling
June 25, 2018
With TOPdesk we professionalize our IT
- Easy to use
- Fast in use
- Professional design
- The TOPdesk app for the iPhone is only for users and not for practitioners
- An option to merge two tickets in one ticket with an easy button
June 25, 2018
Great product with a ton of possibilities
- Change management
- Object management
- The ability to link every object and change an issue with each other.
- Right now we're on a bit of an older version (updating soon!), they could use better browser compatibility
- Parts of configuration are still on the server instead of in the app. It takes a bit more time
June 21, 2018
Our experience with Topdesk is TOP
- TOPdesk provides insight into and an overview of the status of service and support calls. This gives us a good insight into whether we comply with the agreed service contracts with our customers.
- TOPdesk has an easy to operate and clear service portal for our customers.
- We use TOPdesk for the distribution of new software and firmware to selected customers. We also use TOPdesk to share knowledge with our dealers. TOPdesk is a perfect medium for Inepro for this purpose.
- Keeping track of the time per incident is easy, so employees are not hindered from keeping track of this.
- An incident on which many mutations have been made, loses a clear overview. Reports can no longer be seen completely and clearly on the screen.
- Recognition of equal or similar incident reports could be improved.
- We missed good interaction with modern communication tools such as WhatsAPP.
June 19, 2018
TopDesk, for getting on Top of your Servicedesk
- Preserve a timeline for every item in TopDesk. From a piece of hardware to my users. I can view and track their history
- It helps me with keeping my documentation up to date and offers me a central medium to store all relevant information
- It keeps me informed on our workload
- It took me a while to find my way trough TopDesk. It could be a bit more intuitive.
- Beter support for using Multiple tabs in your browser
June 18, 2018
Nice product
- many possibilities
- low costs
- easy to use
- creating reports
- flexibel configurations
June 13, 2018
TOPdesk: Re-Invent your IT-servicedesk
- Keeping track of issues and changes
- Searchable Knowledge-base
- Trend Analysis and Team Performance
- Workflows
- Direct copy and paste of images from the clipboard into the action fields. Topdesk currently only supports image uploads, which is really annoying when writing documentation and registering issues.
- Reporting should receive a graphics overhaul. Current reports are graphically very unattractive.
- A separate module for IT documentation like done on the competing platform IT-glue with a super secure option to store sensitive information would be a great addition.
- Team-management with visual OKR support (teamwork distribution) as done on the competing platform Weekdone would be great!
June 01, 2018
TOPdesk Review
- Structure
- Quick overview
- Easy to use
- Orders can be easily made in TOPdesk.
- Requests for change and the progress.
- I can't think of one thing
May 31, 2018
TOPdesk GO
- Keep track of all the items, solved or unsolved. It is a database where you can track and trace all the issues.
- With this information, you can find the best and worst of the supported products.
- The TOPdesk application makes it much easier as the previous mail solution for support. An incoming issue can be sent to help desk member. If it can't be solved by his knowledge it is easy to transfer it to a second line help desk and even go to our development team.
- There is never a question lost in this situation.
- For me, it suits our needs.
- Easy to administrator the worked time on a ticket and also when multiple users work on the some ticket
- There is a great function to let different TOPdesk environments [work] together, in this way you can share tickets with your customers
- Great report generator to get management information from TOPdesk
- It is a super way to register hardware and create tickets on the hardware to see the complete history of a product
- It would be nice if there was a clock function, [so you could] start the clock when you start working on a ticket and stop the clock when you are ready.
- No mobile version (app) for the phone. Field engineers are now using the web version.
- Detailed options en functionality
- Easy to use and to deploy
- User friendly environment
- We miss the integration with Afas to fullfill a fully billable process
May 29, 2018
Asset management is TopDesk’s best asset
- It transforms from static to flexible.
- It implements new functionalities like asset management.
- They listen to the wishes and needs of their customers.
- Flexibility in incident management (like asset management)
- Artificial intelligence based on categorization etcetera are very welcome
- Easier use of filters
- Software/ hardware lease contracts. You can add end dates, alert dates, lease amount, duration number in days/months/years. Activate and not active anymore. But still, have a good overview
- Machine registration. You can sort by date who is the supplier. Estimated end of the live period. Maintenance plan. Contract info. Repair history. Contact info. This is a very complete module
- Organisation overview is also very complete.
- One thing that can be better is the configuration for sending emails. For this, you need the help of TOPdesk. This would be better if a customer could set this by them self
- As I already mentioned. Sending mail configuration could be better and should be maintained by customer.
- Maybe more mobile friendly
- 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.