Hornbill Supportworks ITSM: could be more user-friendly
April 17, 2018
Hornbill Supportworks ITSM: could be more user-friendly
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Score 4 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Hornbill Supportworks ITSM
Supportworks ITSM is used by our IT Helpdesk team to capture, track, escalate and resolve IT-related issues. The issues are logged in by our internal IT users as well as external business users that out Helpdesk team supports.
- The system time-stamps actions (such as issue logged in/escalated/put on hold/resolved) which is useful
- Email notifications are sent when the ticket (inquiry) is about to expire/breach SLA to the ticket owner or to notify the user that the inquiry has been placed on hold or resolved
- There is a knowledge base search capability
- The UI is very, very basic and is not designed with the user in mind
- The system itself is pretty basic yet required a rather complex set up
- Random and inconvenient glitches: when Supportworks is opened, it offers useful pop-up notifications when a ticket has been submitted/edited/closed. However, if the notification pop up appears whilst I am typing (an email, document - anything), it overrides any kind of typing. This means that unless you touch-type with your eyes constantly glued to the screen, it is possible to miss the override moment
- The system 'does what it says on the tin' - it captures and helps manage incoming inquiries - so the positive impact is there.
- However, this is not done in the most intuitive or user-friendly manner. This causes frustration at times.
- Overall, a single centralized system for managing customer inquiries and requests is paramount for any mid-size business, particularly if this business is service-based