Hornbill Supportworks ITSM: could be more user-friendly
April 17, 2018

Hornbill Supportworks ITSM: could be more user-friendly

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
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Verified User

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
The concept of the solution is a good one and in theory, Hornbill Supportworks ITSM is good for incoming inquiries/tickets management. The inquiries can be automatically captured by a user submitting a request, and an email notification is sent to both the Helpdesk team and the customer. The inquiries are then tracked, alerting the team when the SLA is about to be/has been breached. Once the inquiry has been resolved, it notifies all relevant parties, as well as time-stamps the action.

Hornbill Feature Ratings

Organize and prioritize service tickets
6
Expert directory
3
Service restoration
4
Self-service tools
5
Subscription-based notifications
5
ITSM collaboration and documentation
5
ITSM reports and dashboards
3
Configuration mangement
4
Change requests repository
6
Change calendar
4
Service-level management
7