JIRA Service Desk for the win
September 27, 2017

JIRA Service Desk for the win

Bobbejo Kohler | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with JIRA Service Desk

We have 3 different services desks and 2 of the 3 have moved to JIRA Service Desk. JIRA Service Desk allows for tracked collaboration and better SLAs.
  • JIRA Service Desk tracks the status our tickets are in.
  • With JIRA Service Desk we can have some automated escalation.
  • JIRA Service Desk has queues to easily see who may have too much work so we can load balance.
  • I do not like how it processes incoming emails. The mail handler for the service desk compared to standard JIRA is lacking.
  • Notifications are also difficult to control. It seems internal collaborators sometimes get "spammed".
  • Attachments are also an issue. If a customer has a signature in their email you can end up with too many logos as attachments and there is no way to do a bulk delete without a paid add-on.
  • JIRA Service Desk has allowed us to see quickly where tickets seem to take the most time (in what status).
  • JIRA Service Desk has given us a way to see root causes of issues so we can improve as a company.
  • We can spend a lot of time with busy work in JIRA Service Desk related to ticket clean up (attachment removal or reducing email strings).
  • JIRA Service Desk's integration with JIRA Software makes linking bugs and enhancements easy. This allows is to better communicate to our clients when a known issue is resolved.
We tried to make Clarizen a ticketing system and it just wasn't built to handle all of the different scenarios we required. Hesk is very limited and an OK ticketing system for internal use with simple tickets, but does not offer the same level of customization as JIRA service desk.
JIRA Service Desk is well suited for any client facing service desk. If you are running an internal help desk you may be able to just use JIRA Software.

Jira Service Management Feature Ratings

Organize and prioritize service tickets
10
Self-service tools
Not Rated
ITSM collaboration and documentation
Not Rated
ITSM reports and dashboards
Not Rated
Change requests repository
Not Rated
Service-level management
8