Spiceworks is a friend to the small IT shop
December 11, 2018
Spiceworks is a friend to the small IT shop
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Spiceworks
We use Spiceworks as our help desk ticketing solution. We tried it for Inventory and the scanning slows down the network. If you scan your network do it during off hours so not to impact your users. However the Help Desk ticket software is great as well as linking to the spiceworks.com site. Spiceworks.com has a great forum to get answers for your tech issues.
- Help Desk Ticketing software. For a small company to keep track of all their issues.
- You can choose between cloud or on premis.
- You can use the dashboard and reporting to get metrics to justify your IT spend!
- No cost solution. Doesn't add to your budget.
- Inventory. The network scan really slows down your network. It's very intensive. Do this off hours.
- Network Monitor also slows down your network. Do this only if you need it. There's another solution Panopta that has a very light weight solution for low cost per machine.
- We've been able to keep track of all our tickets by using spiceworks. Without it things kept getting lost in the shuffle.
- We've been able to go back and show how many help desk calls we've gotten in a period of time. It's given us metrics.
I've used a specialized home based Notes database system prior to Spiceworks. That system was a kludge and outgrew what it originally was supposed to be. We had to make things work in it. Spiceworks is a generic system that while basic allows you to track your issues. It's a good system to use for a small shop.