Very nice self-service portal and an overall good IT service management tool.
October 29, 2019
Very nice self-service portal and an overall good IT service management tool.
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with TOPdesk
We have been using TOPdesk for many years in our company. We started out using the incident module and over the years added support for self-service and the change management module. Before TOPdesk we didn't have any tool specifically, so TOPdesk brought a much-needed overview of all incidents and changes. Nowadays it is vital, also for our compliance needs.
500 - About 90% of our TOPdesk use is for IT Service Management, and about 10% is for facilities management, but this is growing slowly as more processes are incorporated into TOPdesk. Booking a room, alert reception for visitors in advance, and using forms on the self-service portal allows us to uniformly address these needs.
- Cross-referencing tickets is easy by just typing the incident number.
- There are many reports available out of the box.
- Single Sign-On using SAML makes it easy and safer to log on.
- Almost inherent in these products is the sheer volume of forms. TOPdesk doesn't make it easier compared to other products (but also not harder)
- Probably the version we use (on-prem), but there is a firefox issue where the "x" (lower case) key does not work in the actions field. The capital works fine.
- Implementing the self-service offering allowed us to both lessen the work needed to be done by the helpdesk and also to uniform the requests.
- Implementing the Single Sign-On should be mandatory for all applications, but for a heavily used program like TOPdesk, it is very recommended.
We have been running TOPdesk for 10+ years, and didn't have anything before that. As we are making a move to the cloud, we will be looking at alternatives in the coming 1-2 years, but TOPdesk will be one of the options still.