We performed a comparison between JIRA Service Management and Spiceworks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Help Desk Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Reporting and easy export to Excel spreadsheets."
"JIRA SD also helps for much better feedback on the work being done. All colleagues can see what is happening."
"Transparency of the system helps both internal and external persons involved."
"Jira gets the basics right in terms of the product backlog and a scrum board teams can use to manage sprint backlogs."
"A good organizational tool."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"This solution has helped us a great deal in project management tracking and forecasting."
"The platform is easy to use."
"It shows the users that are currently logged in, which is not something that Active Directory by default will ever let you know up front."
"The most valuable features are the inventory and personalization."
"It lets us know whether devices are getting out of date and tracked warranties. Spiceworks also gave me visibility in terms of what software was installed on each device and its status."
"The nice thing about Spiceworks is always it's free. Monitoring of printers for low toner. Finding machines that have low memory or low hard disk space."
"If you're in the market for a low-cost service desk system, Spiceworks is a good software solution to start out with, especially when it comes to startups and those organizations that don't currently have any existing service desk software in place."
"Helpdesk and inventory are both equally valuable, and they form the true core of the product."
"It's easy to understand."
"Spiceworks' dashboard allows you to drill down to the notes, where I can take an inventory of the network and see the devices I need to monitor."
"JIRA Service Management could include more AI features."
"The initial setup of JIRA Service Management can be complex for new users. There is a lot of configuration."
"JIRA Service could benefit from improvements to its voice support."
"The deployment can be a bit complex, especially for those who are not technical."
"I would like to see the user interface changed, it is not very user-friendly, and it transitions workflows."
"In general, JIRA has no relation to customers or financials. Therefore, marketplace add-ons are needed to make it work for customer-facing systems."
"At times you will need add-ons or additional software, so built-in features would be helpful."
"In the Turkish market, the biggest problem is that they are looking for a server type of solution, but when it comes to Jira Service Management, Atlassian is a remote type of license. There are just two different options, data center and cloud."
"The GUI must be improved."
"One of the biggest ways in which Spiceworks could improve is by developing better and more automated workflows. For example, in another solution called ServiceDesk by ManageEngine, you can have levels of approval in the event that there is a request for new software, or when someone requests a VPN or WiFi connection. This kind of multi-stage approval feature provided by ServiceDesk does not appear to exist in Spiceworks, and it is one of their main shortcomings for me."
"There are a lot of disadvantages to Spiceworks because it's not an agent-based solution."
"I would like to see more information when drilling down into access permissions, assignments management, or tagging. When I click a note or a device, I should be able to see more details about the router and modem. For example, I want to see the version, downtime, availability, latency, etc. I should have easy access to everything about our assets at a glance."
"The SNMP sniffer requires a lot of work to get right."
"The network mapping could be improved. Putting together an actual bonafide network map would be really nice."
"Once a device was recognized on the network, Spiceworks never got rid of it even after you took it off the network. You had to go in and manually remove it."
"Since Spiceworks is a free tool, it's not very scriptable or customizable."
JIRA Service Management is ranked 2nd in Help Desk Software with 73 reviews while Spiceworks is ranked 16th in Help Desk Software with 47 reviews. JIRA Service Management is rated 8.2, while Spiceworks is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of JIRA Service Management writes "Customizable, stable, and integrates well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spiceworks writes "Good low-cost service desk system, but lacks in automation workflows and categorization ". JIRA Service Management is most compared with ServiceNow, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, BMC Helix ITSM, Freshdesk and PagerDuty Operations Cloud, whereas Spiceworks is most compared with Zabbix, Lansweeper, ServiceNow and Freshdesk. See our JIRA Service Management vs. Spiceworks report.
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