We performed a comparison between OpenText Service Management Automation X (SMAX) and OpenText Service Manager [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about ServiceNow, Atlassian, BMC and others in IT Service Management (ITSM)."The most valuable features of Micro Focus Service Management Automation X (SMAX) are that it is user-friendly, easy to configure, and adaptable."
"It offers a range of tools for sales and configuration. It's like a business process improvement platform, suitable for various lines of business operations."
"This is a cordless application that can be used throughout any organization."
"The tool is very easy to use."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution will streamline productivity and also improve automation. That would bring efficiency as well the ability to handle a big number of enterprise-wide service needs. Productivity and collaborative capabilities are some of the key benefits."
"Incident management is the most valuable because we're using it to manage tickets for an accounting system. With the reports that are available, it allows us to track and identify trends at the type and item level. It also helps us in managing the workload better than what we had in Remedy, which is what we were using before 2013."
"It's easy to scale."
"It's pretty well-structured in modules."
"The design has been revamped in terms of GUI. The current interface is quite easy to read."
"It can adapt to any process in the organization."
"It gives us better understanding and control of service management."
"The solution lacks sufficient documentation."
"The contract management feature can be improved."
"The initial setup of Micro Focus Service Management Automation X (SMAX) is complicated, but once it is set up the configuration is straightforward to adapt to the users' or customers' needs."
"The product's connectivity with third-party products is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I don't see anything lacking."
"Pure cloud-based native functionality is lacking."
"It needs good integration with the configuration database, that's lacking at the moment, It's not that good."
"The solution does not interface well with other products and is difficult to implement."
"It, still, has a bit of more of improvement possibilities in the codeless part. But, I can see that they are working on it, so that's quite good as well."
"Micro Focus Service Manager is not very great. It would be better if it had more features. When it comes to features, BMC tops the chart. When it comes to usage, people use BMC more."
"We aren't able to take emails that come in and turn them into tickets, especially when it comes to attachments. When an email has an attachment, like a screenshot, it is a very cumbersome process, and it does not work very well. I shouldn't have been paying technicians to cut and paste attachments from an email into the ticketing system. It should do that automatically. Other solutions are able to do that. This is something that needs to be improved. Test manager and knowledge management areas are probably amongst the worst parts of this solution. We try to use this solution for knowledge management, but it is not user-friendly. Therefore, it has limited ROI as you need to spend time to try and fully capitalize on the knowledge management system."
"Service Manager would be improved with access to automation."
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OpenText Service Management Automation X (SMAX) is ranked 16th in IT Service Management (ITSM) with 4 reviews while OpenText Service Manager [EOL] is ranked 12th in IT Service Management (ITSM) with 48 reviews. OpenText Service Management Automation X (SMAX) is rated 8.0, while OpenText Service Manager [EOL] is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of OpenText Service Management Automation X (SMAX) writes "Offers a range of tools for sales and configuration that can be used in banks and telecom companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Service Manager [EOL] writes "A solution that works out of the box. The solution's real strength is its ability to change for your organization's infrastructure". OpenText Service Management Automation X (SMAX) is most compared with JIRA Service Management, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, Ivanti Neurons for ITSM and Clarity SM, whereas OpenText Service Manager [EOL] is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, BMC Helix ITSM and IBM Maximo.
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