We performed a comparison between SCSM and SysAid 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."This product has helped our organization by allowing people to connect with each other."
"The solution offers good productivity at a low price point."
"The remote access is one of the features I really enjoy. The pushing of email updates and things like that are very good."
"It is quite scalable."
"The reporting is very good."
"I like the reporting service. SCSM has a good reporting service and analysis service for analysis requests."
"Many more features than other comparable products."
"For our cloud-based deployment of SCSM, the Autopilot is the best feature."
"The service desk orchestration, overall, is good. It allows an organization to build that service desk concept into its organizational and support strategy. And it allows an organization to digest that and create a support model very quickly around the tools. The fact that the tools are integrated within the system itself gives the organization a really robust way to integrate everything and have a complete support model."
"The SysAid team provided excellent service to implement the solution for us. From the very first day, we received a comp manager, and a project manager, to implement the product. They continued to inquire about our business needs and then finalized the best path for us."
"All our service management is integrated into one system. Our response time is much faster because we have a visual into what is going on."
"The simplicity of the solution is excellent."
"SysAid is more user-friendly, and its configuration is easier than other tools."
"It's really customizable. It's very user-friendly to change very quickly. We've developed lots of custom forms and things, without any need for thousands of accounting consultants which was one of our main aims of it."
"The solution provides us with multi-layered service management along with all our support pieces integrated in one system. Our entire system is run on SysAid, from Tier 1 to Tier 3. All the other IT department functionality is captured in SysAid, like development, warehousing, and application. So, it has vertical and horizontal coverage."
"The solution can scale."
"I have found SCSM not adequate enough to carry out some functions."
"We have had some issues with the SCSM on-premise deployment version in the imaging aspects."
"The price of this solution is high and it needs to be cheaper."
"The product needs to improve its integration with other tools. It also needs to have a better UI and a simple dashboard."
"Mobile application integration would be an improvement."
"The logs and reporting-related features of the product have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"It's not too hard to compile stuff but it is hard to manage the solution. Even the design itself makes it difficult for management."
"The solution could be more simple. For example, it takes a lot of work to create reports. It runs on Microsoft SQL queries. Creating custom reports on ManageEngine takes less work from the administrator."
"SysAid has fewer AI features compared to other tools."
"There is a learning curve for the users."
"Monitoring needs improvement. At the moment we are looking for some advanced monitoring tools, which are using AI and machine learning as well. This product currently does not offer that."
"Some of the back-end configurations of the solution are very difficult. So, we always need SysAid's help."
"Currently, SysAid does not have a mobile application."
"The automation needs improvement. The workflow has some improvements to do. There's some stuff that they are working on like having cascaded fields. For example, we're categorizing tickets by location, by site and by building and then by data room within a data center. At the moment they're all separate fields."
"One of the features that I'm hoping comes at some point is that currently you can only have one Knowledge Base instance within it. For me, it would be beneficial to have multiple instances for different purposes. I'd like to have a completely separate one for customers and the only way I can achieve that right now, where I can tag articles to only be viewed by customers, would be if I use its portal function."
"We would like them to approve the security functionalities, e.g., management security features."
SCSM is ranked 14th in Help Desk Software with 23 reviews while SysAid is ranked 20th in Help Desk Software with 10 reviews. SCSM is rated 7.0, while SysAid is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SCSM writes "Helps us manage IT operations, including incident and service requests, but could be easier to create reports". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SysAid writes "Email rules allow us to route tickets directly to a given area without intervention, saving us time". SCSM is most compared with ServiceNow, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, JIRA Service Management, BMC Helix ITSM and BeyondTrust Remote Support, whereas SysAid is most compared with ServiceNow, Spiceworks and JIRA Service Management. See our SCSM vs. SysAid report.
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