We performed a comparison between Freshdesk and JIRA Service Management 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."The UI is easy to use."
"It is very easy to make reports."
"Its simplicity is most valuable. It is easy and simple, and it requires negligible training effort. I don't spend all my time goofing around trying to find stuff in the ticketing system."
"We have made use of the training academy and the technical support team from Freshdesk. Both have been very good resources."
"The user experience on the platform itself is fantastic. The UI is clean and uncluttered, so it's easy to find any information about your customer or the issue at hand. You can find out the person responsible for that particular issue, what the problem is, who the stakeholders are, and how to resolve it. There are lots of tools that will help you do that as well."
"Freshdesk has allowed us to measure and track the response and resolution time of tickets which has been reduced from seven to eight hours down to 30 minutes to one hour."
"There is the option to create different roles for specific users. We make use of groups for each customer service team which has been very effective. We are able to apply different sets of rules for each group which determines how they interact with customers and escalate issues."
"Omnichannel is one of the most valuable features of the solution."
"Compared to other solutions, Jira Service Management is really reasonable regarding price and speed."
"It is much more controlled and allows for different kinds of customization that we can plan and implement based on the project requirements."
"Its integration is most valuable. It is pretty open for integration."
"The most valuable feature of JIRA Service Management is a plugin we are using for the front end for simple user forms."
"Developing processes is easy and user-friendly."
"Service Management is great if you're an Atlassian shop already using JIRA for the development team and you want another tool for help desk ticketing. When it's all under the same umbrella, I can easily take a ticket from the help desk and move it to the development team. You can't beat that integration between two products."
"Easily integrates with other tools."
"Transparency of the system helps both internal and external persons involved."
"Asset management and branding are two areas in the solution that have scope for improvement."
"The dashboards are useful but could be so much better. As a product manager, and data scientist, we couldn't use the dashboard for analytics and had to move the data in Power BI."
"While it's good for a small number of tickets, definitely in the future, we will require something more powerful."
"It would be helpful to pull reports or schedule them based on agents, users, ticket numbers, or responses."
"Sometimes our requirements are not matched with Freshdesk's free version as most of the advanced features are not available to us."
"I would like to see a little bit more color in the solution."
"Technical support is not the best. It could be much, much better and offer better support to users."
"There are a few things we have asked for, like a forward button. When a ticket comes in, we forward it, but it doesn't sync up with the forward. That is the one they have to rework. The other is when we forward the ticket, it doesn't go all, or certain things don't go with it. We have told them about it, and they are working on it. It would be better if they gave us a more standard reporting template. Although they already have some, many aren't usable. It would be easier if we had more templates to work with."
"An improvement they could add is a better management dashboard. We only use the dashboard for the administration mode. We have a dashboard that reports the state of bugs or requirements. However, customers can only view requests that they made. We are not able to share a dashboard with our manager level customers to show them all of the requests in a quick dashboard."
"The solution needs to be integrated better with Office X5."
"With Jira, we were unable to implement time-based automation in its ticketing system. We would like a feature where we can define tickets based on severity, then tickets are automatically escalated to the next level after a set period of time if they go unanswered."
"We have a lot of add-ons, however, instead of the add-ons, for example, cloning could be better."
"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."
"Jira Service Management should be more user-friendly."
"It would be useful to be ale to link tickets across different gantt charts in Jira and Confluence."
"Its UI is a bit overwhelming for new users. That has been the problem with Jira for a long time. If they could put some fields that we could use to simplify the UI, it would be good."
Freshdesk is ranked 9th in Help Desk Software with 27 reviews while JIRA Service Management is ranked 2nd in Help Desk Software with 73 reviews. Freshdesk is rated 8.4, while JIRA Service Management is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Freshdesk writes "Incredibly user-friendly, flexible, and affordable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of JIRA Service Management writes "Customizable, stable, and integrates well". Freshdesk is most compared with ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Spiceworks, TOPdesk and BMC Helix ITSM, whereas JIRA Service Management is most compared with ServiceNow, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, BMC Helix ITSM, PagerDuty Operations Cloud and Zendesk. See our Freshdesk vs. JIRA Service Management report.
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