We performed a comparison between IBM Maximo and OpenText Service Manager [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The incident management feature is good because it allows you to keep track of and classify issues."
"The most powerful features are the database and integration with CMDB."
"The Preventive Maintenance feature, especially in its inspection routines and KPI abilities, is valuable."
"Preventive maintenance management."
"The most valuable features of IBM Maximo are the overall power and interface, and there are a lot of different modules that we use that are helpful. Additionally, it's an integrated solution and it has a lot of capabilities."
"The most valuable features are the ability to create work orders and preventative maintenance."
"IBM Maximo is the best software for assets management."
"It helps to register things, to see the changing parts, and to correlate incidents."
"We can have all our requests and incidents registered in one system."
"Service Manager's best features are flexibility and customizability."
"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 pretty well-structured in modules."
"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."
"A valuable feature for us is that we have an ordered way to handle all the cases that we can handle with the infrastructure."
"Sometimes, customization is simple. The version we are using now has a nice interface."
"It was very slow due to the lagging issues. So that was kind of frustrating, considering how slow it was while functioning."
"Areas for improvement include: an enhanced Service Catalog on Mobile; Agent intelligence; better dashboards for KPIs."
"IBM Maximo can improve the financial support and financial application, to make it more similar to an ERP as opposed to an EAM. Overall they can improve the financial processes."
"There are always ways to improve and make things better."
"IBM is a big company and they have a lot of products. Level One, the first level of tech support, is the one that is used to stop the tsunami. For everyone, it's always work to get past that."
"Revision management of file attachments."
"Although you can create notifications with Maximo, the configuration and options could be improved."
"It's not user-friendly. It could use shortcuts for frequently requested services."
"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."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"Their end-user interface and technical support features could be improved."
"The user interface is very clunky. It's only now beginning to be a web-based interface, but for now it's still very clunky."
"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."
"With the new version moving toward the codeless configuration is good, but it's losing flexibility."
"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."
"Service Manager would be improved with access to automation."
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IBM Maximo is ranked 1st in Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) with 23 reviews while OpenText Service Manager [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) with 48 reviews. IBM Maximo is rated 8.0, while OpenText Service Manager [EOL] is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of IBM Maximo writes "Work order management and scalability enables the businesses' needs to be met". 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". IBM Maximo is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, ABB Ability Asset Suite EAM, IFS Cloud Platform and NetSuite ERP, whereas OpenText Service Manager [EOL] is most compared with ServiceNow, OpenText Service Management Automation X (SMAX), BMC Helix ITSM and JIRA Service Management.
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