We performed a comparison between Serviceaide ChangeGear , ServiceNow, and Spiceworks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about ServiceNow, Atlassian, BMC and others in Help Desk Software."The solution is a highly mature product. Because of this, it can stand up to any other product on the market."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Straightforward tool."
"Primarily, we use it for incident management and change across the landscape. It is the virtual repository for our incident management processes. It gives us visibility about what's happening from the change management perspective across our CABs, including our enterprise CABs."
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"ServiceNow was the first true enterprise to service management platform."
"HR Case Management and Customer Service Management are two of the key areas which clients are using."
"I have found that sorting and grouping functions are particularly useful."
"I like that in ServiceNow creating workflows is simpler than that in HP Service Manager. Also, I really like the customization feature. It allows us to customize the service portal and permits us to do a lot of customization per business needs."
"Spiceworks is generic and free."
"The most valuable features are the inventory and personalization."
"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."
"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."
"It's easy to understand."
"Helpdesk and inventory are both equally valuable, and they form the true core of the product."
"The solution is easy to use and easy to manage."
"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."
"The solution needs to improve its reporting features. The user interface needs a lot of improvements."
"Licensing costs are very high."
"Complexities in the organization made the initial deployment complex."
"I find the way you need to attach things like screenshots and stuff is a bit gimmicky. I'm a casual user. I'll use it once every two months and only when I have an incident that I need to report. You don't get a lot of experience with it when you're just using it once in a while like that. Therefore, it needs to be more intuitive so that you don't have to re-learn how to do simple tasks as the way to do certain things just isn't obvious."
"The solution is lacking in the mobile application area that could be improved."
"The setup was time-consuming and required a lot of internal resources."
"There should be fewer clicks and faster integrations between solutions."
"When it comes to changing some of the features, I would like a little more leeway."
"The technical support SLA can be improved because sometimes they take a long time to answer our queries."
"The SNMP sniffer requires a lot of work to get right."
"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."
"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."
"The network mapping could be improved. Putting together an actual bonafide network map would be really nice."
"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."
"There are a lot of disadvantages to Spiceworks because it's not an agent-based solution."
"Sometimes, it can be difficult to integrate what you need."
"It would be nice to have remote access to the solution via a tablet. They also need remote control from a PC. Right now, to complete the technical support process, you have to have a tool to access the PC, and check the problems."
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