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JIRA Service Management vs TOPdesk comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

JIRA Service Management
Ranking in Help Desk Software
2nd
Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
86
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
TOPdesk
Ranking in Help Desk Software
14th
Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)
12th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Help Desk Software category, the mindshare of JIRA Service Management is 10.2%, down from 12.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TOPdesk is 1.8%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Q&A Highlights

it_user231321 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 28, 2015
 

Featured Reviews

Karim Yousef - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficiently track and document projects with seamless tool integration
We are a management warehouse that provides services to different customers in different sectors. Primarily, we serve the banking sector and the military sector. We manage all the software delivery projects through tools such as JIRA Service Management or TFS Confluence is a great tool for…
Martina Peneva - PeerSpot reviewer
Implement service management changes while addressing UI improvements
Topdesk's user interface makes it easy to handle requests and escalate them to other groups or reassign them when working on a single ticket. Additionally, the service management tool in HR allows for a change in delivering services, replacing email communication with ticket raising. The knowledge library enables the local HR to store and share relevant information and frequently asked cases, enhancing collaboration. The ticket system also facilitates escalating cases to other involved departments. IT, HR, and some other teams primarily use this system.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The visibility features are great."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is user-friendly."
"Confluence is a great tool for documentation and tracking."
"I'm mainly working in the ITSM module of JIRA Service Management, and the integration between the system incident and how you can link all the records to the change makes it quite powerful."
"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."
"Developing processes is easy and user-friendly."
"The tool is scalable."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility of defining your own workflows and automation around the workflows, and the integration with the gate or any repository."
"The most valuable feature of TOPdesk is its ease of use if you have implemented it in the right way. If you're not implementing it in the right way, then it's very difficult."
"It is an easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable feature of TOPdesk is the reports."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ticketing feature."
"Its ITSM approach is quite useful."
"Change management is the most critical feature."
"When it comes to implementing new features, they listen to what their customers want via a suggestion forum that they have."
"TOPdesk is overall very stable."
 

Cons

"It has change management and incident management, but CMDB is not there. It's also not as user-friendly as ServiceNow."
"Lacks an interface where the customer can report issues."
"There should be better connections with access management. They should improve the connectivity."
"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."
"Usability needs improvement. To configure it, you need to be well versed in Jira administration. It's not very intuitive."
"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 reporting function of this solution, particularly the filters in the portal, could be improved."
"Change management implementation, facility management, and making reservations on assets can be improved."
"The solution's change management could be better."
"From a UI perspective, there is room for improvement. It sometimes takes many steps to do something simple, like creating or moving a knowledge item."
"It is time-consuming to add new users."
"One of the disadvantages of TOPdesk is the reporting tool. It is very poor and not in real-time. You do not always receive the correct information."
"If I open a ticket on the infrastructure team, I can't move it to the financial team for them to manage the ticket."
"An operator is also a user but requires creating two different records."
"All companies have processes that need to be adjusted. When you have a change, you need to name it, and many companies have a set of changes you can use. It would be helpful if there were more space in TOPdesk to name the change or use metadata to record the kinds of changes."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Costs are about $50 per user per year. JIRA is sold in user tiers of 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 2000, 10,000, and unlimited users. It is bad when you have 51 users then the price is based on that 100 user tier. Users at 100 will be the most cost effective."
"We need a license because we have a higher number than the free part."
"Right now, there are only two of us who are both agents on the help desk and developers. We might be on the free version because we're less than three agents or users. I'm looking at Zephyr tests, which have a $10 a month flat rate, so right now, it is $10 a month. There are lots of add-ons. They do a free version, a standard version, and a premium version. In the last company, we started on $50 a month. By the time I left, we were paying $4,500 a month. That was mainly because we had 100 users on Confluence. I bought an add-on for Jira software for which we had 10 users, and that was $5 per user per month. It was costing me $500 a month, whereas it should only be $50 a month. I don't know if licensing fee has changed. I'd like our whole company to use it, but the big problem is the licensing because the Confluence side is what is really useful, but if I add 30 users to Confluence and then buy an extension for Jira software, I've got to pay for 30 licenses, even though I've only got two users in Jira software. It is the one big disadvantage of cloud software. You always have to pay for the number of seats regardless of which product you are on. This will probably severely limit how many people would use it because I'm not going to start paying $10 per user per month for a Jira software add-on when there are only two people using it."
"On a scale of one to five, where five is a good price and one is high, I would rate this solution as a three. It isn't cheap but it's not ridiculous."
"I price of JIRA Service Management is reasonable."
"It costs around $150 to $200 per user."
"I rate Service Management four out of 10 for affordability. The price could be better, especially for companies using more than one Atlassian product. It's suitable for SMBs that can afford it. I don't think there's another tool that's both better and cheaper. All help desk tools are relatively expensive."
"The price for JIRA Service Management is reasonable and cheaper than other ITSM solutions, but the licensing model is different, so you cannot compare it with other solutions. Overall, the pricing for the solution is acceptable."
"The solution is inexpensive compared to competitors."
"The cost of the solution on a yearly basis is $20,000. Technical support is not extra. It's included in the yearly cost. Updates are also included. The solution is good at keeping its product up to date."
"There are three fee options to choose from for a company and these options compared to market prices are very high. For example, if I use one of the first options for 10 assets, then it costs 20,000 Euros. If you went to competitors, then you pay less."
"Compared to other products in this segment, I think that they are priced well and not too expensive."
"TOPdesk's pricing is cheaper than Jira's."
"The solution's pricing is reasonable and not expensive."
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Answers from the Community

it_user231321 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 28, 2015
May 28, 2015
@Dirk - Have you made a final decision about moving to JIRA? Anything you can share with the community? Thanks!
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it_user214275 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 29, 2015
Here we use BMC Remedy but this software is very expensive and involves 6 months or more of training. You may want to consider JIRA which seems to be low cost and you can obtain a free trial package. Please see link: http://blogs.atlassian.com/2015/01/top-5-reasons-choose-jira-service-desk-competition/ for more information. Top Desk seems to be very large such as BMC Remedy. See link: http://www.topdesk.com/us/ for a free trial. I would test each one out and see which one performs the best through ease of use. With 5,000 personnel to support, you want something that works, cost less, and is easy to use.
it_user221322 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 29, 2015
Hi Russell I don't have any experience with Jira help desk. So my help is limited Jira is an "help desk" and top desk is an service management solution. Huge difference in the two solutions. But it depends of the need which tool are best for them Good luck Br Thomas Sendt fra min iPhone
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Educational Organization
55%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
4%
Manufacturing Company
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about TOPdesk?
The most valuable feature of TOPdesk is the reports.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TOPdesk?
The solution's pricing is reasonable and not expensive.
What needs improvement with TOPdesk?
From a UI perspective, there is room for improvement, as some tasks like creating or moving a knowledge item within the library require many steps instead of simple actions like drag and drop. This...
 

Also Known As

JIRA Service Desk
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

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