ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus Reviews

I'm currently using ServiceDesk Plus for lifeCycle management and inventory relationships with the CMDB.

I use ServiceDesk Plus in a Fortune 1000 company to show physical topologies of software to hardware relationships. With so many applications living on so many servers and with databases housing data for multiple applications, it is difficult to trace and understand the relationship between them. ServiceDesk Plus helps eliminate confusion of what hardware/software/users are impacted during a DR or scheduled maintenance.

The search feature is hidden and limited to specific categories of assets. When searching for an asset, you need to know the category in which it exits. If it was not scanned properly and it was not categorized correctly, you will need to scan the asset from all CI types. And when that is done, you lose the action menu for the asset. However, once you discover what category the asset lives in, then you can search that category specifically to enable the actions drop-down menu.

Also, there seems to be a lack of the ability to export assets in the CMDB. A report can be generated but not exported. The only option is to copy the contents of the report on the screen and to paste them into Excel. This is not a good option since it brings along an image for each asset and a hyper link. The application certainly needs a good export.

Change Management and Service Catalog lack any decent customization. You are forced to fit you business needs with the functionality of the product.

Support needs a serious attention. Getting any help is next to impossible.

They do not flow together very well. The product feels like many different solutions packed into one.

I've used it for 1 year.

I did not deploy this product as it was already deployed by the company I am consulting for.

We've had no issues with stability at this time, but I have only worked with it for a short period of time.

I've used the product across multiple countries, several plants, and corporate offices for a Fortune 1000 company with no issues. I would say scalability is good.

Technical support has been horrible to deal with. It can take days to return your call if they return it at all. When they finally do work with you on questions or problems they are not much help.

I have found their forums to be a much better place to get questions answered.

The application was installed by the local IT team at the company.

I currently use Spiceworks for our solution and to monitor several other customer sites. This product is a little more robust in the inventory and topology of the assets. If you are looking for a good CMDB, I would choose this product over Spiceworks. However, I have not had a chance to work with the help desk modules of this product and cannot express any comparison to Spiceworks in that regard.

Since my last review I have spent much more time with this product. Although it is an all in one solution for many technologies they do not flow very well together nor is it an Enterprise solution. It does help desk and inventory very well. Other modules such as Change Management and Service Catalog are there but lack good customization to fit your enterprise needs.

We are using it for logging all the cases. We use it to track all the efforts, ensure that all requirements are met, tickets are recorded, and the work is being done by the respective teams.

Overall, its integration is good. There is a lot of integration that we have done. All alerts are coming to ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus.

Its VIP feature is also very useful where you can specify who are our VIPs. When the service desk engineer picks up the call and gets the name, he or she knows that the person is a VIP and treats him or her accordingly.

It also has a mobile interface. Anybody can use the app to log cases. It is easy for the end users as well as for the approving party. For the workflow, it is easier for senior managers to give approvals through the mobile interface.

It is sometimes a bit slow. If it can have a quicker response time, it would be good for users, service desk engineers, and technicians.

For service requests, they don't have an SLA for each priority. For a service request, the SLA of response or resolution is only one irrespective of the priority. SLA should be different for each priority. 

For a ticket, there is no response SLA for the service request. For resolution SLA, that is, P1, P2, P3, or whatever you define, you still have the same SLA. It should be different. 

I have been using ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus for the last six to seven years.

It is very stable.

It is very scalable. We have added a lot of additional modules after getting it installed. It didn't take time to add these features. There was also no change in overall features. Therefore, it is scalable. We have added more licenses and users to it, and it is working as expected. I have 4,000 users and 250 technicians.

They are very good. The response that I get from the ManageEngine support is one of the things because of which I would like to go for all ManageEngine tools. Their response is good. If I compare with any other similar tool, I am pretty sure it would take two to three days to reach them, but with ManageEngine, I get a response within the same day, and sometimes, the resolution is also provided on the same day.

The initial setup was very straightforward. Our team didn't find it hard to install it. Its graphical user interface is so easy, and it is very easy to implement this device. 

Its price is very lucrative. It would be great if the price can come down, but overall, its price is great. It is half or maybe one-third of the price of other market leaders.

I would very much recommend this solution. Everybody can go for it. It is a very easy tool. It is easy for the technicians as well as for end users. It is the best solution. 

I would rate ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus a nine out of ten because there is still room for improvement.

We use ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus for people in our domestic holding can open any ticket from anywhere.

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus is meeting all my needs, it is a good solution. The integration and security are good. The solution is under-friendly.

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus could improve by having better integration with Microsoft Azure.

I have been using ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus for approximately two years.

The scalability is good.

We have approximately 200 to 500 users using this solution.

The initial installation is very easy. The dashboards are not complicated.

I did the implementation with a colleague in my team.

We use five services and technical support workers that support the solution, including maintenance. 

The price of the solution is low. However, it still could be less expensive.

I would recommend ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus for anyone needing a technical ticketing system. It's a powerful solution.

I rate ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus an eight out of ten.

We use ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus for all helpdesk, MDM solutions, ITSM, and more.

I like that ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus has everything and can be integrated into a single product like SAP. It has also got operations, helpdesk, MDM, and everything integrated. Multiple products can be integrated into one product. You don't have to go for them separately. I also like that they have many partners in India who can come to the site and complete installations.

Security could be better. It would be better if ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus had really good defense products like BlackBerry. I can recommend BlackBerry for the defense part, but not the other things. For example, before we switched over to ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, we had issues with mobiles switching off cameras, and now it doesn't happen at all.

We have been using ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus for about six months.

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus is stable. 

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus is scalable.

We were unhappy with BlackBerry as they are not able to provide service properly and don't have a service center here in India. That's why we switched over to ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus.

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus' price is very reasonable. 

I would recommend this product, but this is not a 100% recommendation. I would advise potential users to compare it with other products. We compared this product to others about a year ago, and maybe we have new products now which are more advanced.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus an eight.

We have an application that we support. Any challenge that we find in the application we report in ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus and then we get it resolved by escalating to the vendor where necessary (The vendor manages the system infrastructure.)

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus has improved the IT standards with regards to the adherence of Service Level Agreements with the vendor. It's enabled the organization keep track of major incidents which affected the operations of the organization while measuring the performance of the vendor.

The features that I have found most valuable are the reporting module and how we configure the SLA.

Also, ManageEngine is flexible and user-friendly. Creating a ticket is quite easy. So is configuring SLAs and generating reports. It is straightforward to use.

I think the knowledge base management component could be improved a little bit. 

Compared to other ITSM tools, ServiceDesk will have to step up their knowledge base tools. If they could make it open enough to be integrated with other applications or other systems it would be very useful.

I have been using ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus for nine years.

It's the core reporting tool (for incidents and problems) for the organization that I am with.

In terms of the stability, the application is much more dependent on our availability of our network.

We are looking at options; whether to procure the new versions of ManageEngine or to look at other products like System Center Service Manager or ServiceNow and the rest. We haven't been able to scale to the newer versions. We've been using just the same version for so many years. 

We are now looking at testing and reviewing other products out there before we actually do the procurement.

Our workforce is more than five thousand (5000+).

As I said earlier, it is the vendor that manages the infrastructure and we are trying to change that. Going forward, the deployment as well as the infrastructure would be championed by our organization.

We maintained three (3) levels of support for incident escalations. The second (technical support) and third levels (application/database) of support were provided by vendor. That came with its challenges.

The initial setup wasn't complex; we contracted a vendor for the setup.

We implemented through a vendor.

Level of expertise rating:

On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being excellent), I would rate them 7. 

Because I haven't been fortunate to see the upgrades of ManageEngine, I can only speak to what I already know, and that is, if there is any ITSM tool that I would want to use for any IT company I would definitely recommend ManageEngine, but that is what I'm used to.

Even though I haven't been able to test other products and I've used a very old version of ManageEngine, I still think it met our requirements and that it has everything that we need to work as an IT department. I'd definitely recommend ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus.

On a scale of one to ten, I would give ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus an eight.

The service delivery could be improved.

We have been using this solution for about five years.

It is good, and it meets our needs. It ensures the tracking of all costs for end-user issues. It allows us to generate reports and location demands and make our forecasts over a period of time. We can analyze incident calls and the time it takes to resolve every call or every incident.

It is scalable.

I rate the technical support a ten out of ten. We have contacted them and have annual license renewals and maintenance agreements with the service provider.

Positive

It was easy to set up.

It's a good product. It serves the end need of the customer and I rate it a seven out of ten. We haven't completed a comparative analysis for deliverability, availability or usability, but ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus is good. 

Regarding advice, there are so many variables involved. I would recommend it to anybody at any time especially foe the support level for the end users. It's scalable, it's user-friendly and easy to understand. You can configure it to suit your specific needs.

Our primary use case for the solution is for IT support across departments in our company. We provide templates for users that are not specialists so they can install them immediately. We deploy the solution both on cloud and on-premises.

The solution does not have an automated approach to integration with other ManageEngine products and third-party products. Additionally, brand promotion can be improved so that users know a good solution is available that is not very expensive.

We have been using the solution for approximately six years and are currently using the latest version. 

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable, and you can start from five users and expand to any amount of your choosing. I rate the scalability of the solution ten out of ten.

There is good technical support from ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. I rate them a ten out of ten.

Positive

The initial setup process is straightforward. A person with basic Windows server skills or an engineer with basic Microsoft networking skills and Active Directory skills could assist in setting it up Basic. We usually get it up and running within a couple of hours, and one technical staff is required for maintenance.

We have seen a good return on investment.

The solution is free for up to five users, making it a good starting point for many organizations, especially now that people are cash-strapped. The licensing costs for over 500 users start from $500 upwards, depending on their choice and if assets are attached to it. So an average license would be up to 10,000 per year for subscription on average. Subscription licensing includes technical support and all the features at no additional cost, and Perpetual licensing requires annual maintenance of about 15% of the initial cost.

I rate the solution a ten out of ten. The solution is good, but the next release can include a more automated approach to integration with other ManageEngine products and third-party products.

Valuable features include ITIL integration, main ITIL processes on real applications, ease of use, and customizability.

Our experience with the product is as follows:

• Initial deployment and additional customization with logical application: Reliable.
• Consistent on results and data management: Highly sufficient.
• Possibility to adapt to our business reality.
• Purchase order control, parametrization, and business rules allow personalized customization of this module to have great control.
• Integration to third-party applications (monitoring and reporting).
• Stability, (no bugs or blocks in SQL integration), is fundamental for our environment.
• Versatile administration: Powerful and simple methods of administration.
• Project Management integration: Integrates ICT project management to our IT business reality.

We outsourced most of our IT services. Having this application for support to replace the benefits of full control for implementing a delivery service, gives us the confidence to implement a CSI from the very beginning.

Request management is not clearly separated form incident management. The conditions to customize this could be tricky and unique for our organization.

To clarify this concept:

We develop two different processes based on ITIL models for reporting cases or taking request from users :

- Request fulfilment

- Incident Management

These two cases are the main inputs to the system, SD+ has a generic name for incidents and requests and we had to do an internal agreement to differentiate request from incidents, at the moment to see the “request” ( names assigned by SD+ ) given also to incidents, it causes a small confutation to the new service delivery agents.

This should be clearly defined or leave the option to the users to create request at the level of incidents in two different categories. No we have new incidents with categories of Request of Information or requested for other aspects. ( this is something that we considered not a good element)

We have been using the product for about four years.

We have had only one small issue that was corrected with an update.

We had no scalability issues as we grew with the tool from zero cases to reaching almost 1000 cases in a relatively short period time. Our experience with this product is good.

I would give technical support a rating of 8/10. Some questions were attended to by their main office. We did not have to contact local support for additional services apart from common queries and questions.

We used Cherwell and CA Service desk.

Implementation was a bit heavy in terms of customization, but based on a well-structured ITIL processes, it was manageable. Importing and integration to SCCM and AD made the integration to our IT environment simpler.

It is cost effective and well-balanced in benefits.

We evaluated Cherwell, CA Helpdesk, and Atlassian SD.

Give them the chance to implement a demo and put in a short amount of time for practice to see how easy and effective the solution is.