ChangeGear Service Desk vs. NinjaOne

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ChangeGear Service Desk
Score 8.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Based on the ITIL best practices framework, the SunView ChangeGear product suite improves and streamlines the IT service management lifecycle. By automating IT service management processes, companies gain greater visibility into their IT infrastructure, eliminate system downtime, reduce operational costs, ensure regulatory compliance and improve IT service delivery. SunView Software is a Serviceaide company (acquired August 2021).
$0
Per Seat per Month
NinjaOne
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
NinjaOne automates the hardest parts of IT, delivering visibility, security, and control over endpoints. The NinjaOne endpoint management platform increases productivity for IT teams and managed service providers, and comes with unlimited onboarding, training, and support.N/A
Pricing
ChangeGear Service DeskNinjaOne
Editions & Modules
ChangeGear Service Desk
Per Seat per Month
ChangeGear Help Desk
ChangeGear Change Management
ChangeGear Cloud
Per User per Month
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChangeGear Service DeskNinjaOne
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsNinjaOne is a subscription service with a charge rate per month. For more detailed pricing information, contact NinjaOne directly to request a demo or to start 14-days free trial.
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Community Pulse
ChangeGear Service DeskNinjaOne
Features
ChangeGear Service DeskNinjaOne
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
ChangeGear Service Desk
6.4
2 Ratings
24% below category average
NinjaOne
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets6.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Expert directory5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Service restoration6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-service tools5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications6.92 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation7.42 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM reports and dashboards7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM asset management
Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Product A and Product B
ChangeGear Service Desk
7.5
2 Ratings
9% below category average
NinjaOne
-
Ratings
Configuration mangement7.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset management dashboard7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Policy and contract enforcement8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Change management
Comparison of Change management features of Product A and Product B
ChangeGear Service Desk
7.3
2 Ratings
14% below category average
NinjaOne
-
Ratings
Change requests repository8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Change calendar6.92 Ratings00 Ratings
Service-level management6.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
ChangeGear Service Desk
-
Ratings
NinjaOne
8.9
41 Ratings
18% above category average
Remote monitoring00 Ratings8.838 Ratings
Network device monitoring00 Ratings7.536 Ratings
Activity Monitoring00 Ratings8.424 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
ChangeGear Service Desk
-
Ratings
NinjaOne
8.6
40 Ratings
14% above category average
Patch Management00 Ratings8.939 Ratings
Policy-based automation00 Ratings8.840 Ratings
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User Ratings
ChangeGear Service DeskNinjaOne
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.4
(47 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.8
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
ChangeGear Service DeskNinjaOne
Likelihood to Recommend
Serviceaide
1. What kind of service-levels are you looking to establish? 2. Are there other programs you are going to be using for other aspects of 'the job?' 3. How many employees are going to be needing access to ChangeGear? 4. Do you want a highly configurable product or something that will come out of the box pre-set? 5. Are you looking to keep track of equipment deployed to the customers you support?
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NinjaOne
I think it is appropriate to use NinjaOne for Medium sized businesses. We feel like it can handle our environment of 300 machines. The ticketing system integrating with devices and monitoring is a plus for us since we don't need another third party integration to connect the two. NinjaOne patching could use improvement but they have built up a lot of other pieces of their infrastructure.
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Pros
Serviceaide
  • Change Control
  • Ease of Use
  • Simplicity
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NinjaOne
  • Remote connections: the NinjaRemote client is spectacular and very easy to use and navigate. It quickly connects to customer systems so my engineers are able to work. As a bonus, they also offer a really good mobile app to connect to client systems.
  • Antivirus: Bitdefender Endpoint Protection is built directly into the NinjaOne portal. This makes deploying and maintaining AV very easy.
  • OS Patching: NinjaOne makes it very easy to handle patching across multiple clients and locations. It is very easy to use and doesn't take long to set up.
  • Support: NinjaOne support is always very prompt and helpful.
  • Documentation: the NinjaOne Dojo is a one-stop shop for all of your FAQs, guides, and forum needs. You can find almost anything here to help you deploy and maintain NinjaOne.
  • Automation Library: NinjaOne comes preloaded with a large number of ready-to-go automations. They also provide you with a scripting module to create your own.
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Cons
Serviceaide
  • Not sure if this is due to our back end, but ChangeGear Service Desk can sometimes bog down. Speed can always be improved and, while version 6 has been impressive so far, slow downs are still common.
  • Browser compatibility can sometimes be hit or miss. Certain fields would not work on Chrome, so our department has required FireFox. I have not tested 6 on other browsers but hopefully the upgrade has taken care of this.
  • The communications with customers are not easy to sift through. With limited attention spans, seeing a subject line filled with 'gibberish' causes our customers to either delete or leave the message forever unread. Again, not sure if due to our implementation, but I would clean that sort of thing up.
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NinjaOne
  • NinjaOne does support Mac, however I would like to have more options for automation and scheduled task on Mac devices.
  • I would like it if NinjaOne also provided an MDM solution.
  • It would be nice is NinjaOne could integrate a PAM solution as well.
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Likelihood to Renew
Serviceaide
No answers on this topic
NinjaOne
We already did. After evaluating many platforms, we found the cybersecurity of the company, its development direction, and the performance of the platform to be far superior at its price point.
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Usability
Serviceaide
Because it allows me to work in (probably) the most organized way possible. It allows me to collaborate quickly and rather effortlessly with coworkers within my team and other teams in the Technology department. The deduction in rating is due to the issues with speed and browser compatibility. Version 6 has been a revelation but I as always, there's room for improvement.
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NinjaOne
Ninja's interface is clean and simple. Overall usability from an interface perspective is good. Some items, policies and scripting for instance, are a bit cumbersome and it's really not clear how to implement with a best practice mind-site. Ninja RMM got the job done for us but as we pushed our needs more into automation and efficiency we felt it wasn't keeping up with our speed of growth. There is definitely usability in the product, and it will get the job done, but there are other RMM's out there that fit better in our business.
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Reliability and Availability
Serviceaide
No answers on this topic
NinjaOne
Availability is very good
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Performance
Serviceaide
No answers on this topic
NinjaOne
The software loads quickly for the most part
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Support Rating
Serviceaide
No answers on this topic
NinjaOne
Support has been very responsive and my account rep Brian K. has communicated with me continuously making sure we had everything we need. Not like other MDMs where they sign you up and that's the last you hear from them. NinjaOne makes sure you use the product to its best application and you are successful and continue as the product features grow.
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In-Person Training
Serviceaide
No answers on this topic
NinjaOne
Easy to learn and all of the functions and features were easy to learn. Once I started learning all of the features and functions, it made my everyday tasks much easier and more productive. The user interface is very easy to use. If I did have any questions, the Ninja Dojo was a big help.
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Online Training
Serviceaide
No answers on this topic
NinjaOne
It was nice and self paced learning. The sections were easy to understand and the functionality was very worthwhile. The online training was very easy to learn and intuitive. I did not feel the need to ask for any clarification or assistance with any of the sections. I am still learning a lot of the functions but fined it very easy to use.
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Implementation Rating
Serviceaide
No answers on this topic
NinjaOne
Use of Organizations and locations
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Alternatives Considered
Serviceaide
Simpler and easier to implement.
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NinjaOne
NinjaOne's user friendly interface was immediately appealing to a team that that needs to be able to pickup a tool and know how to run with it at first exposure. From the moment we started using it, we would often be able to navigate the platform with a common sense approach and be able to navigate to exactly what we were looking for without requiring documentation or guidance. Customer representatives that we have worked with have all been outstanding, and have not been pushy like some other vendors teams tend to be when you are initially debating between multiple offers.
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Scalability
Serviceaide
No answers on this topic
NinjaOne
Overall the software is very reliable
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Return on Investment
Serviceaide
  • Better Response Time
  • Email Tracking of Tickets
  • Change Control Module Simplicity
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NinjaOne
  • Windows patching as we cannot get employees to do it themselve so that alone is making an impact
  • having data about our pcs all the time which we did not have before
  • remote access to pcs in a variety of ways vs hoping remote desktop would work
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ScreenShots

ChangeGear Service Desk Screenshots

Screenshot of Dashboard - DarkScreenshot of Workspace - Staff daily work spaceScreenshot of Service Catalog - End User ViewScreenshot of Incident grid sorted

NinjaOne Screenshots

Screenshot of the NinjaRMM dashboardScreenshot of the NinjaRMM mobile appScreenshot of NinjaRMM automationScreenshot of NinjaRMM device detailsScreenshot of NinjaRMM network monitoring - NetFlowScreenshot of NinjaRMM virtual machine monitoring