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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Freshservice

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AFreshservice is a cloud-based service desk and IT service management (ITSM) solution that currently serves more than 10,000 SMB, mid-market, and enterprise customers worldwide.

    $29

    per month per agent

    OpenText Service Manager

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOpenTextâ„¢ Service Manager (formerly from Micro Focus) is scalable service desk software powered by machine learning, analytics, and automation. It provides an ITSM platform for standardizing service delivery and support across the enterprise.N/A
    Pricing
    FreshserviceOpenText Service Manager
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $29.00
    per month per agent
    Growth
    $59.00
    per month per agent
    Pro
    $119.00
    per month per agent
    Enterprise
    Custom
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FreshserviceOpenText Service Manager
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.—
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    Community Pulse
    FreshserviceOpenText Service Manager
    Considered Both Products
    Freshworks Inc
    No answer on this topic
    OpenText
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    148 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    141 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    148 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    113 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    117 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    FreshserviceOpenText Service Manager
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Freshservice and OpenText Service Manager
    Feature
    Freshservice
    8.2
    142 Ratings
    1% above category average
    OpenText Service Manager
    9.4
    2 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.1142 Ratings8.62 Ratings
    Expert directory8.3100 Ratings9.62 Ratings
    Service restoration8.485 Ratings8.72 Ratings
    Self-service tools8.1126 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications7.9103 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation7.6117 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards8.1122 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Freshservice and OpenText Service Manager
    Feature
    Freshservice
    7.7
    114 Ratings
    6% below category average
    OpenText Service Manager
    9.7
    2 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Configuration mangement7.4106 Ratings9.72 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard7.5111 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement8.278 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of Freshservice and OpenText Service Manager
    Feature
    Freshservice
    8.0
    109 Ratings
    5% below category average
    OpenText Service Manager
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Change requests repository7.7103 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Change calendar7.887 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Service-level management8.4102 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FreshserviceOpenText Service Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (143 ratings)
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.8
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (107 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.9
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.4
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FreshserviceOpenText Service Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshservice is well suited for companies looking to implement ticketing / case management across the organization, but only if IT will be using it. Otherwise, I'd recommend Freshdesk. IT departments that don't function in the ITIL style of incident, request, change, and project management may find it overkill if they are only looking for a simple Help Desk solution.
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    OpenText
    HP Service Manager (HPSM) is well suited for a big company and it does the job that it's intended to do but it's not perfect. It has a fairly large learning curve for searching Knowledge Management (KMs) and it takes time to learn how to be fast at creating/resolving tickets while on calls. I have been using HPSM for about 2 years now and we recently moved from the desk client to the web client and we are seeing a lot more issues than we did with the desk client. They keep coming out with updates for it so eventually most of our issues will hopefully be resolved. Overall the web experience is better as it looks more modern than what we used in the past.
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    Pros
    Freshworks Inc
    • The smartphone app is very well designed and adding assets from there is very easy
    • If you have questions or support, the support desk is fast to respond and setup a meeting to explain the features
    • Very customizable and everything can be easily changed with a wizard
    • Reporting feature does what it needs to do and is not complicated to work with
    • The overall ticketing system is very good and we have not run into any issues
    • The whole system is incredibly responsive and does not hang or freeze
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    OpenText
    • Capacity management like maintaining CI's and their relations is good.
    • Approvals with HPSM is a cake walk and quite logical.
    • There is no wait for troubleshooting or help, HPSM tech help is always there.
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    Cons
    Freshworks Inc
    • To have more options on what to do with the emails that arrive in the support mailbox (which goes to Freshservice), Setting some special rules or detailed filtering is not possible.
    • Non 3rd party tools to connect to Intune are missing. Additionally, the third-party tool available in the store is not satisfactory. It would be nice to have native support for importing devices from our Azure cloud.
    • The contract requires you to prolong your contract end-date by two years instead of just one year, which to us is a bit aggressive.
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    OpenText
    • When you search Knowledge Articles, it is not like Google, and you need to learn how to search for what you need.
    • It takes a very long time to close tickets in HPSM. Here are the steps to close a ticket. 1. Add notes. 2. Add KM 3. Click Resolve 4.Click Save 5.Click Close 6.Click Okay to Message (ticket has recently been modified) 7. Click Close.
    • It's slow and sometimes crashes/freezes and you lose all the information you may have entered. I usually use notepad++ to gather all my notes and paste them into HPSM.
    • When searching previous tickets the preview pane does not allow for sorting by date to have the most recent at the very top every time you pull up previous tickets. Sometimes there are pages and pages of previous tickets and you have to click and scroll to get what you need.
    • I click on search KMs and it takes me to a blank page and I have to click the back button which then brings me to the search KM page.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Freshworks Inc
    We are pretty invested in Freshservice right now and have integrated it pretty heavily into our environment, so it would be hard to move away from it. For the most part, we are happy with Freshservice and the ease of use it gives us in managing tickets through the system. The only complaint we've had is customer service.
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    OpenText
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    Usability
    Freshworks Inc
    The UI design of Freshservice is simple and intuitive. You don't have to be a technical expert to navigate your way into the different pages/modules available. There are no buttons that are hidden in plain sight. Even our HR team required little to no help when they started using Freshservice.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Freshworks Inc
    Downtime is minimal (it does happen but not often)
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    OpenText
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    Performance
    Freshworks Inc
    Most reports are quick, however, it can take some time for emailed exports to come via email. It would be helpful to have the exports live in the system rather than having to wait on emails.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Freshworks Inc
    Support from OEM is decent but needs improvement. Sometimes OEM also needs to understand the criticality of the customer and help as an Ad-hoc, which is somewhat lacking at Feshservice. Although the normal support team is well-equipped and helps according to the matrix, if something critical for the partner or customer requires immediate attention, it still goes through the L1-L2-L3 levels, which wastes a lot of time.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    Freshworks Inc
    Training was enough to use the base website
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    OpenText
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    Online Training
    Freshworks Inc
    Their documentation is pretty good, but only available in English. This makes it difficult for some of our users to understand. There are also some basic video courses available.
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    OpenText
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    Implementation Rating
    Freshworks Inc
    Creating the correct groups for the stakeholders and enabling the right notifications are one of the most important aspect of the implementation. Creating Change templates will also help in the long run and it's a good practice to create one, if applicable.
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    OpenText
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    Alternatives Considered
    Freshworks Inc
    Easy setup and a lot of customization which can be made. They offer the full ITSM tool for 75$ per agent and all the PRO are included in the package, which makes it easy to calculate and use. There are only a few add-ins that you need to pay for, based on the number of agents or the number of executions.
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    OpenText
    [We selected HP Service Manager because] HPSM is reliable.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Freshworks Inc
    Was not able to update us proactively about our renewal causing lost of access
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    OpenText
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    Scalability
    Freshworks Inc
    The software is very scalable from a small to mid sized team. The features have seemed to scale exceptionally well.
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    OpenText
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    Professional Services
    Freshworks Inc
    We did not have professional services.
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    OpenText
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    Return on Investment
    Freshworks Inc
    • We had no ticketing system at all so we had no idea of the workload, we now do
    • We have been able to go from nothing to seeing workload to identifying areas for improvement by having the metrics
    • We have lowered MTTR every month since turning on fresh service
    • We have increased 1st all resolution every month
    • We have been able to start talking about real SLA's with the business
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    OpenText
    • We take anywhere from between 850-1400 calls a day and overall the whole opening tickets to close process goes pretty smoothly.
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