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    Helpjuice

    Score2.5 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Helpjuice is a web app that companies can use to keep their help pages up-to-date. Instead of answering the same question repeatedly, companies can use Helpjuice to keep track of content. This app includes analytics that enable businesses to see the content their users are searching for the most as well as content that needs improvement. The vendor says that companies that manage a support page full of FAQs and user guides can benefit from using Helpjuice. This app can be integrated…

    $120

    per month

    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/ASpiceworks offers a set of free tools for IT network management and help desk support ticketing. The inventory management system essentially provides comprehensive device information for asset management.

    $0

    (free for 1-5 Seats)

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    HelpjuiceSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Editions & Modules
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    $0
    Premium
    $6
    per month per user
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    HelpjuiceSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsEvery Plan Comes With A 100% Money-Back Guarantee, No Questions Asked. Starting price includes up to 4 users.—
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    Would buy again
    83%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    83%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    HelpjuiceSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Helpjuice and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Helpjuice
    4.0
    3 Ratings
    67% below category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.5
    55 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets2.02 Ratings8.054 Ratings
    Expert directory7.02 Ratings8.047 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications2.02 Ratings9.042 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation4.03 Ratings6.045 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission4.02 Ratings10.054 Ratings
    Ticket response5.02 Ratings10.053 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Helpjuice and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Helpjuice
    6.5
    4 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    7.0
    52 Ratings
    11% below category average
    External knowledge base5.03 Ratings7.048 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.03 Ratings7.048 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Helpjuice and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Helpjuice
    6.0
    3 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    9.0
    52 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Customer portal5.03 Ratings9.046 Ratings
    IVR6.01 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Social integration8.01 Ratings8.927 Ratings
    Email support3.02 Ratings10.046 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration8.01 Ratings9.928 Ratings
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    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HelpjuiceSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    2.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (83 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.0
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    Availability
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    10.0
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    Performance
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    8.0
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    Support Rating
    -
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    8.7
    (26 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
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    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Product Scalability
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    HelpjuiceSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Helpjuice
    Helpjuice is an excellent platform when you’re looking to modernize the way you create documentation. Many companies, especially larger corporations, are stuck in the past, utilizing PDFs and share drives to house and access procedures. With Helpjuice, we now have a centralized web-based platform that provides everything from analytic functions to standard templates, user-specific features, and more. My team specifically chose Helpjuice during the pandemic, when all the tech writers from my company (including myself) were moved into a single team. We needed to find a platform that would allow us to align our publishing standards while also moving us forward in the way we publish procedures. That platform was ultimately Helpjuice. Helpjuice certainly offers a variety of features, but one of the few drawbacks is that it does not incorporate or seem to integrate with any specific ticketing tool. While this isn’t an issue for me or my team, as we are required to use a specific tool internally, I can imagine that someone looking for a complete package with multi-step workflows and an intake process would not find Helpjuice adequate.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    It's a great helpdesk solution - we currently have five years of data within it, roughly 25,000 tickets. The older edition is a great inventory and software license tracking tool. It is easy for users to use the interface and submit tickets and requests on the web, and its email integration is solid. The new version is a below-average system monitoring tool, only giving up/down status and a few other metrics.
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    Pros
    Helpjuice
    • We were looking for a publishing feature where there would be some required oversight.
    • We have really enjoyed the AI Tool of Wizardshot as it has helped reduce the time spent writing articles.
    • The analytic dashboard to see who has contributed what and which articles are the most clicked on is wonderful
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • It helps to multitask, even on the go with the mobile App.
    • We can customize to meet your needs with automated responses, notifications, and templates.
    • Detailed reports allow managers to keep track [of] and analyze data.
    • Allows for a database to store notes helpful for future tickets.
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    Cons
    Helpjuice
    • Article feedback disappears when resolved, would like to see a integration with Jira which we now use to track feedback changes.
    • Analytics for the AI search would be appreciated. Currently we have no idea how many people are actually using this feature.
    • A way to train the AI search bot. Currently there is no way to up/down vote answers or indicate how accurate or helpful an answer is.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • I have always wanted a way to redirect a support request into another IS bin, such as a development task.
    • It's possible to extract the data from the Spiceworks database, but it would be helpful if the process to do so were easier.
    • Improved ability to customize the system generated emails to improve the formatting and company branding.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Helpjuice
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks is a free tool, so there would be no hesitation if we are required to upgrade it. We have installed Spiceworks on a dedicated server with more than enough resources to get the most from this tool, so we will have this running in our department for years to come.
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    Usability
    Helpjuice
    HelpJuice is really amazing as a starter knowledge base vendor. They have great customer service and the ability to customize your website is endless. However, it is difficult to scale up.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks is user friendly and easy to set up. It can be customized to suit your needs. If there are any problems, you can go to the community forums for support and be in contact with many IT Pros, as well as the Spiceworks support staff and development teams who are always happy to help users out
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    Reliability and Availability
    Helpjuice
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    We use it both locally on our own server so up time is decided by us and we also use the hosted help desk. We have never had an outage of that.
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    Support Rating
    Helpjuice
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks has been working out of the box, and some of the basic customizations have been successful with just our internal staff handling. We don't have any other issues with the tool. It provides us with the inventory information we want in a quick and concise report in a variety of formats for our team.
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    Implementation Rating
    Helpjuice
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    If you can spin up a VM to run it on, you'll thank yourself later. If you have remote sites, set up a local server (or dedicated computer) at each site and set them up as remote collectors for the main site. You'll save time and bandwidth
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    Alternatives Considered
    Helpjuice
    Prior to using Helpjuice, I was using Microsoft Publisher to create all the training materials and manuals for multiple divisions within my company. It was awful. It would lag whenever I opened larger manuals, it operated like software from the late 90s, it was not intuitive, from a design perspective, and after migrating to a MacBook Pro as my work computer, I discovered that the program was NEVER created for Mac OS, requiring me to run Windows on my MacBook whenever I had to update any procedures that hadn’t yet migrated to Helpjuice. What a nightmare.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    EGroupware UI is clunky and hard to use, Jira is great but the pricing is expensive in comparison with spice works that has a free version and you can test it out properly before buying and make a correct decision based on your business plan and company objectives with the right software.
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    Return on Investment
    Helpjuice
    • As I mentioned, my productivity in terms of working around issues, asking for help, etc. is greatly reduced on a DAILY basis.
    • I spend as much time finding bugs and filing tickets as I do writing content, and this was especially true at the beginning.
    • The Doc Center looks nice, so you'd never know the pain behind it.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • Positive - Allow organizations to implement structured Help Desk procedures.
    • Positive - IT can begin to quantify their tickets and uncover needs within the organization.
    • Positive - IT can develop a solid roadmap with [the] management of future needs, equipment refresh schedules, etc.
    • Positive - IT can pinpoint employees who may need extra training or updated equipment based on historical ticketing data.
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