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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    iSupport

    Score5.1 out of 10
    N/AiSupport is the ITIL / ITSM flagship product from the long-established company of the same name in Washington state.N/A

    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.

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    Pricing
    iSupportSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Core Plan
    $0
    Premium
    $6
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    iSupportSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    iSupportSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of iSupport and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    iSupport
    7.4
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.5
    55 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.01 Ratings8.054 Ratings
    Expert directory5.01 Ratings8.047 Ratings
    Service restoration7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications7.01 Ratings9.042 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation7.01 Ratings6.045 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings10.054 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings10.053 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of iSupport and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    iSupport
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    7.0
    52 Ratings
    11% below category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings7.048 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings7.048 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of iSupport and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    iSupport
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    9.0
    52 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings9.046 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings8.927 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings10.046 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings9.928 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    iSupportSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (83 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (26 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    iSupportSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    iSupport
    Tech tickets and engineering support. The best thing about iSupport is the ability to make custom views and filters. For instance, I have my view set up so I can see when the case was opened, the priority, product, and the customer. I also set it up so if any case has not been updated for 5 days it will turn red notifying me that I need to update the customer.
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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
    iSupport
    • Very organized
    • Easy to track and follow-up
    • Great for engineers to prioritize and track all incidents and product related requests that are needed. The real time email system is great exposure across the company as well.
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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
    iSupport
    • Although it's great to have everything in one place, it can be a little hard to read sometimes in terms of the amount of tickets and being able to decipher between multiple [issues]. Color coordination might be able to help with this for example.
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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
    iSupport
    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
    iSupport
    No answers on this topic
    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
    iSupport
    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
    iSupport
    No answers on this topic
    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
    iSupport
    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
    iSupport
    No answers on this topic
    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
    iSupport
    • Saves time and positive ROI as we don't take the time anymore to hold meetings to discuss all incidents. As a software tool, it is amazingly customizable and gives us tons of control over what each department, support representative, or user can see. This is important for us because we have currently 2 separate support departments using iSupport as well as confidential and personal information that goes through the system.
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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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