OpenText Service Manager vs. SymphonyAI IT Service Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OpenText Service Manager
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
OpenText™ 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
SymphonyAI IT Service Management
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
Symphony SummitAI, formerly the Summus IT Management Suite, is an ITSM and system monitoring offering from the company of the same name in Palo Alto.N/A
Pricing
OpenText Service ManagerSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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OpenText Service ManagerSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
OpenText Service ManagerSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Features
OpenText Service ManagerSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Service Manager
9.4
Ratings
15% above category average
SymphonyAI IT Service Management
8.8
Ratings
8% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.60 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Expert directory9.60 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Service restoration8.70 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Self-service tools9.80 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications9.80 Ratings7.90 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation9.80 Ratings9.60 Ratings
ITSM reports and dashboards9.80 Ratings9.90 Ratings
ITSM asset management
Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Service Manager
9.7
Ratings
17% above category average
SymphonyAI IT Service Management
9.0
Ratings
9% above category average
Configuration mangement9.70 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Asset management dashboard9.80 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Policy and contract enforcement9.50 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Change management
Comparison of Change management features of Product A and Product B
OpenText Service Manager
10.0
Ratings
18% above category average
SymphonyAI IT Service Management
9.4
Ratings
11% above category average
Change requests repository10.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Change calendar10.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Service-level management10.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
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User Ratings
OpenText Service ManagerSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
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8.9
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Likelihood to Renew
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9.0
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User Testimonials
OpenText Service ManagerSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Likelihood to Recommend
I would definitely recommend HPSM after working with various other ticketing tools, as it supports and provides the best value and user friendly and quite adaptive to the modern technology mainly the SMS feature, where users were notified for any issues when there are tickets raised. Upgrades and the support provided by the HPSM tech staff is commendable.
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If the organization has a plan for the HelpDesk team and has active complaints, then this tool is suitable for Help Desk management. If you have many assets (more than 500), then managing those assets is a good business use case. If you have infrastructure on-premises and manage all of it, then you would need Change management.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Service Catalog - Configuration of Catalogs and approvals flow in the SymphonyAI IT Service Management, which helps an organization for maintaining a structured way of organizing and completing the requests with a good manner
  • Publishing of knowledge records - Which helps in avoiding the creation of incidents by referring the Knowledge records
  • Publishing of Problem records - Which is created by analyst after analyzing the repeated issue, so that user can avoid creating the repeated issue like incidents
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Cons
  • 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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  • Business Rule Designer - Since it has many automation we are unable to use it properly, because of BRD related jobs not getting executed
  • Creation of sub tenant under tenant
  • 5 why analysis method in the problem management can be designed more efficiently rather than its designed now
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Likelihood to Renew
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The overall satisfaction is great and it offers great features. By expanding to using AI feature of Symphony Summit, we look forward to automate even ticket tracking and ticket resolution. The support provided by the symphony SummitAI team is also robust compared to industry standards and the team also conducts regular reviews to find out any dissatisfaction from the clients.
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Alternatives Considered
I have seen other products but I have only worked with HPSM.
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365 Audits is used for handling Audit things which help us to provide monthly logs to auditor to track the changes and verify the things. If anything goes non-compliance, then they track with this tool and helps the organization to stop this activities and improve daily things to stop non-compliance things.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • When rolled out in its entirety, SymphonyAI is expected to directly reduce the CTC of technical user support by 40%.
  • SymphonyAI has dramatically improved user experience, helping NPS levels cross over 60%.
  • It has been instrumental in deploying workflows to production by more than 50%.
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ScreenShots

SymphonyAI IT Service Management Screenshots

Screenshot of an example of the AI-powered IT and enterprise service workflows available on the platform.Screenshot of the service portal, designed to make it easy for end users to get all their service issues addressed. By consolidating the user’s service needs into one place, users can find what they need quickly and easily.Screenshot of employee self-service, where employees can get answers and help. This helps to reduce call deflection and improve service experience.Screenshot of digitized work processes.Screenshot of the administration interface to launch new services. These can be rolled out with a few drag and drops using the Design Studio that includes 50 built-in modern controls to build forms, workflows, business rules and SLAs of any complexity.Screenshot of the 24/7 Omnichannel service desk experience. This delivers always on, natural language service experience to users with the AI-powered SymphonyAI Digital Agent. The agent features auto-resolve capabilities, multichannel support, and advanced natural language understanding.