ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus vs. SymphonyAI IT Service Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
ServiceDesk Plus is free help desk software from ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation.
$10
Starting Price Per Month
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
ManageEngine ServiceDesk PlusSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Editions & Modules
Standard
$10.00
Starting Price Per Month
Professional
$21.00
Starting Price Per Month
Enterprise
$50.00
Starting Price Per Month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ManageEngine ServiceDesk PlusSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
ManageEngine ServiceDesk PlusSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
7.1
Ratings
13% below category average
SymphonyAI IT Service Management
8.8
Ratings
8% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Expert directory5.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Service restoration5.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Self-service tools8.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications6.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation10.00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
ITSM reports and dashboards8.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
ITSM asset management
Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Product A and Product B
ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
7.7
Ratings
6% below category average
SymphonyAI IT Service Management
9.0
Ratings
9% above category average
Configuration mangement9.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Asset management dashboard8.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Policy and contract enforcement6.00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Change management
Comparison of Change management features of Product A and Product B
ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
8.0
Ratings
5% below category average
SymphonyAI IT Service Management
9.4
Ratings
11% above category average
Change requests repository7.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Change calendar8.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Service-level management9.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
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Enterprises
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
ManageEngine ServiceDesk PlusSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.9
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Likelihood to Renew
6.0
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9.0
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Usability
7.0
(0 ratings)
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Support Rating
9.0
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User Testimonials
ManageEngine ServiceDesk PlusSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Likelihood to Recommend
The cost for what you get is very good.
The amount of additional functionality is great too - we originally went in expecting to use it for just a helpdesk but eventually it evolved into change management and asset tracking.
We also started using the invoicing addon which helped massively and allowed us to track items from point of purchase to decommission.
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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
  • It's very simple to submit and handle ticket for both user and Engineer.
  • Set some customize template for intent replay or job done reply.
  • SLA management is the good option to maintain workflow.
  • There is solution option where user can resolve their common issues.
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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 trying to select the top row ticket, you have to be careful not to select all tickets. Happened to us twice and we assigned all open tickets to one technician. Took a few minutes to correct.
  • Site is sometimes a bit sluggish to respond. Don't know if that is an issue with our network infrastructure or the program itself, though.
  • When users send emails to the help desk, we sometimes experience delays until the tickets appear on the site for the technicians.
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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
we are looking at other tools like Zendesk which may replace ServiceDesk. We are currently evaluating both tools to see which one would serve our needs better
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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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Usability
It is still very cumbersome, lots of data entry on the back end to build how we want it but it is still not completely user friendly. Many functions still dont work and contacting someone for help isnt always easy or we get told solutions for issues we have just arent built yet.
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Support Rating
Our network administrator usually gets a good response when contacting ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus customer service. They are quick to respond and so far have been able to eliminate most of our issues. We have been through several upgrades of the software over the years and have no issues to report in regards to customer service.
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Alternatives Considered
No contest. Remedyforce required a full time investment to understand the use of cryptically named variables, so all changes needed to be made by a specially trained administrator. Remedy had terrible problem handing capability. ServiceDesk Plus is a polar opposite - most customization is done using plain English and simple screens.
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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
  • It has provided better visibility to upper management in terms of the scale of the workload of the IT department
  • It has allowed licensed software to be tracked more efficiently, allowing redundant license to be reclaimed, rather than additional ones being purchased
  • It has fulfilled the requirements for multiple audits, including Microsoft audits, as it allows the assets and their software to be tracked
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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.