Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk vs. SymphonyAI IT Service Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
Score 7.1 out of 10
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Spiceworks 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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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
Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Editions & Modules
Core Plan
$0
Premium
$6
per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Free Trial
NoNo
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
Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Features
Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
8.5
Ratings
6% above category average
SymphonyAI IT Service Management
8.8
Ratings
8% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Expert directory8.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications9.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation6.00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Service restoration00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Self-service tools00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
ITSM reports and dashboards00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
7.0
Ratings
11% below category average
SymphonyAI IT Service Management
-
Ratings
External knowledge base7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
8.9
Ratings
13% above category average
SymphonyAI IT Service Management
-
Ratings
Customer portal8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
IVR6.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM asset management
Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Product A and Product B
Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
-
Ratings
SymphonyAI IT Service Management
9.0
Ratings
9% above category average
Configuration mangement00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Asset management dashboard00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Policy and contract enforcement00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Change management
Comparison of Change management features of Product A and Product B
Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
-
Ratings
SymphonyAI IT Service Management
9.4
Ratings
11% above category average
Change requests repository00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Change calendar00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Service-level management00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
User Ratings
Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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8.9
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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9.0
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Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Availability
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Performance
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Support Rating
8.7
(0 ratings)
-
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Implementation Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Product Scalability
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
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User Testimonials
Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskSymphonyAI IT Service Management
Likelihood to Recommend
Spiceworks Help Desk from the user end is very simple. Once you submit your technology needs, I automatically receive an email stating that my ticket was received and is being processed. It's also helpful to have the VNC feature so that my IT department can automatically VNC into my computer if it's a quick fix. At times Spiceworks Help Desk can be tricky because as someone who's not in a Tech role at my company, it can be hard to describe what I need assistance with writing.
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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 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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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
There is no contract to renew, since it's free. Spiceworks has helped me so much that I couldn't imagine trying to replace it with a different product. I'd have a hard time finding a single product that does everything that Spiceworks does, let alone one that does it as well as Spiceworks and for free
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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
1. Its free. 2. Its easy to install. 3. You can have it up and running in under 1-hour. 4. You get dashboards that are easy to read so you know the state of your network. 5. You can create your own reports and not just the ones already installed. 6. Excellent tool for network administrators and security practitioners. 7. Did I mention that its free?
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Reliability and Availability
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
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
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
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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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
  • 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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  • 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.