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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk

    Score6.9 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)

    Tivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AIBM's Tivoli Asset Management for IT reached end of life (EOL) in 2015.N/A
    Pricing
    Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskTivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Core Plan
    $0
    Premium
    $6
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskTivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskTivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk and Tivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.5
    55 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Tivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.054 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory8.047 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications9.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation6.045 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission10.054 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response10.053 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk and Tivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    7.0
    52 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Tivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base7.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base7.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk and Tivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.9
    52 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Tivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal9.046 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration8.927 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support10.046 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration9.928 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Management
    Comparison of IT Asset Management features of Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk and Tivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Tivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Software and hardware inventory tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    License management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Asset lifecycle monitoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Contract management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Asset relationship management00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskTivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (83 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (26 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Spiceworks Cloud Help DeskTivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Tivoli Asset Management for IT can be used very well in a big datacenter to easily manage assets. For linear assets there are other Tivoli Asset Manager products available such as for transportation domain, oil and gas. For a small scale industry, Tivoli Asset management solution is not a big help.
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    Pros
    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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    • The first and foremost is Tivoli Asset Management has a rich set of software catalogs available in the market. On top of it IBM, publishes the latest and greatest often to add/include in the catalog bucket.
    • Easy to integrate with any asset management solution.
    • Can take benefit of all asset module solutions such as procurement, invoicing, PO, receivables, asset lifecyle, vendor and contract management using Tivoli Asset Management.
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    Cons
    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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    • Software bundling can be handled in a better way
    • Should eliminate rotating/non-rotating items concepts or should have an easy way to receive assets
    • Asset Topology can be introduced to see the dependencies between related assets
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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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    Tivoli Asset Management is comparatively cheap and easy to implement with a rich set of complementing modules. It can also be integrated easily with other asset management solutions and act as a single source of truth for other PMP processes
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Discontinued Products
    • By tracking software assets, we are able to easily manage the license compliance
    • By getting the over/under allocation metrics we are able to get full control on asset procurement
    • Recycle/Reuse asset procedures made simple
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