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ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus

Score9.2 out of 10

109 Reviews and Ratings

What is ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus?

ServiceDesk Plus is free help desk software from ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation.

Top Performing Features

  • ITSM collaboration and documentation

    Issue resolution through collaboration mechanisms like discussion threads, social tools; agents can attach notes, files, etc. to tickets in order to maintain a record of all interactions related to the case.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Configuration mangement

    Database for tracking and reporting all business assets

    Category average: 8.6

  • Service-level management

    Process for negotiating agreements regarding service level expectations, and ensuring these are met

    Category average: 8.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Policy and contract enforcement

    Ensuring that requesters have eligibility before fullfullment

    Category average: 7.9

  • Expert directory

    Directory of IT and businesses services available to customers to help route tickets to appropriate subject matter experts

    Category average: 7.9

  • Service restoration

    Impact assessment and automated fixes for common problems

    Category average: 8.2

Effective ITSM Solution for Enterprise Ticket and Project Management

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For the last 3+ years, we have been using ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus as our IT department's main ticketing and project management system. Our users simply email their issues to our IT support email, and it automatically creates a ticket, which we assign to the responsible engineer. It also helps manage project setup, status, priority, schedule, and completion percentage, which is a good option to monitor project progress. There are many more features available, such as asset management and change management. If needed, we can also integrate ADManager and OpManager to generate tickets into ServiceDesk Plus. All of these features can be seen on a summary page, which shows the numbers and analytics in a simple view.

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.

Cons

  • ServiceDesk plus need to improve their customization and automation option.
  • There is need to more advance Reports & Dashboards option in summary page to Monitor help desk performance.

Return on Investment

  • Keeps track of pending and unresolved issues.
  • Management can seen the overall summary of IT service and maintenance issue.
  • Keeps all history for further issue.
  • central place of Monitor hardware/software inventory.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Jira Service Management

Other Software Used

Freshservice

Service desk software that's easy to set up and use

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Reporting in our previous help desk instance was terrible, I looked into different providers that also allowed more customisation of reports. One that came out consistently in the top three for what we were looking for was ServiceDesk Plus. I ended up implementing it on prem within a day then spent the next day exploring and customising the instance so we could get the most out of it. it was to be used as our primary help desk along side tracking changes and managing our change process.

Pros

  • Change management
  • Asset tracking
  • Invoicing
  • Helpdesk

Cons

  • License cost per technician

Return on Investment

  • Better overview of estate

Usability

Other Software Used

ManageEngine Endpoint Central

ManageEngine Service Desk Plus is essential to implementing ITSM in an enterprise

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We transitioned off of a free ticketing system that was end of life to MESDP. At the time, we were looking to integrate with our DEV team, which uses Jira, and MESDP has an integration that creates tickets into their system. Additionally, MESDP closely follows ITIL standards for Service Desk Management.

Pros

  • inventory management
  • incident tracking and resolution
  • problem management
  • project management
  • service catalog

Cons

  • it seems on-prem implementations have more customizations we have at times looked for
  • reporting could be improved; i.e. a way to combine time from work logs in Projects to work logs from service desk tickets when on the same technician

Return on Investment

  • i feel like MESDP elevated our entire team; organizing and prioritizing our work, providing timely feedback
  • our asset management is top notch and an example for the entire organization

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Spiceworks Help Desk

Other Software Used

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus

One of the best Incident Management tools

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Manage Engine ServiceDesk Plus as our incident management solution. Our users are opening tickets through ServiceDesk PLus with selecting right categories and options, then tickets are assigning to related technical support agents. With this workflow, we can control and monitoring our incident management process. Also this tool provide us a chance to show our effort on tickets.

Pros

  • Easy to use
  • Manage workflows
  • Reporting of tickets

Cons

  • Sometimes it gets crashed
  • Updates are must be more often
  • Some documentation are not so accurate

Return on Investment

  • High cost
  • User management
  • Documentation
  • Lack number of updates

Alternatives Considered

Jira Service Management (Jira Service Desk)

Other Software Used

Jira Service Management (Jira Service Desk)

A good all-round tool for any IT department

Pros

  • Ticket logging for end users, so they can see the progress on their help requests
  • Asset management; it has an agent that can be installed on machines which can then feed back information on installed software, active times, logged on user etc
  • Project management; larger projects can be managed within ManageEngine ServiceDesk as well as end user help tickets, where progress/milestones etc can be recorded
  • Active Directory import of users, so that it automatically updates when users are created/deleted and links their accounts in ManageEngine ServiceDesk with their email address as well to enable email alerts

Cons

  • Reporting tools; the report features can be a little limited, it can be quite tricky to get the information you want displayed in detail
  • You can set required fields within the ticket template, which should mean the user has to complete them before they can submit the ticket, however this often doesn't enforce correctly

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

Alternatives Considered

Spiceworks Help Desk

Other Software Used

Darktrace, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365