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TOPdesk

Score8.7 out of 10

428 Reviews and Ratings

What is TOPdesk?

TOPdesk is the flagship highly-modular cloud-based or installed ITSM service desk and asset management solution from the Dutch company of the same name, for enterprise companies.

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Top Performing Features

  • Organize and prioritize service tickets

    Prioritize tickets to ensure most urgent are tackled first

    Category average: 9

  • Configuration mangement

    Database for tracking and reporting all business assets

    Category average: 8.6

  • Self-service tools

    Repository of information documenting common issues and known resolutions which can be accessed directly by users

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Expert directory

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

    Category average: 7.9

  • Subscription-based notifications

    Users subscribe to notifications for ticket updates

    Category average: 8.5

  • Change requests repository

    Single repository of all planned changes and releases

    Category average: 8.4

Why is this

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Incident/ ticket management

Pros

  • Service portal designer
  • incident registration
  • knowlodge base

Cons

  • The side of the practitioner can be better organized. On the page itself, more explanations can be provided to simplify its use, for example by using information icons.
  • The side of the practitioner can be better organized. The filled fields are not immediately fully perceivable. There may be information that is useful for forwarding a report. Think of the practitioner field. It is helpful that when you hover over it with your mouse, the complete information appears.
  • Reports are growing wildly, making it confusing due to the large number of users. There is too much information. Logical reporting, such as making SLAs transparent, should be created more easily.

Return on Investment

  • The rollout of self-service to the store and the continuous growth of its importance within the organization.

Easy to use Service Management solution

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use one TOPdesk installation to enable a service management solution for 9 of our business units in Europe. These business units can use the tool locally to deal with their issues (incidents/changes) or they can escalate their calls to the European IT organisation, all in one TOPdesk installation. The TOPdesk SelfServiceDesk portal is used to raise the calls and to provide the end user realtime status updates on their issues.

Pros

  • Easy to use Incident Management.
  • Performance/stability.
  • The TOPdesk vendor has a very good support team.

Cons

  • Reporting and selections. The reporting options are easy to use, but also limited in functionality. Reports can be scheduled to run automatically and to provide output per mail or in a document. Selections are more powerful, but there is no option to schedule them.
  • Change Management module is powerful, but has a steep learning curve.
  • The SelfServiceDesk. Good to see that there are great improvements in the latest TOPdesk version.

Return on Investment

  • One standard tool across the organisation instead of a wide variety of software tools and alternative solutions.
  • One central repository for all our business units in Europe.
  • Better options for the end users to raise their calls through the SelfServiceDesk, rather than email or phone.
  • Transparent view for the end-users on the status of their issues through the SelfServiceDesk.

Other Software Used

Oracle Database, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Usability

TOPdesk

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use TOPdesk as a ITSM tool for Information services and Facilities.

Via our Selfserviceportals our users can create changes, incidents and reservations and link services to them. They can keep track of their open tickets and respond to questions send from a operator. The standard processes help with problemsolving.

Pros

  • Incidentmanagent
  • Changemanagement
  • Configurationmanagement

Cons

  • VA documentation
  • Documentation of bugs

Return on Investment

  • Less time spend on incidents
  • Automation

TOPdesk is a Top Service management application

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use TOPdesk for Incident, problem and change management for IT, Facility Management and Human Resource Management. Our scope is to become the One Stop Shop for every colleague of our organisation.

Pros

  • Assetmanagement
  • Automation
  • Incidentmanagement

Cons

  • Design options Self Service Portal
  • Form Functionality
  • Filter options in lists

Return on Investment

  • More efficiency in the workload for our administrators
  • More insight in the status of requests
  • Real time up to date information of the status of items.

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Jira and Zendesk Suite

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, BiZZdesign HoriZZon (Enterprise Studio)

TOPdesk is great

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For incident management, asset management, HR employee management and change management. This allows us to monitor which software and hardware problems occur within the organisation and how to resolve them in the most efficient way. We also learn from the troubleshooting process that we post on the knowledge system in the Self Service Portal. It also allows us to keep focus on our assets and the costs involved. We report by category and subcategory to see where we can improve our performance and also gain insights where we can automate processes.

Pros

  • Registration of incidents in detail
  • Maintain overview of all assigned and unassigned assets
  • Generate detailed reports
  • Keep all those involved with an incident or change informed about the sitemap.

Cons

  • assigning rights is too extensive, making it very complex to manage this up to date.
  • Topdesk has gained so many features that it is difficult for a new user to become familiar with it.
  • action sequences remain tricky and certainly not for everyone to understand.

Return on Investment

  • We had 20% more incident but resolved it in 40% less time
  • The number of unassigned assts has dropped from 13% to 0%
  • The penetration of users withing our organisation has reached almost 100% within our organisation.

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, WordPress, Adobe Illustrator CC

Usability