JIRA Service Management vs SysAid comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

JIRA Service Management and SysAid both compete in the service management category. JIRA appears to have an upper hand with its powerful integration capabilities, while SysAid is favored for its cost-effectiveness, especially for mid-size organizations.

Features: JIRA Service Management provides comprehensive customization capabilities, robust integration options, and an extensive add-on marketplace, supporting complex workflows and automation. SysAid offers built-in asset management, ease of use, smooth ticket management, and integration with other software applications, catering to diverse service desk needs.

Room for Improvement: JIRA Service Management faces challenges with certain integrations and lacks advanced built-in features without costly add-ons, alongside a complex customization process. SysAid's mobile application and AI capabilities require enhancements, and its user interface could benefit from modernization, along with improved reporting and security features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: JIRA Service Management offers deployment on public, private, and hybrid clouds but has variable technical support responsiveness. SysAid supports on-premises and private cloud deployments with a straightforward deployment process, earning positive feedback for effective customer service, particularly in smaller IT environments.

Pricing and ROI: JIRA Service Management's higher pricing is justified by its comprehensive feature set but includes high add-on costs. It offers significant ROI through improved efficiency and team visibility. SysAid, known for competitive pricing, promises quick ROI with cost-effective, reasonable out-of-box functionalities.

To learn more, read our detailed JIRA Service Management vs. SysAid Report (Updated: July 2025).

JIRA Service Management vs. SysAid

July 2025

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Categories and Ranking

JIRA Service Management

Ranking in Help Desk Software

2nd

Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SysAid

Ranking in Help Desk Software

21st

Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)

20th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Help Desk Software category, the mindshare of JIRA Service Management is 8.7%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SysAid is 0.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Help Desk Software

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Karim Yousef

GB, Development Practice - Technical Director at EJADA

Efficiently track and document projects with seamless tool integration

We are a management warehouse that provides services to different customers in different sectors. Primarily, we serve the banking sector and the military sector. We manage all the software delivery projects through tools such as JIRA Service Management or TFS Confluence is a great tool for…

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Todd Blake

Senior IT Specialist at COMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC

A solution that streamlines ticket creation for the staff members of a business and enables efficient issue resolution by the IT team

SysAid is similar to Nintex AssureSign. Some of the back-end configurations of the solution are very difficult. So, we always need SysAid's help. Also, there are almost too many features that we are not taking advantage of in our company since we don't even know about them. A little bit of a streamlining or simplification of the main features would be a good improvement. I would like to see SysAid present its solution more easily. There is a lot in the solution, and it is more than what we need in our company.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Confluence is a great tool for documentation and tracking."

"The most valuable features are the flexibility of defining your own workflows and automation around the workflows, and the integration with the gate or any repository."

"It is much more controlled and allows for different kinds of customization that we can plan and implement based on the project requirements."

"The platform is easy to use."

"The most valuable feature of Jira is that it is free of cost, which is a significant advantage."

"I like the history, the dimensioning, and how I can configure a space based on my preferences or the project circumstances."

"We use JIRA Service Management for tracking purposes, planning, and execution."

"The dashboards in Jira have been the most useful feature."

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"It tracks everything that the technicians are doing. We can account for time and manage resources."

"It's really customizable. It's very user-friendly to change very quickly. We've developed lots of custom forms and things, without any need for thousands of accounting consultants which was one of our main aims of it."

"The service desk orchestration, overall, is good. It allows an organization to build that service desk concept into its organizational and support strategy. And it allows an organization to digest that and create a support model very quickly around the tools. The fact that the tools are integrated within the system itself gives the organization a really robust way to integrate everything and have a complete support model."

"The SysAid team provided excellent service to implement the solution for us. From the very first day, we received a comp manager, and a project manager, to implement the product. They continued to inquire about our business needs and then finalized the best path for us."

"I would say the overall flexibility of the product is its most valuable feature."

"The simplicity of the solution is excellent."

"SysAid is more user-friendly, and its configuration is easier than other tools."

"All our service management is integrated into one system. Our response time is much faster because we have a visual into what is going on."

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Cons

"The way it handles subtasks can be improved. We would really like the ability to have different types of subtasks. If we have a user story for a feature, we would like to have a subtask for documentation, a subtask for requirements, a subtask for development, and a subtask for testing. Right now, we just make four subtasks, but there is no way to specify their type, so we have to add a custom field to specify what type of work is this. It just means you've got to look at more data. For logging time or time tracking, we would like to have something using which we can define the work type we're doing. We would like to log whether we're working on a bug, a new development, scope change, or rework. We've got a user story for which we do the dev, and then we have to do more dev. It is the same story, but some of it could have been a scope change, and some of it could be a rework because we either screwed up the first time or missed something obvious. Currently, we have to have a custom field and track that separately. It would be nice to have some kind of work type for logging time."

"From the customer side, it's not friendly used compared to other competitors, like ServiceNow or BMC. It's also not fully ITSM management if you compare it with ServiceNow or BMC. They have a full model of ITSM. In BMC they have TrueSight, they have Discovery, which helps IT to discover IT equipment with a serial number, with the specs, capacity of the server."

"In-built chat is missing in JIRA Service Management."

"The product does not have the capability to sort queued tickets by product. This would be useful in making workflows more efficient."

"JIRA Service Management should make reporting easier. I would like something integrated with DevOps tools."

"There is no notification regarding language upgrades."

"The interface could be made easier to use."

"I rate Atlassian support two out of 10. It takes a lot of time to reach them and get ahold of someone who understands my problem enough to provide a solution. Also, I live in Israel, so my work week is Sunday through Thursday, but I can only contact them from Monday to Wednesday."

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"We would like them to approve the security functionalities, e.g., management security features."

"The automation needs improvement. The workflow has some improvements to do. There's some stuff that they are working on like having cascaded fields. For example, we're categorizing tickets by location, by site and by building and then by data room within a data center. At the moment they're all separate fields."

"SysAid has fewer AI features compared to other tools."

"One of the features that I'm hoping comes at some point is that currently you can only have one Knowledge Base instance within it. For me, it would be beneficial to have multiple instances for different purposes. I'd like to have a completely separate one for customers and the only way I can achieve that right now, where I can tag articles to only be viewed by customers, would be if I use its portal function."

"So far, we're very happy with the new integration. The only thing that I would like to see is for them to improve asset management so that it's more usable. We looked at it once and we didn't find it quite usable for us. That's why we didn't use it. We haven't looked into the new one yet but the asset management is something that can be improved even more and patch management is not as good as it could be."

"There is a learning curve for the users."

"Currently, SysAid does not have a mobile application."

"The administrative side of the user interface could be a little more user-friendly. It is easier for me to export our reports into Excel, then do a server retrieval and get the information. Whereas, to do a report, you have to go through a configuration type of process, which is kind of difficult and complicated. I have been using this solution for two years now and I still haven't gotten the hang of the reports."

More SysAid cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"JIRA Service Desk has different pricing as it is based on agents. On average, the price is about $300 per agent."

"This is pricey solution. Should we move to using all cloud solutions in our business, we may move to different tools that have multiple functionality versus having a solution for each area. This would be too pricey and we would need to replace Jira with a different solution that also offers other features."

"Right now, there are only two of us who are both agents on the help desk and developers. We might be on the free version because we're less than three agents or users. I'm looking at Zephyr tests, which have a $10 a month flat rate, so right now, it is $10 a month. There are lots of add-ons. They do a free version, a standard version, and a premium version. In the last company, we started on $50 a month. By the time I left, we were paying $4,500 a month. That was mainly because we had 100 users on Confluence. I bought an add-on for Jira software for which we had 10 users, and that was $5 per user per month. It was costing me $500 a month, whereas it should only be $50 a month. I don't know if licensing fee has changed. I'd like our whole company to use it, but the big problem is the licensing because the Confluence side is what is really useful, but if I add 30 users to Confluence and then buy an extension for Jira software, I've got to pay for 30 licenses, even though I've only got two users in Jira software. It is the one big disadvantage of cloud software. You always have to pay for the number of seats regardless of which product you are on. This will probably severely limit how many people would use it because I'm not going to start paying $10 per user per month for a Jira software add-on when there are only two people using it."

"We have paid $20,000 recently for a one-year license for our on-prem server."

"The price for JIRA Service Management is reasonable and cheaper than other ITSM solutions, but the licensing model is different, so you cannot compare it with other solutions. Overall, the pricing for the solution is acceptable."

"JIRA Service Management's pricing is pretty decent compared to competitors. I rate the pricing an eight to nine on a scale of one to ten."

"On a scale of one to five, with one being really high and five being good, I would rate the price of this solution as a four."

"Costs are about $50 per user per year. JIRA is sold in user tiers of 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 2000, 10,000, and unlimited users. It is bad when you have 51 users then the price is based on that 100 user tier. Users at 100 will be the most cost effective."

More JIRA Service Management pricing and cost advice

"Overall, the price is good. It's all about what you get for the base amount. From my perspective, you want to look at what you're getting out-of-the-box. SysAid does a good job of putting key stuff in the box for you."

"The pricing of SysAid is less than its competitors."

"SysAid is a good solution, especially from a pricing perspective."

"We saw our investment back at the end of year one."

"Though I am not really sure about SysAid's prices, I know that it is competitive compared to some of the other products that our company looked at, like ConnectWise and ServiceNow."

"Once you're interested, talk with SysAid. You can have them come in and look at your company and advise you on the best solution. They will tell you what comes with each separate package and also advise you what application to activate. If you want something that they don't have, they have a department that can design something based on your unique requests."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Comms Service Provider

Wholesaler/Distributor

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What is your favorite Help Desk Software and why?

JIRA Due to its agility.

What do you like most about JIRA Service Management?

JIRA Service Management is a very user-friendly solution.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JIRA Service Management?

The price is actually reasonable.

What do you like most about SysAid?

SysAid is more user-friendly, and its configuration is easier than other tools.

What needs improvement with SysAid?

With SysAid, most of the customers are requesting a native mobile application. SysAid has fewer AI features compared to other tools.

What advice do you have for others considering SysAid?

Our customers use the enterprise edition and the standard edition of SysAid. We provide local support, but there are some things we have to escalate to SysAid. When we need support, we use their su...

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Also Known As

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Overview

JIRA Service Management is Atlassian’s IT service management (ITSM) solution. It unlocks all teams at high velocity by:

1. Accelerating the flow of work between IT teams, development teams, and business teams

2. Empowering teams to deliver their service more quickly

3. Bringing visibility to their work

Built on JIRA, JIRA Service Management enables best practices across request, incident, problem, change, knowledge, asset, and configuration management so that teams can streamline collaboration between themselves. More than 30,000 customers of all sizes rely on JIRA Service Management to deliver service.

JIRA Service Management Features

JIRA Service Management has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Request management: Allows businesses to manage work across teams with one platform so employees and customers get the help they need quickly.
Problem management: To minimize the impact of incidents, this feature groups incidents, fast-tracks root cause analysis, and records workarounds.
Change management: IT teams are empowered by richer contextual information around changes from software development tools. This helps them minimize risk and make better decisions.
Asset management: Manage inventory efficiently, track lifecycles and ownership, and reduce costs.
Configuration management: Attain visibility into the infrastructure that supports critical services and applications. Understand service dependencies to minimize risk.
Incident management: The solution brings development and IT teams together to rapidly respond to, resolve, and learn from incidents.
Knowledge management: While fostering team collaboration, the solution enables self-service, deflection of more requests, and management of knowledge articles.

JIRA Service Management Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing JIRA Service Management. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

The solution empowers all teams across IT, development, and business with intuitive, flexible workflows.

Work is made visible through the open and collaborative JIRA platform.
Connect IT and development on a single platform to accelerate workflow.
Gain significant ROI with competitive pricing on useful features.
Benefit from faster time to value by implementing a full ITSM solution in just a few months.
Lower total cost of ownership without expensive ongoing maintenance and upgrades.
Enjoy a broad ecosystem of more than 4,000 best-in-class apps and integrations.

Reviews from Real Users

JIRA Service Management stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Some of these include its stability, its easy customization, and its seamless integration with other solutions. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:

Abhishek S., a Program Lead at PureSoftware, writes of the solution, “You can scale the solution whether it is deployed to the cloud or the data center. While we might have up to 5,200 people using the solution, we do not require that many licenses, as only those dealing with the tickets are required to be licensed.”

Andrew B., a Technical Engineer at a consultancy firm, notes, “One of the valuable features is that an automatic response or action can be taken on tickets. We can have certain responses for tickets that contain keywords or are logged and tagged with certain labels.”

Atlassian

Offered in both cloud and on-premise versions, SysAid is a globally-adopted IT Service Management (ITSM) solution that combines all the essential capabilities in one, feature-rich tool. From traditional ticket management to asset management, SysAid allows administrators to monitor and manage tasks in one platform, so they can deliver fast and comprehensive support from a single view. Available in 42 languages, SysAid serves over 10,000 customers across 140 countries, spanning all industries and sizes.

Sample Customers

mgm technology partners, Telestream, Build.com, Zend Technologies, OfficeDrop, PGS Software, American Diabetes Association, NEPTUNE Canada

Disney, Sears Holdings Corporation, LAN Airlines, Schneider Electric, On Semiconductors, Toyota, Sky, KPMG, Georgetown University Law Center, Motorola, North York General Hospital, Volksbank, Xerox, Bacardi, Del Monte Fresh Produce, Manpower, Nucor, Ecobank