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    Also Known As
    Agiloft ITSM/ITIL Service Desk Suite, Agiloft IT Service Management
    System Center Service Manager
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    Overview
    Flexible ITIL and ITSM Software

    Awarded “Best Overall Value” three years in a row by Info-Tech Research Group

    What we can do for you

    Improve Consistency: Pre-built ITIL processes and integrated asset management guides IT staff through your preferred processes and ensure consistent service. Workflow automation tracks performance and proactively escalates issues before they become problems.

    Gain Actionable Insights: Dashboards, reports, and charts show turnaround times, staff productivity and overdue tickets at a glance. So you can plan and respond effectively.

    Close Tickets Faster: The self-service portal with single sign-on empowers users while reducing the burden on your staff. Eliminate errors and duplication of effort with a centralized knowledgebase.

    Features

    End User Portal: With a 24/7 self-service portal, users are able to report issues or request services online. A dynamic knowledge base with FAQ, and full text search, provides answers to common issues.

    Live Chat: Provide real-time service for critical issues and convert chat transcripts into tickets with one click. LogMeIn Rescue or Bomgar integration enables fast and effective remote support.

    Personalized Home Pages: Improve staff productivity with easily customized home pages that allow IT staff to work the way they like and see the information most important to them.

    Full Auditability: Available via historical snapshots that display the entire record as it existed at any point in time and configurable audit logs.

    Efficient Resolutions: Through configurable ticket assignment and escalation rules that alert you to blockages and proactively escalate issues when necessary.

    Global Support: With multi-language functionality and follow-the-sun case assignment that can be customized for the working hours of different teams.


    “Agiloft is one of the most caring and responsive vendors that I have ever worked with”
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    What Makes Us Different
    • Built on an agile platform for rapid configuration of the most sophisticated requirements, without any coding.
    • Available both as a hosted cloud solution and as an in-house deployment.
    • Fully extensible, with 10+ out-of-the-box applications and the flexibility to map any custom business process.
    • One affordable price that includes all features and functionality. No hidden fees, no surprises.
    System Center Service Manager is a software product by Microsoft to allow organizations to manage incidents and problems. Microsoft states that the product is compliant with industry best practices such as the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and in the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). SCSM has integrated ITIL compliant fulfillment of service requests. Service requests are submitted by the end user in order to obtain information, access to a new application or the most common of all, password reset.
    Sample Customers
    Affinity Development Group, ArcaTech Systems, Carestream Health, CareView Communications, Chester County, Chevron Corporation, Conde Nast, CSF International, DCG Systems, East Virginia Medical School, EMC, Hopkins County Board of Education, Hot Topic Media, Lattice Semiconductor, Lexnet Consulting Group
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    Financial Services Firm20%
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    Comms Service Provider10%
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    Government25%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Manufacturing Company9%
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    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise42%
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    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Agiloft ITSM ITIL Service Desk Suite is ranked 30th in IT Service Management (ITSM) while SCSM is ranked 11th in IT Service Management (ITSM) with 23 reviews. Agiloft ITSM ITIL Service Desk Suite is rated 10.0, while SCSM is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Agiloft ITSM ITIL Service Desk Suite writes "We use it for handling requests. It has reduced the IT staff required". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCSM writes "Helps us manage IT operations, including incident and service requests, but could be easier to create reports". Agiloft ITSM ITIL Service Desk Suite is most compared with Clarity SM, whereas SCSM is most compared with ServiceNow, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, JIRA Service Management, BMC Helix ITSM and BeyondTrust Remote Support.

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