Agiloft Service Desk Suite vs ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus comparison

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What we can do for you

Workflow automation guides Help Desk technicians or Support Staff through your preferred processes, tracks performance and proactively escalates issues before they become problems.

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

Eliminate errors and duplication of effort by integrating information used by multiple processes in a centralized repository.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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”

— Dave Ross, Cal Poly

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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.

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus (MSP) is a comprehensive help desk tool that has built-in asset and project management. MSP can be deployed in the cloud or on premises. The solution enables its users to track configuration changes, map relationships, and view graphical displays of data for more informed decision making. 

The two main focus points of MSP are IT request tracking and asset management. MSP’s integrated centralized management console enables technicians and system administrators to efficiently resolve complex issues and keep track of their organization’s needs and ensure constant availability.

With MSP's automation of multiple service desk processes, you can easily save time by automating repetitive and simple tasks such as task assignment, notifications, and categorizations. The automation of multiple processes helps reduce errors and lower costs while ensuring a fast turnaround of ticket handling processes.

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus Features and Benefits

MSP has a wide variety of features to help you optimize your help desk management:

• Dynamically update workflows: Create visual change workflows on a drag-and-drop canvas and customize these workflows on demand according to your organization’s needs.

• Implement your workflow’s actions: Define actions such as notifications, switches, and automatic updates and approvals throughout the lifecycle of your workflow.

• Flexible role administration: Provide custom viewing, editing, and approval access levels to various stakeholders and users.

• Perform seamless integrations: Integrate with popular third-party products and access them from your IT help desk console.

• Rapid troubleshooting: Improve your customer service by communicating with users by launching remote sessions directly from their tickets to quickly resolve their issues.
  
  
• Control end-user workstations: Trigger software installation and removal on remote  workstations from within the management console.

• Automatic anomaly notification: Resolve issues before they affect your enterprise. Automatically receive notification when a performance anomaly is detected in your servers or applications.

• Auto-assign tickets: The technician auto-assign tool, which can be set up using a load balancing algorithm, eliminates the need to assign tickets to technicians manually. This helps ensure that tickets are distributed to technicians fairly and on time.

• Automatic notifications and reports: Set up a notification system to guarantee that the necessary notifications reach stakeholders on time, and that customers are kept updated regarding the status of their tickets. In addition, schedule reports to be sent to users periodically. 

• Implement your custom code: Program flexible automation enhancements with your own custom scripts and run them directly from the main dashboard.

• Customize templates: Create custom and user-friendly templates using the solution’s simple drag-and-drop canvas. 

Reviews from Real Users

MSP stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its comprehensive workflow management toolset and the flexibility it offers its users.

Mykola S., head of global IT delivery at Acino Pharma AG, writes, “CMDB as a baseline, incident management, service request management, and license management are valuable features. It offers really interesting features for complete use in an enterprise. You have one platform, and you could set up different service functions for HR, engineering, or another team in the same platform.