We performed a comparison between BMC Helix ITSM, Freshdesk, and Spiceworks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about ServiceNow, Atlassian, BMC and others in Help Desk Software."Currently, the Service Catalog has the most value to it. Mainly, because we are able to offer IT functionality to non-IT people."
"It's one of the top solutions on the market for ITSM capabilities."
"In general, for incident management, it's okay."
"The ease of use and integration made it a worthwhile investment, since we did some integrations with other tools making our lives easier."
"Customer support is always fantastic and willing to help. No matter what time of day we have a problem."
"Initial, out-the-box setup was easy with no problems."
"The mobile features are the best part of the new version. It is easy to be notified and update your work from a mobile, which is great."
"Having all the processes, fields, and settings already setup out-of-the-box, thus minimizing implementation time."
"Their knowledge base is phenomenal. The way that it learns from our users is awesome, and responses are really awesome as well. It does a pretty good job of picking up what's needed. The knowledge bases are great."
"It's easy to use and integrates with other tools. We can embed Jira into it, link Jira tickets with Freshdesk tickets, and use it for our knowledge base."
"It generated reports for us, which helped us identify the status of requests and the aging of requests."
"Technical support is outstanding."
"The most valuable features of Freshdesk are the automation of tickets to assign them to different agents, and the managing of documents is easy."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the way that it connects to various folders especially because we use it as a CRM tool. We can connect it with our phones and our chat, and also with the API and have it as an email service. Freshdesk just makes our life easier."
"It's free of charge for us. For our scale of business, it's very important. We don't have a lot of tickets."
"It is very easy to make reports."
"The solution is easy to use and easy to manage."
"If you're in the market for a low-cost service desk system, Spiceworks is a good software solution to start out with, especially when it comes to startups and those organizations that don't currently have any existing service desk software in place."
"It's easy to understand."
"Spiceworks' dashboard allows you to drill down to the notes, where I can take an inventory of the network and see the devices I need to monitor."
"The solution is very stable. It's reliable and efficient."
"It was easy to integrate Spiceworks with our existing setup."
"The nice thing about Spiceworks is always it's free. Monitoring of printers for low toner. Finding machines that have low memory or low hard disk space."
"The solution can find all asset details automatically, whether it's a Mac address, computer name, IP address, models, etc. It's very helpful."
"There are some limitations or restrictions to using BMC Helix. For example, when we do some reporting, the reporting interface should be more user-friendly from my point of view."
"Support could be more skilled. We are wasting too much of our time debugging."
"Maybe it could be more simplified and easier to change the reporting point of view, like from a different vendor to another."
"Maybe the upgrade process and the release between environments should to be more transparent for anyone to execute it."
"Encountered issues with scalability and stability."
"The interface is somewhat dated as compared to technologies in use today."
"Support could be better."
"Log in process is unnecessarily complicated."
"Freshdesk could improve its capabilities. It's missing the article formatting, and the overall look and feel make it not easy to use. The administration instructions on how to manage the automation, capability, and integration with third parties, such as chat or bots, are very important in these types of solutions."
"I would like on-the-go translation,"
"There are a few things we have asked for, like a forward button. When a ticket comes in, we forward it, but it doesn't sync up with the forward. That is the one they have to rework. The other is when we forward the ticket, it doesn't go all, or certain things don't go with it. We have told them about it, and they are working on it. It would be better if they gave us a more standard reporting template. Although they already have some, many aren't usable. It would be easier if we had more templates to work with."
"We have many cases where a ticket comes in, and it ends up having multiple team members working on it. It would be really nice to be able to assign a single ticket to multiple people, rather than having to create the parent-child hierarchy that they have set up. It generates a proliferation of tickets that I really don't want to have. Having to jump from a parent to one child and then to another child makes it harder for me to be able to see the entire case from end to end. A simple example is our new hire process or our termination process. We have people who leave. We also have people who come on board. We have got multiple people participating and doing things related to the leaving or onboarding process. Currently, I have to go to different tickets to be able to see whether all tasks are really done or not. If I could assign lots of people to one ticket, it would be really nice."
"While it's good for a small number of tickets, definitely in the future, we will require something more powerful."
"Asset management and branding are two areas in the solution that have scope for improvement."
"For integrations, we need to write code that communicates with their system in order to enable certain functionality in the system. This is a lot of work for their customers."
"If Freshdesk had forms in it so that I could go to the portal and fill out a service request, that would improve it immensely and make it more valuable for enterprise customers, but that's not a current functionality. You can't have a certain catalog of any type. You can't be like, "Hey, I want to just go submit a ticket," and then type in. You can't prompt them to ask anything. It is just a blank form."
"It would be nice to have remote access to the solution via a tablet. They also need remote control from a PC. Right now, to complete the technical support process, you have to have a tool to access the PC, and check the problems."
"I would like to see more information when drilling down into access permissions, assignments management, or tagging. When I click a note or a device, I should be able to see more details about the router and modem. For example, I want to see the version, downtime, availability, latency, etc. I should have easy access to everything about our assets at a glance."
"With Spiceworks, like, when I open the websites, I have to Zoom in. I need to zoom in on those websites sometimes because it makes it horrible to use."
"The SNMP sniffer requires a lot of work to get right."
"The network mapping could be improved. Putting together an actual bonafide network map would be really nice."
"Since Spiceworks is a free tool, it's not very scriptable or customizable."
"There are a lot of disadvantages to Spiceworks because it's not an agent-based solution."
"The GUI must be improved."