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CA Service Operations Insight [EOL] vs Serviceaide ChangeGear comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CA Service Operations Insig...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Serviceaide ChangeGear
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (26th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (24th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user558297 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
The integration and the presentation layer are valuable. It needs some work in the stability area.
I rated this product highly because it does what it is supposed to do, and it's configurable and adaptable, but it still needs some work. What exactly it needs to improve is too complicated to answer. I'd have to think about that for awhile, so I can't really think about that.
Umair Akhlaque - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions & Services Head at Duroob Technology
A fairly stable solution that’s highly mature, but has a poor user interface
The solution does not align as modern service solutions do. Seamless integration is no available among the processes. Their service management application needs a lot of work. It’s in a really bad state right now. They brought on a new interface that clumped all the processes and features of the solution into one. Still, it’s not really compatible with other solutions. Because of this, its rating has dropped in Gardner. The solution needs to improve its reporting features. The user interface needs a lot of improvements. The product needs to implement a cloud platform solution, which is lacking so far. Their workflow engine is still segregated. It’s not embedded. If you need to do some workflow approvals, you cannot do them directly on the service desk. You have to go into Outlook and do an approval or you have to go in through another screen to handle the approval because the workflow engine they have is a separate product.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We can bring in all the CIs that we have and associate them with services."
"Technical support is very good."
"The most valuable features are the integration and probably the presentation layer."
"The pricing and licensing costs are very cheap and as there is no comparable product offered by other vendors, CA SOI is truly a unique solution with a very affordable price bracket."
"In my position, the ability to pull information from various management tools is a must, and SOI allows me to do that with ease."
"It's really going to be a game changer once it hits the market, and it really hits the world – when it starts being used by everybody."
"The solution is a highly mature product, and because of this, it can stand up to any other product on the market."
"It's quite a complete entry into the SaaS ITSM market with a reasonable price point."
"The most valuable features for me are scalable architecture, customization potential where the UI, background, and data movement allow you to tailor to the nitty gritty details of what you might need in your environment, and advanced workflow management."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily create service catalogues for our customers, something that we didn't have previously with the other tool we were using, which was SDM."
"It provides us with a very easy and flexible UI for CA Nimsoft Service Desk 7."
"CA Technologies support is excellent."
"The ability to add Additional Information Screens on the fly."
"Essential service management solution all in one, like 100- for service request, 200- for change request, 300- for incidents, 400- for problems."
 

Cons

"It needs some work in the stability area. It's enterprise ready, but it's not as robust for a large volume."
"The only thing it's missing is High Availability with remote locations. They should bring this is in ASAP."
"They need to look at going beyond Windows and go in more of an analytics direction."
"In regards to their newly released Operational Analytics interface for mainframe systems, so far, the first releases are a limited set of data."
"It’s not as scalable, but it’s not as big a platform as UIM."
"Customer Service: 8/10 - due to a complicated integration setup for CA COTS, a lack of proper documentation, as well as a limited featured topology, and no GIS map capability."
"We had a lot of issues with non-Windows servers during implementation."
"Usability for IT analysts could be improved."
"Few probes need improvement in their function and the way they get deployed for monitoring."
"Their service management application needs a lot of work."
"The deployment was very difficult to handle. It's an unnecessarily difficult process that requires third-party assistance to do correctly."
"The solution needs to improve its reporting features. The user interface needs a lot of improvements."
"Actually this product and its limitations reduced the Service Desk effectiveness compared to the product we were using."
"I think they could update some of the interface. It doesn't look as pretty as some of the other ones."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
20%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
 

Also Known As

CA SOI
Serviceaide ISM (Intelligent Service Management), Nimsoft Service Desk, CA Cloud Service Management , ChangeGear
 

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