Espressive Barista vs Ivanti Neurons for ITSM comparison

Espressive and Ivanti are both solutions in the Help Desk Software category. Espressive is ranked #39, while Ivanti is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.3. Additionally, 87% of Espressive users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Ivanti users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Ivanti Neurons for ITSM and Espressive Barista are contenders in the IT service management sector. Ivanti Neurons is favored for pricing and support, while Espressive Barista, with its advanced features, appeals to those seeking innovative capabilities.

Features: Ivanti Neurons for ITSM excels in automation and provides a comprehensive suite for incident, change, and problem management. Its robust service catalog and workflow configuration enhance operational efficiency. In contrast, Espressive Barista employs AI-driven virtual support agents for seamless user interaction, boasts natural language processing, and offers out-of-the-box integrations.

Room for Improvement: Ivanti Neurons could enhance its user interface, expand AI features, and improve integration capabilities. Espressive Barista may focus on refining its AI accuracy, enhancing the Barista Control Center's usability, and expanding its language support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Ivanti Neurons offers modular deployment with strong adaptability and a responsive service infrastructure. Espressive Barista provides quick cloud-based deployment with extensive customization options, supported by active customer engagement strategies.

Pricing and ROI: Ivanti Neurons offers competitive pricing, enabling high ROI through workload reduction. Espressive Barista, while premium-priced, offsets costs with operational efficiency improvements from its AI-centric design, resulting in significant long-term savings.

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Automation Anywhere

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Venkat Sivaprakash

Management Consultant at Accenture

Has significantly improved document-driven workflows and reduced processing time across finance and HR functions

Automation Anywhere has evolved significantly and upgraded itself to provide agentic AI and AI-based automation solutions for document automation. The product has matured considerably over time. We can create workflows that can call an API. We can include prompts in particular workflows for ChatGPT-related functions, connecting to an LLM and RAG to perform tasks. For document automation, modern features are available to train documents, ensuring high accuracy and repeatability over time. The system is very easy to use. I recently completed a course in document automation, typically designed for people involved in coding and technical aspects. Though I understand coding comprehensively, I don't do actual coding. The course was very accessible. Currently, extensive coding isn't necessary due to the hybrid model incorporating GenAI aspects, low-code, no-code capabilities, APIs, and numerous pre-built objects in Automation Anywhere. The features include GenAI-driven prompting methods and workflow creation capabilities. In these workflows, we can create decision boxes and call APIs without coding. We simply pull objects, drop them, connect them, and add minimal coding when needed. The most crucial aspect isn't coding but rather sizing the automation and fleshing out the details. Automation Co-pilot takes notes and performs automated analysis. It can extract details from videos, summarize conversations, and provide detailed information. During calls, it identifies instructions and performs tasks such as preparing reports and reconciliation. Automation Anywhere can also connect with Microsoft Co-pilot. Through Co-pilot, real-time operations can be executed, allowing direct interaction between vendors and automation through this component.

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Jim Lobao

Senior Manager for End User Support Services at Five9

Has helped enhance our support ability, reduced our resolution time, and reduced our service desk costs

Espressive Barista's natural language processing and conventional AI still have room for improvement. We haven't yet found anything that resembles true AI that can learn autonomously without human intervention. However, Barista does help us identify and address some of these areas, allowing my team to step in and create intents and responses to questions. When a user asks a question that Barista doesn't immediately understand, we can recognize the pattern, capture it, and link it to a common intent. This is highly beneficial for acquiring such data, but it's a reactive approach and still requires curation. Natural language processing still has some way to go. One of our challenges is that our internal employees haven't yet adopted a natural way of interacting with Barista. Getting people to be concise and to the point, rather than being verbose as if they were interacting with a human, has been an ongoing challenge. While they may feel comfortable being conversational in Slack, expecting a human-like response, Barista is a different entity. Barista isn't interested in their recent vacation; it just wants to know they're locked out of their account. So, some users may assume Barista understands their intent when they say, "I'm back from vacation and locked out of my account." Barista, however, may interpret this as a request for the holiday schedule. Therefore, we're gradually educating our users to adapt their communication style for better success with Barista. Conversely, we desire Barista to adapt its behavior based on the interaction, the language used, and the way people communicate. I wholeheartedly desire an AI that can continuously learn and adapt to our organization's evolving needs. This is the most challenging aspect, as it involves understanding our organization's terminology, procedures, and toolsets. We've made significant progress in this area. However, from an NLP standpoint, we still face challenges with our nearly 3,000 Slack channel users, each with their unique communication styles. People ask questions in various ways, and sometimes there are misunderstandings. They want to interact with us naturally. However, we still struggle with natural language processing. People don't always realize that the bot is a virtual agent designed to be concise and efficient. Sometimes, less is more. It's been a difficult transition for people to grasp that they're conversing with a virtual agent, not a human. They still expect human-like interactions, such as discussing their weekend or holidays or simply pasting screenshots of errors. However, the bot can't interpret screenshots. If they provide the error code and some context about the application, the bot can better understand the issue. So, the key challenge is bridging the gap between human expectations and the bot's capabilities in terms of natural interaction.

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Rajat_Srivastava

Manager - Technical Support at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Has helped streamline ticketing and change management while offering clear documentation support

Documentation and learning materials are available for Ivanti Neurons for ITSM, and if you check the vendor sites, you will find documents for each feature. I believe that short videos should be created and uploaded for newcomers to learn quickly since time can be limited. If a user believes in Ivanti, they should also believe in all its products including Ivanti Neurons for ITSM and Neurons because they are genuinely putting in hard work. This is reflected in the documentation, though I suggest they work on creating more videos. Other than that, you will find everything you need in the community site and documentation site. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Ivanti Neurons for ITSM an 8 out of 10.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Being the end user, we didn't really have to get into a learning curve as such since our vendor partners were able to map everything for us as per our requirements. There was not much training that we had to do."

"The RPA automation itself is valuable."

"Co-Pilot is a valuable feature."

"The scalability of Automation Anywhere, the framework, and user interface are particularly impressive."

"AA has good coverage in terms of out-of-the-box functionality for bot development and management."

"With Automation Anywhere, what used to take us two days now takes us twenty minutes."

"The infrastructure that Automation Anywhere has created is really simple; compared to other tools such as Power Automate, it is more user-friendly and faster."

"Several manual, repetitive, time-consuming processes were automated, giving back time to the process owner, and for most of them the process now follows a single standard with additional controls created."

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"I like Expressive Barista's integration with Microsoft Teams."

"When it comes to neutral language processing and conversational AI, it's very good, very solid... We all have different ways of speaking or writing in English and the application does a very solid job of recognizing what's being asked regardless of how it's being asked."

"This is one of the few tools that live up to the sales reps' hype when it comes to integrating with ServiceNow."

"With respect to its natural language processing capabilities, it recognizes things that you wouldn't think it would recognize. Even in cases where it doesn't, it's pretty easy to go in and make the adjustments that are needed."

"The most valuable feature is its scalability."

"The solution is available to support us instantly as required."

"Our department received about a 70% deflection rate, so that was really great."

"Our developers have used the Barista Control Center to extend the platform by adding content, and they've found it fairly easy to do and manage"

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"I like Cloud Neurons. Since it's a cloud version, it's much easier to enhance productivity because it collects all the information automatically."

"Primarily, I believe the focus lies on discovery, workflow configuration, and automation."

"Our First Call Close rate for the Service Desk was 70-80% once we got all the workflows and Notes and Question screens populated."

"They allow us to automate ticketing processes and create requests more efficiently, improving our overall support operations."

"It is easy to set up."

"This is an excellent alternative to ServiceNow for smaller companies."

"The main feature for us is incident management, as it assists me in knowing my assignments because we have group assignments and when we go to the group assignment they can assign it to me there."

"Ivanti Neurons for ITSM is a key tool and is very important to my service delivery efficiency."

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Cons

"The IQ Bots have a lot of room for improvement in terms of accuracy level. We need to improvise a lot. I'm facing another big challenge with one of the use cases. We raised a ticket and did multiple follow-ups with support, but the accuracy still isn't up to the mark."

"Automation Anywhere should implement this feature. They should also decrease their cost."

"It would be nice to have the IQ Bots integrated with the Enterprise Edition without requiring extra licenses. That would be great."

"MetaBot helps getting data from SAP, but we still have some cases where we cannot fetch data from SAP."

"The biggest issue was that the new license required upgraded hardware infrastructure so we were getting all new tech stuff procured which meant that we were getting updated RAMs and things like that. Getting the licenses was easier but building the infrastructure which was required to support the new version was difficult."

"Getting buy-in was a major challenge because of the various people not aware of the technologies moving and getting buy-in from top management is a challenge."

"Security needs improvement."

"As we expand our components of the Automation Anywhere platform that we utilize, we need better connections between them."

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"What would make things easier is more detail, out of the box, about what is helping out of the box. We're struggling a little bit to get that data. We want more information about what Barista has brought in that the employees are using, out of the box. We want more visibility into the things that we ourselves haven't done the interaction for."

"I would like to see improvement to the out-of-the-box verbiage, with the questions going to the right place."

"The reports provided by the solution are not customizable."

"There aren't very many things that this product needs improvement on."

"Expressive Barista could improve by adding native integration with WhatsApp, one of the top communication channels in South Africa. When we're trying to sell Barista to customers, we have to tell them that the solution doesn't have out-of-the-box support for WhatsApp. We can develop it, but then we need to have a conversation about how much that will cost."

"My only comment would be if they wanted to use this as an IT service management tool, maybe they could think about Barista making tickets and having change management and problem management capabilities."

"Espressive Barista's natural language processing and conventional AI still have room for improvement."

"I would like to see the continued expansion of all of the automation capabilities."

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"Sometimes I can't get the reports that I want until I go to the manager. They need to put more into the new reports. The standard reports are great, but there do not communicate as much."

"We'd like more integration with solutions like SolarWinds."

"They could provide product integration with popular platforms."

"Ivanti Neurons for ITSM is not a user-friendly tool when compared to ServiceNow."

"Because it is so new, the really valuable processes like Release, Availability, and Financial Management are just bare bones."

"There is room for improvement in terms of response time. The support team takes a long time to respond."

"Support needs improvement in terms of responsiveness and timeliness."

"The patching for non-Windows OSes such as Linux is poor."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are some additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees. There are a couple of add-ons we've looked at: The IQ Bot for OCR and machine-learning were add-ons, as well as the Bot Insights - the analytics."

"Automation Anywhere might have a higher upfront cost than some competitors, but its extensive features and seamless integration with other tools can save organizations money in the long run."

"The pricing is fair. My company is part of a big organization, so the pricing is very advantageous."

"The cost is at the highest end of the spectrum."

"The product starts at $10,000 and then it's up to you regarding how much you can consume."

"When you compare the cost of Automation Anywhere with UiPath and Blue Prism, those others are much less. Licensing-wise, UiPath wins the deal."

"I would rate the cost an eight out of ten, with ten being the highest cost."

"No one is balking at the cost. They are market rates and will change, but no one is saying, "That is ridiculous or impossible." They are saying, "Show me the ROI and prove that the cost is accurate.""

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"User-based licensing has been working well for us, and we believe we are deriving significant value from it."

"The solution is affordable."

"The pricing isn't overly burdensome. It's going to be interesting to see how new models come in with new capabilities but, as it is, as a base system, it's pretty good."

"The price for the licensing is fair."

"It is expensive. It's not a cheap thing."

"I came to know from my team members that my company used to operate ServiceNow but shifted to Ivanti Neurons for ITSM due to its low licensing prices."

"The product is affordable for small businesses."

"The price is on the higher side. The support is included in the standard licensing fees."

"If you want to add more users who can handle support there will be additional fees. What we call our extensions, we need to pay more for. They tell us that we need to acquire more licenses or something like that. I think it's very expensive, because in terms the pula, our local currency, it's about 20,000 per license for each user. It is an annual fee."

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Top Industries

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14%

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Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)

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Overview

Automation Anywhere offers ease of use, robust system connectivity, and GenAI-driven document automation through a cloud-native platform, significantly enhancing productivity across multiple industries with advanced AI features.

Delivering a comprehensive suite of tools designed for easy integration and rapid deployment, Automation Anywhere drives efficiency by reducing costs and automating repetitive tasks. Its cloud-native platform supports broad industry adoption, including advanced AI features like process automation and Co-Pilot, streamlining complex workflows with minimal technical skills required. Users benefit from robust integration capabilities, which facilitate seamless interaction with multiple systems. However, there is room for improvement in areas such as user-friendliness for beginners, stability, flexible licensing, and enhanced OCR functionality. Organizations in sectors such as banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare gain from the improved operational efficiency and ROI Automation Anywhere offers.

What are the important features of Automation Anywhere?

Ease of Use: Simplifies automation tasks with a user-centric interface.
Robust Connectivity: Provides seamless integration with multiple systems.
GenAI-Driven Document Automation: Leverages AI to automate document management.
Process Automation & Co-Pilot: Enhances workflow automation with advanced AI.
Cloud-Native Platform: Enables rapid deployment and integration.

What benefits should be evaluated in reviews?

Time Savings: Automation drastically reduces manual processing time.
Cost Efficiency: Decreases overall operational costs by automating tasks.
Productivity Enhancement: Streamlines workflows with AI-driven tools.
Improved Integration: Enhances ability to work with multiple systems.
Scalability: Supports growth with a flexible cloud-native architecture.

In the insurance industry, Automation Anywhere is utilized for automating processes such as enrollment management and compliance checks. Its applications extend to supply chain management, financial transactions, and business performance monitoring across sectors like banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, helping organizations to automate routine tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.

Automation Anywhere

Espressive Barista leverages natural language processing to provide efficient help desk support, integrating with ServiceNow, supporting multiple languages, and automating tasks like password resets for global teams.

Espressive Barista offers a seamless tool for enhancing service desk efficiency through its robust natural language processing capabilities. It supports multiple languages, allowing global scalability and continuity in operations. Integration with platforms like ServiceNow ensures effortless assimilation into existing workflows. It automates routine tasks and offers HR and IT content readily, making it an integral part of operations in IT, HR, and finance departments. Users can customize content and utilize reporting features to tailor support services to specific needs.

What key features enhance its functionality?

Seamless ServiceNow Integration: Enhances workflow efficiency without disrupting pre-existing systems.
Natural Language Processing: Accurately interprets diverse questions to provide precise responses.
Multilingual Support: Expands global reach by supporting multiple languages.
Task Automation: Automates common processes like password resets to save time and reduce manual workload.
Content Customization: Offers customizable content for better alignment with team requirements and reporting.

What benefits should users expect?

Improved Efficiency: Automates responses, reducing dependency on manual tasks.
Scalability: Capable of supporting expanding operations with 24/7 availability.
Optimized Resource Allocation: Reduces IT tickets by offering self-service options and automating support tasks.
Better Service Delivery: Custom reporting helps refine support strategies, responsive to evolving needs.

Espressive Barista proves beneficial across industries needing streamlined internal support systems. It aids IT, HR, and finance sectors fundamentally by offering rapid responses and reducing ticket volumes. Its integration with SaaS applications highlights its adaptability, serving as a primary channel for initiating IT support, particularly through platforms like Slack.

Espressive

Ivanti Neurons for ITSM provides a comprehensive suite for automation, integration, and service management. With AI-driven hyper-automation and flexible self-service, it streamlines ticketing and incident management, enhancing productivity with efficient device management across different platforms.

Ivanti Neurons for ITSM is a dynamic platform designed for IT service management, offering robust features like hyper-automation and AI-enhanced functionalities. With a powerful service catalog, seamless patch and asset management, and advanced incident handling capabilities, it caters to diverse operational needs. Its intuitive interface supports device management across platforms, enhancing productivity through automatic updates. While valuable for its cost-effectiveness and stability, users note areas for improvement, particularly in non-Windows patching, integration versatility, and regional support.

What are the key features?

Hyper-Automation: Leverages AI for efficient task automation and problem-solving.
Service Catalog: Provides a diverse range of predefined service templates for easy access.
Incident Management: Streamlines ticket handling and resolution processes.
Patch Management: Enhances system security with automated patch deployment.
Cloud Neurons: Offers productivity tools with automatic updates to services.

Which benefits do customers look for?

Cost-Effectiveness: Provides stable and affordable service management solutions.
Enhanced Productivity: Increases efficiency with automated processes and updates.
Ease of Use: Facilitates device management with an intuitive interface across platforms.
Flexibility: Adapts to different organizational configurations and needs.

Ivanti Neurons for ITSM is widely implemented across service desks as an ITIL 4-certified system, supporting workflows like server patching, remote access, and incident handling. It aids digital transformation in HR and finance, being user-friendly for end-users while allowing deep configurability for managers. Key sectors benefiting include IT, HR, and finance, where it supports task-specific needs with specialized functionalities.

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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics

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AFS Group, Auckland Airport, Baylor University, County of Maui, Dis-Chem Pharmacies, Elia, Essentia Health, Government Research Laboratory, Groupe Webhelp, HSBC Africa, Midwestern University

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