Freshdesk vs N-able MSP Manager comparison

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Freshworks and N-able are both solutions in the Help Desk Software category. Freshworks is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.1, while N-able is ranked #24 with an average rating of 6.0. Additionally, 93% of Freshworks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of N-able users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 1, 2024

Freshdesk and N-able MSP Manager are products in the customer support and managed service provider categories, respectively. Freshdesk has the upper hand in affordability and customer support efficiency, while N-able MSP Manager excels in technical features, justifying its higher cost.

Features: Freshdesk provides automated workflows, multi-channel support, and intuitive ticketing systems. It offers customizable solutions and efficient ticket management with integrations across various communication platforms. N-able MSP Manager delivers advanced service operations management, integrated billing, and remote monitoring and management (RMM) capabilities, enhancing its comprehensive service offerings.

Room for Improvement: Freshdesk could improve by offering more comprehensive customization options in its knowledge base and expanding the visual appeal of its dashboards. Its API, while powerful, may need enhancements for broader integrations. More advanced reporting options could increase value for larger operations. N-able MSP Manager needs smoother integration with third-party tools and a more simplified initial setup process. Improved user training resources and expanded automation features could also enhance usability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Freshdesk, as a cloud-based solution, allows rapid deployment and minimal setup, supported by responsive customer service. Its ease of use and simplicity in onboarding are significant advantages. N-able MSP Manager offers professional support tailored to MSP needs but requires more integration effort with existing systems, potentially complicating deployment for less technical teams.

Pricing and ROI: Freshdesk's competitive pricing and scalable plans contribute to significant ROI, focusing on cost-effective customer support solutions. Its pricing begins from a free tier, making it accessible for smaller firms. N-able MSP Manager's higher initial costs align with its extensive feature list, offering greater long-term ROI for businesses needing comprehensive service management. While more expensive, its value is seen in its comprehensive integrations and management efficiency.

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Automation Anywhere

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Nadeem K.

Rpa Developer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Automation has freed teams from repetitive finance and supply tasks and supports global operations

In the current organization, we had trouble initially because I think the documentation and support could be better than what it is now. This is one difference between Automation Anywhere and other RPA tools such as UiPath. In UiPath, if you have an issue, you go to the UiPath website and search for it, and you get lots of help materials. In Automation Anywhere, you do not get exactly what you are looking for. You get a very large number of results when you search for something, and from this large result set, you have to filter out what you need, or only partial information will be available. User handbooks are available for each product. In that regard, I would say Automation Anywhere is lagging compared to other RPA tools. It is difficult to get hold of their customer support team. I want to clarify that it is not a matter of us building logic on Automation Anywhere and it failing. When it is a product-related issue, they have to give us support because we only know how to develop within Automation Anywhere. We do not know how to fix Automation Anywhere itself. Whenever we have an issue, trying to get in touch with them always takes three to four business days.

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Gauri Thakur

Director, Portfolio Projects at Microland Limited

Integrated support workflows have provided a unified view but need broader enterprise flexibility

Freshdesk's scalability could be improved for larger businesses across departments. Its intuitive interface is appealing for small to medium-sized businesses. However, when you look at larger enterprise levels, ServiceNow operates more efficiently. This scalability is an area where Freshdesk could expand its offerings. Additionally, I don't have too much hands-on experience with Freshdesk ticket routing. I need to check with the service desk team if they've used it. Similarly, for analytics capability, I haven't explored much on Freshdesk, but I have done it for ServiceNow. I have seen a lot on ServiceNow and the BMC Remedy, so I can speak better for them. I haven't had the chance to look at it so much that I can do a comparison. I haven't had much experience with Freshdesk's reporting. Within its paradigm of customer service management, Freshdesk is quite scalable. But I've said that inter-department and the interoperability is better off in ServiceNow than in Freshdesk.

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GeorgeKanellopoulos

CTO at InTTrust SA

Ticketing has helped prioritize support tasks while contract and project management have required better integration and pricing flexibility

I don't know if N-able MSP Manager could have some additional features in the future to make it more competitive because it might already be available and I'm not aware of it.I cannot say that N-able MSP Manager dashboard is intuitive, but I don't see any big difference with ManageEngine. From the deployment perspective with N-able MSP Manager, I cannot have higher expectations because it is a SaaS solution, so it was deployed as is from the technical perspective. From the business perspective, the deployment is complex, but I cannot tell you that it is less complex than ManageEngine. The main reason that made me change my mind and proceed with ManageEngine is the availability of add-ons in combination with their pricing.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It helps in improving employee productivity, morale, and retention, as automation removes the tedious parts of work and frees up often stretched-thin employees for more meaningful and creative work."

"Overall, it is very helpful, and Automation Anywhere has helped us achieve our automation goals by reducing manual effort, improving consistency, and making repetitive processes easier to scale."

"All customers were happy after automating using AA because of the better accuracy, it's easy to develop and manage, and it's easy to manage the orchestrator."

"Basically, to be frank, most of the features are awesome."

"Our developers love it. It is fairly simple to use. Sometimes, we are able to even bring people on fairly quickly, like interns, and have them use the software. Then, we are able to see some real benefit out of it fairly quickly."

"It's easy to use, and with less experience, anyone with the business knowledge can automate easily."

"While RPA is the cutting-edge technology to bring digital transformation, the RPA as a service will reduce costs and increase efficiency with ease of deployment, less maintenance, and cheaper upgrade costs."

"Automation Anywhere has improved our organization by allowing us to reduce the number of new hires, enable us to keep the same workforce, and increase productivity."

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"I would definitely recommend Freshworks to potential users."

"I recommend it because I think anybody who tries Freshdesk will be convinced that this is one of the best tools they could use for their organization."

"These features are easy to use, and the filtering is really good, providing a good overview of active tickets and who's working on them."

"Its simplicity is most valuable. It is easy and simple, and it requires negligible training effort. I don't spend all my time goofing around trying to find stuff in the ticketing system."

"The UI is easy to use."

"Aside from sending a ticket to client, it can also send an image."

"Omnichannel is one of the most valuable features of the solution."

"Freshdesk provides a plain vanilla solution, making it user-friendly and less complex."

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"Don't get scared of the price tag because it's definitely worth it."

"The best advantage for us, since we use all N-able products, is that the MSP portal centralizes everything."

"This is a premier product and it has been around for a long time."

"We are an MSP, and for what we do, we have one centralized dashboard, and even though we're a small IT team, we can manage a ton of clients with a lot of automated processes, even for patch management."

"At a significantly lower price, I managed to get project management modules, contract management, and CMDB, which were not all available in N-able MSP Manager."

"I like that you can do all the things with it. You can patch, and you can run the scheduled tasks. You can remote in, upload files, and download files. You can log onto a computer PowerShell, or command prompt, without having to log into RDP. I also like its ease of use."

"I am impressed with the tool's integration with our mail system."

Cons

"Regarding the pricing, I think it's high, and it's the same for the setup cost and licensing."

"Because we are very new to our process, so we're still sort of working through it."

"There could be improvement in the reporting and insights into the ROI. The ROI tool that shows the performance and the return on investment is not very accurate."

"As of now IQ Bot only takes/fetches the record of the places that we have marked. e.g. Invoices fields that are dynamic in nature are very difficult to fetch the data from the scan copy. If this feature gets added, it will save a lot of time for developers."

"Their OCR is a bit expensive, meaning the IQ Bot."

"Logging into Automation Anywhere takes some time. I use it frequently, and each login currently takes some time. A reduction in this time would be helpful."

"At some places, the if-else statements become so confusing so, at that place, they can change the UI for better understanding. Apart from this I liked this tool and would like to continue working on this."

"In A2019 the dependencies that are being downloaded take a longer time that should be reduced. Migration utility should be provided so we can easily migrate from lower versions to higher versions."

More Automation Anywhere cons

"There are some restrictions where you need automations and sometimes there is just no way to achieve what you need - but this is common with other tools."

"Freshdesk's scalability could be improved for larger businesses across departments."

"As of now, Freshdesk has no inventory assignment."

"Having so many tags makes everyday work a lot more complicated, and a lot more time-consuming."

"The solution's inbound calls could be improved."

"I face problems with stability sometimes while using Freshdesk. It's a server issue."

"It's a heavy app with lots of APIs, third-party integrations, etc. They should make it lighter."

"Sometimes our requirements are not matched with Freshdesk's free version as most of the advanced features are not available to us."

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"There are too many products out there. What I would like to see is a simplified solution that is packaged better, where you can easily implement or turn on the functionality that you need."

"I'd like to see a way to import contacts in bulk using an Excel sheet or another import method."

"The tool needs to improve its customization of the user interface."

"Its reporting is lousy and bad. It is not as good as it should be. There is too much work involved to get what you want. Most times, you have to call them to customize some stuff. I just don't like that part. They need to work on their reporting. They have a way to go."

"Comparing the pricing of N-able MSP Manager to ManageEngine, it is a little bit too high."

"Its reporting is lousy and bad. It is not as good as it should be."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is reasonable and affordable. If you consider the tasks that we can get done using this, the pricing is reasonable and affordable."

"AA comes at a more affordable price than the other tools."

"It is expensive. I would rate Automation Anywhere an eight out of ten in terms of pricing."

"I would rate the cost of Automation Anywhere as a six out of ten, with ten being the most expensive."

"Because it reduced the time duration of our processes, our costs went down."

"I don't agree with the IQ Bot licensing costs, which depends on the consumption of the document rather than per bot or user. This is confusing for me, because most of the cases for us in a possible future scenario, there would be a lot of invalid data to be scanned to get to real data. E.g., we would have to supply approximately 100 pages of scanned data to extract two pages of original data. In these type of cases, the IQ Bot might be a costly venture."

"IQ Bots are very costly. It's not a sustainable bot for us as of now. We will look for better, alternate options for that."

"Automation Anywhere is expensive, making it suitable only for enterprise organizations."

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"We use a licensing model only so we pay for the number of agents we have configured in the system only."

"It was definitely not expensive. It was two grand or maybe three grand total for a year. It has just straight and simple standard licensing fees. There is no additional fee."

"We pay approximately $70 per agent to use Freshdesk. We have 10 agents, which is approximately $700 or $800 per month. It is a fixed license, there are not any additional fees."

"It is costly."

"The best system plan is enterprise. It costs basically 79 Euros per agent per month when it's billed annually and 95 Euros per agent per month when it's billed monthly."

"The price could be better, but it's okay. Compared to ServiceNow and JIRA, Freshworks offers a competitive price. There are also additional licensing costs because you need Microsoft Outlook. Each new email account costs around $15 to $19."

"We use a combination of Freshdesk, Freshservice, and Freshchat. We use the whole suite. Weirdly enough, we pay more for Freshdesk than we do for Freshservice. I would rate it a three out of five in terms of pricing. You can get different bundles, and you can always move to different plans that are standard. Freshservice can go anywhere from $19 up to $120 per agent, per month. There is such a wide range, and it is very customizable to your needs."

"Freshdesk was the best solution with the best price. It was cost efficient and included all the features that we needed."

More Freshdesk pricing and cost advice

"I would rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten since it's not the cheapest one in the market."

"I don't know the exact cost, but I know it's reasonable. Its cost of entry is not bad. I've had other organizations sign up for it. I don't know how much they paid, but it wasn't bad. You charge for every object. You charge for AV, and you charge for servers. There is a charge for everything or every object in that. I know we make money from it, but I don't know what it is."

"Don't get scared of the price tag because it's definitely worth it."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

18%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	162
Midsize Enterprise	86
Large Enterprise	566

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	30
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	13

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Questions from the Community

How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is ver...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applic...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.

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What needs improvement with Freshdesk?

I think the main problem with Freshdesk is the deep settings, interface, and analytics. When you need complex cross-f...

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What is your primary use case for Freshdesk?

My main use case for Freshdesk is customer support tickets. A specific example of how my team uses Freshdesk for cust...

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What advice do you have for others considering Freshdesk?

My advice for others looking into using Freshdesk is to consider that compared to Zendesk or Salesforce, where the se...

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What needs improvement with N-able MSP Manager?

I don't know if N-able MSP Manager could have some additional features in the future to make it more competitive beca...

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What is your primary use case for N-able MSP Manager?

I am deploying it for my company.I inherited an implementation with N-able MSP Manager that was not quite good. I fac...

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What advice do you have for others considering N-able MSP Manager?

I use N-able MSP Manager ticketing system.It has helped to prioritize tasks. At the level that I am aware of the prod...

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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.

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Freshdesk enhances support operations with features like a centralized ticketing system, omnichannel communication, and seamless tool integration. It addresses customer queries and automates processes, driving efficiency and satisfaction.

Freshdesk offers robust capabilities for managing customer support, enhancing efficiency through automation and integration. Its streamlined ticketing system centralizes queries from multiple platforms, including email, chat, and social media. Features like a knowledge base help reduce repetitive inquiries, while its easy integration with tools such as Slack and Jira supports effective team collaboration. However, users seek improvements in customization flexibility, scalability, and pricing for advanced features. Performance issues may arise with high volumes, and there's room for improved API limits and cloud availability. Freshdesk's automation and communication abilities make it crucial for both internal IT and external customer service, ensuring seamless resolutions and SLA compliance.

What Features Stand Out in Freshdesk?

Ticketing System: Centralizes customer interactions for streamlined management.
Omnichannel Support: Integrates communication platforms for consistent service.
Automation: Reduces manual tasks, boosting efficiency.
Knowledge Base: Decreases repetitive inquiries with self-service resources.
Tool Integration: Connects seamlessly with platforms like Slack and Jira.
Analytics & Reporting: Tracks performance for informed decision-making.

What Benefits Should Users Look For?

Improved Efficiency: Automation and centralized systems enhance support speed.
Customer Satisfaction: Consistent and responsive service elevates user experience.
Scalability: Adapts to growing support needs with integrations and customization.
Reduced Manual Effort: Automates repetitive tasks, allowing focus on complex issues.

Freshdesk is widely adopted in industries like IT and customer service, where efficient issue resolution and communication are critical. By converting emails to tickets and automating assignments, companies enhance their response times and maintain SLA compliance. Its integration capabilities support diverse tools, facilitating a multi-channel approach for superior customer experiences.

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N-able MSP Manager provides centralized tool integration and ticket management, improving remote access, task scheduling, and file transfers. Features like real-time reporting and Passportal integration enhance performance for MSPs.

N-able MSP Manager supports Managed Service Providers with remote management, patch management, encryption, and network monitoring. It seamlessly integrates with ticketing systems such as RMM Insight and N-central. The SaaS platform ensures automatic updates, and features like automatic ticket creation and time-tracking optimize operations. Some challenges include reporting, agent deployment via Group Policy, and improving customization, particularly in Microsoft environments.

What are the key features of N-able MSP Manager?

Centralized Portal: Enables seamless tool integration and efficient ticket management.
Remote Access: Facilitates easy task scheduling and file transfers without RDP logins.
Real-Time Reporting: Offers network reporting with multi-tenant capability for better decision-making.
Customizable SLAs: Enhances service management tailored to client needs.
Passportal Integration: Provides quick and secure credential access.

What should users evaluate in reviews?

Operational Efficiency: Look for improvements in remote management and integration ease.
Cost-Benefit: Assess functionality versus cost compared to alternatives.
SaaS Advantages: Continuous updates and support without manual intervention.
Task Optimization: Review features like time-tracking and task assignment accuracy.

N-able MSP Manager is often implemented in industries requiring robust remote management and network monitoring. Managed Service Providers leverage its integration capabilities for streamlined operations, while sectors needing complex contract management might encounter translation challenges in technical implementations.

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Sample Customers

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

Honda, 3M, Hugo Boss, Petronas, Sony Pictures, The Atlantic, goodreads, Clear Channel Radio, Penn University of Pennsylvania, unicef, Kuoni, Movember

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