HaloITSM vs JIRA Service Management comparison

HaloITSM and Atlassian are both solutions in the IT Service Management (ITSM) category. HaloITSM is ranked #23, while Atlassian is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.1. Additionally, 100% of HaloITSM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Atlassian users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 5, 2026

JIRA Service Management and HaloITSM compete in the IT service management landscape. JIRA Service Management has an upper hand due to its brand recognition and integration capabilities, while HaloITSM is appealing for its comprehensive features and affordability.

Features: JIRA Service Management focuses on automation, incident management, and workflows, improving efficiency for IT teams. HaloITSM emphasizes asset management, custom reporting, and a service catalog, prioritizing user experience. Each has strengths, with HaloITSM offering broader capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: JIRA Service Management supports cloud deployment and integration for existing Atlassian users, with responsive support. HaloITSM also offers cloud focus, with user-friendly deployment and personalized support, providing a practical use advantage.

Pricing and ROI: JIRA Service Management has higher initial setup costs and pricing that increases with use, justifying investment through integration. HaloITSM presents competitive pricing, offering lower costs and high ROI for budget-minded organizations.

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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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Ian MacFarlane

Owner at Elifiatek

Codeless with no customization required and excellent pricing

We have just displaced a ServiceNow installation, which is a major win. We have become partners with Halo and reduced our partnerships with other enterprise ITSM providers. We've actually become partners with Halo, and we've got rid of our partnership with Ivanti ITSM. It's a real market changer, for sure.

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Sohaib Ahmad

Vice President Service Delivery at quixel

Comprehensive workflows and data views have supported complex teams but still need cost improvements

JIRA Service Management is costly. The pricing structure needs improvement. When I add some plugins, I have to pay the cost for every user whether they are using it or not. For smaller companies, the detailed workflow editing and the kind of details that JIRA Service Management provides would be complex. For startups and smaller companies, JIRA Service Management would be complex. The cloud offering is easier because I don't have to manage the infrastructure. There are two templates of the project: company-managed and team-managed. Team-managed is a newer feature, which is good for startup-kind companies where they don't need control over data from multiple projects displaying in one dashboard. For startups, JIRA Service Management is somewhat complex with its schemes and everything. Capacity management should be improved in terms of additional features in the next release of JIRA Service Management.

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Pros

"Unattended use is its most valuable feature."

"Using this solution has freed internal operations employees to do more "human value-add" work by removing mundane manual tasks."

"Overall, we've saved a lot of time, as there's a recent process that we automated which saves around 200 to 300 hours each month, depending on the number of accounts that come in."

"The support team responds quickly."

"I really like the Automation Anywhere University website because it has a lot of good documents that you can read to learn about the solution."

"The tech support for Automation Anywhere has been really good, so far. We haven't had to call them very much, but when we have, we have received a good response."

"We needed scalability and the ability to perform 10,000 or 1,000 or 200 tasks at any moment. No other software that we have had could provide such scalability and is built in a modular way."

"I don't think one feature is more valuable than any other. In my opinion, the value is in the totality of the platform. It is easy to use for our developers with a well laid out UI and many canned tools. The Control Room is very easy to navigate and mostly intuitive to use."

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"The product’s UI is very good."

"The most valuable aspect is that is is codeless."

"The solution's initial setup process was quite straightforward... I rate the technical support a nine and a half out of ten."

"The price of Jira is very good."

"This service management solution has a good user interface. It helps improve your IT request requirements and makes tracking requests easier."

"The automation feature in JIRA Service Management is beneficial, and that's yet to be available in ServiceNow. ServiceNow doesn't have the flexibility to automate processes."

"Anyone who is considering Jira Software, I would recommend they go with Jira Service Desk."

"JSM's best feature is the integration with other Jira products."

"Apart from ticket management and workflow, the Kanban board is one of the helpful tools in Jira."

"I think one of the most valuable things is that it's all integrated."

"A good organizational tool."

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Cons

"Extracting customer addresses from Google that are not in a standard URL format is a challenge for Automation Anywhere."

"There is a limitation with Automation Anywhere where if you want to build your own packages and deploy them, it is very difficult."

"Automation Anywhere risks falling behind by focusing solely on Robotic Process Automation when competitors offer more versatile and adaptable solutions that integrate AI for a more intelligent automation experience."

"Its pricing definitely needs to be more competitive. When licensing costs are high, we cannot use this tool for automation."

"Integration with other platforms may prove to be very interesting for us and others."

"We face issues when we need to increase volumes. Currently, it is failing for some reason, and we don't know the reason. It fails or stops, then we need to see what is going on. We have to fix that, then our developers need to rerun it. These are mostly practical challenges for our team who uses it on daily basis."

"I would like more integration into the entire Microsoft Suite of products, not just Excel. Companies use all of Microsoft products at the same time, and being good at just one Microsoft tool is a limiting factor. Being able to use Microsoft Excel, Access, and Outlook together and have them integrated (as standard) into the tool would be very useful, especially when you go into attended automation."

"The integration in UiPath is much better. Automation Anywhere's latest version has improved. It's fine but not as good as UiPath."

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"There are no improvements needed. There is very little that HALO has not already built that is not on its roadmap."

"The product does not have its own orchestration engine."

"The solution's integration part needs to improve...In the future release of the solution, I expect to see certain changes in the programming of the solution. A customer of the solution should be able to customize it as per their need."

"Jira has different modules that can develop workflow for demand management and project management, but the solution is no out of the box and would require lots of customization."

"It was complex for us because we had to migrate data from HPSM. We required a consultant to be involved, and even the consultant struggled for some time."

"Usability needs improvement. To configure it, you need to be well versed in Jira administration. It's not very intuitive."

"JSM's ability to handle large volumes of emails isn't great."

"For us, one of the weaknesses of Service Desk is that we can not check every issue in the queue raised for one product."

"The initial setup is very complex."

"The main issue with this solution is there's no limited subscription available for plugins we only use for a few people. If we only have a team of twenty using a plugin, we still have to purchase a subscription for the whole 200 users."

"It has change management and incident management, but CMDB is not there. It's also not as user-friendly as ServiceNow."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"One of the key features that we chose, the bot as a service or the BotFarm, when they launched version 11.3, they decided not to have the BotFarm anymore. This put us in a situation because we expected to have bots on demand, just like our cloud software. This would have been cost efficient for us to use. We hope to see this again being realized with A2019. I hope the scalability from an on demand basis improves."

"I believe it is $10,000 for Bot Creator."

"Despite being less expensive than UiPath, Automation Anywhere remains cost-prohibitive for many small and medium-sized businesses."

"The cost for scalability is much cheaper than developing a new system."

"I think the solution's pricing is reasonable."

"This solution costs approximately $3,500 USD per license."

"In terms of monetary savings, we automated a bot in three days that has saved us $30,000 in costs."

"We're paying a monthly subscription fee for the bot and for services. There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."

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"The product’s pricing is competitive and less complicated."

"The solution's pricing model is good. Also, they still follow the old concurrent licensing method."

"It's $69 per user per month. Only administrators need a license, and there is no limit to the number of endpoints."

"I would suggest to always buy licenses through an Atlassian partner, so you can also rely on their expertise."

"It's not really expensive, especially when you compare to ServiceNow or other solutions, and it's not expensive to maintain."

"Buying a software solution is only a half part of the solution (or even less). You need to optimize usage of the software by hiring professionals who will help you to make the most of the software, especially in the beginning."

"We have an annual license with JIRA Service Management, but it is billed monthly."

"JIRA Service Desk has different pricing as it is based on agents. On average, the price is about $300 per agent."

"Right now, there are only two of us who are both agents on the help desk and developers. We might be on the free version because we're less than three agents or users. I'm looking at Zephyr tests, which have a $10 a month flat rate, so right now, it is $10 a month. There are lots of add-ons. They do a free version, a standard version, and a premium version. In the last company, we started on $50 a month. By the time I left, we were paying $4,500 a month. That was mainly because we had 100 users on Confluence. I bought an add-on for Jira software for which we had 10 users, and that was $5 per user per month. It was costing me $500 a month, whereas it should only be $50 a month. I don't know if licensing fee has changed. I'd like our whole company to use it, but the big problem is the licensing because the Confluence side is what is really useful, but if I add 30 users to Confluence and then buy an extension for Jira software, I've got to pay for 30 licenses, even though I've only got two users in Jira software. It is the one big disadvantage of cloud software. You always have to pay for the number of seats regardless of which product you are on. This will probably severely limit how many people would use it because I'm not going to start paying $10 per user per month for a Jira software add-on when there are only two people using it."

"I price of JIRA Service Management is reasonable."

"The price of the solution is becoming expensive and it should be reduced."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Construction Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Government

11%

University

11%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

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Small Business	157
Midsize Enterprise	81
Large Enterprise	558

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Large Enterprise	34

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

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

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What is your favorite Help Desk Software and why?

JIRA Due to its agility.

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Also Known As

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

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JIRA Service Desk, Atlassian Jira Service Management

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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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HaloITSM offers a comprehensive platform designed to streamline IT service management processes, enhancing efficiency and reducing operational costs for businesses. Its scalability and adaptability make it suitable for organizations of all sizes, providing a robust foundation for effective IT operations.

Designed for diverse industries, HaloITSM integrates seamlessly into existing systems. Its intuitive design facilitates enhanced workflow management, incident tracking, and automation. Users benefit from its customization capabilities, tailored to meet unique requirements. With powerful reporting and analytics, businesses can gain actionable insights to drive continuous improvement and informed decision-making. Furthermore, HaloITSM supports global reach with its multilingual and multi-currency options, ensuring adaptability to various market needs.

What are the key features of HaloITSM?

Incident Management: Streamlines IT support processes, ensuring timely issue resolution.
Change Management: Automates change workflows, reducing risks associated with IT changes.
Asset Management: Provides comprehensive oversight of organizational assets, optimizing resource allocation.
Service Catalog: Allows for customizable service listings, enhancing user experience.
Self-Service Portal: Empowers users with self-help resources, minimizing support requests.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Cost Efficiency: Reviewers note reduced operational costs due to streamlined processes.
Scalability: Users highlight its adaptability to both small and large organizations.
User-Friendliness: Praised for its intuitive interface, making it accessible for all users.
Customization: Recognized for tailored features meeting specific business needs.

HaloITSM is implemented across sectors like healthcare and finance, addressing specific industry requirements with customizable workflows and compliance features. Its impact is notable in enhancing service delivery and operational efficiencies in these fields.

HaloITSM

JIRA Service Management is recognized for customization, ease of use, and integration capabilities, offering flexible workflows and dashboards that enhance ticket management in organizations.

This platform contributes to streamlining business operations with features like automation and real-time updates. Businesses implement JIRA Service Management to manage ITIL processes, support tickets, and issue tracking both internally and externally. It is utilized for project management and lifecycle tracking, with Kanban boards and Confluence integration supporting change, incident, and problem management.

What are the key features of JIRA Service Management?

Customizable Workflows: Adapt workflows to meet business needs.
Integration: Seamlessly connects with other tools, including Jira and Confluence.
Real-Time Updates: Keeps teams informed and synchronized.
Automation: Reduces manual tasks with automated processes.
Scalability: Grows with organizations, accommodating increasing demands.

What benefits and ROI can be expected from JIRA Service Management?

Efficiency Gains: Improves operational efficiency through streamlined processes.
User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies adoption with intuitive navigation.
Comprehensive Reporting: Provides valuable insights to drive decisions.
Quick Setup: Fast deployment enhances time-to-value.
SLA Management: Ensures service level agreements are met effectively.

Service management platforms like JIRA Service Management are integral to industries focusing on managing IT services, such as tech firms and support-focused sectors. Organizations frequently utilize its capabilities to enhance their customer service operations, supporting optimal SLA adherence and efficient query management across departments. By tailoring its application to unique operational workflows, companies achieve improved service delivery and responsive issue resolution.

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Sample Customers

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

Innocent Drinks, SKY TV, Sports Direct, Suzuki, Siemens, NHS, Cardiff City Council, Atos, AO.com, Ambitious about Autism, SEPA, York University etc.

mgm technology partners, Telestream, Build.com, Zend Technologies, OfficeDrop, PGS Software, American Diabetes Association, NEPTUNE Canada

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