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JIRA Service Management vs OpenText Service Manager [EOL] comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

JIRA Service Management
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
87
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (2nd), IT Service Management (ITSM) (2nd)
OpenText Service Manager [EOL]
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Karim Yousef - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficiently track and document projects with seamless tool integration
We are a management warehouse that provides services to different customers in different sectors. Primarily, we serve the banking sector and the military sector. We manage all the software delivery projects through tools such as JIRA Service Management or TFS Confluence is a great tool for…
MEKKAB Raouf - PeerSpot reviewer
Excellent pricing with great change management and service management capabilities
We started with version 9.3, and now we're on 9.6 with the full solution, including the CMS. They have lots of options. They propose a full solution for technology and IT service management. We are a telecom company. We are a leader in the market, and therefore, we need to have all details about our own environment and assets. So far, Micro Focus answers all our needs. I'd advise new users to go directly to the SMAX solution, the last, last version of Service Manager. If they are a technical company or information technology company with engineers and developers, they can use it on-premise. If they don't have such competence in the company, they can ask for the solution on the cloud. It is easily available on Microsoft, Amazon, or Google clouds. I'd rate the product nine out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is 100% stable."
"Provides excellent management features."
"Jira gets the basics right in terms of the product backlog and a scrum board teams can use to manage sprint backlogs."
"The solution offers lots of information on the website to assist with technical queries. There are also many community sites to help you troubleshoot any problems."
"The most valuable feature of JIRA Service Management is a plugin we are using for the front end for simple user forms."
"It has improved our work in a number of ways. First, it has made everything much faster. Before Jira Service Management, it could take weeks to resolve a ticket."
"I'm mainly working in the ITSM module of JIRA Service Management, and the integration between the system incident and how you can link all the records to the change makes it quite powerful."
"Confluence is a great tool for documentation and tracking."
"It helps to register things, to see the changing parts, and to correlate incidents."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The workflow engine that standardizes and globalizes the process steps. It drives people through the process by standardization and automation."
"It's pretty well-structured in modules."
"Service Manager gives us a single system where everything is centralized in one base."
"The design has been revamped in terms of GUI. The current interface is quite easy to read."
"It's easy to scale."
"A valuable feature for us is that we have an ordered way to handle all the cases that we can handle with the infrastructure."
 

Cons

"JIRA Service Management could include more AI features."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"Generally requires the purchase of additional plugins."
"It would be beneficial if we could turn comments into subtasks or other JIRA tickets directly."
"With Jira, we were unable to implement time-based automation in its ticketing system. We would like a feature where we can define tickets based on severity, then tickets are automatically escalated to the next level after a set period of time if they go unanswered."
"There is no notification regarding language upgrades."
"The solution should be more formalized. It could be more user-friendly."
"We have tried exporting some of the test cases into Jira from Excel. The interface for that isn't very user-friendly."
"Customization can be difficult at times because scripting is often required."
"I think one area which is the most painful from my point of view is if you need to integrate a lot of the tools, and being able to make that a lot more seamless."
"Micro Focus Service Manager is not very great. It would be better if it had more features. When it comes to features, BMC tops the chart. When it comes to usage, people use BMC more."
"Service Manager is at the end of its life. The architecture, performance, and look are all way behind."
"Their end-user interface and technical support features could be improved."
"The user interface is very clunky. It's only now beginning to be a web-based interface, but for now it's still very clunky."
"It, still, has a bit of more of improvement possibilities in the codeless part. But, I can see that they are working on it, so that's quite good as well."
"There should be some front desk provided or some options to let our users serve themselves, because we have about 5000 servers and 400 applications."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Actually in Iran we don't have copyright or intellectual property, so we can use JIRA for free."
"JIRA Service Management's pricing is pretty decent compared to competitors. I rate the pricing an eight to nine on a scale of one to ten."
"It is one of the premium products on the market, but it is very costly, especially in the Indian market."
"The price of the solution is becoming expensive and it should be reduced."
"It is a cheaply priced product."
"The pricing is very competitive and I think that it is okay."
"Licensing can become quite expensive."
"I am using the free version, but my clients are paying for it. When they start, they evaluate it for 30 days, and after seeing the value, they move to its paid version."
"Micro Focus Service Manager is a little cheaper than other options. You have to pay a monthly subscription fee."
"I pay for Service Manager on a yearly basis, and the price is reasonable - I would rate it five out of ten."
"I would say that identify your requirements and pay for the support to implement and test those requirements, and then hope that you did a good job because the cost of their service is fairly expensive."
"The license is not cheap."
"HP Service Manager has moderate pricing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
6%
Computer Software Company
24%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Performing Arts
12%
Educational Organization
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise23
Large Enterprise33
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise38
 

Also Known As

JIRA Service Desk
Micro Focus Service Manager, HPE ITSM, HPE Service Manager
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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