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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
7.1
Number of Reviews
86
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…
Farah Ben Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Is easy to set up, but customization needs improvement
Sometimes, customization is simple. The version we are using now has a nice interface Customization can be difficult at times because scripting is often required. I've been using this solution for ten years. Generally, it's stable, but sometimes we see behavior that we cannot understand. It's…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Automation capabilities allow for automatic ticket creation using monitoring tools."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of this solution are Incident and Request Management."
"The dashboards in Jira have been the most useful feature."
"Jira Service Management has a workflow feature you can configure for your specific requirements. It also lets you efficiently manage service requests with team members."
"Some of the most valuable features are simplicity, ease of configuration, and ease of customization."
"We have found the issue type feature particularly valuable, as it provides an out-of-the-box solution that aligns with our needs."
"The centralized feature allows us to track test cases and integrate with automation and bug fixing."
"It's mostly so reliable and has a lot of functionality. We're using a lot of HPE tools and we can do a lot with it. So, its functionality is the most valuable feature."
"Incident management is the most valuable because we're using it to manage tickets for an accounting system. With the reports that are available, it allows us to track and identify trends at the type and item level. It also helps us in managing the workload better than what we had in Remedy, which is what we were using before 2013."
"Service Manager does what it should, but it's quite outdated."
"Service Manager's best features are flexibility and customizability."
"It helps to register things, to see the changing parts, and to correlate incidents."
"It's pretty well-structured in modules."
"It gives us better understanding and control of service management."
"Service Manager gives us a single system where everything is centralized in one base."
 

Cons

"The search function could be improved. We have to search a certain way. There is no generic search; it is more object-oriented search."
"This solution lacks features for project management."
"I feel that Atlassian isn't really interested in fixing everything because if they did, the partners that are developing the fixes and features would not have a place in the market."
"It is difficult to navigate if you don't have any prior knowledge."
"​SaaS version for large organizations (more than 2000 users) is not available."
"It should be easier to log in."
"The customizations in Jira could be improved by being simplified. They are currently very complex."
"A lot of users have said that they want a feature that was on the on-prem version of Jira and the vendor can't deliver. They're either unwilling or unable to give feature parity."
"Service Manager is at the end of its life. The architecture, performance, and look are all way behind."
"With the new version moving toward the codeless configuration is good, but it's losing flexibility."
"There's a lot of manual work, which is error prone and time consuming, in how the code gets transported from one system to the other."
"The interface could be better."
"The solution does not interface well with other products and is difficult to implement."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"It needs to be easier to use for the end users because one problem we had was that we are handling different kinds of cases."
"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

"Do not forget to calculate add-on costs. These cost a percentage of the JIRA purchasing costs and are based on the number of JIRA users."
"We may upgrade the license that we have. The license that we currently have is good for 500 agents, and it's not full yet."
"Licensing can become quite expensive."
"This is pricey solution. Should we move to using all cloud solutions in our business, we may move to different tools that have multiple functionality versus having a solution for each area. This would be too pricey and we would need to replace Jira with a different solution that also offers other features."
"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."
"Actually in Iran we don't have copyright or intellectual property, so we can use JIRA for free."
"We have paid $20,000 recently for a one-year license for our on-prem server."
"Costs are about $50 per user per year. JIRA is sold in user tiers of 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 2000, 10,000, and unlimited users. It is bad when you have 51 users then the price is based on that 100 user tier. Users at 100 will be the most cost effective."
"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."
"HP Service Manager has moderate pricing."
"Micro Focus Service Manager is a little cheaper than other options. You have to pay a monthly subscription fee."
"The license is not cheap."
"I pay for Service Manager on a yearly basis, and the price is reasonable - I would rate it five out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
27%
Manufacturing Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

 

Also Known As

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

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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