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Micro Focus Service Anywhere [EOL] vs Serviceaide ChangeGear 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

Micro Focus Service Anywher...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Serviceaide ChangeGear
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (32nd), IT Service Management (ITSM) (30th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user568017 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It is accurate, secure and stable.
Anything that can basically reduce the amount of time that the guys spend working on a specific problem or task. There is always room for improvement that can be in terms of functionality, cost of market, ease of use, training of the product and so on. If it brings functionality into the solution, that would be good. I'll leave it at that because there's so much that they can offer, it's unreal.
UA
Enterprise Solutions & Services Head at Duroob Technology
A fairly stable solution that’s highly mature, but has a poor user interface
The solution does not align as modern service solutions do. Seamless integration is no available among the processes. Their service management application needs a lot of work. It’s in a really bad state right now. They brought on a new interface that clumped all the processes and features of the solution into one. Still, it’s not really compatible with other solutions. Because of this, its rating has dropped in Gardner. The solution needs to improve its reporting features. The user interface needs a lot of improvements. The product needs to implement a cloud platform solution, which is lacking so far. Their workflow engine is still segregated. It’s not embedded. If you need to do some workflow approvals, you cannot do them directly on the service desk. You have to go into Outlook and do an approval or you have to go in through another screen to handle the approval because the workflow engine they have is a separate product.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The self-service portal is good, the dashboards are good, and it's an improvement over what we had before."
"Now, our customer has a flow chart to maintain requests, and the service desk has got good feedback from the customer."
"We can provide a rollout in two to four weeks from customer engagement to production use."
"Within the target domain, I think Service Anywhere is a good product with a good feature set."
"The benefits for the company is the ability to reuse the knowledge that you can capitalize on the entire process and be able to share the same process worldwide for all of our countries."
"If ITIL adoption is important, then this would be the product as it is cloud based, quick, cost-effective, and easy to implement."
"We chose Service Anywhere because it provides a cost effective pricing model, was quick to implement, and provided a good end user experience."
"So far, the initial setup time for the initial configuration to get it up and running and usable was surprisingly fast."
"The ability to add Additional Information Screens on the fly."
"The solution is a highly mature product. Because of this, it can stand up to any other product on the market."
"It provides us with a very easy and flexible UI for CA Nimsoft Service Desk 7."
"It's quite a complete entry into the SaaS ITSM market with a reasonable price point."
"This is the best product for Large Infrastructure companies/organizations to monitor their infrastructures/servers etc."
"Using the self-service functionalities we have been able to eliminate a lot of the support phone calls, and actually reduce a lot of our help desk staff."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily create service catalogues for our customers, something that we didn't have previously with the other tool we were using, which was SDM."
"The most valuable features for me are scalable architecture, customization potential where the UI, background, and data movement allow you to tailor to the nitty gritty details of what you might need in your environment, and advanced workflow management."
 

Cons

"Technical support is okay. They have a large customer base so the technical support is not quite the same as the on-premises solution."
"The process of moving updates from development to production."
"One area that needs improvement is the means of moving code from the development to production environment."
"Reporting is a challenge. We're working out how we can effectively report on what's going on."
"We had some teething problems with Dev tenant export to production tenant import."
"The technical support could be better."
"Typically in the customers that we work with it's not a product that offers enough flexibility to support their needs."
"It's not as mature, and so we have got a few things we're looking for there that we're working with HP on."
"When tickets are closed occasionally, it is quite hard to reopen it, which will cause lost-tickets."
"Their service management application needs a lot of work."
"The solution needs to improve its reporting features. The user interface needs a lot of improvements."
"Flexibility to customize."
"We have been seeing a little bit of latency here and there, but we haven't been able to identify it."
"Importing data with relations is difficult and could be better."
"This is not appropriate for a small or even a medium-sized business. Too much overhead for a small company."
"It loses points because it’s not GUI enough, too code-y."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
 

Also Known As

HPE Service Anywhere
Serviceaide ISM (Intelligent Service Management), Nimsoft Service Desk, CA Cloud Service Management , ChangeGear
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

·         United Airlines·         America First Credit Union·         AerLingus·         PointClick Care·         Faro Europe GmbH·         The Hutton Institute·         Tunise Electronique
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