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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 (28th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (29th)
 

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.
Umair Akhlaque - PeerSpot reviewer
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

"Now, our customer has a flow chart to maintain requests, and the service desk has got good feedback from the customer."
"Just the use of big data is a game changer for us."
"So far, the initial setup time for the initial configuration to get it up and running and usable was surprisingly fast."
"We can provide a rollout in two to four weeks from customer engagement to production use."
"The self-service portal is good, the dashboards are good, and it's an improvement over what we had before."
"If ITIL adoption is important, then this would be the product as it is cloud based, quick, cost-effective, and easy to implement."
"Easier access to data and for reporting which gives the data for managing IT."
"We chose Service Anywhere because it provides a cost effective pricing model, was quick to implement, and provided a good end user experience."
"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."
"It’s provided self-service and automation, notifications, and reporting, and it’s good on a day-to-day and macro perspective."
"The solution is a highly mature product, and because of this, it can stand up to any other product on the market."
"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."
"Essential service management solution all in one, like 100- for service request, 200- for change request, 300- for incidents, 400- for problems."
"It's quite a complete entry into the SaaS ITSM market with a reasonable price point."
"Improved the effectiveness of my Service Desk Team and improved the SLA timing."
"CA Technologies support is excellent."
 

Cons

"They're terrible as there was just a lack of response. We had to go through other avenues to get responses from the first level support."
"Reporting is a challenge. We're working out how we can effectively report on what's going on."
"I'd like to see better ways of getting reports into a paper copy which means the ability to export into Excel."
"We had some teething problems with Dev tenant export to production tenant import."
"Typically in the customers that we work with it's not a product that offers enough flexibility to support their needs."
"However, this application won't be enough for us."
"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 technical support could be better."
"Actually this product and its limitations reduced the Service Desk effectiveness compared to the product we were using."
"Importing data with relations is difficult and could be better."
"It loses points because it’s not GUI enough, too code-y."
"Usability for IT analysts could be improved."
"I think they could update some of the interface. It doesn't look as pretty as some of the other ones."
"The deployment was very difficult to handle. It's an unnecessarily difficult process that requires third-party assistance to do correctly."
"When tickets are closed occasionally, it is quite hard to reopen it, which will cause lost-tickets."
"I would love to see better two-factor authentication as that would really help us and make a big difference."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Religious Institution
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
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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