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OpenText Service Manager [EOL] pros and cons

Vendor: OpenText
3.6 out of 5
 

OpenText Service Manager [EOL] Pros review quotes

it_user363291 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Canberra Solutions Ltd
Dec 30, 2015
Service Manager gives us a single system where everything is centralized in one base.
it_user567978 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Servoce Operation Managememt
Dec 8, 2016
It's pretty well-structured in modules.
it_user671310 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
May 24, 2017
The workflow engine that standardizes and globalizes the process steps. It drives people through the process by standardization and automation.
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it_user671316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees
May 24, 2017
We can have all our requests and incidents registered in one system.
it_user671322 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees
May 24, 2017
A valuable feature for us is that we have an ordered way to handle all the cases that we can handle with the infrastructure.
it_user671352 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
May 24, 2017
It helps to register things, to see the changing parts, and to correlate incidents.
it_user671370 - PeerSpot reviewer
Configuration Manager
May 24, 2017
Technical support is pretty good.
it_user671319 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems admin at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jun 1, 2017
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.
it_user928242 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at DXC. Technology
Sep 10, 2018
It gives us better understanding and control of service management.
reviewer1255740 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Service Management Head at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jan 9, 2020
Its flexibility and ease of customization are its most valuable features.
 

OpenText Service Manager [EOL] Cons review quotes

it_user363291 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Canberra Solutions Ltd
Dec 30, 2015
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_user567978 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Servoce Operation Managememt
Dec 8, 2016
It needs good integration with the configuration database, that's lacking at the moment, It's not that good.
it_user671310 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
May 24, 2017
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.
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it_user671316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees
May 24, 2017
The greatest issue for us is to understand the roadmap. We want to know whether we should upgrade now or should we wait three months.
it_user671322 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees
May 24, 2017
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.
it_user671352 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
May 24, 2017
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.
it_user671370 - PeerSpot reviewer
Configuration Manager
May 24, 2017
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.
it_user671319 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems admin at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jun 1, 2017
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.
it_user928242 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at DXC. Technology
Sep 10, 2018
Pure cloud-based native functionality is lacking.
reviewer1255740 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Service Management Head at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jan 9, 2020
Their end-user interface and technical support features could be improved.