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JIRA Service Management vs OpenText Service Manager [EOL] comparison

 

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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

"​Allows customized processes for our service contracts."
"Customizations are most valuable. The customization of workflows is the main power of the Atlassian tools in general."
"I find the Kanban chart where we put each story in to be the most valuable feature. We use the Kanban chart to revise the project every morning in our five-minute meeting."
"Easy to use and user-friendly."
"Apart from ticket management and workflow, the Kanban board is one of the helpful tools in Jira."
"With Jira Service Desk, the simplicity of setting up a quick form and getting the service desk running quickly is very helpful."
"We get software developed faster."
"Jira lets us customize the workflow to meet our requirements. The email and alert features are also handy."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We can have all our requests and incidents registered in one system."
"It gives us better understanding and control of service management."
"Service Manager does what it should, but it's quite outdated."
"It can adapt to any process in the organization."
"It's pretty well-structured in modules."
"Technical support is pretty good."
"Service Manager's best features are flexibility and customizability."
 

Cons

"It has change management and incident management, but CMDB is not there. It's also not as user-friendly as ServiceNow."
"The interface could be made easier to use."
"The deployment can be a bit complex, especially for those who are not technical."
"Field addition and removal features are not very intuitive in JIRA Service Management."
"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."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"In general, JIRA has no relation to customers or financials. Therefore, marketplace add-ons are needed to make it work for customer-facing systems."
"Jira Service Management could improve by offering more control similar to Monday.com, such as easier automations, file addition, and sharing with different people."
"With the new version moving toward the codeless configuration is good, but it's losing flexibility."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"Service Manager would be improved with access to automation."
"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."
"Pure cloud-based native functionality is lacking."
"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."
"Customization can be difficult at times because scripting is often required."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is becoming expensive and it should be reduced."
"Actually in Iran we don't have copyright or intellectual property, so we can use JIRA for free."
"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is low price, and ten is high price. It's competitively priced."
"It's not really expensive, especially when you compare to ServiceNow or other solutions, and it's not expensive to maintain."
"I price of JIRA Service Management is reasonable."
"Jira Service Management has affordable license fees. It's $12 a month per person."
"We have paid $20,000 recently for a one-year license for our on-prem server."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Micro Focus Service Manager is a little cheaper than other options. You have to pay a monthly subscription fee."
"HP Service Manager has moderate pricing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
Manufacturing Company
22%
Computer Software Company
20%
Government
7%
Performing Arts
7%
 

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Also Known As

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

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Sample Customers

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