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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…
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

"Using JIRA simplifies tracking issues and updates."
"Automation capabilities allow for automatic ticket creation using monitoring tools."
"It has improved our work in a number of ways. First, it has made everything much faster. Before Jira Service Management, it could take weeks to resolve a ticket."
"It's a good experience."
"Some of the most valuable features are simplicity, ease of configuration, and ease of customization."
"This is the most complete and versatile enterprise task management product and issue tracker."
"Using JIRA simplifies tracking issues and updates."
"The automation feature in JIRA Service Management is beneficial, and that's yet to be available in ServiceNow. ServiceNow doesn't have the flexibility to automate processes."
"We can have all our requests and incidents registered in one system."
"Its flexibility and ease of customization are its most valuable features."
"Service Manager's best features are flexibility and customizability."
"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."
"It can adapt to any process in the organization."
"Technical support is pretty good."
"A valuable feature for us is that we have an ordered way to handle all the cases that we can handle with the infrastructure."
"The design has been revamped in terms of GUI. The current interface is quite easy to read."
 

Cons

"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."
"I don't think the program is very scalable."
"I am not familiar if there's an integration with Visual Studio from Jira."
"JIRA Service Management should make reporting easier. I would like something integrated with DevOps tools."
"Jira Service Management should be more user-friendly."
"It would be better if it had capabilities to connect to mobile applications (e.g., Whatsapp)"
"As a consultant, I have used the support. Some of the support I have received has been good and other times it could improve."
"Usability needs improvement. To configure it, you need to be well versed in Jira administration. It's not very intuitive."
"Service Manager is at the end of its life. The architecture, performance, and look are all way behind."
"I think the best recommendation to Micro Focus would be to increase awareness and the marketing for this product."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Service Manager would be improved with access to automation."
"The solution does not interface well with other products and is difficult to implement."
"Their end-user interface and technical support features could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would suggest to always buy licenses through an Atlassian partner, so you can also rely on their expertise."
"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is low price, and ten is high price. It's competitively priced."
"The pricing is very competitive and I think that it is okay."
"We have an annual license with JIRA Service Management, but it is billed monthly."
"JIRA Service Desk has different pricing as it is based on agents. On average, the price is about $300 per agent."
"Licensing can become quite expensive."
"I rate Service Management four out of 10 for affordability. The price could be better, especially for companies using more than one Atlassian product. It's suitable for SMBs that can afford it. I don't think there's another tool that's both better and cheaper. All help desk tools are relatively expensive."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Retailer
7%
Computer Software Company
25%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Government
10%
 

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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