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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

"I like the precise ticket management capabilities. JIRA Service Management is easy to use as well."
"We have found the issue type feature particularly valuable, as it provides an out-of-the-box solution that aligns with our needs."
"I like the history, the dimensioning, and how I can configure a space based on my preferences or the project circumstances."
"It is 100% stable."
"The simplicity is good for our clients. The price is good."
"Confluence is a great tool for documentation and tracking."
"The platform is easy to use."
"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."
"Micro Focus Service Manager is fine. It's a good solution for small accounts with minimal reporting. Micro Focus is a good option because you don't have to worry about the budget."
"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 solution will streamline productivity and also improve automation. That would bring efficiency as well the ability to handle a big number of enterprise-wide service needs. Productivity and collaborative capabilities are some of the key benefits."
"Its flexibility and ease of customization are its most valuable features."
"Service Manager's best features are flexibility and customizability."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The workflow engine that standardizes and globalizes the process steps. It drives people through the process by standardization and automation."
"The solution is simple to set up."
 

Cons

"I don't think the program is very scalable."
"JIRA Service Management should make reporting easier. I would like something integrated with DevOps tools."
"Jira Service Management is expensive and not worth the money compared to monday.com."
"The product could improve its asset management."
"The customizations in Jira could be improved by being simplified. They are currently very complex."
"The platform should be more user-friendly. JIRA's user interface needs training to understand and utilize."
"The pricing could be better."
"JIRA Service could benefit from improvements to its voice support."
"It needs good integration with the configuration database, that's lacking at the moment, It's not that good."
"The solution does not interface well with other products and is difficult to implement."
"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."
"Service Manager would be improved with access to automation."
"I don't see anything lacking."
"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 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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Buying a software solution is only a half part of the solution (or even less). You need to optimize usage of the software by hiring professionals who will help you to make the most of the software, especially in the beginning."
"This is pricey solution. Should we move to using all cloud solutions in our business, we may move to different tools that have multiple functionality versus having a solution for each area. This would be too pricey and we would need to replace Jira with a different solution that also offers other features."
"Right now, there are only two of us who are both agents on the help desk and developers. We might be on the free version because we're less than three agents or users. I'm looking at Zephyr tests, which have a $10 a month flat rate, so right now, it is $10 a month. There are lots of add-ons. They do a free version, a standard version, and a premium version. In the last company, we started on $50 a month. By the time I left, we were paying $4,500 a month. That was mainly because we had 100 users on Confluence. I bought an add-on for Jira software for which we had 10 users, and that was $5 per user per month. It was costing me $500 a month, whereas it should only be $50 a month. I don't know if licensing fee has changed. I'd like our whole company to use it, but the big problem is the licensing because the Confluence side is what is really useful, but if I add 30 users to Confluence and then buy an extension for Jira software, I've got to pay for 30 licenses, even though I've only got two users in Jira software. It is the one big disadvantage of cloud software. You always have to pay for the number of seats regardless of which product you are on. This will probably severely limit how many people would use it because I'm not going to start paying $10 per user per month for a Jira software add-on when there are only two people using it."
"Actually in Iran we don't have copyright or intellectual property, so we can use JIRA for free."
"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."
"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is low price, and ten is high price. It's competitively priced."
"I pay for Service Manager on a yearly basis, and the price is reasonable - I would rate it five out of ten."
"The license is not cheap."
"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
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
26%
Manufacturing Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
8%
 

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Also Known As

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

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