ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus vs SysAid comparison

ManageEngine and SysAid are both solutions in the Help Desk Software category. ManageEngine is ranked #27 with an average rating of 4.0, while SysAid is ranked #26. Additionally, 66% of ManageEngine users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of SysAid users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 1, 2024

SysAid and ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus are competing in the IT service management category. Data indicates that while SysAid excels in customer support, ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus is favored for its advanced features, leaving it as a preferred option despite potentially higher prices.

Features: SysAid offers comprehensive help desk capabilities, automation features, and an easy-to-use self-service portal. ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus excels in asset management functionality, superior integration options, and a mobile application for all products.

Room for Improvement: SysAid could improve its user interface, physical asset monitoring, and provide more advanced reporting capabilities. ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus could enhance additional functionalities beyond the help desk, offer better scalability options, and optimize the user interface further.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SysAid provides a straightforward deployment process with reliable customer service, ensuring a smooth transition. ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus offers flexible deployment models including cloud and on-premises options, with outstanding technical support catering to diverse business needs.

Pricing and ROI: SysAid is generally more cost-effective with a lower setup cost, offering a rapid return on investment. ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus involves higher initial expenses, but the investment is justified by its comprehensive feature set, promising a significant ROI over time.

To learn more, read our detailed ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus vs. SysAid Report (Updated: August 2026).

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Automation Anywhere

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Venkat Sivaprakash

Management Consultant at Accenture

Has significantly improved document-driven workflows and reduced processing time across finance and HR functions

Automation Anywhere has evolved significantly and upgraded itself to provide agentic AI and AI-based automation solutions for document automation. The product has matured considerably over time. We can create workflows that can call an API. We can include prompts in particular workflows for ChatGPT-related functions, connecting to an LLM and RAG to perform tasks. For document automation, modern features are available to train documents, ensuring high accuracy and repeatability over time. The system is very easy to use. I recently completed a course in document automation, typically designed for people involved in coding and technical aspects. Though I understand coding comprehensively, I don't do actual coding. The course was very accessible. Currently, extensive coding isn't necessary due to the hybrid model incorporating GenAI aspects, low-code, no-code capabilities, APIs, and numerous pre-built objects in Automation Anywhere. The features include GenAI-driven prompting methods and workflow creation capabilities. In these workflows, we can create decision boxes and call APIs without coding. We simply pull objects, drop them, connect them, and add minimal coding when needed. The most crucial aspect isn't coding but rather sizing the automation and fleshing out the details. Automation Co-pilot takes notes and performs automated analysis. It can extract details from videos, summarize conversations, and provide detailed information. During calls, it identifies instructions and performs tasks such as preparing reports and reconciliation. Automation Anywhere can also connect with Microsoft Co-pilot. Through Co-pilot, real-time operations can be executed, allowing direct interaction between vendors and automation through this component.

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reviewer2650164

VP of IT at a aerospace/defense firm with 51-200 employees

Manual ticketing features hinder workflow, but cost-effective ticket management is ensured

We just use it because it's more trouble to rip it out than to replace it with a more expensive tool. I would not recommend this product to others. If budget is a concern, it might be suitable but it doesn’t excite. Hence, I would rate it a four out of ten.

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Todd Blake

Senior IT Specialist at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

A solution that streamlines ticket creation for the staff members of a business and enables efficient issue resolution by the IT team

SysAid is similar to Nintex AssureSign. Some of the back-end configurations of the solution are very difficult. So, we always need SysAid's help. Also, there are almost too many features that we are not taking advantage of in our company since we don't even know about them. A little bit of a streamlining or simplification of the main features would be a good improvement. I would like to see SysAid present its solution more easily. There is a lot in the solution, and it is more than what we need in our company.

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Pros

"The IQ Bot is unique. It is not available in another RPA tool that I am aware of, like UiPath or Blue Prism. IQ Bot converts unstructured data to structured data."

"Automation Anywhere has improved our company a lot. The SLA of some tasks that we need to deliver to some clients has improved greatly."

"I would rate Automation Anywhere a ten out of ten."

"It frees individuals up from mundane tasks so they can concentrate on being more active and creative other things that they need to do."

"Our ROI has ranged from thousands to hundreds of thousands, depending on the type of process being automated."

"Automation Anywhere (AA) is really fast on the development side. It's an efficient and intelligent RPA tool, with a good engine and good connectors."

"Automation Anywhere's image reader is the most valuable feature."

"The infrastructure that Automation Anywhere has created is really simple; compared to other tools such as Power Automate, it is more user-friendly and faster."

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"Their technical support has been very helpful and is very good."

"The product is very scalable and stable when used as a help desk once it is built out."

"When using it predominantly for a help desk solution, it seems like an absolutely fine product."

"We have found the reporting in this product to be very useful."

"The product teams are continuously on the products trying to improve them. If, for example, I ask for a change to be done in the software, the chances are in the next release it's going to be done and incorporated. It's this personal touch that I like."

"ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus works fine as a help desk software and is relatively inexpensive."

"Their tech support has been talking to us about expanding features like integrations with Microsoft Teams."

"The most valuable features are the ITIL compliance and billing."

"I would say the overall flexibility of the product is its most valuable feature."

"SysAid is more user-friendly, and its configuration is easier than other tools."

"At our agency, people love SysAid."

"The service desk orchestration, overall, is good. It allows an organization to build that service desk concept into its organizational and support strategy. And it allows an organization to digest that and create a support model very quickly around the tools. The fact that the tools are integrated within the system itself gives the organization a really robust way to integrate everything and have a complete support model."

"It's supporting the daily routine of the IT organization, it is the ticketing system, and it's very helpful due to the fact that it provides us with full evidence and full transparency for what we are working on."

"The solution can scale."

"All our service management is integrated into one system. Our response time is much faster because we have a visual into what is going on."

"SysAid provides us with multilayered service management and all of our support pieces integrated into one system."

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Cons

"Training is good and interactive but the final certification exam is very tough and it requires in-depth practical knowledge."

"We would like to see more options for merging and un-merging PDFs. More flexibility there would be good. We've figured out ways around this and, using their software, we've been able to do everything we wanted to do. It just took a bit more time to do it. We were on version 10.5 and in their Bot Store they actually had a bot that did exactly what we wanted to do, but it was for Version 11.0."

"We have been looking at processes which can easily transition into a large scale environment, where you can have cloud or hybrid model. However, being a bank, some of our processes are critical and we would like to hold those on-premise. This limits us with our usage of Automation Anywhere."

"Version 11 is a bit heavy. At times, it takes a toll on the computing resources."

"There is a dependency issue around the control room. If the control room is not working, the bots will not work."

"It is not always predictable 100% of the time. While it has improved with each version, some unexplained issues still exist."

"The REST API could be improved."

"When a bot is in production, sometimes the keystrokes will not work. I am not sure why, and we have tried to contact technical support. They said that they don't have an answer for this. It happens in the the remote environment when we are deploying a bot into AWS machines. So, technical support said this happens in AWS machines sometimes: If the bot is running and the machine is locked, then at that time, the key strokes will not work. They have provided that solution, but we are trying to avoid keystrokes now."

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"ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus could improve on workflow automation features."

"The tech support is terrible and that seems to be a part of their business plan."

"ManageEngine, in my experience, fosters that type of environment; it doesn't have an easy button, a graphic user interface, ease-of-use, and ease-of-dev — the product does not have any of that."

"I would like to see some kind of project management or portfolio management in a future version."

"The product is very difficult to use and configure and requires specialists."

"The business model for the company is to sell low and charge for customization, education or expertise."

"There is no cloud-based version and it would be helpful if it were available."

"They're pretty good but there's always room for improvement. There should be more templates that users can utilize immediately."

"From my perspective, it's a little bit of a legacy system in our IT landscape."

"The solution needs to improve their mobile product."

"The administrative side of the user interface could be a little more user-friendly. It is easier for me to export our reports into Excel, then do a server retrieval and get the information. Whereas, to do a report, you have to go through a configuration type of process, which is kind of difficult and complicated. I have been using this solution for two years now and I still haven't gotten the hang of the reports."

"The automation needs improvement. The workflow has some improvements to do. There's some stuff that they are working on like having cascaded fields. For example, we're categorizing tickets by location, by site and by building and then by data room within a data center. At the moment they're all separate fields."

"There is a learning curve for the users."

"SysAid has fewer AI features compared to other tools."

"The only thing that I would like to see is for them to improve asset management so that it's more usable."

"So far, we're very happy with the new integration. The only thing that I would like to see is for them to improve asset management so that it's more usable. We looked at it once and we didn't find it quite usable for us. That's why we didn't use it. We haven't looked into the new one yet but the asset management is something that can be improved even more and patch management is not as good as it could be."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"They recently launched a Community Edition, which is okay, but they should have done this a long time ago."

"It is subscription-based. They have different schemes. The price depends on how you negotiate with the local partner or local representative in your country."

"I would rate the cost an eight out of ten, with ten being the highest cost."

"We were required to purchase licenses and bot runners, which determined the permissible run times for the bots."

"We have saved time and money using this solution."

"As our team size increases, we may get some more licenses for the tool."

"Automation Anywhere University is pretty good. They make it available free for everyone."

"Automation Anywhere is expensive, making it suitable only for enterprise organizations."

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"ManageEngine products will always be the lowest cost in category as that is part of their business model."

"The licensing fees depend on different criteria, including options and sizing."

"We saw our investment back at the end of year one."

"Once you're interested, talk with SysAid. You can have them come in and look at your company and advise you on the best solution. They will tell you what comes with each separate package and also advise you what application to activate. If you want something that they don't have, they have a department that can design something based on your unique requests."

"The pricing of SysAid is less than its competitors."

"Though I am not really sure about SysAid's prices, I know that it is competitive compared to some of the other products that our company looked at, like ConnectWise and ServiceNow."

"Overall, the price is good. It's all about what you get for the base amount. From my perspective, you want to look at what you're getting out-of-the-box. SysAid does a good job of putting key stuff in the box for you."

"SysAid is a good solution, especially from a pricing perspective."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Construction Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Construction Company

21%

Comms Service Provider

Performing Arts

University

Construction Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	157
Midsize Enterprise	81
Large Enterprise	558

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Questions from the Community

How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is ver...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applic...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus?

ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus is cheap, around two or three on a scale where ten is the most expensive.

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What needs improvement with ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus?

ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus could improve on workflow automation features. Currently, everything is very manual, ...

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What is your primary use case for ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus?

We use ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus primarily as a ticketing tool within our company.

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Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)

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Overview

Automation Anywhere offers ease of use, robust system connectivity, and GenAI-driven document automation through a cloud-native platform, significantly enhancing productivity across multiple industries with advanced AI features.

Delivering a comprehensive suite of tools designed for easy integration and rapid deployment, Automation Anywhere drives efficiency by reducing costs and automating repetitive tasks. Its cloud-native platform supports broad industry adoption, including advanced AI features like process automation and Co-Pilot, streamlining complex workflows with minimal technical skills required. Users benefit from robust integration capabilities, which facilitate seamless interaction with multiple systems. However, there is room for improvement in areas such as user-friendliness for beginners, stability, flexible licensing, and enhanced OCR functionality. Organizations in sectors such as banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare gain from the improved operational efficiency and ROI Automation Anywhere offers.

What are the important features of Automation Anywhere?

Ease of Use: Simplifies automation tasks with a user-centric interface.
Robust Connectivity: Provides seamless integration with multiple systems.
GenAI-Driven Document Automation: Leverages AI to automate document management.
Process Automation & Co-Pilot: Enhances workflow automation with advanced AI.
Cloud-Native Platform: Enables rapid deployment and integration.

What benefits should be evaluated in reviews?

Time Savings: Automation drastically reduces manual processing time.
Cost Efficiency: Decreases overall operational costs by automating tasks.
Productivity Enhancement: Streamlines workflows with AI-driven tools.
Improved Integration: Enhances ability to work with multiple systems.
Scalability: Supports growth with a flexible cloud-native architecture.

In the insurance industry, Automation Anywhere is utilized for automating processes such as enrollment management and compliance checks. Its applications extend to supply chain management, financial transactions, and business performance monitoring across sectors like banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, helping organizations to automate routine tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.

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ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus offers ITIL compliance, billing capabilities, mobile apps, and reporting features. It's cost-effective and continuously updated for improved functionality, meeting user demands despite minor limitations.

ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus is designed primarily as a ticketing system to facilitate helpdesk and customer service operations, managing issues, incidents, and demand management. It replaces traditional email systems with a streamlined ticket system and records hourly rates along with technician time on tickets, maintaining a comprehensive ticket database. While mobile management is possible, development and configuration require significant resources. Efforts are focused on enhancing automation and simplifying reporting by centralizing data in one location, reflecting a customer-focused approach.

What are the most valued features?

ITIL Compliance: Ensures adherence to international standards.
Billing Capabilities: Tracks and manages financial aspects efficiently.
Mobile Apps: Facilitates remote management and monitoring.
Reporting: Generates useful insights and reports for strategic decisions.
Help Desk Functionality: Provides streamlined ticket management and support workflows.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Cost-Effectiveness: Balances functionality with affordability.
Customer-Focused Updates: Regular enhancements that cater to user needs.
Streamlined Operations: Simplifies issue tracking and resolution processes.
Comprehensive Reporting: Provides centralized insights for data-driven decisions.

In industries like IT support and service management, ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus acts as a robust ticketing and helpdesk system, managing incidents and support requests efficiently. Its mobile app capability, though resource-intensive, is beneficial in sectors requiring flexible operations. Efforts in enhancing automation will further strengthen its application across diverse sectors, from service management to tech-focused organizations.

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SysAid offers an adaptable IT management platform with customizable workflows, asset management, and seamless application integration, catering to departments such as HR, payroll, and finance.

SysAid provides tools for incident, request management, and a CMDB to support departments through efficient processes. It features a self-service portal and knowledge base, enhancing user experience by promoting autonomy. It allows for easy customization and features a scalable system that adjusts to enterprise needs. SysAid supports educational institutions, airlines, and a variety of sectors by streamlining communication through calls and emails.

What are SysAid's Important Features?

Intuitive Interface: Offers a user-friendly design that simplifies navigation.
Customizable Workflows: Enables users to tailor processes to their specific requirements.
Robust Self-Service Portal: Empowers users to resolve issues independently.
Comprehensive Asset Management: Tracks and manages assets efficiently.
Reporting Tools: Provides extensive data analysis and visualization capabilities.
Knowledge Base: Supports access to information for problem-solving.
Integration Capabilities: Allows seamless connection with other applications.

What Benefits and ROI Should Users Look For?

Ease of Customization: Adapt workflows and interfaces with minimal effort.
Scalability: Supports growth and changes in enterprise infrastructure.
Effective Technical Support: Ensures reliable assistance for troubleshooting issues.
Transparency: Enhances visibility into service management and asset tracking.

SysAid is utilized across different industries for IT, HR, facilities, and finance needs. Its primary role is in incident and request management and knowledge sharing, with asset inventory and CMDB functionalities aiding internal communication. It is implemented in sectors like education and aviation to streamline operational processes.

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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics

Brickman Group, SVP Worldwide, Chicago Tribune, Sodexo, Constellation, Lowcost Holidays, Telesur, PayEx, Quintiq, Moblize, Oman Air, Intelligent Hospital Systems

Disney, Sears Holdings Corporation, LAN Airlines, Schneider Electric, On Semiconductors, Toyota, Sky, KPMG, Georgetown University Law Center, Motorola, North York General Hospital, Volksbank, Xerox, Bacardi, Del Monte Fresh Produce, Manpower, Nucor, Ecobank

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