ManageEngine SupportCenter Plus vs SysAid comparison

ManageEngine and SysAid are both solutions in the Help Desk Software category. ManageEngine is ranked #26 with an average rating of 4.0, while SysAid is ranked #27. 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: June 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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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"This product has helped us a lot by improving and growing the business in different domains."

"SAP GUI Integration commands are highly useful while working with SAP applications and facilitate easy use of the software. This feature has been recently incorporated within the software and we have been using it to interface with SAP systems in development as well as production."

"Customers also are looking for the kinds of solutions that help enable their workforces to be more effective."

"The simplicity and ease of use is the most valuable part of Automation Anywhere."

"It is easy to automate SAP by using Cloning and Metabot."

"Automation Anywhere has helped us in many ways and is one of the best RPA tools."

"There is a very accelerated learning curve on the platform."

"There were about three to four people who were manually updating data into a system, then we replaced that process or augmented that with a bot that now reaches data and enters it on behalf of users, which gives significant hours back to the business so those people can work on some other high value task."

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

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

"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 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."

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

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

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

"I really like the SysAid self-service portal; it's very customizable and we can customize it to fit our needs rather well."

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

"Overall the administrative side does save you costs in terms of resources and time."

"SysAid provides us with multilayered service management and all of our support pieces integrated into one system, making our service and support systems much more transparent for everyone in the business and helping us deal with resources more flexibly."

"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."

"The solution can scale."

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

"It tracks everything that the technicians are doing. We can account for time and manage resources."

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Cons

"I would like to see web and cloud-based platforms for future releases."

"The local support in Brazil could improve. While it has gotten better in the last few months, we've struggled as a global company trying to contact them sometimes."

"I am looking for artificial intelligence and machine learning. I hope that they introduce them in A2019. I'm looking forward to what will be there in A2019 because that's the area that we need to go forward. We are looking for Automation Anywhere to put up their efforts to make it easier by incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning. Along with RPA, this would make our automation journey very easy. We can bring more processes into automation, that's where I am looking for automation to focus on."

"There are some business areas for which this tool is not capable of doing, such as in the areas of graphically-based input."

"Having some more pre-mapping and pre-setup analysis of what you're going to be doing with it would be helpful."

"I would like to use VB.NET native code inside of Automation Anywhere."

"When working with Excel, unlike other tools such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere does not have the standard variables for .Net data types."

"We had a major issue when it came to single sign-on. We couldn't get it working. There was a bug in Automation Anywhere that eventually got solved just a few weeks back. However, we have not implemented it. We have had hiccups with the single sign-on, but otherwise it was a smooth setup. We are not using single sign-on because of this bug."

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"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"One of the features that I'm hoping comes at some point is that currently you can only have one Knowledge Base instance within it."

"Monitoring needs improvement. At the moment we are looking for some advanced monitoring tools, which are using AI and machine learning as well. This product currently does not offer that."

"There is a learning curve for the users."

"Some of the back-end configurations of the solution are very difficult. So, we always need SysAid's help."

"Currently, SysAid does not have a mobile application."

"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."

"The solution needs to improve their mobile product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There may be room for the product to be more competitively priced to excel in the market."

"Additional costs will be for the machines and the number of machines that you are using. You can deploy virtually as well as on physical machines. In both the situations, you do need to allocate a certain budget for securing the machines and where the software will be installed and running. The machines cannot be used for anything else, because only a certain bot can run at a certain time. You need to be very particular about your scheduling of running the bots, and while the bot is running nobody can use the machine. You cannot have an agent working on a machine and the bot running in the background. It has to be completely dedicated. Then there are the network bandwidth requirements and space requirements, which are additional costs apart from the licensing and software costs. The developer is also going to charge you for their coding time too."

"We save approximately 10,000 hours per year."

"It costs up to $1,200 per license."

"It is expensive. Automation Anywhere has reduced the price slightly, as we have grown. However, the price is still excessive enough that we are engaged in PoCs on other tools."

"The price of this product is good."

"We have saved customers 400% in terms of time saved by implementing this product."

"It's very good in terms of cost and pricing."

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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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Construction Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

21%

Comms Service Provider

11%

University

Performing Arts

Construction Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	154
Midsize Enterprise	82
Large Enterprise	536

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Midsize Enterprise	1
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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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