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Micro Focus Service Anywhere [EOL] vs Serviceaide ChangeGear 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

Micro Focus Service Anywher...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Serviceaide ChangeGear
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (28th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (29th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user568017 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It is accurate, secure and stable.
Anything that can basically reduce the amount of time that the guys spend working on a specific problem or task. There is always room for improvement that can be in terms of functionality, cost of market, ease of use, training of the product and so on. If it brings functionality into the solution, that would be good. I'll leave it at that because there's so much that they can offer, it's unreal.
UA
Enterprise Solutions & Services Head at Duroob Technology
A fairly stable solution that’s highly mature, but has a poor user interface
The solution does not align as modern service solutions do. Seamless integration is no available among the processes. Their service management application needs a lot of work. It’s in a really bad state right now. They brought on a new interface that clumped all the processes and features of the solution into one. Still, it’s not really compatible with other solutions. Because of this, its rating has dropped in Gardner. The solution needs to improve its reporting features. The user interface needs a lot of improvements. The product needs to implement a cloud platform solution, which is lacking so far. Their workflow engine is still segregated. It’s not embedded. If you need to do some workflow approvals, you cannot do them directly on the service desk. You have to go into Outlook and do an approval or you have to go in through another screen to handle the approval because the workflow engine they have is a separate product.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We can provide a rollout in two to four weeks from customer engagement to production use."
"Our users have traditionally been slow to adopt new systems, and in the past have not raised requests in our previous ITSM systems, but when we launched Service Anywhere to our staff we found they instantly adopted it, and the number of requests handled through the system has almost completely replaced other methods, allowing us to shut down several email addresses and have our staff use one single point of contact in Service Anywhere."
"For me, it saves time; it is accurate, secure, and reduces overhead cost."
"We chose Service Anywhere because it provides a cost effective pricing model, was quick to implement, and provided a good end user experience."
"Within the target domain, I think Service Anywhere is a good product with a good feature set."
"We've got faster time for our agents to open tickets, they find the screens really easy to use, and they're pre-populated with information about our users which our old system didn't have."
"If ITIL adoption is important, then this would be the product as it is cloud based, quick, cost-effective, and easy to implement."
"Now, our customer has a flow chart to maintain requests, and the service desk has got good feedback from the customer."
"The support is pretty good, the follow up is great; it is 24 hours, so that’s been useful, and it has a good escalation path, which is essential."
"Essential service management solution all in one, like 100- for service request, 200- for change request, 300- for incidents, 400- for problems."
"It provides us with a very easy and flexible UI for CA Nimsoft Service Desk 7."
"CA Technologies support is excellent."
"The ability to add Additional Information Screens on the fly."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily create service catalogues for our customers, something that we didn't have previously with the other tool we were using, which was SDM."
"It’s provided self-service and automation, notifications, and reporting, and it’s good on a day-to-day and macro perspective."
"This is really easy solution to scale up and get get going to add new catalog items."
 

Cons

"One area that needs improvement is the means of moving code from the development to production environment."
"Customer service is 3/10 as it has a lot of scope for improvement."
"Typically in the customers that we work with it's not a product that offers enough flexibility to support their needs."
"They're terrible as there was just a lack of response. We had to go through other avenues to get responses from the first level support."
"However, this application won't be enough for us."
"Reporting is a challenge. We're working out how we can effectively report on what's going on."
"We had some teething problems with Dev tenant export to production tenant import."
"Technical support is okay. They have a large customer base so the technical support is not quite the same as the on-premises solution."
"The deployment was very difficult to handle. It's an unnecessarily difficult process that requires third-party assistance to do correctly."
"This is not appropriate for a small or even a medium-sized business. Too much overhead for a small company."
"Flexibility to customize."
"We have been seeing a little bit of latency here and there, but we haven't been able to identify it."
"When tickets are closed occasionally, it is quite hard to reopen it, which will cause lost-tickets."
"The solution needs to improve its reporting features. The user interface needs a lot of improvements."
"I would love to see better two-factor authentication as that would really help us and make a big difference."
"Their service management application needs a lot of work."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Religious Institution
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
 

Also Known As

HPE Service Anywhere
Serviceaide ISM (Intelligent Service Management), Nimsoft Service Desk, CA Cloud Service Management , ChangeGear
 

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Sample Customers

·         United Airlines·         America First Credit Union·         AerLingus·         PointClick Care·         Faro Europe GmbH·         The Hutton Institute·         Tunise Electronique
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