SCSM Reviews

The primary use is for administrative use. We use it for the reporting, deployment, and ITSM services. 

It is easy to download from the Microsoft site. And, if you wish you can do a download trial, and deploy in a virtual lab. It is easy to use. It is fairly user-friendly. 

There are a few bugs. I would definitely suggest that if the end user is a layman, he needs to be trained how to use the solution properly.

It is a stable product.

The scalability is a collaborative with SCOM, and SCSM. SCSM is a configuration manager for page and software development. You can see your systems which have been updated and it can easily deploy the new things as well. You can also see it is a collaborative operations manager and integration manager. Sometimes there are resource qualities that you gain in multiple services one point to another point.

In the past, I had to use tech support when I installed SCSM from a desktop and it would not open. I sent a ticket to  Microsoft and in around a half an hour, they replied to me and within 10-15 minutes, they resolved the issue. I t was fast and good service.

It is a lower price vs. other things on the market. 

The Separate Activity management module is really helpful in view of the complexity of the tasks (incidents and change requests) we perform daily.

There are several automated processes through the tool we perform (IM, SRF, CM, activity management). And the routine of emails, calls and verbal approaches are directed to the tool specially customized to our needs.

Improved time management, all the details logged (nothing missed), roles and responsibilities in tool are set according to policy/procedure.

Out-of-the-box SCSM Self-Service portal is almost useless. You can research third party products that will allow you to use more features of SCSM via a web self service portal as well.

Also, the lack of a mobile version is disappointing.

I've used it for approximately one year.

Sometimes the SCSM console on a FAT client hangs.

The number of console connections should be not 50 per management server (as per Microsoft advice) but less than 40 due to performance issues.

6/10 - the overall Microsoft technical support is surely higher, but taking into consideration that any incident that affects business continuity will take a week or to be solved because of a lack of SCSM experts severely takes something away.

I didn’t choose SCSM, but was forced to work with it.

Previously, I used two in-house developed tools, ManageEngine and CA Service Desk Manager.

We followed Microsoft's advice, and it was straightforward.

It was implemented in-house and the only valuable advise is to plan, again plan then do, check and then act. You need to know how many users, what roles, what services, SLAs, tiers, members, and distribution lists because SCSM works with AD DL`s for allocating roles.

Look around as there are a lot of better solutions!

My clients use it as a central management solution. 

It is a simple solution that is easy to configure. 

The product needs to improve its integration with other tools. It also needs to have a better UI and a simple dashboard. 

I have been working the product for ten years. 

The solution is stable and I would rate its stability an eight out of ten. 

I would rate the tool's scalability a seven out of ten. 

The product's setup is easy. I would rate the solution's setup a seven out of ten. The product's deployment took three days to complete.  

I would rate the product an eight out of ten. You need to keep your configuration simple.