Compare Samanage vs Vivantio vs ServiceDesk Plus

Software Description:

Samanage offers real cloud-based IT service desk and asset management software that helps companies govern their IT environment.
This service empowers organizations with an innovative ITSM platform that automates and simplifies their daily IT tasks.
Samanage is also the only ITSM solution that automatically pulls warranty information for all of the major hardware providers. Their clients can also go live operationally without any professional service support within minutes.

Software Description:

From simple incident management to full-enterprise ITSM, Vivantio empowers you to deliver service excellence to your entire organization.

Build your ideal service management environment in just a few simple steps with Vivantio:

• Elect a delivery method: SaaS or on-premise. We support both.
• Choose a licensing option: Named, concurrent or a mix of both. Our flexible licensing model allows you to give technicians the right level of access without blowing your budget out of the water.
• Pick a product: Browse the many available feature modules and deploy only those that make sense for your organization’s service needs.

Take a modular approach to building your service management vision – the right combination with Vivantio brings your ideal strategy to life.

Software Description:

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus is a help desk software and asset management tool. ServiceDesk Plus integrates your help desk requests and assets to allow you manage your IT in an effective way. The software helps you implement ITIL best practices and troubleshoot IT service requests faster.

Benefits:

• Access your help desk anytime, anywhere using ServiceDesk Plus iPhone app.
• Create SLA and provide quality services in time, to your end users
• Flexible knowledge base with an option to add unlimited KB articles and allows users to easily search the information
• Web based portal to submit service requests & Incidents.
• Restore normal service of operation quickly with the comprehensive incident management
• Eliminate the root cause effectively and put an end for firefighting of repetitive incidents.
• Discover every asset in your network with the efficient auto discovery options
• Provide structured and prompt handling of all changes in your IT infrastructure.
• With the new agent based scanning, you can access any system from the remote network, independent of their location.
• Showcase the offered IT services to your end user and give a new face to your IT.
• Scan your network and automatically discover all the software available in your organization
• Stay informed about your tickets and keep your technicians and end users up to date on the status of the tickets by email and sms.
• Manage your purchases right from the birth of the PO
• Auto assign feature distributes tickets based on the existing load on your technicians
• Manage Contracts with different vendors seamlessly
• Automatic email to ticket conversion using email commands
• ServiceDesk plus allows you to import users and their informations from Active directory and LDAP with a simple easy to use interface.
• Archive your old, unused data and improve your helpdesk performance.
• Support multiple sites and customize your configurations for every site according to their unique working procedure.
• Generate detailed reports about your Help desk performance & metrics.
• Automatically reset the password, by integrating the ticketing system with the Active Directory.
• Know the satisfaction level of your end users with the ServiceDesk Plus survey option.

Features:

• Dashboard
• Inventory Tracking
• Notifications
• Scheduling
• Task Scheduling/Tracking
• Analytics
• Billing/Invoicing
• Chat
• Customer Management
• Email Integration
• Social-Media Integration

Features:

• API
• Data Export
• Data Import
• Contact Sharing
• Email Integration
• External Integrations
• Scheduling
• Task Scheduling/Tracking
• Project Management
• Notifications
• Multi-User
• History/Version Control
• Gantt Charts
• Forecasting
• Batch Permissions & Access
• Calendar Management
• Contact Management
• Document Comparison
• 2-Factor Authentication
• Customer Management
• Dashboard
• Data Visualization
• File Sharing
• Inventory Tracking
• Firewall
• File Transfer
• Anti-Virus
• Third-Party Plugins/Add-Ons

Features:

• Expense Tracking
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Contact Management
• Google Apps Integration
• Chat
• File Sharing
• File Transfer
• Third-Party Plugins/Add-Ons
• Data Visualization
• Scheduling
• Calendar Management
• Dashboard
• Inventory Tracking
• External Integrations
• Customer Management
• Multi-User
• Project Management
• Notifications
• Data Export
• 2-Factor Authentication
• Email Integration
• Data Import
• API

Summary:

• IT Service Desk: Manages tickets and service requests, email integration of self-service portal.

• Self-Service Portal: Employees can resolve their issues independently.

• Contract Management: Tracking all contracts and software licences.

• IT Asset Management: Management of every asset in the organization.

• IT Service Catalog: Streamline available service requests and fulfillment processes.

• Risk Detection: Scans software and hardware continuously for all issues.

Summary:

• Flexible, reliable, trusted IT Service Management Software

• Built with ITIL standards at its core.

• Automation captures service data, tracks milestones and triggers meaningful action.

• Webhooks and APIs integrate Vivantio with core ITSM tools.

• Customizable self-help portals empower your customers and improve your service.

• Report on your true service team effort to highlight success and target areas of improvement.

Summary:

• Best practice ITSM workflows

• Powerful integrations with IT management apps

• Smart automations

• Extensive reporting capabilities

• Codeless customizations

• Deploy on cloud or on-premise

• Single sign on

• AD & LDAP synchronisation

• 95,000 customers across worldwide

• Over 10 years in the ITSM industry

Pricing:

• Credit card required: No

• Pricing on Request: Customers receive customized price quotes based on number of accepted services.

Pricing:

• Starting from: $40.00/month
• Credit card required: N/A

• Vivantio's pricing model is an annual subscription based on total number of users, types of licenses and functionality activated in the Platform. A free trial is available for a test-drive, upon request.

  Vivantio offers both named and concurrent licenses, and all customers may select to purchase any combination of both. A named license is allocated to a particular agent and cannot be shared. Concurrent licenses sit in a shared pool. Each time an agent logs in, they temporarily use up one license and when they log out, the license is returned to the pool for someone else to use.

  Your customers and end users don’t need licenses to use your self-service web portal.

  • Pricing starts at $40 per user, per month at the Essentials level, suited for small and medium-size service desk operations looking to increase efficiency.
  • Licenses at the Pro level start at $60 per user, per month and are designed to unify service operations with powerful core service management features.
  • Feature-rich Vivantio ITSM licenses start at $90 USD and are built to scale and meet the complex business needs of larger, multi-site organizations.

FAQs:

Who are the main user groups of this service?

• Main users are companies that employ between 100-3,000 people.

What is this service generally used for?

• This service is generally used for IT Asset Management.

What platforms does this service support?

• This service is web-based, and runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Mobile version works on any mobile device running iOS 4+, Android 2.1+, webOS 2, Windows Mobile, or BlackBerry 6, on mobile browser, without installing a native app.

What are some applications this service is commonly used in tandem with?

• Samanage is the most commonly used with: Google apps; Zendesk; OneLogin; Okta; Email clients etc.

Does this service integrate with any other apps?

• It integrates with over 200 cloud applications.

Does this service offer an API?

• Their REST API allows customers and developers to expand and build on the Samanage platform.

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• Samanage offers their clients following support services: FAQs, Forum, a Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials.

FAQs:

No FAQs associated with this application.

FAQs:

What are some applications this service is commonly used in tandem with?

• ServiceDesk Plus is commonly used in tandem with client device management tools, AD management tools like ManageEngine ADManager Plus, and other self-service password reset applications.

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• Yes, all relevant resources like admin guide, user guide, online user manuals, and best practice documents are available on our site. Customers can also avail 24->5 telephonic, community, mail, and live web support.

What is this service generally used for?

• ServiceDesk Plus is used to manage IT, support and deliver IT services to end users/employees of an organization.

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• Yes, ServiceDesk Plus offers multi-user capabilities to the IT technicians.

Does this service integrate with any other apps?

• Yes, it integrates with native IT management software from ManageEngine including ADManager Plus, ADSelfService Plus, OpManager, Desktop Central and Analytics Plus.

Does this service offer an API?

• Yes, ServiceDesk Plus offers Rest-API access.

Who are the main user groups of this service?

• ServiceDesk Plus is used by IT admins, and technicians who manage IT help desks in organizations.

What platforms does this service support?

• ServiceDesk Plus supports web-access and native mobile apps (Windows, iOS, and Android).

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Other:

• Startups
• SMEs
• Agencies
• Enterprises

• Web App

Other:

• Personal
• Freelance
• Startups
• SMEs
• Agencies
• Enterprises

• Web App
• Windows
• Macintosh

• iOS
• Android
• WinPhone
• Blackberry