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Great Incident Management Software, with all the Features, great value for money.
Stable incident management software with all features needed, excellent value for money.

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Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Great Incident Management Software, with all the Features, great value for money

Reviewed 6 years ago

Stable incident management software with all features needed, excellent value for money.

Pros

Easy to get OTRS installed and running, lots of Features in Open Source. Ideal for situations when you need an incident management tool fast. Software runs perfectly stable in Linux, running it on a Windows Server is possible but not recommended. We tried and ran into performance issues.

Cons

User Interface isn't very modern and easy to use. OTRS does not run efficiently on Windows Servers.

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Thank you for taking time to review. We appreciate your feedback.

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Jorge C.

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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OTRS one of the best ticket management system for IT Teams

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

OTRS is a powerfull and complete tool to help IT engenieers to assist customers and internal enterprise clients.

Cons

May be the price and the features associated with no commercial versions, Other software with community editions has more options and other kind of level prices for small business.

Vendor response

Thanks for the review, Jorge. It sounds like you're using ((OTRS)) Community Edition. If you're interested in the commercial versions, they fall under the OTRS name specifically and information is available at OTRS.com. Appreciate you taking the time to review.

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Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Easy and Robust Software - Economical Ticketing Solution for any Organization

Reviewed 6 years ago

Cost effective Ticketing Software .

Pros

This is an open source application and exactly the reason why we love it in our company. When every year the management cuts our budget, OTRS is a tool where we don't have too spend to much to get great features and also use it to address tickets and eventually delight our customers

Cons

Vendor Support is something that I would expect to be a little better. For some changes they charge a lot

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Thank you for your review. We appreciate the feedback.

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Sander G.

Government Relations, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Very flexible system - easier to use than to configure

Reviewed 6 years ago

It helps us to administer our support tickets and create FAQ articles for them.

Pros

The ease of use and flexibility are very valuable. Also it's open source and you can run it yourself would you wish to do so.

Cons

Interfacing with other systems is, out of the box, rather limited. You could build it yourself though. Managed hosting by OTRS is very expensive for teams with just a few members.

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Used daily for 2+ years

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Used extensively for the past 10 years

Reviewed 6 years ago

Cheap effective solution for handling incoming client requests.

Pros

Open source. Not the most visually appealing software but it allowed us to break down our queue system based on user requirements with ease.

Cons

Written like an older program. A lot of the functionality is not next gen ready and it sorely lacks vs newer systems.

Vendor response

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We appreciate the review.

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Rajesh M.

Information Technology and Services,

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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A Very Economical Ticketing Tool

Reviewed 8 years ago

This product is using from 3 years.We started from a trial version and later customized to meet our requirements.Its meeting almost all requirements,compared with highly paid other tolls.The major advantages are the unlimited number of agents and customers can create in this. We could develop all the required features in this and happy with the product.

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Omar S.

Higher Education,

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Opensource framework with modern front-end and perl backend

Reviewed 7 years ago

Low-cost, scalabale solution that could handle multiple trouble ticket queues within one software context.

Pros

Highly customizable. Perl backend "makes sense" and isn't opaque like some designs. It runs as a set of CGI, so that allows it to be wedged into most any webserver environment. We found it simple to run within an Apache / Linux environment.

Cons

The CGI-based design is relatively inefficient and can be sluggish without making some optimizations on the webserver side -- mod_perl in our case (relatively complicated). Docs are a bit sparse, though customer service is responsive.

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Thanks for taking time to share your experience, Omar.

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Samuel D.

Government Administration, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend2/10

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Good, but the community version was discontinued

Reviewed 5 years ago

My experience was good, but since there is no community version anymore I'm moving to another one.

Pros

No pros anymore as OTRS AG has discontinued the community (free) version. Version 6 will be the last free version.

Cons

Since there is no community version anymore, business version (commercial) is expensive and lack a lot of features when compared to some newer players.

Vendor response

Thank you for taking time to share your review. I do want to mention that, while we have made some changes to when ((OTRS)) Community Edition updates are released, it hasn't been discontinued. It's available at https://community.otrs.com/. Much appreciate the feedback.

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Georges A.

Telecommunications, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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With ITSM awareness and maturity, OTRS can be successfully adopted and adapted.

Reviewed 6 years ago

Organize and Improve Desk and Operation functions. The value and level of services delivered by our department/team is better understood internally. Customer expectation is managed properly, therefore leading to improvements in customer experience.

Pros

Adaptability to agents organization and processes. ITIL orientation for ops processes and inclusion of Configuration and Knowledge management.

Cons

Ticket to C.I. links can be better clarified and improved (impact of the relationship) C.I. Features on Customer portal (e.g. missing search function, latency to refresh large CMDB)

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Malcolm B.

Textiles, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Brilliant consultants and best value Helpdesk we have ever used. Highly recommended.

Reviewed 6 years ago

Helps to control helpdesk and service functions across our organisation

Pros

Highly robust, runs on All popular platforms like windows server, Linux etc Light to client performs really well over LAN and WAN Excellent value for money compared to other products in its category

Cons

Requires some Training in order to tweak any of the under the hood features Generating reports is a little weak compared to leading industry products

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I think our consultants would be thrilled by your review. Thank you for taking time to write in and share your thoughts.

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Valerie B.

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Advanced customer service management application

Reviewed 10 months ago

We have been able to automate workflow processes and improve service delivery to our customers. OTRS has minimized cost of operations and boosted productivity from all the departments.

Pros

OTRS has been the primary unit for setting efficient customer service delivery system. It has created reliable collaboration infrastructure for better employee engagement.

Cons

The quality of service and feature functionalities have complied with our policies.

Vendor response

Customers play such an important part in our work - glad to hear that OTRS is supporting you well as you deliver service. Appreciate you taking time to write.

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Rene B.

Chemicals, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend3/10

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There are better Systems

Reviewed 8 months ago

We changed to Aagon ACMP and are pretty happy with it.

Pros

It is pretty cheap and does what is intended for.

Cons

not very flexible. many aspects are missing.

Vendor response

Thank you for the candid response. It sounds as though OTRS did not match well with your use case. Glad to hear you've found a solution that works for you.

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Govinda R.

Information Technology and Services, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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OTRS has outstanding functionalities, usability

Reviewed 7 years ago

OTRS benefits are many : Integrated Business Features such as Chat and Ticket Timeline View. Free choice of exclusive features. Installation and configuration. Regular, free updates. ITIL compatible Service Management. Use OTRS Business Solution on your mobile devices

Pros

Low cost , usability and integration with multiple app is possible. Very user friendly. Definitely will have great cost saving post implementation.

Cons

Data encryption is not working correctly, same is tested by installing this module. Seems this error must have fixed by app development team.

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Soma B.

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Great Application and Great Features

Reviewed 6 years ago

Customer Satisfaction increased by 80%

Pros

We wanted to track tickets that come into the HR services and that's when we asked IT to get OTRS for us. Now its improved our Customer Satisfaction Scores by 80%

Cons

I could never find a Con in OTRS. Its not expensive easy to modify and quick. I love this Application

Vendor response

Wow! That's wonderful to hear, Soma. Thanks so much for letting us know and for taking time to send in a review.

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Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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customization makes easy issue tracking

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

can submit and track the customer queries easily and customization can be done as per the requirement. notes can be added and the owners can be assigned easily. SLAs can be set up for escalation

Cons

sometimes it is low in performance and when replied via email for an otrs sent request it creates another duplicated ticket.

Vendor response

Thanks for taking time to share your thoughts, and we're glad to hear that OTRS has been useful to you. I'll also share your comments with the rest of the team. Much appreciated.

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Abhishek K.

Accounting, 501-1,000 employees

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Powerful Tool for Ticket Management

Reviewed 10 months ago

Its Low cost and very Effective tool for Managing Customer service. Repoting and monitoring service is very Effective.

Pros

Its help to Create automation flow of Ticket Management. Its User-friendly. Finding and tracking issue made easy for resloving Issue.

Cons

Can't handle multiple ticket at same time its slow down or Crashed.

Vendor response

Thanks for taking time to share your insights, Abhishek. I'll share your feedback about the multiple tickets with the team too.

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Jerry P.

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Arcane and painful

Reviewed 8 years ago

I find OTRS to be deficient in many areas, but most especially in its administrative back end. Its installation and configuration is incredibly arcane; Its LDAP integration is a nightmare; and the documentation is more often then not vague, inaccurate, or flat out incorrect. It's upgradability is virtually null. A support contact with OTRS will buy you nothing more than a tech telling you (via email)...

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