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OTRS
Helpdesk software for customer service management teams
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Used daily for 2+ years
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Stable incident management software with all features needed, excellent value for money.
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.
User Interface isn't very modern and easy to use. OTRS does not run efficiently on Windows Servers.
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Jorge C.
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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OTRS is a powerfull and complete tool to help IT engenieers to assist customers and internal enterprise clients.
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.
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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Cost effective Ticketing Software .
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
Vendor Support is something that I would expect to be a little better. For some changes they charge a lot
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Sander G.
Government Relations, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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It helps us to administer our support tickets and create FAQ articles for them.
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.
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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Cheap effective solution for handling incoming client requests.
Open source. Not the most visually appealing software but it allowed us to break down our queue system based on user requirements with ease.
Written like an older program. A lot of the functionality is not next gen ready and it sorely lacks vs newer systems.
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Rajesh M.
Information Technology and Services,
Used daily for 2+ years
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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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Low-cost, scalabale solution that could handle multiple trouble ticket queues within one software context.
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.
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.
Thanks for taking time to share your experience, Omar.
Samuel D.
Government Administration, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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My experience was good, but since there is no community version anymore I'm moving to another one.
No pros anymore as OTRS AG has discontinued the community (free) version. Version 6 will be the last free version.
Since there is no community version anymore, business version (commercial) is expensive and lack a lot of features when compared to some newer players.
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.
Georges A.
Telecommunications, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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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.
Adaptability to agents organization and processes. ITIL orientation for ops processes and inclusion of Configuration and Knowledge management.
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)
Malcolm B.
Textiles, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Helps to control helpdesk and service functions across our organisation
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
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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Valerie B.
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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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.
OTRS has been the primary unit for setting efficient customer service delivery system. It has created reliable collaboration infrastructure for better employee engagement.
The quality of service and feature functionalities have complied with our policies.
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.
Rene B.
Chemicals, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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We changed to Aagon ACMP and are pretty happy with it.
It is pretty cheap and does what is intended for.
not very flexible. many aspects are missing.
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.
Govinda R.
Information Technology and Services, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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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
Low cost , usability and integration with multiple app is possible. Very user friendly. Definitely will have great cost saving post implementation.
Data encryption is not working correctly, same is tested by installing this module. Seems this error must have fixed by app development team.
Soma B.
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Customer Satisfaction increased by 80%
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%
I could never find a Con in OTRS. Its not expensive easy to modify and quick. I love this Application
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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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
sometimes it is low in performance and when replied via email for an otrs sent request it creates another duplicated ticket.
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.
Abhishek K.
Accounting, 501-1,000 employees
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Its Low cost and very Effective tool for Managing Customer service. Repoting and monitoring service is very Effective.
Its help to Create automation flow of Ticket Management. Its User-friendly. Finding and tracking issue made easy for resloving Issue.
Can't handle multiple ticket at same time its slow down or Crashed.
Thanks for taking time to share your insights, Abhishek. I'll share your feedback about the multiple tickets with the team too.
Jerry P.
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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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