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Lindson D.
Machinery,
Used daily for 2+ years
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We use it as our primary ticketing tool
I love the way it can be customized to view all sort of information. We track Change requests and Incidents using OTRS. The best part is that it is OpenSource and the modification can be done easily and without shelling out a lot of money.
none actually. I've used other applications like Remedy, however I am more inclined to OTRS for now.
Glad to hear that it's working for you, Lindson. We appreciate you taking time to share a review.
Rosen R.
Airlines/Aviation, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Incident management and request fulfillment processes are fully covered by the tool. It's highly customizable and very stable.
There are two things: 1. Change management process is a little bit hard to implement; 2. The trend to go into the cloud. We're very conservative organization and we prefer to operate on-premise solutions.
Hi Rosen. Thank you for taking time to share your thoughts on OTRS. We appreciate you doing so and hearing about your experience with it.
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Logistics and Supply Chain, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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- Internal operational efficiencies - Improved business process agility - Improved business process outcomes - Improved customer relations/service
- Deeply Integrate & implements ITIL process - Reports on SLA / Open vs closed and any other business requirement can be easily configured - Tickets : Easy to create & Track, Group similar issue tickets - Workflow, Notification, Process flow automation can easily be configured with no to minimal effort.
- Need to create more UI themes , even though current are sufficient considering its free.
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Binu M.
Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Change Management and incidents are easy to manage with this tool
This is the only Open Source Ticketing tool that I have used and I should say I'm surprisingly impressed. The change management process flows are easily implemented and easily configured
There are no cons that I can talk about. This product is as robust as remedy or any other ticketing system
Hi Binu. We're glad to hear that the process workflows are helping out. Thanks for taking time to review OTRS.
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Telecommunications, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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We can manage everything better with tools like OTRS so go give it a try. They offer free demo too.
- OTRS allows you to keep track of your requirements and all the incidents in terms of tickets. There is no way you can lose something or miss something. With the help of SRX number you will find everything in few seconds. No matter how many years old, those records are. - You can customize your own process and according to you Ex – standard time to meet the SLA - The support team is available 24/7 for help and with every new update.
- I don’t like that feature of OTRS when on every single email it creates new ticket. Besides that, I honestly don’t have any complaints about OTRS.
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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.
Francis T.
Consumer Goods, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Solid Incident management process rolled out
email inbound capabilities are great (maybe unique!) Easy to rollout, once you have a couple of basic admins, customising is quite powerful
Reporting is difficult to make work out of the box, SLA functionality complete only if you pay extra functionality
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Michael L.
Consumer Services, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Our organisation has been using OTRS for years now and it has been great. We have implemented OTRS in our IT and Marketing Groups. IT related tickets gets tracked using OTRS and Customer emails are converted into tickets and addressed by the CRM and Marketing teams.
I did not find any cons regarding OTRS.
Thanks for the feedback, Michael. We appreciate you taking the time.
Carlo T.
Financial Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Easy ticket management, high product customization possibilities. Possibility to create many types of reports.
The CMDB section is just a container of information. It would be useful to have the ability to manage assets by setting thresholds on the age of the hardware to schedule the replacement.
Thank you for your comments and feedback. Much appreciate it.
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.
Tom P.
Retail, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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OTRS has the ability to configure everything to your needs. Integration with other systems is very flexible via the webservices.
It would be nice to have more tools to import and export data e.g. service list or content for dynamic fields/lists
Thanks for taking time to review OTRS, Tom. We appreciate the feedback.
Dwipanita S.
Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Efficient tracking of requests in the form of tickets
After we got this OTRS application setup, we were able to track all tickets that comes into our queue. We work on each ticket and make sure the SLA is in place. I've used remedy in the previous organisation, however this is the best
I don't believe there are anything negative about OTRS. The display interface could be a little better
Glad to hear that it's helped meet SLAs. Thanks for taking time to review OTRS.
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Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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The fact that OTRS is open source and free was a big draw. It was not terribly difficult to configure.
The reporting capabilities were lacking for the needs of my team. I would have liked to see better use of configurable dashboards and widgets.
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Bas P.
Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Speed and efficiency
My team use this everyday. Ever since we went live with this tool we were able to accomplish a lot. Incident tickets and Problem tickets are easy to track and manage
I can't think of any cons. This tool works well and the features are apt for our organization. Use it for a few days and you will get to know
Thanks so much for the review, Bas. We appreciate the feedback and are glad that OTRS is working well for your team!
Sujoy S.
Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Customer responses are managed on time
We got this implemented by our IT Team for us to monitor customer responses and it has been just great. All responses get converted into a ticket and we can manage it as per the SLA configured
The time it takes to configure small changes are too much, i feel. other than that, I don't think there are any Cons
Thanks for the review, Sujoy. Glad to hear it's helping to manage SLAs.
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.
Pam S.
Hospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I have been using this for the past 3 years. Just the easiest way to keep a track of customer feedback .
It slows down sometimes, but a reboot always works
Thanks for taking time to review, Pam. Glad to hear it's going well for you.
Georgi R.
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Great amount of features and easy way to configure almost everything
It takes time to set up and configure till running state
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Georgi.
Manjunath J.
Used daily for 1-2 years
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We use this as our Primary Ticketing Tool.
We use it on a regular basis and it helps us monitor tickets and work on them. It's absolutely essential for an ITIL based service desk
The GUI could be better. but that's nothing I'm complaining about. I like the speed at which we can change screens
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Jackson P.
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Efficiency
The ease of use and the way you can customize if easily. My team uses it daily. It is an absolute must for a service desk
It could have linking option better. It does a bit of time to link tickets and SOPs and FAQs. Otherwise it all fine.
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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.
Nicola F.
Government Administration, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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si impalla continuamente ed è poco intuitivo va ricordato tutto a memoria
l'albero molto completo degli incident anche se poco intuitivo
l'apertura dei ticket e la stabilità online si impalla continuamente
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stefano A.
Accounting, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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it helps our business to manage customer interactions in a simple but effective way
i would like to have more tools to automate repetitive tasks
Thanks for writing and glad to hear it's helped with customer support. It may help to explore process management in order to automate some of those tasks. Here's a link to the documentation: https://academy.otrs.com/doc/admin/processes-automation/
Simón Bernabé G.
Used weekly for 2+ years
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Ease to handle the eventualities with the stations of work and telecommunications of the organization
It is very easy to use. It has a lot of flexibility you can use custom fields and can be integrated with other applications
What I like least about this software is that it does not have a lot of documentation and sometimes it is usually a bit slow when the volume of information grows.
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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.