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Helpdesk software for customer service management teams

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Lindson D.

Machinery,

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Its a great and efficient tool for someone in the service desk

Reviewed 6 years ago

We use it as our primary ticketing tool

Pros

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.

Cons

none actually. I've used other applications like Remedy, however I am more inclined to OTRS for now.

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Glad to hear that it's working for you, Lindson. We appreciate you taking time to share a review.

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Rosen R.

Airlines/Aviation, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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OTRS is one of the best ITSM tools that I've ever seen and I'm so happy seeing its development!

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

Incident management and request fulfillment processes are fully covered by the tool. It's highly customizable and very stable.

Cons

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.

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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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OTRS - Recommended Open source Ticketing System available in market

Reviewed 6 years ago

- Internal operational efficiencies - Improved business process agility - Improved business process outcomes - Improved customer relations/service

Pros

- 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.

Cons

- Need to create more UI themes , even though current are sufficient considering its free.

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

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Binu M.

Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Better than Remedy

Reviewed 6 years ago

Change Management and incidents are easy to manage with this tool

Pros

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

Cons

There are no cons that I can talk about. This product is as robust as remedy or any other ticketing system

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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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OTRS - Makes life easy

Reviewed 6 years ago

We can manage everything better with tools like OTRS so go give it a try. They offer free demo too.

Pros

- 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.

Cons

- 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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Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. We appreciate it.

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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.

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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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Francis T.

Consumer Goods, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Great to tailor to a good ITSM tool, after a first learning curve one can be efficient

Reviewed 6 years ago

Solid Incident management process rolled out

Pros

email inbound capabilities are great (maybe unique!) Easy to rollout, once you have a couple of basic admins, customising is quite powerful

Cons

Reporting is difficult to make work out of the box, SLA functionality complete only if you pay extra functionality

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Thanks for taking time to send in a review, Francis. We appreciate your thoughts.

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Michael L.

Consumer Services, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Great and Simple Ticketing Tool

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

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.

Cons

I did not find any cons regarding OTRS.

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Thanks for the feedback, Michael. We appreciate you taking the time.

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Carlo T.

Financial Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Very useful product

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

Easy ticket management, high product customization possibilities. Possibility to create many types of reports.

Cons

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.

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Thank you for your comments and feedback. Much appreciate it.

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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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Tom P.

Retail, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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OTRS helps our business to organise our customer contacts in a structured way!

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

OTRS has the ability to configure everything to your needs. Integration with other systems is very flexible via the webservices.

Cons

It would be nice to have more tools to import and export data e.g. service list or content for dynamic fields/lists

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Thanks for taking time to review OTRS, Tom. We appreciate the feedback.

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Dwipanita S.

Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Account Receivable Team is more efficient

Reviewed 6 years ago

Efficient tracking of requests in the form of tickets

Pros

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

Cons

I don't believe there are anything negative about OTRS. The display interface could be a little better

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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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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Decent Ticket Tracking Tool

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

The fact that OTRS is open source and free was a big draw. It was not terribly difficult to configure.

Cons

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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Thank you for taking time to share your thoughts.

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Bas P.

Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Best Ticketing Tool ever

Reviewed 6 years ago

Speed and efficiency

Pros

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

Cons

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

Vendor response

Thanks so much for the review, Bas. We appreciate the feedback and are glad that OTRS is working well for your team!

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Sujoy S.

Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Great App that can be used in any Sector

Reviewed 6 years ago

Customer responses are managed on time

Pros

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

Cons

The time it takes to configure small changes are too much, i feel. other than that, I don't think there are any Cons

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Thanks for the review, Sujoy. Glad to hear it's helping to manage SLAs.

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Soma B.

Used daily for 1-2 years

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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

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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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Pam S.

Hospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Awesome Ticketing Tool

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

I have been using this for the past 3 years. Just the easiest way to keep a track of customer feedback .

Cons

It slows down sometimes, but a reboot always works

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Thanks for taking time to review, Pam. Glad to hear it's going well for you.

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Georgi R.

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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OTRS review

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

Great amount of features and easy way to configure almost everything

Cons

It takes time to set up and configure till running state

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Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Georgi.

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Manjunath J.

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Great Tool to work with . Its easy and fast

Reviewed 6 years ago

We use this as our Primary Ticketing Tool.

Pros

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

Cons

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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Thanks for taking the time to write a review. We appreciate the feedback!

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Jackson P.

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Great Product and great Features

Reviewed 6 years ago

Efficiency

Pros

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

Cons

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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Thanks so much for your comments, Jackson. We appreciate you taking the time to write in.

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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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Nicola F.

Government Administration, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend2/10

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otrs/ vsv servicenow

Reviewed 2 years ago

si impalla continuamente ed è poco intuitivo va ricordato tutto a memoria

Pros

l'albero molto completo degli incident anche se poco intuitivo

Cons

l'apertura dei ticket e la stabilità online si impalla continuamente

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Thanks for your input, Nicola. We appreciate any and all feedback.

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stefano A.

Accounting, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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useful tool for customer support

Reviewed 8 months ago
Pros

it helps our business to manage customer interactions in a simple but effective way

Cons

i would like to have more tools to automate repetitive tasks

Vendor response

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/

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Simón Bernabé G.

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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It is a great software very useful in the IT department of an organization

Reviewed 6 years ago

Ease to handle the eventualities with the stations of work and telecommunications of the organization

Pros

It is very easy to use. It has a lot of flexibility you can use custom fields and can be integrated with other applications

Cons

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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Thank you for taking time to share your review of OTRS. We appreciate your thoughts and insights.

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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.