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Construction, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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We are able to use it to run the Service Desk, but only just. We plan to change to ServiceNow, a much better product at the same price range.
It technically hits all the bases of ITIL ITSM ticket management. Users can create, assign, and escalate tickets. Some features like "split" and "merge" are a great addition.
It falls frustratingly short in some places. Ticket notification emails can't be stopped or recipients changed, leading sometimes to mailer daemon autoreplies re-opening tickets when they are resolved. The only way to fix this is for the admin to delete the ticket. Searching is also frustratingly basic; it would be nice to be able to see a user's ticket record.
Hello, Greetings from ManageEngine! We're sorry that you've had an irksome experience with our products. The product you've reviewed for is ManageEngine Desktop Central, but sadly the feedback holds good for another ManageEngine product, ServiceDesk Plus that has been integrated with Desktop Central. However, kindly reach out to sdpsupport@manageengine.com for issues pertaining to ServiceDesk...
Faizhal K.
E-Learning, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Beneficial
Easy to use and have control over my end user system now
Need to include more features to control
Arjun A.
Information Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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nice
Very nice app , but can you polease tell me why
Good app for local setup ....and as a security endpoint
Hello Arjun, Greetings from ManageEngine! We're glad that you like the multifariousness of Desktop Central. We hope our product has helped you with securing and managing your endpoints. Our product's scalability can be extended to managing local and remote offices, in addition to roaming users. If you require further assistance with the product features, do write to us at cms-eval@manageengine.com. Should you need any further information, please do not hesitate to write to us at desktopcentral-support@manageengine.com.
Wouter G.
Financial Services, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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the ease of use in all aspects, patch deployment, OS deployment, push configurations to endpoints
When there is something not working like expected, it could take some time for support to find the issue.
Eric L.
Education Management, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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I personally have been involved in multiple implementations of ITSM and computer management solutions. The product ok for what we use it for, but the support is abysmal.
The remote control and scan feature is intuitive and easy to use.
The support is absolutely non existent. We feel very much on our own in the implementation and integration with Service Desk plus. We have run in to multiple instances where the integration is incompatible or not working with no documentation regarding the issue. Manage Engine Support only knows how to configure Service Desk and when asked about Desktop Central has to route all inquiries to the Desktop Central team that doesn't appear to exist. Its unacceptable for a company to showcase integration while not explaining that they are very much two different products independent of any support. We currently have an issue where a fully updated version of Service Desk is incompatible with a fully updated Desktop Central version. Is there any communication internally?
Chris L.
Oil & Energy, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Overall the DC is a robust tool for Desktop Engineer like, i can carry out my Job as Desktop Support even in the times of Work From Home schedule.
Can easily provide remote assistance to users at this time of Pandemic.
The Tools/Task is not working. We wanted to do a Disk Clean up on our machines but it doesnt work.
Andrey O.
Government Relations, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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As automações que a ferramenta oferece, facilitam muito o trabalho. Várias ferramentas que economizam tempo e maximizam a produção.
A quantidade de atualizações é um pouco excessiva e não permitiram que utilizasse a licença atual para migrar para o ambiente Cloud da ManageEngine.
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Anonymous Reviewer
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Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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- ease of use - price vs Microsoft - funcitonality - frequent updates - quick instant chat support
No cons were added to this review
Hello, Greetings from ManageEngine! We're glad you like the multifariousness of Desktop Central. We hope our product has aced in helping you with endpoint management and security. We're happy to know that you haven't had any concerns with our product. If you require further assistance with the product, do write to us at cms-eval@manageengine.com. Should you need any further information, please do not hesitate to write to us at desktopcentral-support@manageengine.com.
Scott L.
E-Learning, self-employed
Used weekly for 2+ years
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Overall the experience has been great. As a teacher part-time at the local State College I turn all of my students on to this solution. This way the students can practice themselves maintaining their own updates.
I love the fact that even after installing just to review finding out I can manage my internal network of fewer than 25 devices for free.
I haven't been able to find anything that I don't like about the software.
Teresa P.
Legal Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Managing remotely of all users computer especially during this past year. I also used AD360
some features for remote management of computers....overall has been a great program especially for WFH
Anonymous Reviewer
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Automotive, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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The ability to perform updates and monitor updates is so easy. The ability to help our end users is great. We would need at least 3 more bodies if we were not using Desktop Central.
Support is sometime slow to respond. I do not have many cons.
Jerry S.
Construction, 201-500 employees
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I like the ease of patch management and software inventory.
agent deploy was slow in some instances to report. had a couple push installs that required uninstall/reinstall.
Sunil K.
Oil & Energy, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Nothing specific issue observed however suggest ManageEngine team to work on performance enhancement.
The options offered with the application and the products.
The app is easy to manage and implement in an it environment, features and functions are good and adequate.
David V.
Automotive, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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This is a great product, and can really help small Teams scale their support coverage
remote management and control over all of our domain and cloud based devices
All features are excellent! I can't name any features that are poor.
Patricio P.
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Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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It is fast, intuitive, easy to use, understandable, and the you don't need any big consultancy to implement it. It is everything there... plug and play.
It is developed using the common sense. Just when you think how could you do or make something... it's already there, cause someone already thought about that.
The logic of the distribution servers is not the best... but maybe the solution is put everything in the cloud.
Andy C.
Retail, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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It works really well. once you find what you like it just works and there are lots of features. The dashboard is great
Support can be a bit slow, and like MS products it can be a little differcult to find things
Robert C.
Public Safety, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Software is easy to enroll the device once profiles have been set up.
Android Applications do not auto-update when using the software for multi-app kiosk mode. Support is abismal when dealling with issues that are life safety. It took over 2 months of daily 1 hour update phone calls to find why tablets would not enroll. It kept being 2 more days for over 2 months. Ended having a developer working directly in our onsite hosted MDM instance for 16 hours to resolve the issue.
Anonymous Reviewer
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Computer Networking, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Es un producto muy completo para una organizacion tan como pequeña como grande
muy comodo de usar , muy flexible en todos aspectos y una seguridad para su organizacion
Fallas en conexiones remotes , aunque ha estado muy buenas actualizaciones
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Earl A.
Nonprofit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Support of my users in real time from my own desk.
Control of the desktop and Tech support rocks... Keep up the good work. Its what keeps us using the products by ManageEngine.
Step by step logging of workstation for tracing issues. Desktop Authority has a good system for that.
Hello Earl, Greetings from ManageEngine! We're glad you like the multifariousness of Desktop Central. We hope our product has aced in helping you with endpoint management and security. If you require further assistance with the product, do write to us at cms-eval@manageengine.com. Should you need any further information, please do not hesitate to write to us at desktopcentral-support@manageengine.com.
Steven G.
Insurance, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Patching and Remote Tools - allows us to support our equipment well
Patch Management - Would like to have the ability to create groups of devices and manually deploy based on patch assignments. this would allow for quick ability to deploy patches to multiple items, but still have the agility to control when patch goes out
Joseph G.
Government Administration, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Great, easy , quick.
Easy to use, quick config, saves a lot of operational time.
looking for items takes a few try's to find which menu it is in.
John M.
Education Management, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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It's been a positive experience thus far, we are testing new features to ensure all are needs are met.
The ease of use and deployment of the software.
You have to write a program for some features, but your support person will be willing to help.
Nuno O.
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Machinery, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Great application that makes me gain time to implement new solutions and keep the company safe. In less than an hour the solution is implemented and ready to go.
Simplicity and the free 25 users licence.
Not in Portuguese language
Hello Nuno, Greetings from ManageEngine! We're glad you like the multifariousness of Desktop Central. We hope our product has aced in helping you with endpoint management and security. We're happy to inform that our product is now available in Portuguese as well. If you require further assistance with the product, do write to us at cms-eval@manageengine.com. Should you need any further information, please do not hesitate to write to us at desktopcentral-support@manageengine.com.
kvv s.
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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we can deploy our software at a time
remote desktop and patchmanagement, and software deployment
easy to manage network systems and deploy softwares and patch management and computer management
Brandon S.
Construction, 51-200 employees
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Desktop Central allows us to maintain current PC inventory and patch policy compliance, without interrupting our customers.
Cloud subscription model: Excellent product for managing remote PCs. Allows Admins to monitor and diagnose several feature sets without interrupting end users productivity. HDD space, Connected Devices, ect.
No custom items other than pcs may be managed or inventoried, that's an entirely separate Zoho product. It would be nice to be able to enter data manually for printers, switches and other products for an AIO inventory solution. Also, navigation is a bit clunky / counter intuitive. To get to certain options or functions you must interact in very specific ways in the sub menus.