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- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Great for the budding IT - Requires some knowledge
Pros
I loved this software, once you got beyond the intial setup, it made ticket creations, assignment, and conclusion very easy.
Clients loved being able to create tickets for issues rather than having to pick up a phone, text, or send an e-mail in hopes someone responds. Now they can quickly check the status of a ticket, add notes/screenshots, see response times, and know when work has been completed.
Customer support was very helpful, even on the free version to any questions I had.
Cons
Setup. Oh boy setup. This software requires a few hours of initial setup time, web server configuration, and an idea of how you want your workflow to happen.
You'll need to provide clients with a small tutorial on how to use it, but once you get over that hurdle it's easy going.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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My Personal Experience With SysAid ITSM TOOL and CMDB
SysAid Asset management tool has been able to resolve most part of our audit issues and it has been a good news to management. However, it is still required to resolve the prominent issue of file/application configuration monitoring.
Pros
The integration with current business process has been easy. The product is easy to implement as long as the prerequisite is met. I like the fact that assets discovered can also display the propriety software installed on them as well as alert on the software changes.
Cons
I believe the CI relations can be improved by automating it (Reference AppDynamics). A report can also be built for the articles which are mostly read in a week or month. More Analytical Asset dashboards can also be developed for Management use. The capability to monitor file content and folder content changes must be implemented (This is an ISO requirement which will satisfy audit issues)
Alternatives Considered
ServiceNowReasons for Choosing SysAid
Cost and SysAid promise of meeting our CMDB requirementSwitched From
RemedyforceReasons for Switching to SysAid
Cost and SysAid promise of meeting our CMDB requirement- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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SysAid review, from an admin user and implementer of SysAid
Overall experience has been great, really like the customisation available and SysAid's willingness to work with us to make their product better. Since moving to SysAid, they have released many updates to their software at our request. The partnership is one of the main reasons we like SysAid so much.
Pros
The self service portal has been greatly received within the business, however, this is likely due to SysAid offering great options and configurations, as well as automation when it comes to the Self Service Portal. I have worked with a few similar tools, and SysAid offers the best in this area in my opinion. The support from the SysAid team has also been excellent, we are still improving and adding new features and the team have been supporting us at every step.
Cons
The software is not the most advanced when it comes to integrations with Azure/O365. However, support have been quick to release fixes or deploy new features.
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- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Behind the times.
A haphazard ticket system that sometimes works better then nothing at all.
Pros
I like that you can make quick keys for EU's to access Web-Portal. I like the customization of tickets, assets and EU portals (once you can figure them out). I love the Language Configuration Text file you can use to make it totally your own. LDAP integration is a total dream come true.
Cons
Customer service is HORRID! To the point of complaints have to go to CEO of SysAid and had to have HER get on the phone with us. Mobile apps for Android and Now iOS are broken or severely limited functionality and VERY outdated compared to other ITSM's apps. RDS never works correctly. Assets have never fully populated, even though all our systems have agents and services enabled correctly. SNMP devices are atrocious to get to populate and forget monitoring... You have to have a degree in Theoretical Physics near to find the OID's and a dedicated systems analyst to research them and keep them updated.
Dashboard has disappeared and can't get it to return, let alone ever work. The entire interface is clunky and looks like it was written when XP was in it's prime. WMI Scans are pointless as you can't do anything with the results of those found devices. Small to Medium business would be better off with Spiceworks IMHO.
Response from SysAid Technologies
Thank you for your honest feedback.
We understand that life is not always perfect, but we want to have open communication with our customers to keep improving.
Sometimes, our CEO jumps on welcome calls with clients, and personally introduces herself. You happened to be on such a call.
To answer your issues:
Mobile apps - We¿ve been working on new apps for the past few months and are currently releasing them to the App Stores. The iPhone app is available and adopted to iOS 11, and a new Android app is currently being uploaded.
Agents and asset management - We¿re working on a better user experience to deploy and manage agents and are constantly introducing updates.
Product interface - We just released a new user experience for end users in our Self-Service Portal and are currently upgrading the admin user interface. Take a look at the new Self-Service Portal, to view the new UI we¿re releasing.
Your account manager will contact you tomorrow to make sure your issues are addressed
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Sysaid, the Tool to Bridge Customer and Support Gap
Overall, the product is great, aside minor issues, these issues when raised with support, they immediately assist and resolve immediately.
Pros
This is a really easy to use product, easily navigatable and pleasing to the eye interface
Cons
As an administrator, we experience lags that throw our tickets out of order, although set parameters have not been touched or changed
Reasons for Choosing SysAid
The remedy product no longer served our purpose as a growing businessReasons for Switching to SysAid
The ease of use, and also the price as well as its ability to meet majority of the company's needs- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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The Impact of SysAid
My overall experience on SysAid has been awesome, however, there are some challenges been faced
during usage. If one is not technically sound, it will be difficult to manage as an Administrator without the consent of
the professional support, but however, there is a user-guide to help.
Pros
The features I like most about the software is the Advanced reporting, It helps
to give detailed reports about your ticketing system as a whole,location-wise, computer assets, service
been used mostly etc. It also gives room to have full control as desired.
Cons
The Features that should be improved is unable to filter the customized field which is the most
the critical feature that is important.
For instance, when an additional feature is created manually separate from the original features,
it is difficult to filter. for the implementation to take place, it will fee for a professional
support as it is concluded as a project.
Reasons for Choosing SysAid
It was switched because there are some features required for the operation which is not available.Switched From
SpiceworksReasons for Switching to SysAid
We chose SysAid over Spiceworks, because it contains more features.- Industry: Medical Devices
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Not the bigest name but a full featured surprisingly good solution
I have nothing negative to say about them. Our account manager has been excellent. As far as I can remember, we have had no outages during the last 2 years. If you are looking for an ITSM solution, at least give them a try, you might be pleasantly surprised.
Pros
Due to the help offered by Sysaid, it was easy to get the solution configured to our needs. If needed, we could have given them our requirements and they would have configured it for us. I like to learn a solution by doing the config myself, so just relied on them to point me in the right direction as and when needed. I didn't need a lot of help during the initial setup, but when I reached out to them, the service was always excellent. On the surface it looks quite simple but when you dig into the admin settings, it has a lot of powerful features that make it very customizable.
Cons
Rendering email in the ticket was clumsy but has improved recently. It is perfectly useable but others do it better.
Alternatives Considered
ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus MSPReasons for Switching to SysAid
We already use MESD in other areas of the company and we needed a SaaS solution. The MSP version wasn't available as SaaS. Having said that, we might still have chosen Sysaid even if it was.- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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SYSAID is a great ITSM Tool comparable to any other global tool but really great value for...
We have been using SYSAID since 2012. It was easy to implement and roll out to the business. Today even our [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] uses SYSAID to log tickets for issues.
Pros
Ease of use and setup with Asset management/Projects modules which are easy to use
Cons
The reporting tool exports to Excel 2003 format. needs updating to Excel 2016 or higher
Alternatives Considered
Zendesk SuiteReasons for Choosing SysAid
Cumbersome, slow, unusable and not user friendlyReasons for Switching to SysAid
Cost and as its based out of Europe, No VAT to pay giving a huge cost saving.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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SysAid Review
We have tracking capability with SysAid that we never had before. We are able to better route our service requests to the correct team for quicker response. We have better ability to tier our help desk services. We have the capability of tracking hardware and software assets and maintaining an ITIL CMDB.
Pros
Includes an asset management system and CMDB, modern interface for end-users and administrators, excellent sales and technical support.
Cons
Workflow management is a little outdated and has a bit of a learning curve.
Alternatives Considered
Jitbit HelpdeskReasons for Choosing SysAid
Lack of capabilities in tracking, tiering, asset management, and CMDB.Switched From
Jitbit HelpdeskReasons for Switching to SysAid
Price and capability.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Our everyday with SysAid
I have been very enrolled on the use of this software since day one. First as an user, then as an admin, then as the one in charge of support and maintain it. It has been easy to be involved on all the stages and the communication with the Support team, has been also a key for the success we have.
Pros
It is easy to use. No need to be doing tedious installations, and is very reliable. We use it every day, around the globe, and we don't have issues with time zones or sync.
Cons
What I have used so far has benn great. We need to continue to implement all the features on it.
Alternatives Considered
ServiceNowReasons for Switching to SysAid
Price and it offers all what we were looking for.- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Make you job easy
I love this product, I use it daily and it brings control to managing your Network. the support is fantastic and SysAid really wants you to use there software to the fullest extent with there training and support they have never left me down
Pros
Sysaid is a one shop stop for managing users and computer in you organization. from inventory, helpdesk, patch management and remote control. SysAid can not be beat
Cons
I really have nothing bad to say about the product, I am very satisfied
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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SysAid the ITSM that you need.
We are using it for Ticket management, Self Service Knowledge base, Asset Management, Patch Management and reporting.
Pros
SysAid Ticket management are completely customizable to fit our business needs.
Asset Management gives complete visibility into assets across the organization and reporting
The Self Service Portal is extremely user friendly and cuts down on the amount of tickets that actually make it into the que.
Active Directory integration is fantastic.
Cons
The integrated remote control piece works but we miss some features of a more robust product.
Alternatives Considered
ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, Freshdesk, SolarWinds Service Desk, Kaseya VSA, Track-It!, JIRA Service Management, ServiceNow and ConfluenceReasons for Switching to SysAid
SysAid was one application that we looked into that provided us the "Single Pain of Glass" with all the needed features in one easy to use cloud based application.- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Great Help Desk management system
SysAid team is great! they are very responsive and always there to help.
Pros
Ease of use. Workflow capabilities are great. Easy to setup new groups, categories, ect.
Cons
Reporting functions are getting better but still in progress.
Alternatives Considered
InvGate Service DeskReasons for Choosing SysAid
Needed something globalSwitched From
Microsoft SharePointReasons for Switching to SysAid
People and easier configuration- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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A great IT service management tool
for years we needed to get KPI's based on the support workload for the IT team, now we can have them with sysaid
Pros
easy to use tool for end users, and capabilities for reporting services
Cons
very restricted directly access to database.
Reasons for Choosing SysAid
cloud serviceSwitched From
GLPiReasons for Switching to SysAid
Cost of implementation- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Easy to Use and Easy to Modify for your needs
HIGHLY recommend it. There is flashier looking packages on the market, that DO NOT perform as well and definitely not for the price. And I feel none hold a candle to the support and effort to be even better DAILY than SYSAID.
Pros
I have been using SYSAID for 15+ years. I find it is very easy to understand and use. It is highly customizable without the need for complex interactions or training from SYSAID. THE SUPPORT from SYSAID is far beyond any other Vendor I have dealt with in 35+ years of IT work.
Cons
Some features advertised fall a little short of what you may expect but always meet what they say..The Ever evolving product sometimes creates an expectation that just doesn't quite reach the level I am expecting

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Exceptional Customer Support & Powerful Service Desk
First off let me start off with saying that we've have had our issues with SysAid over the years but SysAid has improved leaps and bounds since we decided to go with them and I'm glad we stuck with them despite the issues.
We first rolled SysAid out locally and have since migrated to their cloud edition. We utilize almost all of the features offered by SysAid.
****LIKES MOST****
-Features: Incredibly powerful and feature rich service desk. If locally hosted you can control virtually every aspect of the service desk and customize it to your liking. -Customer Support: Amazing customer support and online community. You can tell the team behind SysAid is passionate about their product. -Price: Comparatively speaking SysAid is equal or lower in annual cost to operate (we use the Cloud edition). -Reporting: MUCH improved reporting. -Asset Management: Possibly my favorite feature. SysAid will scan my network and add assets to my service desk. SysAid will alert me when certain events occur with the asset and keep my assets up-to-date.
****LIKES LEAST****
- Lack of integration with third party applications however SysAid is currently working on this. - Ease of use: SysAid is packed full of functionality and it can be a little intimidating or difficult to get setup however the online help and online community make things a much easier. - Lack of high-level, customizable dashboards which are common with other service desks. - Lack of email response integration which is common with other service desks. SysAid does integrate with email servers however for email responses to link to the ticket the message must be generated using the messaging system within the service desk. Communication with the end user via an email client will not tie back to the service desk ticket.
Response from SysAid Technologies
Hi Jon,
Thank you for your honest feedback- it's extremely valuable to us. I know that your account manager has since been in touch with you to ensure that you're familiar with all of SysAid's customization options in the cloud- which are identical to those offered in the locally-hosted (on-premise) solution.
You mentioned that you could benefit from a high-level dashboard, so I'm hoping that you've now had a chance to check out SysAid's new BI Analytics module- just released in January 2016. This is an out-of-the-box BI tool powered by Qlik and now built in to SysAid, that will save our customers enormous time and resources on obtaining critical data. Thank you again for all of your comments!
Kim.
- Industry: Information Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Not bad, but less than expected
Pros
If you come from XLS or a homemade ITSM took, this software does the job. It integrates with AD and the user portal is simple enough.
Cons
Overall the management of the tool is not very friendly. The design and configuration of the workflows is conversom. The management reporting is old looking and can't be configured as you like. For instance, you are limited to six indicators for the management panel and you only can pick the indicators available in the shapes presented. It has simple things that are very anoying, such as the filters in the lists that stay with you from session to session and can´t be removed with one click. Migrating incidents to problems is not easy. Managing Massive incidents is less than intuitive, navigation between tkts is not great, but perhaps the worst is that admins and users can not be grouped together.
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Sysaid is a good Service Desk ticketing System. Although it misses a good user interface.
Pros
Good ticketting system with Incidents, Request, change and problem Classification
Workflow templates.
Cons
Complex.
Poor end user portal for KB and Service Request follow up.
Poor search functionality.
Old UI with old text editors. Does not evolve with contemporary new media needs.
Not implementable as a cross business Service Record tool. Only usable by ICT departement. Too complex to implement over different departments like Facilities, HR, QESH, Fleet.
Response from SysAid Technologies
Hey Ken, many thanks for sharing your positive thoughts on our workflow templates and ticketing/incident systems. And thank you as well for the constructive feedback about our interface.
In our Summer 17 edition, we launched our new & improved Self-Service Portal, including a modern HTML5-based interface, together with advanced search capabilities and the option to customize brand with no coding skills required. This self-service portal also simplifies the ability to implement over different departments and we're in the process of upgrading the user interface of admins as well. We will continue to make more improvements so stay tuned and thanks again for sharing your thoughts!
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Great software and great service
Fantastic, easy from 1st quote to implementation.
Pros
Out of the box features are excellent and the system is very easy to configure.
Cons
Some of the features are clearly still a work in progress but rate of development seems good.
Alternatives Considered
BMC Helix ITSMReasons for Choosing SysAid
Remedy was to rigid and to expensive.Reasons for Switching to SysAid
More closely meet our requirements.- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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SysAid Helpdesk Tool
SysAid has helped in automation of processes, especially the IT helpdesk. Top benefit is in the area of support ticket management.
Pros
The features most impactful are the Incident management, Request management, and Problem management. I am able to create workflows and automate several other departmental workflows such that paper works are drastically reduced. Product is easy to use. And integration with my existing business process was seamless.
Cons
Creation of custom fields does not allow you to create a label for read only. All fields require updates!
- Industry: Packaging & Containers
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Takes a bit to get used to, but really powerful after that
We needed something to track our issues and requests and since I've used SysAid for 3 years before and only had good experience with it we decided to go with it.
Pros
- Helpdesk / Servicemanagement: The helpdesk is great and really easy to use (for admins and end users).
- Asset management: The assetmanagement is really detailed. The deployment can be a bit annoying in the beginning but once you've learned how to do it, it just works I really like the login history for PCs with the SysAid agent.
- Customizeable: Almost every page in SysAid is customizeable. If you don't like a field in a ticket or asset, just remove it.
- Self service portal: The new Self service portal HTML5 UI for end users is beautiful and scales well.
Cons
- Admin UI: While the admin UI is really customizeable, it's also really old and just doesn't feel right (to me) anymore. SysAid just revealed their new HTML5 UI for admins (early 2019) but since we're still on the legacy UI I've decided to put it in here.
- Knowledgbase: The knowledgebase popup window looks really old aswell, especially if you open it from the new SSP UI. It's also just a bit weird to use, especially the HTML editor is a real annoyance for me.
- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Full featured Helpdesk Software with outstanding user support
We finally are catching the sense of what is going on in our department (tickets, requests, problems), manage our knowledge base, and have some automatic rules to reply and close unanswered tickets. Also reports are a valid asset.
Pros
this israel based company has done a great job by putting out - and constantly enriching - a full featured ITIL based help desk software which covers with various modules (Help Desk, asset management, workflows) most of the daily routines of an IT department. there are many products out there in this category, what I here like the most is the aggressive user support which Sysaid offers: their team is really keen on solving each single issue you might have. they use their product for their own processes - of course - and they are highly motivated.
Cons
the user interface is being rewritten and is more modern now with the latest release. we did not apply it yet but plan to do so soon. certain rules and forms can be complex to manage, a good implementation at the beginning is mandatory. unfortunately there is nobody with know how in our country, the setup has to be performed mostly remotely which can be a bit of an effort.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Solid Helopdesk Soultion
I have always had a good experience with SysAid. We used the on-premise product for 9 years, and recently migrated to the cloud. The process was seamless. Support was awesome.
Pros
SysAid is simple to setup and manage. Support is friendly and knowledgeable. Reporting is easy.
Cons
FAQ section could be improved upon, feels outdated.
Alternatives Considered
Zendesk SuiteReasons for Switching to SysAid
Useability.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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SysAid Review
Being able to manage over 500 customers using the tool has made this a key tool for our organization.
Pros
What i liked moved is the incident and problem management features within SysAid.
Cons
The reporting capabilities and self-service portal can use an evolution.
Alternatives Considered
ServiceNowReasons for Switching to SysAid
Provided better value for the investment.- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Sysaid is a very good application for IT Support Team
Pros
- Routing
- Custom templates
- LDAP integration
- Self Service Portal
Cons
Custom fields not integrated easily on form in the self service portal once ticket is submitted
Too many details for the assets part