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Vendor Landscape Plus: Help Desk Software Solutions

When the help desk needs a new hammer, how big should it be? Too big a hammer is unwieldy and difficult to use.

  • Getting started with a help desk that incorporates sophisticated service management processes.
  • This solution set will help you identify key criteria, provide vendor groups to select from, as well as selection tools and templates.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

  • Allowing vendors to lead demonstrations or influence selection criteria can lead to poor choices.
  • Free help desk software is good and should be used to eliminate home-grown solutions.
  • Over or under buying help desk features will diminish benefits and make implementation more difficult. 
  • Best of breed is dead. Several clients reported that, due to integration issues, best of breed implementations were impeding good service delivery.

Impact and Result

  • Avoided over buying or over spending on a help desk solution.
  • Satisfied enterprise service management software needs in facilities, human resources and finance.
  • Leveraged existing customer resource management (CRM) systems for service management.

Vendor Landscape Plus: Help Desk Software Solutions Research & Tools

1. Identify potential help desk software solutions and functionality needs.

Determine what help desk solutions and features are critical for your enterprise.

2. Compare help desk software solutions.

Identify a short list of help desk software solutions for your enterprise.

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Author

Russ Conwath

Search Code: 16610
Last Revised: February 11, 2010

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