Vendor Landscape: Enterprise Service Desk Software
Move past tickets to proactive, integrated service.
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What is a shortlist?
A shortlist is a personalized list of vendors based on the criteria you define. Your shortlist offers more information about vendor's strengths, weaknesses, price-points, etc, and ranks them according to your needs.
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What is a Value Score?
The Value Score indexes each vendor’s product offering and business strength relative to their price point. It does not indicate vendor ranking.
Vendors that score high offer more bang for the buck (e.g. features, usability, stability, etc.) than the average vendor, while the inverse is true for those that score lower.
Price-conscious enterprises may wish to give the Value Score more consideration than those who are more focused on specific vendor/product attributes.
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Your Challenge
- Service desk managers have recognized the need to integrate more applications and systems with workflows for end-to-end process efficiencies and information sharing.
- The business is requesting better self-serve features than just ticket creation and status updates, moving to a service catalog and knowledgebase for those users who are interested in self-solving their issues.
- Service desk professionals are attempting to balance tool customization capabilities with ease of use.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- At a high level, the enterprise class service desk solutions offer the same functionality. Look more granularly to ensure best fit, focusing on your organization’s specific needs.
- Don’t be distracted by flashy features you won’t use. Before selecting a tool, ensure that business requirements are clearly defined and choose a tool that will support your unique user base and organization needs.
- Ensure your tool can grow with you to support future ITSM processes or extension to other business departments if that’s on your roadmap.
Impact and Result
- Understand what’s new in the enterprise service desk market.
- Evaluate service desk vendors and products for your enterprise needs using Info-Tech’s Enterprise Service Desk Vendor Landscape.
- Determine which products are most appropriate for your particular use case and scenario.
1. Understand the enterprise service desk market space
Understand the market and available options and features.
2. Review enterprise service desk solutions
Build a shortlist of best-fit service desk tools for the enterprise.
3. Issue an RFP to the shortlist of vendors
Solicit responses from shortlisted vendors to find optimal enterprise fit.
4. Review RFP winners
Ensure that selected proponents can deliver when it counts.
Guided Implementations
This guided implementation is a three call advisory process.
Guided Implementation #1 - Shortlist Assistance and Requirements
Call #1 - Get off to a productive start: Discuss the market space and how vendors are evaluated. Decide which platform suits you best and narrow down the options based on customized requirements.
Guided Implementation #2 - RFP and Budget Review
Call #1 - Interpret and act on RFP results: Review vendors’ RFPs and ensure the solution will meet your needs. Discuss average pricing of solutions and what can fit into your budget.
Guided Implementation #3 - Negotiation and Contract Review
