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What do you like best about CA Service Desk Manager?

This application is effortless to use. It is the best when it comes to training since the application is easy to understand, and employees can catch up on the work process quickly. Easy to upgrade and installation is handy, along with good documentation and support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CA Service Desk Manager?

The application also freezes quite a bit and a user will have to quite often close and reopen broser to get it functioning properly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Highly recommended, Excellent workflow management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CA Service Desk Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

The database is very clean and easy to manipulate regarding querying available data and needing to find the right table. It is an excellent way to document all work done by each tech. The User interface is awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CA Service Desk Manager Overview

What is CA Service Desk Manager?

Formerly known as CA Service Management, Clarity SM believes delivering quality service and attaining service management maturity does not equate to a costly-to-operate software solution with a complex user experience. Clarity SM (Service Management) delivers a modern, social media-based user experience to access knowledge, collaborate, resolve issues, request services and manage IT assets to help make sure your business consumers don’t skip a beat. The xFlow innovation-award-winning user experience provides analysts with tools and context to embrace the team and make every moment count. And for decision makers, business value reporting and transparency into service consumption and cost provide effective management insights. Clarity SM is designed for humans and built for service, so you can provide incredible service.

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Product Description

Clarity SM from CA Technologies enables you to deliver consistent IT service support. Automate interactive support, self-service and advanced root cause analysis with Service Desk Manager from CA Technologies.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

CA Service Management service desk capabilities provide a comprehensive support
operation solution with certification on 15 ITIL processes and integration with infrastructure management functions across on-premise and hosted/SaaS+ delivery models. Unlike traditional service desk solutions, these capabilities deliver:

• Industry-leading unified collaborative self-service for all stakeholders, including business consumers, Support personnel and product administrators, on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.

• Mobility for self-service, collaboration, notifications, issue management, analytics and more for business consumers, power users and decision makers.

• A self-service analytics option that enables non-technical users to build and modify dashboards and reports in minutes.

• The award-winning xFlow Analyst Experience enables teamwork, and provides workload and issue context and power-assisted triage and resolution.

• Pervasive automation with Quick Value content and best-practice ITIL content.

• Industry-leading remote trouble-shooting and resolution.

• Extensive change management with a robust CMDB that automatically verifies changes are authorized and invokes corrective policy if they’re not.


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Broadcom
Year Founded
1991
HQ Location
San Jose, CA
Twitter
@broadcom
59,338 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
61,034 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ: CA
Phone
+1 800 225-5224
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$27,500,000,000
Description

Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies a broad range of semiconductor, enterprise software and security solutions. Broadcom's category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including cloud, data center, networking, broadband, wireless, storage, industrial, and enterprise software. Our solutions include service provider and enterprise networking and storage, mobile device and broadband connectivity, mainframe, cybersecurity, and private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Broadcom is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.


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CA Service Desk Manager Media

CA Service Desk Manager Demo - Unified Self-service
Single page where business users can ask questions, collaborate, report issues, request services, search internal and external knowledge sources, view their IT assets
CA Service Desk Manager Demo - Innovation-award-winning xFlow Support Analyst User Experience
xFlow delivers a collaborative team– and skills– based paradigm to empower your analysts to work together to resolve issues based on their individual and combined strengths. Gain a comprehensive understanding of individual and team workloads, data–driven intelligence to prioritize work and make t...
CA Service Desk Manager Demo - Service Catalog
Accessed via self-service, for requesting services or IT assets; shows business descriptions, costs, options; enables chargeback and service accounting.
CA Service Desk Manager Demo - Mobile Self-service
Single mobile app where business users can ask questions, collaborate, report issues, request services, search internal and external knowledge sources, view their IT assets
CA Service Desk Manager Demo - CMDB Visualizer
CA Service Management standard feature for doing root cause analysis or identifying service impacts based on service-CI mappings
CA Service Desk Manager Demo - Business Value Reports
CA Service Management standard reporting of productivity and business cost impacts of issues
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Ajay K.
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What do you like best about CA Service Desk Manager?

I like the ui of this product, it is very easy to navigate through , learn all the features, configuration items, cmdb mapping and price of the product. It offers great features in good price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CA Service Desk Manager?

It is not suited for large organisations, not a cloud based solution. It works best with ca products only. There are limits for concurrent users login. Not up to the market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CA Service Desk Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used it for helpdesk, customer facing tools to raise requests , track sla, incident management,automatic tickets from other tools like ca spectrum. It is good tool as per our expectations and budget Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CA Service Desk Manager?

You can develop and integrate everything with CA SDM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CA Service Desk Manager?

Old UI, but can customize it very quickly and easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CA Service Desk Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Every business problem I had I developed solution for it in CA SDM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prabakaran S.
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What do you like best about CA Service Desk Manager?

Most of the Top IT companies use this tool nowadays for logging the tickets with the issues raised by the customer and the service desk help the employees to decide the priorities for the issue and make them work faster based on the priorities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CA Service Desk Manager?

It is old tool and some more functionalities can be added in the tool to make it better.Not as customizable as service now .Auto scheduling of reports and visualisation should be added for better representation of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Very Good Ticketing Tool for the Organisations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CA Service Desk Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have solved many critical issues in priorities with the help of this tool.It does not require any training to use the tool.One can learn the tool by simply toggling between the options in the tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I used this platform for IT service management in order to maintain all Incident requests and change orders raised by business. Its helping a lot to keep track of all requests in a single site and Its even having SLA calculations and includes many groups and users with out any lag on performance as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CA Service Desk Manager?

I felt the navigation on requests should have some more easy navigation links or tabs to navigate to the requests in just a click. When ever I need to track my request, I need to go through via service desk only. There it wants me to go with many navigations to find out the request. Thats It, Other than this navigational thing I didnt faced any performance lag or etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CA Service Desk Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

With this I used to handle IT service management things like handling Incidents and requests and Change orders what ever business needs to do on the softwares and sites which they are using in their organization to work for the growth. It does its job by keep track of incidents and requests with SLA's and maintaing N number of teams and users to assign the tickets to responsible teams to resolve it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CA Service Desk Manager?

The GUI of this tool is user friendly and captures much more details related to requests and incidents with proper configuration items available to categorise the tickets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CA Service Desk Manager?

The software is outdated in appearance as compared to its competitors. Also sometimes it lags and is slow in response. The reporting analytics are a bit better in other similar software available in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CA Service Desk Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is very much easier to inter link CA Service Desk Manager with CA spectrum monitoring tool and helps in managing the incident, change and problem management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CA Service Desk Manager?

CA service desk is simple and has all the sections required to manage and respond to tickets accordingly. you can also assign tickets to external parties and manage remotely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CA Service Desk Manager?

i dislike the fact of having it on-site especially if you have multiple customers on hand, this means maintenance of it will be high if for instance there is a bug or upgrade to be made Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CA Service Desk Manager:

looking for a service desk to work on site this can be a good choice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CA Service Desk Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

it helps with ticket management for clients not yet trying to access our cloud base infrastructure and want to be independent with the application they use for ticket management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CA Service Desk Manager?

CA Desktop is a user-friendly desktop. Even working with many people, I don't face any latency in using this application. During covid -19, we don't have any latency issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CA Service Desk Manager?

Loading time take long time while launching the application. Sometimes during emergency its make irritating. Thats makes very irritating even a session killing.

Switching one system to another system is bit difficult. The application are slower then usual. The moment after switing the one meachine to another meachine is very bad.65 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Very good desktop application. During covid 19 this application never face any outages. This application works with low data bandwith. CA Desktop is fast and nerver lag during work. I have use this appliucation for longer time. Very good aaplication, i loveit all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CA Service Desk Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before switching between one machine to another machine, we do entirely shut down all the applications, which makes it much better performance for a whole day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CA Service Desk Manager?

if you are facing any network issue, the Desktop brings back where we left, and it is integrated with the Citrix so that it is user friendly to kill the previous sessions anything went wrong Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CA Service Desk Manager?

If any application in the Current session faces slowness, we need to kill the entire session, and there is no option to kill the particular application like taskmanager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CA Service Desk Manager:

CA Desktop is user friendly, and it is beneficial software in the working environment where the network fluctuation present Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CA Service Desk Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Most of the problems will come if any application behaves abnormally. We will conduct session kill using the Citrix workspace and resolve the issue. we have the problem of viewing the standard desktop if it connects to CA Deskop Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CA Service Desk Manager?

CA Service Desk Manager almost address all our ITSM needs and flag tickets concerning the levels of the breach. It is also best for managing the issued tickets with inline editing. The support system of the CA is quick and effective in the technical aspects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CA Service Desk Manager?

The report display should be simple with graphical representation options like bar charts graphs for better understanding. It's hard for us to get customized reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CA Service Desk Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use CA Service to manage all the tickets raised by the employees and the clients. It having all the solutions for my ITSM needs. I implement rules, workflows, etc.

I transfer the tickets with my team for query resolving. The inline editing enable us to edit multiple ticket at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CA Service Desk Manager?

Even though large number of users logged in simultaneously, there is no discrepancies found on the UI.

Ecosystem across the CA products are seamless.

servicedesk application can be accessed outside the network without compromising the security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CA Service Desk Manager?

Frequency, export option on the GUI is hung. can only be fixed upon the recycling the services.

Difficult to export change task report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CA Service Desk Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Dual users can't be edit the same ticket simultaneous

It requires only minimal training to use the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.