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Hornbill Service Manager Overview

What is Hornbill Service Manager?

Hornbill's 100% codeless environment, out-of-the-box workflows, and powerful process automation delivers an ITSM solution that is up-and-running in weeks, at a fraction of the cost. Configuring Hornbill is child's play. Self-sufficient teams can take ownership, and rapidly adapt the solution to their service delivery needs, without developers or dedicated resources. Automatic software updates deliver new functionality, keeping your Service Desk on the latest version, without lifting a finger.

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Product Description

Hornbill Service Manager is a cloud-based Collaborative IT Service Management solution

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

• A User Interface that’s beautiful, intuitive, easy to use, and works anywhere

• Progressive Capture
Staff are guided to input concise information in a structured manner at each stage in the request handling process.

• Tacit Knowledge
Capture conversations that contain knowledge and expertise, allow people to validate, vote and share valuable information and insights.

• Collaboration without boundaries
Service Manager provides real-time translation enabling collaboration between people who don’t share a common language.

• Free Implementation
A free ‘Switch-On’ includes integration with Single-Sign-On, data import, application deployment and configuring business processes.

• Continuous Deployment eliminates the pain of upgrades and integrations
Hornbill delivers continuous feature updates with no disruption to service. Applications are always up-to-date, and customisations are always maintained.

• Priced for life: a fixed price for as long customers subscribe to the service. Never be affected by price increases, and if we reduce subscription costs, you can take the lower price plan.


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Hornbill
Year Founded
1995
HQ Location
Ruislip, UNITED KINGDOM
Twitter
@Hornbill
966 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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135 employees on LinkedIn®

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Recent Hornbill Service Manager Reviews

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Aaditya P.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Efficient and User friendly: Hornbill Service Manager"
The best part about Hornbill Service Manager is how easy it is to use It helps us track service requests and its customizable workflows are really ...
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"Just a user"
Since the move to the cloud-based Hornbil a much cleaner interface and more responsive. Lots more functions and easier to access - fast and respon...
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5.0 out of 5
"Experience is very positive and beneficial"
Offered balanced advice and support throughout the process which has enabled the organisation to implement a much improved call monitoring and call...
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Hornbill Service Manager Media

Hornbill Service Manager Demo - Self-Service
User-centric self-service allows service catalogues from multiple business units to be published.
Hornbill Service Manager Demo - Process Tracker
Powerful visual representation of a process workflow in progress for the analyst and end-user.
Hornbill Service Manager Demo - Personal Dashboards
Custom dashboards for each analyst to monitor performance.
Hornbill Service Manager Demo - Graphical Process Designer
Design power business processes in a graphical codeless environment.
Hornbill Service Manager Demo - Change Boards
Use kanban style boards for Change Management overviews.
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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

The priority queue and the color coordination. I also like that it highlights tickets when they have not been open by the assigned owner. I like the new feature on timing, where once a ticket is picked up we usually have a set time to respond to the client. I also like that when someone does not responded on time, our team gets a notification saying this ticket needs to be looked at. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

The search feature can be better. I cant seem to search to tickets in a easy way. When searching for closed tickets, it seems that it doesn't pick up on all tickets. Just in general if I want to search for a topic that doesn't exist on the title on the ticket, it does not pick it up on the search. The login procedure has changed a bit and you will be presented with a screen where you can choose between standard log in and SSO. I have been getting this screen at every login even if I click on both the options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

any support issues that come up for our Collections Management system. Clients can create new issues and one of our support team picks up the ticket and assigns it to themselves and starts working on resolving the issue. I find looking for tickets that have been recently responded to is easy to find. Different issues are organized by groups which is great when searching for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

We use service manager in the field of business relations to log and track requests for advice about our existing IT solutions as well as requests for new solutions. We have built our business processes into the progressive capture and created tasks to guide us through the stages, which allows us to ensure that we have been diligent at every step while also providing the best advice to our customers. We carry out regular reviews of progress and use the service manager boards at every decision point as a reference to keep us organised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

We occasionally have difficulties searching for and locating a request once it has left our queue and been passed to another team. This has been improving over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Service Manager is a powerful tool for collecting information, developing a request, and tracking progress. We have been able to enhance the quality of the service we provide to our internal customers as well as organise and prioritise demand within our workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

I like the look and style of Hornbill as well as how easy it is to log and resolve calls in our queue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

It can be a bit slow at times, but that could be due to updates or behind the senses issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I just think its a great system for a big company, just depends how you use it and what you need it for. You make it work for you and your business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I work in the Digital Services field and my job is to resolve calls in a timely manner. This tool has been really helpful when communicating with users that have requests or incidents that they need resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ilyaas K.
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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

The platform has evolved and continues to evolve. The development team and community are active in content and development. Being a high usage customer, we find the support to be highly responsive and efficient. I am comfortable that service manager will continue to develop as technology develops meaning as a customer we remain current. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

No real comments in terms of dislikes at present. We can pretty much do what we like and receive the required assistance. There are slight issues where we cannot currently have a process the way we want it but the team at hornbill are effective in suggesting alternatives which ultimately ensures our end result or desired outcome remains the same Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Hornbill Service Manager:

If you are looking for an all in one platform which can meet multiple needs then service manager is definitely the place for you.

Customer support

IT

Procurement

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B2B

Service manager has various elements to cater for most if not all needs.

Certainly worth requesting a demo and specifying any specific requirements. I have no doubt that the team at hornbill will be able to deliver whatever your desired outcomes one way or another.

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

Automation

Standard formatting

Customisable elements

Digital process creation for historic paper based clients of ours

Not so difficult business process creation

Portal setup for customers

Various other elements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

I find that the automation is a good feature and allows us to streamline some of our working practices that were in the past quite manual. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

I am part of the team from our organisation who are configuring the tool. I think if you want to get the most out of the tool you do need to invest the time in configuring it properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Hornbill Service Manager:

Ensure your processes are mapped beginning through till the end so you can build this into your progressive capture and business processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We primarily use Service Manager for managing incidents and requests on our IT Service Desk. The tool is a lot more stable than it's predecessor and also allows for more configuration to help the analyst process their workloads better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

Hornbill Service Manager provides the best support tool I encountered from my 7 years of work experience.

They are able to provide functionalities that you can customise to cater businesses with multiple clients in an organised matter.

GUI is also user-friendly which enabled me to use the tool properly on my first few weeks of using Hornbill Service Manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

I just noticed that some of the images uploaded to our documentation are a bit blurry and hard to read. But not entirely sure if this is due to Hornbill Service Manager or the quality of the photo provided by a colleague. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Being in a Software Solutions industry, documentation will always be the least favourite, especially when it comes to Issues and Resolution encountered by your clients. But with the help of a right tool, you and your team can have a systematic way of assigning tasks, providing insights, and helping a customer from inquiries to system concerns. And I am glad that my company is using the right tool, Hornbill Service Manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Hornbill Service Manager helps my team to solve software issues encountered by different clients worldwide. Since we have one tool to log all the issues encountered, it is easier for our Support team to simply look at Hornbill database and maximise the search function. In case that the issue was encountered before, this helps the team to lessen the time for investigation of an issue. Which then, provides faster resolution to our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

I like the flexibility of the product which is great for supporting business processes.

The business process flow engine is very powerful and with the support of the Progressive Capture you are able to guide the user through the right steps and often this gives the user the capability for a self fix question.

I would like to spend some good words for the the Customer care and support which is great! They are very responsive and prepared and most important Hornbill folks always listen to my needs and each time an improvement can be developed to achieve my business need they add a milestone into their development roadmap; when needed you can ask for a support specialist (if you have bought this on your support contract) which can help you out solving the day by day issue or provide training.

From the economics point of view no one else is offering the "prized for life" service which is great in terms of budget review for us, because we are always sure what we are going to spend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

it's really hard to find something I don't like, but it would be nice to be able to open a generic request from the employee portal; currently when you open a request the type of request is mandatory selected with the item selection, well I believe it would be good to have the possibility to log a request without a direct type selection (incident, service request etc.) and on later stage the analyst may "classify" the request correctly. This is particulary useful in ERP support which i a complex environment and linked to different services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Follow the forum, it's a great resource and from the forum you can bring to the developers' attention your requirement and need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We approached Hornbill mainly for IT service management, but the platform allows us to be able to respond to the needs of other business processes, outside the direct perimeter of IT. We are mainly using Hornbill for the employee support for IT needs and other department too, like HR department.

The Service Desk has now a collaboration platform which help us to shorten the distance between the different time zones in our global team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel M.
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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

Simple for users and technicians to use, but very powerful under the hood.

The automation and ticket flow rules are incredibly powerful and useful.

I've used a fair few different help desk platforms and this is one of the best looking ones . A lot are ugly to look at, and if your staring at queue's all day, its appreciated that Hornbill took time to make their interface look great.

Hornbill is great for is the ability for end users to login to the end user portal and they can see the tickets that they have logged and see what progress they are up to. Most helpdesk system require the end user to call IT and ask about their ticket. So the self service aspect is a very good benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

It can be quite complicated to setup and create work flows, but you'd expect some difficulty as the service is very powerful.

There really isn't much I dislike about Hornbill. It's far superior to all other help desk platforms I have used during my IT career Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Highly Recommend, very simple for users and technicians to use, but very powerful under the hood. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We current;y have this setup as our IT and HR helpdesk manger. We use this to capture and process all kinds of IT and HR related requested. Technicians then work on the submitted tickets, log notes, escalate if needed, assign to different departments, and communicated fully through hornbill to the end risers.

One thing Hornbill is great for is the ability for end users to login to the end user portal and they can see the tickets that they have logged and see what progress they are up to. Most helpdesk system require the end user to call IT and ask about their ticket. So the self service aspect is a very good benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Martyn H.
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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

We have been long terms users of Hornbill Service Manager from it early versions and prior to that its previous generation tool Support Works. Service Manager as well as the other applications available on the platform, i.e. collaboration, time sheet manager etc, has allow use to migrate multiple Service Desks from around the Group into a single common platform and work towards using common processes.

This is not just a Service Desk system, it is a Service Management system, with the capability deal with providing services in all elements of your business. Though initially aimed at our customer facing Service Desk functions, we are now using this to process other types of requests in other area of the organisation interaction with both external and internal customers.

The other added benefit is the very active and helpful user community, along with the rapid response to enhancements requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

There are some areas such as searching where it does take some getting used to, but this is gradually improving.

There are some current restrictions around the external Customer Portal facilities but we are working with Hornbill to deliver improvements in this area. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With a distributed teams working across growing multiple products and market areas, the ability to use workflow is invaluable and even more so with team members all currently work from home.

This is made possible by the powerful but easy customise workflow using the GUI editor tools, so that we can apply both consistent process and automation to our operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

It stands out from a crowd of cumbersome ITSM tools. The platform is well designed making call management efficient. Everything is at your fingertips, within a mouse click! The Heads-Up Display is a massive hit with the analysts as they can easily follow our call management process. Interactions with users are made easy through the service catalog. Slideshows displaying performance metrics is also a good feature to manage a support department which is spread across Europe and used by our outsourcing partner.

On the admin side, the application is easy to administer and maintain. Really user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

Dislike? Not much. There is space for improvement on call lists which could be dynamically filtered and on the analytics side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Hornbill Service Manager has definitively helped us to increase our efficiency and has eased our compliancy with ITIL framework Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.