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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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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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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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"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 user interface is modern and appealing. The experience when using is one of intuitiveness and it is clear that a lot of thought and care goes into each component. There is a lot of functionality but the interface isn't crowded. The ease of use is the most important thing to us as a small team with a large workload, keeping track of everything with the smallest amount of effort is critical. The user interface is modern and intuitive. The level of customization is fantastic, I really feel like they could accommodate everything I wanted. The onboarding process was extremely easy and I have had a level of proactive customer support during the process that I have not seen in any other supplier of software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

The project management module has some cool features but it feels very young in its lifecycle, compared to other project management software. I think it needs a lot of work to make it easy to use practically. However as our main goal to improve our service desk, the project part is a nice to have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our previous service desk was under utilized. Our engineers were not using it enough due to the difficulty and time associated with logging requests. We also didn't have much engagement with our users in the service desk, as our portal was not user friendly and didnt give much information/functionality to them. We have increased the amount of data captured and using reports are beginning to spot and address trends and balance our work better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

The codeless environment to adapt the tool to better suit our needs as an organisation. As a service manager I love the KPI reporting functionality and dashboards to better share either a moment in time or current state of specific elements of the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

Nothing to dislike really, changes to the platform are made based on other customer needs which on the whole works very well so a slight niggle would be if there is a seemingly niche requirement for your organisation that is not needed by the wider community, this will not be developed in good time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Hornbill Service Manager:

Go through the switch-on process to get really hands on with the tool. If you don't like it then move on but I think more often than not organisations will progress with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The scalability of the service we deliver. To our staff (customers) the self-service portal is an easy vehicle to drive and navigate however the complexities that sit behind that in terms of configuration and interaction from supporting teams is vast. Remote working is a very fresh example, during our response to COVID remote working requests were tactically handled in the first week by spreadsheet in parallel while we developed a seamless process in Hornbill. Once configured and tested this saved literally 10's of hours of public money and ensured accurate and consistent outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

We are able to centralize and capture all reported issues. The solution provides easy and user friendly interface and both IT resources and our stakeholders are able to quickly adapt and utilise the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

Would prefer more templates readily usable for standard ITIL processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The benefits have been a reduction in calls to the service desk, as well as streamlining the processes within IT Service and Change Management.

The ability to track where issues and problems emanate from has proven immeasurable , as has the ability to see where resources are required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

Hornbill Service Manager gives our teams (which include IT, HR, H&S amongst others) one place to view and deal with their day to day activities and workload while giving their customers a single place to log a request, report a fault or monitor the progress of their ongoing requests.

The platform is easy and intuitive to use and, as an admin, it is easy to make changes and update or create new processes in very little time at all.

The reporting functions are very useful and, with the help of PowerBI we have some very informative reports which help to show the workload of each team.

The Hornbill staff are very open to hearing and discussing requests for improvements or changes to their platform, which in turn, means that WE as their customers, get the benefit of having a software solution which we are happy and comfortable to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

The reporting function in the software - although useful - is a little limited at the moment. We are having to use PowerBI software to make the reports look more useful. Getting the data out is very easy, but presenting it within the Hornbill platform in an eye-grabbing way doesn't really work for us.

This is purely an aesthetic thing - the data is always 'there' and correct, but for presenting purposes we like to use a more powerful tool outside of the Hornbill platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Hornbill Service Manager:

Look at the cost per user and the 'priced for life' commitment.

The ease of getting set up and getting up and running makes this platform a definite 'must see' for anyone considering changing their current ESM solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have been using Hornbill Service Manager for a number of years now. We started using it as a purely IT function, but we have quickly come to realise that as an ESM platform, Hornbill works really well.

Our HR department, H&S, Fleet, and other process-driven teams now use the software to track their workload and, we've been told, they couldn't dream of going back to how they worked before.

The software has helped each team look at their processes and have transferred these to Hornbill. This has helped each team to be more 'lean' and, by getting the processes written down and mapped out, has meant that the knowledge isn't in someone's head, it is recorded in a system which can then be used to guide analysts toward getting jobs done quickly and efficiently.

There has been a turnover of staff in each of these teams and getting new people trained on the Hornbill platform has been quick and easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

I like the option to customize certain filters for search criteria. Hornbill is good in that can show you separate queues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

If there is an issue with hornbill it has an automated error message which doesnt diagnose the issue at hand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As it is a web based tool, it can have a tendency to be slow or stop working on a companies network. Depending on companies network infrastructure Hornbill can be a good tool once implemented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

Calls open automatically when customers have responded. Features to be able to customise the layout is one of my favourite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

Adding total worked time to get to the resolution depends upon various task outside of hornbill like investigations and meetings. These needs to be added manually and the total time doesn’t always tally when call is resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Difficulty to reopen calls or void calls if raised in error. Have to depend upon manager’s availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

Very user friendly, easy to navigate around, looks modern. Loads of functionality to make our lives easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

When using the main search at the top, the results displayed are not in any order. This should be in Descending date order i.e. newest ticket at the top, so we can find the ticket we are looking for quicker. This is very frustrating. I have heard this from a number of people.

As a manager I bulk transfer tickets to a user once they have been assigned to my team. Once you have selected the tickets to transfer and you click on the Actions --> Assign Request, you have to re-select the Team - the system should know which team the tickets are in and auto populate the Team box and if we need to change the team we can. If it is a new ticket then obviously this team box should be empty. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Time has been saved using this product. I am a manager and the reports and views are very good once set up. Transferring tickets is easy and works well, especially the bulk transfer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

We have used Hornbill for a few years now and have no issues, the platform is stable, easy to use and is constantly being updated and improved with new features and enhancements. The support staff are all very helpful and the hornbill community pages are a great way to share knowledge and get help from other Hornbill users.

The ability to design and create your own business processes and apply it to any area of the business is great and the workflows used to do this are fairly simple and easy to create using drag and drop.

One of the biggest benefits initially for us was the 30 day free trial to be able to use the product and set it up as we wanted with the help of a Hornbill Specialist. There is potentially a lot of work to do this (depending on what you want to setup initially) but it does enable you to have a real hands on experience using your own workflows and processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

Nothing really bad or negative about the product, initially I found the reporting element weak, but this has improved over time and now reports can be scheduled to run and emailed to any recipient so that has helped a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have managed to automate a lot of our manual processes on the service desk saving our analysts from all those repetitive tasks. Having more streamlined processes to deal with incidents, Service requests and Problems has also helped the department move forward and provide a more efficient service to the organisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

Simple design

UI is clean

Not complicated

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What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

It sometimes gets stuck on loading and i lose tickets and content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Hornbill Service Manager:

I recommend, as it is really easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

IT related issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Hornbill Service Manager?

What can I say but the most user friendly Service Desk portal I have use. It so easy to follow tickets and also raise them. We previously had a version of Service Now which ok its leading compeititor, I see Hornbill has a lot of advantages over it. Customers who use the portal actually raise tickets themselves, and also check know at what stage they are at, where with Service Now you cant.

The administration of Hornbill is easy, including Business Capture and Process.

Even the accessibility of it has the advantages over competitors.

The process from start to finish for the Service Desk is good being able to email staff from Tickets and receive a response it a lot better as we don't get emails in our outlook boxes. I love the feature that you can link ticket when a problem comes in.

For me the Asset feature is the best as we currently don't have an ASSET or CMDB and Hornbill has helped bridge that gap as we can know see where our assets are and who has them etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Hornbill Service Manager?

One would be allowing the FAQs to show up on the Portal itself rather than being attached to a Service thus our customers don't use the FAQs. I don't like this issues.

One issue is the autheorisation as we don't reliease when a staff member replies saying they authorise but we cant improve that process until we upgrade our account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Work with the Business reps and technical support teams who provided us with amazing support on implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

One big benefit is the CAB process as its been more digitised and easily managed rather than Paper based. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.