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European Processor Initiative Stream Leader/Project Manager
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What do you like best about OTRS?

OTRS was free, and installable on both Linux and Windows platforms. Its mail-based design made it quite unique in terms of design and speed. It was easy to install, and the set up was feasible with a few days of consulting from multiple service providers.

I have been using the tool between 2012 and 2019 on a regular basis, and never experimented a failure, both on premises and on the web (say cloud if you like). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OTRS?

The confusion between the product name and a company name sort of "forced" some customers of mine to buy unnecessary & expensive contracts to that company. Instead of trying to expand the product through a comunity of support organizations, OTRS chose to close it more by separating the free version and the paid version. I am not recommending it anymore to my customers, best solutions have taken over. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OTRS solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used to use and/or roll-out OTRS for incident management, asset management, and even customer relationship management. Once installed, the use of the tool was quite straightforward, even if its design made it quite unique. Customers were satisfied. The internal implementation at my company, nevetheless, did not manage to replace the previous tool that was managing spare parts. OTRS was not fit for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OTRS Overview

What is OTRS?

OTRS is a customizable support desk that manages workflows and structures communication.

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OTRS is a customizable support desk that manages workflows and structures communication.


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Year Founded
2003
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Oberursel, Germany
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4.5 out of 5
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OTRS provides a categorization feature for ticket management, which is one of the best features for a company with a huge number of teams. Also bec...
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Rahul W.
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What do you like best about OTRS?

OTRS provides a categorization feature for ticket management, which is one of the best features for a company with a huge number of teams. Also because of its clean UI, it's easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OTRS?

Nothing as of now. My experience with OTRS has been smooth till now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OTRS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have different products that are being used by end-users, as a developing product number of errors raised by end-users is significant. So to handle this number of errors we are using OTRS as a ticketing tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OTRS?

The OTRS platform is quite helpful in managing tickets according to the priority and assigning to respective teams as wells as on time alerts on your customised mail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OTRS?

I have been using it from a long time but faced th refresh issue, you need to click on refresh sometimes to fetch latest data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OTRS solving and how is that benefiting you?

OTRS can single handedly manage all the tickets from your customers worldwide without any performance issue. It has various features that can be used for customisation according to user needs. Proper alerting and customisation helps in better resolution of tickets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OTRS?

It provides all the features required to provide support to your customers and customers can also Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OTRS?

It is quite well designed to handle support tickets didn't face any issue while working on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OTRS solving and how is that benefiting you?

It maintains a well defined dashboard to view customer issues and the best is you can customise it according to your needs. It helps in maintaining threads which is quite good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Diego M.
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What do you like best about OTRS?

Creating service requests on users' end is effortless through the use of a mailbox and SMTP integration. Updates to service requests/tickets can be made via email as well, or through the sleek and modern panel that OTRS provides you.

OTRS offers you fairly granular set of modifiable environment variables. You can configure custom queues, auto-responses, customer groups, ticket states and much more. You can also start on their free edition and simply pay for support if you so desire. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OTRS?

There's not much I can say I dislike in OTRS. Major release updates are a bit of a chore to perform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OTRS solving and how is that benefiting you?

ITSM is made easy through OTRS. We keep track of user requests and incidents all in a single pane of glass. Addressing incidents and requests are done in a very efficient manner, as a result. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OTRS?

Not too many functions, so quite easy to set up and use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OTRS?

Not enough functions to run a professional customer care operation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OTRS:

OTRS is a good tool if you are not into automation etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OTRS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We've used OTRS to communicate with customers via e-mail Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rommel L.
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Sr IT Suppport
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What do you like best about OTRS?

Here are the quality we like when we use the OTRS as our ticketing system from the previous old ticketing system

- Greate infographics of tickets

- Greate way to program and customized for our setup that has different types and can do more even after the deployment. This is like a puzzle that you can build endlessly.

- Greate support from the Ventors for any changes/upgrade that we like from our current setup.

- Easy to use for a newbie to experts IT

- Greate reporting capability that will ease the burden in pulling out tons of logs ticket.

- Transferring from one another users or department is very easy and can do notes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OTRS?

Actually, there is nothing that we don`t like about OTRS as I said above it can be customized base on our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OTRS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Everything for that we can`t do from our old ticketing system. OTRS is very very useful in our organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about OTRS?

The simplicity of the product in terms of usage. It's good for multitenancy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OTRS?

The complexity in the basic configuration. Configuration is not user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OTRS:

Pls, continue the community edition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OTRS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have solved our helpdesk issues and ticketing issues with this product. There is no much benefit we have gained financially. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting
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What do you like best about OTRS?

Simplycity in terms of managing the tickets and more easy to update the tickets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OTRS?

adding a member on the same tickets, sometimes create an issue. In case if your browser crashed, your whole content on the update will not be cached. So be careful... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OTRS:

Nothing specifically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OTRS solving and how is that benefiting you?

On daily basis, tickets update on following cases or issue comes from Customer. This actually track the details and even if someone new took that case, he/she can read the entire history to understand the fact. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OTRS?

I like the way OTRS loads on any browser. It is very light and navigating from one module to another over the browser is smooth and there are no hiccups. The other features like email notifications and the pending reminder is a great way to keep track of a ticket and make sure that the task it completed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OTRS?

There is nothing to dislike about OTRS honestly speaking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OTRS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Working on IT Incidents and change requests are easier now. Each topic can be processed as per the workflow designed in OTRS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OTRS?

OTRS is one of the best if not the only Open Source Ticketing Tool that is available. The accessibility Option are plenty and we can even use it on a Mobile Device. The pending reminder feature is unique and it helps us make sure that we are on top of topics to be addressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OTRS?

The support cost is a little on the expensive side, but that is not a big deal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OTRS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to provide excellent customer service with the options and features that OTRS Provides. Auto responses can be defined and set so that we save a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.