SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) provides simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software built to enable customers to accelerate their digital transformation. Our solutions provide organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—with a comprehensive and unified view of today’s modern, distributed, and hybrid environments. We continuously engage with IT service and operations professionals, DevOps and SecOps professionals, and database administrators (DBAs) to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available hybrid IT infrastructures, applications, and environments. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK community, help us to address customers’ needs in solutions for observability, IT service management, application performance, and database management now and in the future.
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How easy is it to use and deploy, and requires almost zero prior experience with any ITSM platform. The interface is very easy to navigate through, very clean.
It has a clean and intuitive interface. I love the audit trail and activity history on tickets, given that we are a team of 10 and often need to reassign tickets through different teams. The platform provides a solid foundation for ITIL-aligned processes without being overly complex.
Clean user-friendly ticketing and self-service portal that's easy for end users to adopt automation and routing features assignment rules notifications in SLA that reduce manual admin asset and basic change problem features in one place and solid visibility of reporting an operational oversight.
The main drawback is the limited flexibility when it comes to advanced customization and some complex workflows. Compared to other ITSM tools, some configurations may feel hard to use, especially when it comes to reporting, automation and UI configurations.
Their customer support, the inability to track asset loans with automated overdue notifications to the end user, the reporting functionality is not as adaptive as I would like
Reporting in dashboards can be more limiting for complex requirements that additional configuration and some workflow options feel constrained compared with higher end. ITSM tools integration can require more effort than expected depending on your environment and the level of automation you require.