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OpenText Service Management Automation X (SMAX) vs. CA Service Desk Manager

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricOpenText Service Management Automation X (SMAX)

by OpenText

CA Service Desk Manager

by Broadcom

Overall rating4.24.2
Review count7220
Ease of use8.28.4
Ease of setup7.67.4
Quality of support8.28.6
Meets requirements8.78.7
NPS42.85714347.368421
Small Business18.1%15.0%
Mid-Market23.6%30.0%
Enterprise58.3%55.0%
Total page views18090
Total LLM citations1,595105

OpenText Service Management Automation X (SMAX)

OpenText™ SMAX delivers a smart approach to service management, with full capabilities for IT service management (ITSM), IT asset management (ITAM), and enterprise service management (ESM). Empower users to self-resolve common requests with private generative AI chatbots that offer human-like responses. Give your team what they need—ITIL best-practice templates, codeless configurations, and built-in AI and analytics for automating workflows, improving processes, and solving issues. With SaaS deployment, SMAX eliminates the hassle of installation, maintenance, and upgrade.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Helpful
  • Integrations
  • Time Management
  • Cloud Services
  • Software Updates

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.

Pros