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OpenText Service Management Automation X (SMAX) vs. SolarWinds Service Desk

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

MetricOpenText Service Management Automation X (SMAX)

by OpenText

SolarWinds Service Desk

by SolarWinds Worldwide LLC

Overall rating4.24.3
Review count72789
Ease of use8.29.1
Ease of setup7.68.8
Quality of support8.29.0
Meets requirements8.78.8
NPS42.85714353.333333
Small Business18.1%8.2%
Mid-Market23.6%68.0%
Enterprise58.3%23.9%
Total page views1801,346
Total LLM citations1,5959,590

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

SolarWinds Service Desk

Enterprise-grade ITSM that's actually easy to use — resolve issues up to 52% faster with AI, unified asset management, and native ITOps integration built in from day one. SolarWinds Service Desk is a cloud-based IT service management (ITSM) platform that enables IT teams and other business departments to manage service requests, incidents, assets, and workflows in a unified environment.

Pros

  • Ticketing System
  • Asset Management
  • Ticket Management
  • Ease of Use
  • User Interface
  • Customer Satisfaction