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

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

MetricSolarWinds Service Desk

by SolarWinds Worldwide LLC

OpenText Service Management Automation X (SMAX)

by OpenText

Overall rating4.34.2
Review count78972
Ease of use9.18.2
Ease of setup8.87.6
Quality of support9.08.2
Meets requirements8.88.7
NPS53.33333342.857143
Small Business8.2%18.1%
Mid-Market68.0%23.6%
Enterprise23.9%58.3%
Total page views1,346180
Total LLM citations9,5901,595

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

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