The user experience with OTRS is amazing. Being able to show all your work to the client is great.

If properly used, with the control of calls and "learning" of errors, in addition to a quick response, it is possible to show the user everything that is happening and how it is being done.

Its look is not pretty, however, being extremely functional, this goes unnoticed. They could have a more practical way of creating reports.

Makes work easier by having a good overview of ongoing tickets, but also past tickets, with details of what was built / done to offer a solution. That's dependant of what you enter into the system of course, but the options are there and they are clear.

I've been using OTRS for quite a few years now, and it's an excellent piece of software that makes my life as a sysadmin/support desk guy easier. OTRS understands ITIL, end users and IT pros, and the software supports that. You can link tickets, make internal notes, make FAQs, paste images into text fields, send e-mails, etc. You can also do templates, customize columns, set alerts when things take too long, etc. It's really nice. It even works with our ADFS server, which is excpected of a tool like this, but still. In short, OTRS is versatlize and customizeable.

There have been minor (cosmetic) bugs here and there, every now and then, which are slightly annoying. Often you can fix these things yourself, but OTRS's configuration is very complex and requires some insight and experience. So in the end, you're gonna have to contact support or read the extensive manual. But buth those options work.

My experience was good, but since there is no community version anymore I'm moving to another one.

No pros anymore as OTRS AG has discontinued the community (free) version. Version 6 will be the last free version.

Since there is no community version anymore, business version (commercial) is expensive and lack a lot of features when compared to some newer players.

OTRS offered one of the most , if not the most , bang for the buck in my opinion. The support was always on point and promptly responded to all of or requests and questions , they provided on site support when needed and had one of the most pleasant training experience thus far.

As both a user and an administrator of the software i found the following in my last year of using the software : Ease of use Flexibility Easy customization Open Source Powerful Tools

Although i found this to be the most user friendly of the ticketing there are a few things i think might be improved in the future : Convoluted Process management SLA administration cumbersome to use and config Lacking a few features out of the box

The way we can centralize everything on it is real a benefit.

The provided scalability really help us. As a new demand appears, we can set the software to fit to this new need. This is really a power way to work with software.

When I send some e-mail to, which is related to some active ticket, the emails go agrupated, so for any new e-mail sent, all the previous text are rewritten. In some tickets, there are a lot of du- or tri or quadri-plicated emails. I know this is just something I can solve by deleting the text before sendind it to OTRS, but, it would be amazing if OTRS could append only the new text to the ticket.