CA Service Desk Manager 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

CA Service Desk Manager

3.5

(13)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About CA Service Desk Manager

CA Service Desk Manager is a cloud-based IT service and support management solution. Primary features include change management, incident management, automation support, self-service, predefined services and workflows and reporting.

The xFlow user experience module provides collaborative features to the supporting analysts. Analysts can work together and resolve issues using their individual and combined strengths. This module understands team workload and provides data-driven intelligence to prioritize tickets. The reports and business metrics can be accessed via the Ad-hoc dashboard.

The self-service module allows users to access knowledge base, collaborate with other users and help teams, request services and view assets. The change management module analysis the root cause of the issues verifies changes and manages unauthorized change handling. The support automation feature provides remote access, troubleshooting, repair and chat help. It is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. iOs and Android mobile applications are also offered.

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CA Service Desk Manager Features

Popular features found in IT Service
Compliance Management
Configuration Management
Inventory Management
Knowledge Management
Problem Management
Real-Time Monitoring
Release Management
Self Service Portal
Service Catalog
Task Management
Ticket Management
Workflow Management
More features of CA Service Desk Manager
Change Management
Dashboard
Incident Management
IT Asset Management
Knowledge Base Management
Mobile App
Multi-Channel Communication
Support Ticket Management

CA Service Desk Manager User Reviews

Overall Rating

3.5

Ratings Breakdown

15%

54%

15%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.4

Value for money

2.7

Customer support

3.5

Functionality

3.3

Ravi S.

Verified reviewer

Banking

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Best ITIL management software

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Moved to CA from Remedy, extremely lightweight, thin client, covers all aspects of ITIL incident management, change management, problem management with the functionality to generate MI reports and main knowledge bases for various level of support teams in the organisation. The ability to flag tickets and trigger notifications to escalation points based on various levels of SLA breach. Easy to transfer tickets within teams, with inline editing to edit multiple tickets at once makes it easier for the batters to manage queues.

Cons:

Auto scheduling of reports and visualisation should be added for better representation of data such as graphs and charts.

Verified

Reviewer

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Big and powerful software suite, capable of solving all your ITSM needs, with huge complexity

We were able to implement ITIL and ISO 27K compliant processes. It was very simple to assign very specific access privileges to different users. We accomplished a robust and fully functional integration of our monitoring alerts for ticket creation. Business rules have reduced a lot of human errors and minimized non-compliant execution of our processes.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The suite can provide anything we need regarding our ITSM needs. We can implement business rules, custom fields, automated validations, workflows, processes, etc. There's basically no limit, no ITSM business need we can't somehow do. No ITIL process we can't implement and certify. The management and agent GUI is consistent, once you understand how things are organized, you can easily navigate and find whatever option you need. Role based access control provides maximum granularity to satisfy the needs of the most strict security policies. CA's technical support is among the quickest and most capable support teams I've ever been served by.

Cons:

There are too many software products in the suite, all of them needed to have a fully functional and compliant service desk. From the desk itself, to process automation, business reports, service catalog, self service GUI, access control management. These products have been created along a very long timeframe, which translates on very different software development fundamentals. While Service Desk is a rather old piece of software which relies on obsolete technologies la .NET 2.0 and the Java plug-in, service catalog and self service portal are more modern pieces of software. The APIs are not as robust as expected, or as seen in disruptive competition, a very limited REST api and a very complex SOAP webservice make it a big challenge to build robust integrations. CA support has confirmed there are no plans for building from scratch a new, modern version of Service Desk.

Joel B.

Verified reviewer

Banking

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Sounds Great on Paper... Start using it and you'll hate it.

From a UI perspective the software is a train wreck. Most of our service agents hate it. From a Development stand point, you will spend a lot of time just chasing your tail trying to figure out why something isn't working only to find out that there is a known bug within the software that is preventing you from doing what you intended to do. The communities are helpful and most of the folks there are very nice. They seem to have the sense of "we feel your pain too" mentality. Overall the quality of this software and the overall architecture is a train wreck. This was supposedly a cheaper alternative to some of the competition but the down side is we wasted millions trying to make this thing work when in reality it never would. Its a broken smoldering pile. STEER CLEAR!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The concept and what it was attempting to do is brilliant. If it actually worked it would have transformed the entire agencies IT structure.

Cons:

It didn't work. It was full of bugs and it seemed like we were basically paying to test out their software. The CA / Broadcom QA team is non-existent. At the time of writing this review their Process Automation piece of the suite is inherently flawed to the point that it has broken all integration with the rest of the software.

Saumendra M.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

A highly mature product with all Industry leading features

Life is supper cool as all the compliance and industry standard practices are taken care by core of the application framework !!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Its based on ITIL and other Industry leading framework so one can use it relaxing about audits, Packed with many automation and self-service features to make the day to day support supper easy.Easy Integration with different data source , directory services and other eco system is the beauty of the product .Reporting and Knowledge management feature makes it the most appealing product among its competitors.

Cons:

A bit resource heavy on server side.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Networking

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Classical Service Desk Product

Streamline the ITIL process of an organization and help automating their IT infrastructure

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

One of the classical SD product developed using legacy and proprietary language but well advanced technical product.

Cons:

Customization and downtime is hours if you migrate or upgade

Brian v.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

CA Service Desk Manager - Version: 'SDr12_6-165'

Terrible, there are better opensourcer free offerings out there if you want CMDB, incident, Change and problem management or something the is a little more stable and closer to ITIL

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Only redeeming feature is that it is a centralized Change/Incident management system. The colour is blue, and that is where it ends.

Cons:

The CMDB part of it is near impossible to use, especialy if you have 30+ clients, 10000+ CI's and all the entities that hang of that. It is terribly resource hungry, the client frontend downloads a pile of code before it fires up, so a network killer for anybody that is on a wan or wifi in remote locations. When you have 100+ technicians trying to update their incidents/change orders it is prone to hang or not update. Very very difficult to extract any meaningfull data out of the system, their is no meaningful built in help. If there was ever a counter productive product, this is one of them.

Alex T.

Medical Practice

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Decent Ticketing System

Not bad, if you have only one team with consistent needs using the software. Once you need to customize it, you feel its limitations.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Was our previous ticketing software for our Contact Center before moving to ServiceNow. Able to capture category, subcategory, comments, affected end-user, and much more. Can also report out of CA to track rep performance, call trends, etc.

Cons:

Not nearly as customizable as ServiceNow, and its reporting functionality isn't as robust, either. Our Supply Chain Contact Center shared CA with our IT Contact Center, and, since it had such limited customization options, we had a number of challenges making one piece of software work for both teams. We've removed that problem with ServiceNow

Mohit J.

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

I am having moderate experience with CA service desk manager.

This provides all benefits of any ITIL compliant ticketing tool. We have started managing all our incidents/service requests through this and effectively managing SLA's

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is fast and easy to implement in any given organization. It has all basic and advanced features of a ITIL compliant ticketing tool.

Cons:

I certainly don't like the customization ability of this tool. We have struggled much with our tools team for getting the customized report. Also, analyzing the activity logs of any ticket is not so easy , you have to invest 10 minutes for a single ticket.

Karen B.

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

CA service desk was easy to install with the exception of a few database problems