Vivantio

vivantio.com
IT Service Management
Few Days

Service Management Software to Centralize Support Teams

How to Replace Vivantio

Overview

Vivantio is an enterprise-grade service management platform that empowers internal and external teams with IT service management and customer support capabilities. The platform unifies customer support and service delivery across multiple teams with AI-enabled features, flexible customization, and scalability without complexity.

Features

98 features across 18 categories

AI(7)

AI AssistAI

Surface trusted answers from existing knowledge and service history to resolve questions quickly, reduce unnecessary tickets, and capture context when work needs to be escalated

AI EnrichAI

Automatically summarize, detect sentiment, and suggest responses so teams communicate consistently, resolve faster, and reduce escalation risk

AI EvolveAI

Turn service data into continuous improvement with trends, insights, and recommendations that help leaders prioritize what matters and improve outcomes

AI Knowledge SearchAI

Allow end users/customers and technicians to search and use AI to summarize an answer based on knowledge base articles

AI Sentiment AnalysisAI

Automatically determine the emotional tone of tickets and highlight and apply automations accordingly

AI SummarizationAI

Provide a summary of the activity on a ticket automatically using AI

AI Text EditorAI

Use generative AI to build feedback to customers and adjust tone, check notes for errors and language

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Asset Management(10)

Advanced Asset Management

Store asset data with custom forms, fields, and relationships with full integration to the service platform

Asset Auditing

Maintain a complete audit trail of all changes made to an asset over time

Asset Discovery

Scan and import assets from the entire organization or from customer systems

Asset Federation

Pull data from multiple different sources, combining and consolidating it for auditing, reporting, and analysis

Asset Management / CMDB

Track, monitor, and manage IT assets with built-in Configuration Management Database

Asset Relationships

Link related assets using custom-configured downstream and upstream relationship types

Asset Ticket History

Record all tickets or service requests that have been logged against an asset

Asset Types and Categorization

Setup different types of asset configuration

Customizable Asset Layout

Customize the layout of forms within the Asset working window, configure order, card/tab display, and role access

Impact Maps

Provide a graphical representation of the entire network of people and systems that could be impacted by a change

Automation(12)

Dynamic Assignment

Define complex, multi-step processes with tasks assigned to different individuals in specific order

Email to Ticket

Turn emails into tickets automatically with support for embedded images, video, and attachments

Follow-the-Sun Routing

Automatically re-assign tickets on configurable schedule

Note Templates

Set up canned responses that agents can use at any point during the ticket lifecycle

Round Robin Assignment

Distribute work in name-order between specific groups with rules for all or subset of tickets

Routing RulesAI

Automatically assign tickets based on criteria including AI-driven insights as soon as ticket is created

Sender Tracking

Lookup sender from CRM and link all cc recipients to the ticket

Skills-based RoutingAI

Leverage AI to determine which ticket types each technician is best suited to resolving

Smart Actions

Extract email information and insert into ticket details and history for cleaner activity view

Template Action Types

Build templates linked to specific action types such as change priority, change owner, etc.

Ticket Templates

Provide ticket templates to help agents log tickets in seconds by adding end-user details

Workflow Designer

Define complex, multi-step processes with tasks assigned to different individuals in specific order, automatically applied to specific ticket types

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

CRM(5)

Client Alerts

Add alerts visible on tickets and contact records for specific clients

Client Categories

Configure relevant categories that appear as options for specific clients when creating tickets

Client Highlight Rules

Spotlight certain clients from system area lists

Client Management / CRM

Store and manage customer data as a standalone CRM or integrated front-end to surface external system data to service teams

Client SLAs

Configure priorities and SLAs on a client-by-client basis

Also in: monday.com, Setmore, HubSpot

Communication(5)

Email Signatures

Support multiple email signatures

Email Templates

Pre-populate email templates for rapid response with support for embedding database merge fields

Email Themes

Set up multiple themes or brands for email templates with ability to change look and feel per customer

Review / Reply / Forward

Review original email, reply to all or forward email internally or externally

Rich Text History & NotesAI

Embed images, screenshots, and files with generative AI text formatting features when interacting with customers

Also in: Jobber, Jira, Insightly

Configuration(3)

Email to Ticket Sender Rules

Control who can log tickets via email and who is restricted to just updating or not using email

Out Of Office

Allow team to record OOO time, surface that information to other agents, and exclude OOO agents from automated assignment with delegates

Working Time Plans

Configure one or more working time plans for SLAs and OLAs, capturing different regions, offices, or service hours for different customer tiers

Customer Portal(11)

Anonymous SSP Access

Expose Knowledge Base to anonymous users with ability to filter what they can do and see

Guided Categories

Use wizard-like category selector to guide users into choosing right ticket categorization

HTML & CSS

Have complete control over HTML and CSS providing ultimate flexibility in look and feel

Localization

Implement and customize out-of-the-box language packs or build custom ones

Page Editor

Build completely custom content within SSP

Self Service Portal

Enable customers to log tickets, view assets and knowledge base articles, and run reports in a fully configurable portal

Self Service Portal Instances

Create multiple custom branded self service portals to embed in website or organization

Self Service Roles

Exercise granular control over who can do what inside the SSP

Service Catalog

Define services, expose them via self-service portal, allow users to request services with custom forms followed by automated approvals

Theme Editor

Customize look and feel of portal allowing it to match corporate website or existing intranet

Ticket Deflection

Surface answers to customers during ticket creation process to resolve issue before it is logged

Customization(6)

Cascading Custom Forms and Fields

Control visibility of forms or fields based on values selected in other fields

Conditional Custom Forms

Control visibility of custom forms to always appear or only for certain ticket categories or statuses

Conditional Custom Forms and Fields

Control visibility of custom forms to always appear or only for certain ticket categories or statuses

Custom Forms & Fields

Control visibility of forms or fields based on values selected in other fields

Linked Custom Fields

Link fields between system areas to combine them into one custom form

Multiline Custom Forms

Create multiline custom forms for complex data entry

Also in: monday.com, Obsidian, Smartsheet

Developer(2)

JavaScript Support

Native JavaScript support for advanced functionality and API access

oData Support

Supports oData connections for data access

Feedback(3)

NPS/CSAT Surveys

Send one-off surveys to large groups of customers and analyze and report on their feedback

Sentiment Surveys

Enable customers to provide easy, anonymous, one-click feedback at any point during ticket lifecycle

Surveys

Define rules to control when to trigger customer satisfaction surveys after ticket resolution with configurable survey types

ITSM(2)

ITSM / ITIL Support

Enable OOB ITIL requirements for full compatibility with Incident, Problem, Service Request, and Change Management ticket types

Service Level Management

Configure service levels with definable milestones like response, diagnose and fix beyond simple open-to-close SLAs

Knowledge Base(10)

Article Creation on Ticket ClosurePremium

Automatically create articles on ticket closure

Article ExpiryPremium

Set visibility dates for knowledge base articles to expire and be reviewed

Article TemplatesPremium

Create templates for knowledge base articles requiring preset fields by category

Article ThemesPremium

Create a consistent look-and-feel for knowledge base articles with ability to enforce use of header/footer/custom CSS or change layout, and brand articles differently per-client

Customer Knowledge Base FeedbackPremium

Allow customers and end users to rate and comment on knowledge base articles

Customizable Article LayoutPremium

Customize the layout of forms within the KB working window, configure order, card/tab display, and role access

Knowledge BasePremium

Create, update, categorize, and manage documentation with visibility controls for system users, customers, or public access

Knowledge Base SegregationPremium

Define visibility for system users, customers, or public access articles

Knowledge Management

Create, update, categorize, and manage documentation in a comprehensive document/file management system for ticket deflection and agent support

Link Tickets to Articles

Send articles to customers during ticket closure, saving technician time with stock responses that include article links and descriptions

Reporting(14)

BI Integrations

Surface data via OOB integrations with BI tools or specialized API endpoints

Built-in BI

Visualize data in variety of ways within service management environment

Customer Portal Reports

Push specific reports to self-service portal to allow customers with appropriate permissions to run reports

Data Builder

High performance, feature-rich Data Table and React Data Grid reporting tool with built-in charting

Live Dashboards

Set up fully customizable schedules for any report to automatically email recipients with per-client reporting options

Managed Data Warehouse

Build OLAP-like data warehouse using service provider's servers and infrastructure

Quick Reports

Provide graphical representation of network of people and systems that could be impacted by a change

Report Builder

Explore data in instance via intuitive user interface

Report Catalog

Leverage library of pre-built reports ready-to-run and ready-to-customize

Scheduled Reports

Maintain complete audit trail of all changes made to an asset over time

Self Service Dashboards

Expose data to customers in self-service portal without understanding complex reports or seeing underlying data

Self Service Reports

Enable customers to run self-service reports on demand

Track Effort

Record the amount of time technicians spend working on tickets with higher tiers including start/stop clock and automatic time recording

Wallboards

Create customer documents, worksheets, and reports from ticket data, run directly from that ticket

Security(1)

Multiple IdP

Integrate SSP with customers' infrastructure making experience seamless and reducing friction

Task Management(1)

Task Management

Create sub-work items with complete data sets, inherited or not from parent ticket, and reassign to other individuals or teams

Ticketing(1)

Configurable Ticket Types

Create and configure unlimited ticket types with dedicated configuration, categories, priorities, and custom forms while retaining collaboration ability

Vendor Management(1)

Third Party Management

Record third parties, assign work to them, and report on third-party referrals

Workspace(4)

Customizable Columns

Enable agents to control which data fields are visible in any grid view

Multi-line Detail Screens

Subscribe to tickets for updates or bookmark them for quick access and visibility

Personalized Workspaces

Create ideal working environment for each technician across the organization with right information surfaced at the right time

Watch List

Subscribe to tickets for updates or bookmark them for quick access and visibility

Pricing

The Vivantio Platform

Popular
$49/month per agent
  • All Vivantio features
  • 600+ Integrations + API
  • HIPAA / SOC2 / ISO27001 / Cyber Essentials
  • Choice of data centers
  • Streamlined dedicated onboarding
  • Vivantio US & UK technical support
  • Dedicated customer success manager

Cost Calculator

Keep Paying Vivantio

Monthly$49/mo
Yearly$588/yr
5-Year Total$2.9k

Build It Yourself

Est. Build Time~11 hrs
Hosting$20/mo
DifficultyEasy

Total Cost Comparison

1 YearSave $348
SaaS
$588
DIY
$240
3 YearsSave $1k
SaaS
$1.8k
DIY
$720
5 YearsSave $1.7k
SaaS
$2.9k
DIY
$1.2k

DIY hosting estimate based on Vercel + Supabase free/pro tiers (~$20/mo). Build time estimated from 98 features at easy complexity.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a Vivantio alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 98 features.

Buy Vivantio

Better Value
Monthly cost$490/mo
3-year total$17,640
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$84,000
Maintenance$1,260/mo
3-year total$129,360
Dev time~7 months

Buying Vivantio saves ~$111,720 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 98 features and a BuildScore of 4/5. Actual costs vary.

Integrations

4 known integrations

Google EmailMicrosoft 365Microsoft ExchangeSalesforce