About TOPdesk
The mid-market service desk with Dutch roots.
TOPdesk started in 1993 in an attic in Delft, founded by Frank Droogsma and Wolter Smit, and incorporated as a company in 1997. It grew into the service-management platform that a large share of Dutch and Belgian mid-market organisations, municipalities, universities, hospitals and housing corporations use for their IT, facility and HR service desks. The company now sits on around nine hundred employees across ten-plus countries, with offices in Germany, Belgium, the UK, Hungary, Brazil, the US, Canada and the Nordics, but the centre of gravity is still Delft and the customer base leans heavily toward BeNeLux and DACH public-sector and mid-market buyers.
TOPdesk covers three service domains on one data model: IT service management (incidents, problems, changes, requests, assets), facility management (reservations, work orders, building assets) and HR service delivery. The object model is the familiar ITSM set, plus operators, persons, suppliers, branches, locations and a CMDB. Buyers typically pick TOPdesk where ServiceNow is overkill and a SaaS helpdesk like Freshdesk is too light: a regional enterprise or a public body that needs change management, a real CMDB and SLA reporting, without a small army of ServiceNow developers to keep it alive.
The point of pulling TOPdesk into a warehouse is that the service-desk dashboard answers service-desk questions and nothing else. Which supplier keeps generating asset incidents, which building's facility reservations bleed IT tickets the week after, and which department's ticket load is outgrowing its contracted hours: those are procurement, facility and finance questions, and they live outside TOPdesk. In a warehouse, incidents join the asset ledger, reservations join the operator calendar and the asset register joins Business Central or Exact.