We performed a comparison between Freshservice and IBM Maximo based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about ServiceNow, Atlassian, BMC and others in Help Desk Software."The portal is straightforward for the end-user, but that's not the best part of Freshservice. Integration is the part that's interesting because it's easy to set up a process. It's extremely simple to integrate. In one week, you can add change management. It's incredible."
"Its ease of use is fantastic. It is just above and beyond, especially when you compare it to something like Cherwell, Salesforce, or anything like that. It is on its own level. It is so easy to administer. The way everything is organized and the way it builds its own documentation is very good."
"It has reduced the time to look up who is responsible for a service, and it has reduced the time to finalize a service request because it now goes directly to the person who is responsible for the service in that location. So, a service request is handled quickly and directly by the person responsible for it."
"The solution’s timely automated triggers increase our IT team’s productivity."
"We really like the Freshchat widget that allows people to engage with our FAQs on any kind of webpage or web property."
"There is a nice user interface."
"Freshservice has automated a lot of our tasks, including ticket responses and call assignments, which has sped up our operations considerably."
"The overall functionality of the product is excellent."
"IBM Maximo is a very strong and powerful tool in the market…Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"They have a real strength of tracking the asset itself along with the condition of the asset, the maintenance of the asset and who has access to the asset, etc."
"The most valuable features of IBM Maximo are the overall power and interface, and there are a lot of different modules that we use that are helpful. Additionally, it's an integrated solution and it has a lot of capabilities."
"The incident management feature is good because it allows you to keep track of and classify issues."
"The most powerful features are the database and integration with CMDB."
"Provides great flexibility."
"Reliable, very configurable, and it's all integrated in the same database."
"Has a powerful audit combination that helps achieve high accuracy."
"There are some limitations in reporting. For example, I would like to have a report of conversations or replies."
"Their analytics need improvement."
"A chat bot needs to be added to the portal."
"You can't implement a complicated delivery workflow. We don't have the same problems with incident and change workflows. It's only for delivery workflow. They have a mechanism for modifying your incident or change workflow. There's a visual interface for that, so there's no reason not to have the same function for request management."
"Freshservice has issues around how assets get picked up, requiring a lot of parameter changes within to network to ensure the system discovers everything."
"We'd like to see a CMDB, a Configuration Management Database, in the future."
"On the reporting side, when we were doing reporting, one thing that was a bit of a limitation was when you had a data list containing a list of changes that have occurred for the whole time and you had to fit the list onto a page. If the list went over the page, it would just truncate it at the page. You wouldn't get all your data. So, it didn't work. That was one big stand-out for me. What we tended to do was convert things into a more readable format, and then we had more targeted exception reporting, but it would be nice to have a full list of things that could be automatically generated and that can flow over pages."
"I am not too happy with the page layout or screen layout since it always looks messy."
"The solution is not stable. We can have one day when it is stable and another day it is not. Sometimes it crashes or becomes very slow, and there are times we are not even able to download all the databases. Without the database, we cannot work on that application. These are the small glitches, and stability issues we are facing."
"Areas for improvement include: an enhanced Service Catalog on Mobile; Agent intelligence; better dashboards for KPIs."
"Could use some alignment regarding some standards and the tracking of the IT assets. Even though they have all of the information (i.e. where are the assets, who owns the asset, etc.), they were not mapping it to different cyber standards."
"The pricing model of the solution has room for improvement as well as the after-sales support."
"It's quite reliable, but new versions often are not too stable. They bring in enhancements but they break other stuff."
"It needs full-service visibility. There are a lot of things that are hard for users to find out. For example, the Service Catalog is not too friendly. You really have to know what you're looking for."
"Areas for improvement would be the user interface and support for Arabic. They could also be more customer-oriented."
"Initial setup is a longer process because Maximo is bigger and has more processes."
Freshservice is ranked 5th in Help Desk Software with 29 reviews while IBM Maximo is ranked 1st in Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) with 23 reviews. Freshservice is rated 8.0, while IBM Maximo is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Freshservice writes "Provides excellent traceability along with improved efficiency and reliability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Maximo writes "Work order management and scalability enables the businesses' needs to be met". Freshservice is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, Microsoft Project, Zendesk and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, whereas IBM Maximo is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, ABB Ability Asset Suite EAM, IFS Cloud Platform and NetSuite ERP.
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