We performed a comparison between ServiceNow and VMware Service Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about ServiceNow, BMC, Freshworks and others in IT Asset Management."It is user-friendly and simple to use."
"I really like what they've done with their common service data model because now I can make a connection between the business process and technology."
"ServiceNow has also enabled our Management Consulting business to provide Digital Transformation services for our clients the world over, as we use the platform as an accelerator for doing IT Target Operating Model transformations."
"Some of the valuable features I have found the solution to have are it can serve many different types of businesses, it has strong platform capabilities, provides application development, built-in predictive intelligence, and performance analytics reports."
"I like the ease of use."
"You can put information in or export it out quickly, which is very useful when you have weekly or monthly reports."
"It gave us professionalized, faster incident turn around times. Improved quality of information shared with our customers. Over time we build an extensive knowledge base that assists in both self-service as in services provided by the servicedesk when handling incidents."
"You can have it installed and up and running within hours if you know what you're doing. Time to market would be one of the main things to consider."
"All of the features are very suitable for us. It is also a stable solution."
"It provides us with improved maintenance cycles."
"We have installed a physical server for failover. We need to configure cluster on everything. But with VMware, we do not need to cluster. We get automatically seven physical nodes failover. If one fails we have no issues."
"The standard UI is very restricted. It doesn't look as good, compared to Remedy. Building your own UI requires some additional coding..."
"The level of complexity and the level of discovery are the two areas that can be improved. Its UI needs to evolve. They focus a lot on cool colors and other little things, which don't bring value in terms of functionality. They need to focus less on presentation and more on the functionality within the UI. Its discovery mechanism should be improved. There is a component in ServiceNow that discovers the assets, but it doesn't do an immediate discovery, and there is a lag. If I want to open a ticket for a laptop or an asset, that asset needs to exist within ServiceNow for me to be able to say that I need to have its disk space or memory increased. It is referred to as a CI or configuration item in ServiceNow. Sometimes, ServiceNow doesn't discover these items, and as a result, I cannot open a ticket and tag that system or asset. If a system was introduced to the environment last week and it is still not listed, it becomes a problem. I will either have to wait or manually enter that system or asset. So, if I have a laptop with only 8 GB of memory and I want to request 16 GB of memory, I won't be able to do that in ServiceNow because my system or asset hasn't been discovered yet. Discovery is not immediate, and there is a lag."
"An area for improvement would be the accessibility of downloaded and compressed files."
"Its setup is tough. It takes a lot of knowledge and a lot of experience."
"Where it could be improved is Discovery. This may sound odd since I just praised the value of ServiceNow Discovery, but improvements to its automatic detection, the breadth of devices, and the depth of devices covered, as well as keeping up with new technologies, are all essential."
"The solution could be made cheaper. Machine learning and artificial intelligence should be introduced in the next release."
"I have enjoyed all the features. There is not any feature that I have missed or didn't have."
"Once a change request has been created once it's been approved and been submitted, there is no way to go in on that particular change request and submit an additional task."
"Not a ten because the price is high."
"Its automation feature needs improvement. They can include the vRealize Automation feature in this solution."
"It needs to improve user roles and access rights."
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ServiceNow is ranked 1st in IT Asset Management with 211 reviews while VMware Service Manager is ranked 23rd in IT Asset Management. ServiceNow is rated 8.4, while VMware Service Manager is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of ServiceNow writes "A stable and scalable solution that has excellent features and is useful for collecting data and building KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Service Manager writes "It needs to improve user roles and access rights. It provides us with improved maintenance cycles". ServiceNow is most compared with BMC Helix ITSM, Microsoft Power Apps, Pega BPM, IBM Maximo and Appian, whereas VMware Service Manager is most compared with BMC Remedy .
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