We performed a comparison between ServiceNow and VMware Service Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Asset Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has very good automation tools."
"Remote access is most valuable."
"The solution is easy to use, simple to make queries, flexible to configure, integrates well, and supports all of our companies needs."
"It's more about the ease of use of ServiceNow. Plus, everything is there in a single platform. If you need any additional functionality, you just need to enable the plugins without even installing anything on the servers"
"It allows us to filter the data, create graphs, and get detailed reports."
"Within our organization, we're not finding really any major issues with scalability and things of that nature."
"It is easily configurable and has a good developer society online, available for any issues from the backend."
"It's a straightforward and effective approach that minimizes the need for extensive explanations."
"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."
"All of the features are very suitable for us. It is also a stable solution."
"It provides us with improved maintenance cycles."
"It became kind of complex to set it up without a general lack of knowledge of the particular feature-function capabilities. Features and capabilities could have been explained better to the end-users."
"Before implementing this solution, you should have the ITSM model in place for chain management requests. That is a prerequisite because you cannot perform tasks without it."
"The reporting, which also includes dashboards, needs to be improved, and there should also be the ability to turn on and off portions of Project Management. Currently, as soon as you install the new version, you've got to go back there and make all the tweaks. There should be just a configuration file that goes to the new version. The Project Management module does not leverage the knowledge base the way it should, and there is no built-in ability to get to the articles. Resource management should be easier. It would be amazing if they can make resource management a little bit more graphical. There are other solutions that I've seen where resource management was a more visual experience."
"The ability to embed help information onto the screens."
"We do a lot of relatively advanced stuff for the size that we are, but ServiceNow itself is so big and to some extent, there is a significant amount of complexity that you have, a big learning curve I would say, in order to really get on board."
"Local solutions have lower costs."
"The Express edition does not allow the option for scripting."
"They could improve license management, particularly when integrating different applications or toolsets."
"It needs to improve user roles and access rights."
"Not a ten because the price is high."
"Its automation feature needs improvement. They can include the vRealize Automation feature in this solution."
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ServiceNow is ranked 1st in IT Asset Management with 212 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 . See our ServiceNow vs. VMware Service Manager report.
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