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"Our customer service and productivity have increased in quality and quantity since using this product."

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"The dashboard is very useful to get a quick overview of current tasks.""Clear processes with transparent responsibilities led to more efficiencies within the teams.""All our activities are carried out in the one place.""The most valuable features are problem management and change management.""The dashboard and the reporting functionality are the solution's most valuable features.""Its integration features, orchestration features, and discovery tools are the most valuable. It is also pretty stable, and it can be as scalable as you want."

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"We have found the documentation a bit confusing at times. This area could use some improvement."

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"Access is only available if we're on VPN.""The stability, specifically in the on-premises deployment model, could be improved.""Areas for improvement would be the service catalog and customer catalog, which is not very user-friendly. The shopping cart experience is also terrible - you submit and go straight to the cart, you can't continue shopping or see your overall cost.""Application service mapping, GRC, SecOps, and things like that need improvement."

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  • "Agiloft has by far the best entry point for both cost and learning curve."
  • "After about six months, we started making a return on our investment at more than 300%."
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  • "For an ITIL user, the cost is probably about 50 bucks a month."
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    Top Answer:All our activities are carried out in the one place.
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    Top Answer:We use the solution for IT service management, it's the key process for recording incidents or problems, and change management. We are customers of Cherwell and I'm an enterprise architect.
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    Overview

    Top rated by analysts and users

    Awarded “Best Overall Value” three years in a row by Info-Tech Research Group

    What we can do for you

    Workflow automation guides Help Desk technicians or Support Staff through your preferred processes, tracks performance and proactively escalates issues before they become problems.

    Dashboards, reports, and charts show turnaround times, staff productivity and overdue tickets at a glance. So you can plan and respond effectively.

    Eliminate errors and duplication of effort by integrating information used by multiple processes in a centralized repository.

    With a 24/7 self-service portal, users are able to report issues or request services online. A dynamic knowledge base with FAQ, and full text search, provides answers to common issues.

    Provide real-time service for critical issues and convert chat transcripts into tickets with one click. LogMeIn Rescue or Bomgar integration enables fast and effective remote support.

    Improve staff productivity with easily customized home pages that allow IT staff to work the way they like and see the information most important to them.

    Available via historical snapshots that display the entire record as it existed at any point in time and configurable audit logs.

    Through configurable ticket assignment and escalation rules that alert you to blockages and proactively escalate issues when necessary.

    With multi-language functionality and follow-the-sun case assignment that can be customized for the working hours of different teams.


    “Agiloft is one of the most caring and responsive vendors that I have ever worked with”

    — Dave Ross, Cal Poly


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    What Makes Us Different

    • Built on an agile platform for rapid configuration of the most sophisticated requirements, without any coding.
    • Available both as a hosted cloud solution and as an in-house deployment.
    • Fully extensible, with 10+ out-of-the-box applications and the flexibility to map any custom business process.
    • One affordable price that includes all features and functionality. No hidden fees, no surprises.
    Cherwell Service Management is a powerful IT service management (ITSM) solution that provides IT organizations the flexibility needed for rapid configuration and customization, minimal overhead, and frictionless upgrades at a fraction of the cost and complexity associated with legacy ITSM solutions. Cherwell's codeless design architecture means you can add new functionality without modifying a single line of code, integrate easily with third party applications, and upgrade without fear of breaking what you've built.
    Sample Customers
    EMC, ArcaTech Systems, Idera Pharmaceuticals, RBC, Affinity Service Group, Atrenta, DCG systems, ENKI, Hopkins County Board of Education, MVTS Technologies
    Ausenco, Highlights for Children, B/E Aerospace
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization53%
    Government11%
    Computer Software Company5%
    Retailer4%
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise58%
    Large Enterprise32%
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    Agiloft Service Desk Suite is ranked 40th in Help Desk Software while Cherwell Service Management is ranked 19th in Help Desk Software with 6 reviews. Agiloft Service Desk Suite is rated 9.6, while Cherwell Service Management is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Agiloft Service Desk Suite writes "It's customizable, can be developed easily, and free, but only up to a certain number of users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cherwell Service Management writes "Having everything in one location has significantly improved our efficiency and reporting". Agiloft Service Desk Suite is most compared with , whereas Cherwell Service Management is most compared with ServiceNow and Ivanti Neurons for ITSM.

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