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

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"It is user-friendly and simple to use.""ServiceNow was the first true enterprise to service management platform.""Remote access is most valuable.""I find the incident management part to be the most valuable. That's how the service desk tracks tickets.""It has more extensive features as compared to the other competitors.""It offers enhanced and efficient communication between the requester and the four pillar EDR through an online chat platform.""Discovery has reduced, on average, the time to build/deploy devices within our environment by one hour. This may not seem like much but it adds up over time. It also reaps additional time savings with its ability to capture changes through subsequent discoveries over the life of the device.""The subsequent chain of tasks, I believe, is valuable."

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

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"If you have advanced questions, technical support often doesn't know the answer.""The pricing of the solution could be better. It's a bit high.""We would like to have an Asset Management and/or Project Management feature enabled in this version and in the IT Service Management edition.""The technical support SLA can be improved because sometimes they take a long time to answer our queries.""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.""The interface requires an upgrade.""They need to be providing vendors and implementation partners with materials and guidance on implementation.""Their cloud management is also not that great compared to other products."

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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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  • "The first impact for the customer is that it is expensive, but do not forget that it is a solution that includes infrastructure; a single cost, easy to justify."
  • "It has a higher cost compared to local/regional solutions."
  • "We know that ServiceNow is not cheap, it's more expensive than other solutions. But we are trying to increase our ability to handle tickets so that the cost per ticket is less."
  • "It's sold as a less expensive solution, but it has to be highly modified. That's where you get into the cost."
  • "ServiceNow pricing is an art, not a science. The deal depends on how commercially savvy you are, which does make it something that is quite difficult to get right. It is most definitely an opportunity area for ServiceNow to improve and have more visibility around pricing of the different products within the platform."
  • "ServiceNow is a leader and its pricing is quite good, quite competitive... Sometimes some plugins are not priced reasonably but, generally, the platform itself, its modules, are priced reasonably."
  • "Isn't pricing always too much? We really do chafe at the ITIL licensing. ITOM is also pretty expensive."
  • "Initially, the licensing model ServiceNow came up with was very good. But now, from a licensing perspective, they are changing their model day by day. It is becoming a bit expensive for customers."
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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.

    ServiceNow is a cloud-based task-management platform that specializes in IT operations management (ITOM), IT services management (ITSM), and IT business management (ITBM). ServiceNow allows users to manage their teams, projects, and customer interactions using a variety of different plugins and apps with which it easily integrates.

    ServiceNow offers prebuilt applications to support any process, as well as a framework and tools that allow you to build your own.

    ServiceNow’s service management solutions include change, request, incident, problem, and cost management, as well as HR, IT, field service, and facilities management solutions. They also cover business management solutions such as vendor performance management, financial management, performance analytics and project portfolio suite, as well as governance, risk, and compliance.

    “The Smarter Way to Workflow”

    ServiceNow’s activities, processes, and tasks are overseen as part of a comprehensive managed workflow that supports such features as real-time collaboration, communication, and resource sharing. ServiceNow’s suite of products allow for operation using serverless computing, and include the categories of Business Apps, Customer Service, HR, IT, and Security.

    ServiceNow can be used to support most workflows because of the wide range of tools it offers. These include on-suite ticketing tools, predictive modeling to manage workflows, and benchmarking for the tracking of progress. ServiceNow can assist with artificial intelligence and machine learning processes and can be used to organize the cases of a help/service desk as well as for instance management and problem management. It also smoothly integrates with many legacy systems.

    ServiceNow offers service management software for industries including:

    Cloud services
    Education
    Financial services
    Government
    Healthcare
    Manufacturing
    Telecommunications

    Reviews from Real Users

    PeerSpot users prefer ServiceNow to its competitors because of its scalability, stability, and ease of use. It helps everyone in the company to be on the same page by creating a single source of record across all departments. One user stated that “I’ve definitely used over 20 project management solutions, but they can't be compared with ServiceNow.” Another said that “ServiceNow is an industry leader in multiple areas and provides an excellent ROI.

    Sample Customers
    EMC, ArcaTech Systems, Idera Pharmaceuticals, RBC, Affinity Service Group, Atrenta, DCG systems, ENKI, Hopkins County Board of Education, MVTS Technologies
    AAA, AstraZeneca, Becton, Dickinson and Company, Broadcom, Christus Health, Epicor, Equinix, GE Capital, Intuit, KPMG, Loyola Marymount University, OshKosh, Quantas, RedHat, Royal Bank of Scotland, Swiss Re, U.S. Department of Energy, Safeway, Yale University, and Zillow    
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    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Healthcare Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization22%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government7%
    Company Size
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise65%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise30%
    Large Enterprise56%
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    Agiloft Service Desk Suite is ranked 40th in Help Desk Software while ServiceNow is ranked 1st in Help Desk Software with 210 reviews. Agiloft Service Desk Suite is rated 9.6, while ServiceNow is rated 8.4. 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 ServiceNow writes "A stable and scalable solution that has excellent features and is useful for collecting data and building KPIs". Agiloft Service Desk Suite is most compared with , whereas ServiceNow is most compared with BMC Helix ITSM, Microsoft Power Apps, Pega BPM, IBM Maximo and Appian.

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