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"Offers good reporting capabilities. Getting the right information is the key to understanding and improvements.""The record linking shows us all of the changes that were implemented during that release, what clients were affected, related incidents and problem records, and important documentation that occurred along the way.""Remedyforce has greatly improved our company's ability to accurately track and create new records.""The knowledge base is the solution's most valuable aspect. All of the knowledge we need is right at our fingertips.""The solution is very good at integrating systems.""The solution is very flexible.""The feature that we like best is the stability of the product.""BMC Remedyforce is a good tracking service in general."

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"The dashboard is very useful to get a quick overview of current tasks.""All our activities are carried out in the one place.""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.""Clear processes with transparent responsibilities led to more efficiencies within the teams.""The most valuable features are problem management and change management.""The dashboard and the reporting functionality are the solution's most valuable features."

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"They need to make it possible to more easily customize the user interface.""They need to include more high-end technology, different languages, the kinds of things not yet included in the product.""The solution's technical support is in need of a lot of improvement.""The product is created to service small to medium-sized businesses. Although it can be used in enterprise settings this choice comes down to properly assessing needs.""There should be some tool to move SRD and SLA from the sandbox to production.""The look and feel is very dated.""It's not user-friendly. Everything is overly complicated. Even for the simplest of tasks, a user will waste time. It requires a lot of clicks and a lot of steps. Often we will have to do the same thing two or three times. It's really bad.""It's hard to find information about the solution online. We'll sometimes use the internet to look for technical answers, and we won't be able to find it."

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"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.""Access is only available if we're on VPN.""The stability, specifically in the on-premises deployment model, could be improved.""Application service mapping, GRC, SecOps, and things like that need improvement."

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  • "BMC Remedyforce is extremely reasonable when talking about licensing costs."
  • "The cost may be higher, but it is backed up by the great product and superb customer service."
  • "Licensing should be reviewed and understood before making the purchase."
  • "My current company has a deal. I think the subscription per year is 20K dollars. Per year for the client is really nothing compared to other products and solutions."
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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.
    Top Answer:We need to be on VPN in order to set up and access the solution, and that has created some challenges. Even though it uses our Windows login, we still have to be on VPN. The product should be able to… more »
    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

    BMC Remedyforce, built on Salesforce App Cloud, enables you to deliver high-speed service management that empowers users and accelerates the business, with minimal capital investment.

    Built with speed and flexibility in mind

    • Comprehensive functionality:Incident, problem, change, service level management, self-service, discovery and asset management
    • Social, mobile, modern access: With the Salesforce 1 platform, solve incidents, submit approvals, and crowdsource information via Chatter or chat
    • Intuitive dashboards and reporting: Resolve 90% of IT issues on the first call; show key business metrics in real time
    • Configuration not customization: Deploy new technologies and services without coding or scripting, using existing Salesforce staff
    • No software or hardware to install or manage: Seamless upgrades twice a year with simple, value-based pricing


    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
    Design Within Reach, Dex Media, DHHS, News UK, Pervasive Software, Mitchell International, Sysmex Corporation, Ameritas, Lumen 21
    Ausenco, Highlights for Children, B/E Aerospace
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider15%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization52%
    Government11%
    Computer Software Company5%
    Retailer4%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise31%
    Large Enterprise38%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise68%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise57%
    Large Enterprise33%
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    BMC Remedyforce [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Help Desk Software with 15 reviews while Cherwell Service Management is ranked 18th in Help Desk Software with 6 reviews. BMC Remedyforce [EOL] is rated 7.8, while Cherwell Service Management is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of BMC Remedyforce [EOL] writes "A solid, reasonably-priced service management solution for small to mid-sized businesses". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cherwell Service Management writes "Having everything in one location has significantly improved our efficiency and reporting". BMC Remedyforce [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Cherwell Service Management is most compared with ServiceNow, Ivanti Neurons for ITSM, JIRA Service Management and BMC Helix ITSM.

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