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We performed a comparison between Cherwell Service Management and Clarity SM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Help Desk Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Cherwell Service Management vs. Clarity SM Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"All our activities are carried out in the one place.""Clear processes with transparent responsibilities led to more efficiencies within the teams.""The most valuable features are problem management and change management.""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.""The dashboard is very useful to get a quick overview of current tasks.""The dashboard and the reporting functionality are the solution's most valuable features."

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"We are benefiting by being able to put time to what our technicians are doing.""It's fairly easy to use, from a UI standpoint.""The flexibility and being able to connect to multiple products are valuable. It allows to use it the way we want to use it versus the way it came out of the box.""XFlow (Temperature) and Service Point together provided an extremely user-friendly and collaborative experience to the point of making it easy for all users of the product, whether end-users or analysts.""The value for the clients is that you can save information in the application and get reports with that information.""The most valuable features of this solution are reporting, configuration monitoring, and the Request and Incidents workflow.""It is the most stable product in the market.""Self-service interface means people can check their own tickets."

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Cons
"Access is only available if we're on VPN.""Application service mapping, GRC, SecOps, and things like that need improvement.""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."

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"They need to improve the High Availability, and the native integration between CA Service Desk Manager, CA Process Automation, CA Service Catalog and CA Unified Self-Service.""There are some issues regarding the knowledge base and the configuration manager.""On permissions, there are options to do groups and options to do roles. What is practical, you have to pick one or the other, for both read and write permissions.""Just little technical tweaks here and there. Like more options. For example "Organization." We wanted that to be available inside the change order, as well as the ticket and the request. And that's not available.""The user interface is just boring. I'd like to see a more interactive UI, from the end-user perspective, and from the analyst's perspective. I would like a product that looks like it was developed maybe in 2015, or at least 2012.""The CA products integrate well together but I would like to see better integration with third-party solutions.""The product needs to have a better user experience in the interface and mobile functionality.​""The interface for the users is a bit old-fashioned and not user-friendly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "For an ITIL user, the cost is probably about 50 bucks a month."
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  • "I don't see anyone other than large companies being able to afford this system."
  • "It is a bit expensive, but you definitely get what you pay for. It is worth it!"
  • "Pricing is simple, as it’s per concurrent analysts."
  • "I think pricing of this model is suitable for growing corporations."
  • "Clarity offers a perpetual license. Customers purchase the license once and then pay for maintenance. CA provides a subscription model as well. Both models are available for our customers."
  • "There is a subscripted needed to use Clarity SM. The price of the solution could be less expensive. ServiceNow is less expensive and BMC Helix is priced similar to Clarity SM."
  • "The pricing is based on a subscription model."
  • "The solution is quite reasonable compared to other solutions in the market."
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    Questions from the Community
    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.
    Top Answer:It is the most stable product in the market.
    Top Answer:The solution is quite reasonable compared to other solutions in the market.
    Top Answer:They should enhance the service desk manager's service point function to be more customizable. Presently, there are so many limitations in this particular UI. Thus, similar to the existing UI, they… more »
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    23rd
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    Also Known As
    CA Service Desk Manager, Clarity Service Management, CA Service Management, Unicenter Service Desk, CA SDM, CA Service Catalog, CA Business Service Insight
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    Overview
    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.

    Service desk capabilities, an integral part of the CA Service Management solution, can enable you to deliver efficiencies in IT service management to business consumers, power users and decision makers. Mobility and collaborative self-service capabilities provide a modern user experience for accessing services and performing tasks, which can help drive user adoption, satisfaction and productivity.

    Learn More: https://www.ca.com/us/products...

    Sample Customers
    Ausenco, Highlights for Children, B/E Aerospace
    Banco G&T Continental City of Perth, FEMSA, Fujitsu, Manpower, Muslim Commercial Bank - MCB, Punjab National Bank, Santa Clara County Social Services, Stefanini
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization54%
    Government11%
    Computer Software Company6%
    Healthcare Company3%
    REVIEWERS
    Healthcare Company25%
    Financial Services Firm22%
    Government7%
    Comms Service Provider5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Real Estate/Law Firm7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise59%
    Large Enterprise31%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise62%
    Buyer's Guide
    Cherwell Service Management vs. Clarity SM
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Cherwell Service Management vs. Clarity SM and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
    769,789 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Cherwell Service Management is ranked 19th in Help Desk Software with 6 reviews while Clarity SM is ranked 23rd in Help Desk Software with 107 reviews. Cherwell Service Management is rated 7.2, while Clarity SM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cherwell Service Management writes "Having everything in one location has significantly improved our efficiency and reporting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Clarity SM writes "Quite good back-end architecture for end users but the API is very, very bad". Cherwell Service Management is most compared with ServiceNow and Ivanti Neurons for ITSM, whereas Clarity SM is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, BeyondTrust Remote Support, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus and Agiloft ITSM ITIL Service Desk Suite. See our Cherwell Service Management vs. Clarity SM report.

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