We performed a comparison between Freshservice and VMware Service Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about ServiceNow, BMC, Freshworks and others in IT Asset Management."The overall functionality of the product is excellent."
"You can just register and within five to minute minutes, you are ready to go."
"The admin feature is the UI, so it's very clean. The asset management and its model are valuable as well."
"The solution has been very helpful engineering insights into the client's environment. We have been able to manage calls and incidence very efficiently which provides us with a clear understanding of the system warranty and the actions that we might need to take in terms of insights. The system is very dynamic and prevents any kind of over sides which is yours that there is smooth contract management. Also we can easily uphold SLAs and deliver enhanced services without breaching any agreements."
"The most valuable features of Freshservice are the notifications, customization, and flexibility."
"Freshservice has automated a lot of our tasks, including ticket responses and call assignments, which has sped up our operations considerably."
"Freshservice's best feature is its user-friendliness."
"The most valuable feature of Freshservice is you can assign downloaded tickets and the reports are useful."
"It provides us with improved maintenance cycles."
"All of the features are very suitable for us. It is also a stable solution."
"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."
"We'd like to see a CMDB, a Configuration Management Database, in the future."
"The most significant area for improvement is consistency across the different modules, as they are inconsistent. It makes me think the modules have different development teams with no consistent approach. From an end-user perspective, I can do certain operations in one module, such as instant management, but not in problem management, for example, and I don't see why that should be the case. It would be good to see more consistency in the development process."
"Freshservice could improve the delegation and workflow management features."
"Freshservice could improve the integration with Microsoft Outlook."
"On the reporting side, when we were doing reporting, one thing that was a bit of a limitation was when you had a data list containing a list of changes that have occurred for the whole time and you had to fit the list onto a page. If the list went over the page, it would just truncate it at the page. You wouldn't get all your data. So, it didn't work. That was one big stand-out for me. What we tended to do was convert things into a more readable format, and then we had more targeted exception reporting, but it would be nice to have a full list of things that could be automatically generated and that can flow over pages."
"You can't implement a complicated delivery workflow. We don't have the same problems with incident and change workflows. It's only for delivery workflow. They have a mechanism for modifying your incident or change workflow. There's a visual interface for that, so there's no reason not to have the same function for request management."
"They can improve the search. While searching the inventory, when I cancel a selected category, the search box disappears, and I have to reload the page. It is a small glitch. Currently, we can have only one plan per subscription. All users have to be on the same plan. We can't have two users for plan A and five users for plan B. It might be good if there was an option to have different plans within one subscription so that you can assign each agent to the corresponding plan."
"Not integrated with Google."
"Its automation feature needs improvement. They can include the vRealize Automation feature in this solution."
"Not a ten because the price is high."
"It needs to improve user roles and access rights."
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Freshservice is ranked 3rd in IT Asset Management with 29 reviews while VMware Service Manager is ranked 23rd in IT Asset Management. Freshservice is rated 8.0, while VMware Service Manager is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Freshservice writes "Provides excellent traceability along with improved efficiency and reliability". 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". Freshservice is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, Zendesk, Microsoft Project and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, whereas VMware Service Manager is most compared with BMC Remedy and ServiceNow.
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