ServiceNow Now Platform Valuable Features

Chris Longland - PeerSpot reviewer
Devops Support and Guidance at Queensland Government

The solution provides us with a single platform where we can put together a lot of linked requests, incidents, and bugs in a single spot. Before, we had a few different tools to manage it. All the new features for the integration into Azure DevOps are helpful. The integration with other tools is pretty good. We have a ServiceNow team. We send our requests to them. The internal integration process is not very difficult. Most requests for any changes or customizations to ServiceNow are completed quite quickly.

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SYAHRIAH SALLEH - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Support Specialist at DHL

The overall functions and features that the tool offers are valuable. I like the fact that the software is easy to use, and users can navigate or upgrade the software if some enhancements are required. Users can quickly learn the software and adapt to the new changes or enhancements in the software. The tool is generally easy to use, making it a very user-friendly product.

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MR
Solution Architecture at Accenture

At this point, over and above what ServiceNow actually is, the key is that it's really nothing but a web service. Whether it's a form or anything, the best part is that you can easily leverage anything of ServiceNow for any application anywhere just by calling the REST endpoints and handling the request messages.

Let's say you want to onboard new users or customers, import new company details, or add any different type of data — with ServiceNow Now Platform, this becomes easy. As a concrete example, suppose you have some users on Active Directory, some on LDAP, and some on your own cloud, you can integrate all of these users and uniquely manage them with ease thanks to how mature ServiceNow is in terms of scalability and flexibility. 

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ServiceNow Now Platform
March 2024
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HK
Associate Partner at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The tool helps to automate IT service management processes. It's the market-leading technology. It can provide the company with chatbots and a unique process or workflow orchestration. It can be customized to the customer's specific needs, enabling semi-automatic or full automation processes. It integrates fully with SAP and offers a wide range of advantages for both us and our clients.

The solution improves the user experience because the end-user interface is very user-friendly and intuitive, which enhances productivity for both our team and our customers. Compared to basic ERP functionality, its interface is less technical and much more user-friendly.

It is a market-leading tool. The developers behind it constantly introduce new functionalities and enhance them with AI capabilities, such as natural language generation.

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Vishal Savajiani - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at DXC Technology

The most valuable features of the solution are ITBM, ITSM, and ITOM. The organization of the data is very powerful, as ServiceNow Now Platform uses CSDM. On a single data source, you can see all the things. The product's UI is very powerful, making it a very user-friendly platform. Once you are familiar with the tool, it's easy to get data. The most powerful components of ServiceNow are its reporting and dashboard features, as they help generate reports. The tool is simple to use and easy to schedule, generate, and share reports with multiple users in the organization with its good notification system. ServiceNow is a wonderful platform like Salesforce. ServiceNow is a very powerful and user-friendly platform.

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Ramamohana Reddy Marapareddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Lead at Saasify

In ServiceNow, the best features are the reports. We have more options there. However, when it comes to integration, it can be complex compared to other tools I'm currently using. The first service I use has a more user-friendly interface. ServiceNow relies more on coding and scripting, whereas Freshservice is more low-code and no-code, which is the main difference I've observed.

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Abhilash Sherkane - PeerSpot reviewer
Practitioner - Service Management at Peristent Systems

The most valuable feature of the solution is related to ITSM. In general, I like all the features of the product. Some of its valuable features are the ease and flexibility of configuration that the ServiceNow Now Platform provides.

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PolMas Viza - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Business Process at Seidor

The product's most advantageous feature is platform innovation. They enhance the tool every half a year. It integrates well with other platforms. Additionally, it has valuable optimization and CMDB features. It has efficient knowledge and is a powerful tool in the market.

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Navin Jacob - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The ability to create custom workflows is the best part. Other platforms like Microsoft Power Platform have similar features, but ServiceNow's focus on service management means we can reuse standardized components. That's a significant advantage.

We leverage other technologies on top of the Now Platform to handle the AI components. For example, we integrate Azure OpenAI and AWS AI to build an additional layer on top of ServiceNow.

The integration feature has simplified our multi-tool ecosystem. The inbuilt integrations significantly improve our solution delivery timelines. Also, standardized adapters and integration adapters reduce failure rates due to compatibility. This boosts productivity and eases maintenance.

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JS
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Everything about the ServiceNow Now Platform is top-notch since ServiceNow is considered one of the market leaders. I don't see any other product delivering better services than ServiceNow, even though other companies are attempting to compete with it. Only on the UI front other companies might be offering better products than ServiceNow. Considering the functionalities provided, ServiceNow is way ahead of its competitors.

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YashShah - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Software Developer at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

What I like most about the ServiceNow Now Platform is the flexibility of using JavaScript. I also like that the platform allows custom scripting, server-side scripting, and client-side scripting.

Another valuable feature in the ServiceNow Now Platform is the Flow Designer which allows dragging and dropping code, and low code activities.

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Romy Bajaj - PeerSpot reviewer
IT BRM - Business Operations and Functions at Pernod Ricard

The solution is fast enough for our workflow automations and has integration capability. It aligns with many use cases in our organization and for others we have planned. 

The product also has the agility required for fast-paced deployment and has many out-of-the-box features.

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KrishnaPrasad1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at TAG

ITOM Discovery is great in the sense of the entire ServiceNow platform, as well as the ITSM and ITOM modules.

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SF
BI Project Manager at Anywr

The product is good. Assignment Group history is really important to me. It shows that even though my team did not solve the ticket, it was assigned to my team once. I can also see who tried to solve the ticket before they transferred it to another team.

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Mohamed Mansoor - PeerSpot reviewer
Support Engineering Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The solution's most valuable feature is IT Operations Management. It acts as an aggregator for platforms such as Tray.io and Splunk.

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BrunoPires - PeerSpot reviewer
Archietect and delivery manager at Axians

The simplicity is great. Based on my experience with other solutions in the market, the most important is the simplicity of implementing all the features that we have in ServiceNow and helping customers to simplify the work process in the daily journeys that they have.

It is easy to set up the product.

The interface is perfect.

It's very stable.

The scalability is great.

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JG
Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

Any kind of customer setup can be done on ServiceNow.

It can do anything so long as you throw enough money at it. 

It can integrate anywhere, and you can make any kind of workflow or SLA management.

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Rajee Kukreja - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Technical Project Manager at General Electric

The incident management has been the most useful feature for us.

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PuranjoyChatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Now Platform's best features are collaboration, configurability, and customizability. I also like that there are multiple ways you can access ServiceNow data through the API.

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MK
ServiceNow Technical Consultant - PPM and HR at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The workflow feature really has a lot of value because you can create workflows in a simple, intuitive way. With a few clicks, you can actually develop quite a complex workflow using tool and product life cycles and so on. So, the workflow feature, in my opinion, is the strongest feature in the ServiceNow platform.  

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Somnath Kand - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It's user-friendly. It's easy to use even if you don't have prior experience using the platform.

The initial setup is very straightforward. 

It's stable and reliable. 

Technical support is helpful. 

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Reetesh_Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive at Nike Inc.

Incident management, change request management, HR-related features, product management, and asset management are all valuable features.

We do analytics on top of these features as well.

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MS
Business Relationship Manager at Sasol

The most valuable feature of this solution is cataloging the requests, which allows us to speed up the process and improve the user experience.

The knowledge management feature is now continuously learning from incidents.

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JB
Senior Consultant at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

ServiceNow can document and produce a historical working tool that deals with projects themselves. The user interface is another strong suit. 

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Margareth Fabiola Dos Santos Carneiro - PeerSpot reviewer
Governance Coordinator at a government with 201-500 employees

The solution is very comprehensive. It has a very big scope. I never heard any complaints regarding the product.

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ST
Senior Digital Enterprise Director at DetaSad

Incident Management and workflow are the most valuable features for us for the time (at least for us currently). 

Also Learning materials, such as online courses, are readily available. This solution is not difficult, and I have learned it from taking e-courses. I am actively giving the courses to my full team, because I want them to learn about it as well.

when it comes for the interface of ServiceNow is ok, and it is easy to use.

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JP
Chief Operating Officer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

This solution is very reliable, and they are proactive.

This is a development platform that provides us with a strong database and a low code environment. Many things can be carried out without answering questions, such as database architecture, database relationships between tables, and fields.

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AR
Servicenow Technical Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The solution provides a single platform for multiple systems and software to operate from.

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PM
Director, Business Process at Seidor

The main reason that people use ServiceNow is that performance is very good.

There is support for a lot of different services using any kind of device including desktops, laptops, and mobile devices.

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VM
Technical Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

ServiceNow offers a lot of features when it comes to IT service management and IT operations management. What interested me in ServiceNow was that a lot of service management, mostly our IT service management, are using ServiceNow as a tool.

I really doubt that we are making full use of the out-of-the-box features which ServiceNow provides in the sense that we have the tickets assigned to one of the assignment groups. People are taking a lot of time to really work on the ticket and provide a correct solution. I was looking at different features, including the machine learning and predictive analytics features available in ServiceNow, which can help solve the current issues we face.

In Power Apps, there is a central area which works on the automation part of it. Even though in ServiceNow I see a lot of features in the process automation part of it, when it comes to large teams with a lot of "in development areas," we're just getting into how we can automate the mundane processes. Plus, there is a robotic process automation team using UI who is looking into those areas.

Also, as part of the development tool, I analyzed to see how their domain expertise was. With a little knowledge of the technology and coding experience, they can make your software domain expertise come up with solutions very quickly. 

However, since we are already using Microsoft extensively and we already have Microsoft Office 365 and since we have adopted Microsoft as the Cloud provider platform, it made sense to take the Power Apps subscription. Even though ServiceNow has some integration capability with Azure, Power Apps was more in line with developing apps and the development of UI.

When it comes to ServiceNow, I haven't done much research on the UI part. I think that you can do different coding in ServiceNow. It was more about usage of tables, creating API's, and creating application codes for when you work on tables. But in Power Apps I could see features having a use, so I can work with this, and you create UI's out of it. Maybe my knowledge is limited and I may not have explored all of the features in ServiceNow, but this is one thing which on a high level I have noticed.

Also, with Power Apps you can attach it to multiple data sources, just like in ServiceNow.

I think that both have their own features and pros and cons. I don't think that Power Apps can fully replace ServiceNow when it comes to all the features ServiceNow provides in terms of service management or operation management capabilities.

Power Apps is mostly if you want to develop a web application or a mobile application and if you have some data source. If you have a back end already. If you have a database and you specifically want to develop a front end or a UI for that. Then I would prefer Power Apps.

Power Apps is mostly for the use cases where you want to give an API further uses to get specific data from the back end. When it comes to ServiceNow, there are not many purposes I can see regarding the service management part of it. It can be used as a ticketing tool that we can use for operations management. It can be used for server monitoring, like for our infrastructure management and monitoring purposes.

As I told you, we have within the organization a lot of tickets for cases which are being raised for problems with the application or the infrastructure or even for knowledge related issues. I am from the architecture central system, and if the people need help to find the architecture or they need a suggestion, they raise incidents of tickets using the ServiceNow Now. I have noticed that cases are not getting assigned to the critical people if there are so many different teams. A case for a problem which arises might fail to be worked on by some other members in the team. These are the areas that I feel the machine learning capabilities of ServiceNow offer.

It can give you a lot of improvement in the way the tickets get properly assigned to the right group. It saves a lot of time which saves the end user a lot of frustration, and they will be getting the correct group who can help them on their problem very quickly, preventing a delay and then after lot of time it come back to the admin group, and then the person who's working on it will do a relief study of the problem. 

It leads to a faster resolution of the problem.

That is my own experience. Then, if we can have chat bot services, that is another area of network manual intervention. That is what really attracted me when I was into the features of the latest ServiceNow.

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MJ
Delivery Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

There are multiple valuable features:

  • Ticketing tools
  • Customers have access to this and they use it. We have an overall contract for it.

We work on it directly to send out tickets. It enables us to work seamlessly, we don't need to send them out manually. We can create a ticket and assign it in the system.

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FA
CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It integrates very well with most systems. I have yet to come across a system that it cannot integrate with.

It's very intuitive and easy to use. The flexibility and user-friendliness of ServiceNow are key reasons it's such a popular cloud solution.

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SM
Service Delivery Project Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The level of automation within the platform is great and is the most valuable feature.

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Buyer's Guide
ServiceNow Now Platform
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about ServiceNow Now Platform. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,246 professionals have used our research since 2012.