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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Archer

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AArcher offers a platform for holistic integrated risk management solutions that empower enterprise organizations to more effectively manage risk, ensure compliance, and address emerging challenges.N/A

    Freshservice

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AFreshservice is a cloud-based service desk and IT service management (ITSM) solution that currently serves more than 10,000 SMB, mid-market, and enterprise customers worldwide.

    $29

    per month per agent

    Pricing
    ArcherFreshservice
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $29.00
    per month per agent
    Growth
    $59.00
    per month per agent
    Pro
    $119.00
    per month per agent
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ArcherFreshservice
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    ArcherFreshservice
    Considered Both Products
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answer on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Would buy again
    171 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    163 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    171 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    131 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    136 Answers
    Features
    ArcherFreshservice
    Governance, Risk & Compliance
    Comparison of Governance, Risk & Compliance features of Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform and Freshservice
    Feature
    Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform
    9.5
    13 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Freshservice
    -
    Ratings
    Common repository of GRC items8.712 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk management10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems8.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    GRC policy management9.913 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident management10.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform and Freshservice
    Feature
    Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Freshservice
    8.4
    179 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.1181 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.8130 Ratings
    Service restoration00 Ratings8.1114 Ratings
    Self-service tools00 Ratings8.2162 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.5131 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.5150 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards00 Ratings8.3156 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform and Freshservice
    Feature
    Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Freshservice
    7.6
    143 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Configuration mangement00 Ratings8.2135 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard00 Ratings7.2139 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement00 Ratings7.5102 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform and Freshservice
    Feature
    Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Freshservice
    8.1
    140 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Change requests repository00 Ratings8.2135 Ratings
    Change calendar00 Ratings7.7114 Ratings
    Service-level management00 Ratings8.2132 Ratings
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    ArcherFreshservice
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    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    No answers on this topic
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    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score6.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ArcherFreshservice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    8.3
    (181 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.5
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.3
    (2 ratings)
    6.8
    (143 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ArcherFreshservice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Archer Technologies LLC
    RSA Archer is fantastic at cataloguing, personalizing assessments, raw reporting, and capacity to add custom fields. It is a little clunky around adding contextual information to notifications, peeking into data before attempting to load pages, quick navigation or determining linked (or sub-linked) relationships. These are all concerns that can either be worked around with an appropriate data scheme or with careful administration of the sub-routines.
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    Freshworks Inc
    Freshservice is well suited for companies looking to implement ticketing / case management across the organization, but only if IT will be using it. Otherwise, I'd recommend Freshdesk. IT departments that don't function in the ITIL style of incident, request, change, and project management may find it overkill if they are only looking for a simple Help Desk solution.
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    Pros
    Archer Technologies LLC
    • Integration capabilities to multiple enterprise systems
    • Control standards and Procedures to address multiple regulatory/authoritative sources, standards and frameworks enabling test once satisfy many requiremnts
    • Rapid application development and User friendly tool with configuration capability to customize easily without user requiring programming or coding skills
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    Freshworks Inc
    • The smartphone app is very well designed and adding assets from there is very easy
    • If you have questions or support, the support desk is fast to respond and setup a meeting to explain the features
    • Very customizable and everything can be easily changed with a wizard
    • Reporting feature does what it needs to do and is not complicated to work with
    • The overall ticketing system is very good and we have not run into any issues
    • The whole system is incredibly responsive and does not hang or freeze
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    Cons
    Archer Technologies LLC
    • They release time to time updates, which causes issues in the GUI. However, one has to be careful while installing the update.
    • There is no open and free academy to learn more about the tool.
    • One cannot stay to a particular product version, they have to move to the next version to keep up with the changes.
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    Freshworks Inc
    • To have more options on what to do with the emails that arrive in the support mailbox (which goes to Freshservice), Setting some special rules or detailed filtering is not possible.
    • Non 3rd party tools to connect to Intune are missing. Additionally, the third-party tool available in the store is not satisfactory. It would be nice to have native support for importing devices from our Azure cloud.
    • The contract requires you to prolong your contract end-date by two years instead of just one year, which to us is a bit aggressive.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    We are pretty invested in Freshservice right now and have integrated it pretty heavily into our environment, so it would be hard to move away from it. For the most part, we are happy with Freshservice and the ease of use it gives us in managing tickets through the system. The only complaint we've had is customer service.
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    Usability
    Archer Technologies LLC
    Good tool to get the information communicated, approval workflow, and easy to add new findings/questionnaires. Seems to be compatible with different browsers and little downtime. Only request for improvement is to add an export feature with fewer clicks. Maybe batch export.
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    Freshworks Inc
    The UI design of Freshservice is simple and intuitive. You don't have to be a technical expert to navigate your way into the different pages/modules available. There are no buttons that are hidden in plain sight. Even our HR team required little to no help when they started using Freshservice.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    In our 3 years of using Freshservice, we've experienced several outages in the first 2 years. There were times where it only took minutes or hours but there are also times where it took a few days. Each time, Freshservice remained transparent and constantly communicated their progress. We haven't had one in the past year which indicates Freshservice have improved their servers.
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    Performance
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    Pages load quickly but internet connectivity can also play a big role. Integrations doesn't affect the performance but internet connectivity may be a big factor. As a company with most employees working from home, different network providers from different areas/countries can have different experiences. Search load time needs improvement.
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    Support Rating
    Archer Technologies LLC
    Our RSA Archer team is dedicated to finding solutions for our organization. They haven't mentioned any issues with receiving support with deployment or bug fixes, and generally the platform is very dependable. They are always very excited about delivering a version upgrade and presenting any new features that provide more dashboards or chart types.
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    Freshworks Inc
    Support from OEM is decent but needs improvement. Sometimes OEM also needs to understand the criticality of the customer and help as an Ad-hoc, which is somewhat lacking at Feshservice. Although the normal support team is well-equipped and helps according to the matrix, if something critical for the partner or customer requires immediate attention, it still goes through the L1-L2-L3 levels, which wastes a lot of time.
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    In-Person Training
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    Training was enough to use the base website
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    Online Training
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    Their documentation is pretty good, but only available in English. This makes it difficult for some of our users to understand. There are also some basic video courses available.
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    Implementation Rating
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    Creating the correct groups for the stakeholders and enabling the right notifications are one of the most important aspect of the implementation. Creating Change templates will also help in the long run and it's a good practice to create one, if applicable.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Archer Technologies LLC
    It has been roughly 5 years since I have seen Securevue, so a lot can change, but to me it felt like several products were purchased and an attempt was made to piece them all together into a single solution (and I believe that may have been true). It also required agents on endpoints which did not fit the model I believed customers were looking for. MetricStream appeared to be difficult to install as it took their own engineers some time to get it installed in my lab environment. I did not think their web interface was as intuitive as RSA Archer. Customization to the platform was possible to some degree, but required a lot more work and technical skills than required by Archer. I did like the landing page for MetricStream which called out the important action items for the current user, but Archer v6.X now has this feature.
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    Freshworks Inc
    Easy setup and a lot of customization which can be made. They offer the full ITSM tool for 75$ per agent and all the PRO are included in the package, which makes it easy to calculate and use. There are only a few add-ins that you need to pay for, based on the number of agents or the number of executions.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshservice allows flexibility with contract terms and pricing model. Monthly and annual payments are allowed. The unit pricing needs a bit of improvement. It would be great if they offer unit pricing per capability instead of one pricing for all the capabilities. Small businesses have different use cases and not every agent needs all the modules available.
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    Scalability
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    We were able to scale easily across multiple departments. As our company keeps growing, we have not needed to change anything in terms of scaling since we started using Freshservice. There were no changes to the admin and end-user experience from when we were a 1,000-employee company vs to our current head count of 2,000+.
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    Professional Services
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    We did not have professional services.
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    Return on Investment
    Archer Technologies LLC
    • We were able to achieve approx 63% gain in operational efficiency.
    • Reduce the number of findings and exceptions during an Internal audit to almost zero.
    • Get compliance to all client contracts tracked through the tool thus increasing the confidence of clients in our systems and processes.
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    Freshworks Inc
    • We had no ticketing system at all so we had no idea of the workload, we now do
    • We have been able to go from nothing to seeing workload to identifying areas for improvement by having the metrics
    • We have lowered MTTR every month since turning on fresh service
    • We have increased 1st all resolution every month
    • We have been able to start talking about real SLA's with the business
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