BigPanda vs. Freshservice

If the organization has a proper CMDB asset record then BigPanda features can be utilized to their true potential as it has alert correlation capability. The alert can be redirected to the proper support team using the auto-share feature. This wouldn't be the case where asset records are not updated and the Operations have to manually assign the alerts to support groups.

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Freshservice is a great solution if you plan to use multiple modules and incorporate multiple business units. The all in pricing allows exploration of the many capabilities of the platform without worrying about cost as it is set per agent per month. If you only need ticketing the price in my opinion is not competitive. Also, as Freshservice does so many thing, they do them all adequately. So for the all in pricing you are giving up having top tier product in each module.

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• Alert correlation feature helps in grouping similar alerts together
• Alert Enrichment to enhance the data after it arrives on the tool
• Integration with multiple tools
• The console is very user friendly and provides ease of administration

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• Asset Management Module: The features I like most in this module are the discovery agent software, which allows us to collect device information without manual intervention, and the simplicity and robustness of the module itself.
• Service Catalog: This feature allows us to create forms tailored to specific service requests based on group requirements. The ability to customize forms greatly helps both us and our end-users provide the necessary information to fulfill their requests.
• Workflow Automator and Business Rules: These two allow us to have some automation in place, eliminating some of the manual steps and decreasing the number of human errors that may happen due to manual changes.

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• Tool should have a feature to query the data
• The dashboard feature needs improvement
• It should have a dark mode

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• Figuring out the automations is sometimes tricky. For example, if you want to pull the information for an asset and put in the service tag into the ticket then this uses Liquid filters which are sometime hard to understand
• Would love to see a more feature rich CMDB built into the assets module
• Reporting is not granular enough and some reports are nearly impossible to generate

Freshservice is pretty ingrained in our IT processes and policies. A replacement would take quite a while to do, but we are mostly satisfied with the service so we have no plans on moving.

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Easy to navigate and use GUI. We have many infrastructure team members from various departments using Freshservice and their on-boarding and training was very straightforward and we have not received much, if any negative feedback from non-technology users in regards to overall usability, interface or functionality.

Downtime is minimal (it does happen but not often)

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There are days where it can get a bit slow for a short time, but these are rare and I wouldn't exactly blame it on their product. The system itself processes requests very quickly.

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I contacted support once and the person handling the request was very helpful. The staff is very competent. In my opinion communication could be improved as the level of spoken English is very high. I was unable to understand some words, in fact two people participated in the second meeting.

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Training was enough to use the base website

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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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Use case and requirements have to be very specific. Each business is different so it's very important to be as clear as possible with your initial requirements when communicating with the on-boarding/implementation team.

TrueSight didn't provide many customization options. The features provided were primitive as compared to BigPanda. TrueSight was being used just for alert visibility and assignment to a proper support group from a single console. Although Moogsoft had similar features as compared to BigPanda, the user administration and ease of use were a bit complicated. BigPanda provides a much simpler user interface.

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1. Cost - I have always had the best cost provided by Freshservice as compared to others 2. Functionality - far more functionality is provided by Freshservice 3. ITIL enabled ITSM tool with better support for different ITIL modules 4. Reporting - easiest to produce reports in Freshservice 5. Workflows - Workflows are far superior and easier to configure as compared with other products Service Now is great for the above as well, but it comes at a far greater cost as compared.

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Was not able to update us proactively about our renewal causing lost of access

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The software is very scalable from a small to mid sized team. The features have seemed to scale exceptionally well.

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We did not have professional services.

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• BIgPanda is very easy to implement and use
• Better than the previous tool, provides more functionality
• BIgPanda's alert enrichment feature very helpful

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• Freshservice has allowed us to handle approximately 20% more tickets and incidents per month, compared to our previous legacy system.
• Back & forth communication between our techs and end users was very poor prior to Freshservice. Freshservice has changed all that. Email and other communication is now very fluid and easy for both groups. Communication has increased significantly.
• Supervisor reporting and management are also much better. It's much easier and quicker to get information about how things are going. The "at a glance" dashboards are very effective and I use them daily.
• Freshservice has a technician leaderboard that has caused our techs to push themselves to surpass their counterparts. The end result is that tickets get resolved more quickly and our end users get their issues resolved faster.

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