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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)

    Score3 out of 10
    N/ACherwell Asset Management was a software asset management offering from Cherwell Software in Colorado Springs, based on technology acquired with the company Express Metrix in August, 2014. Cherwell was acquired by Ivanti, and the application is no longer available.N/A

    Freshservice

    Score8.3 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
    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)Freshservice
    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
    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)Freshservice
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)Freshservice
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    Chose Freshservice
    There were many good reviews about the product, and I must say Freshservice stood truly on those reviews. Freshservice offers a more modern and intelligent User interface as compared to other solutions available in the market, giving it a positive edge. Also, Freshservice is …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    98%
    Would buy again
    175 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    168 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    175 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    135 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    140 Answers
    Features
    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)Freshservice
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued) and Freshservice
    Feature
    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Freshservice
    8.3
    185 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.1187 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.8135 Ratings
    Service restoration00 Ratings8.1120 Ratings
    Self-service tools00 Ratings8.2167 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.5135 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.5155 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards00 Ratings8.3162 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued) and Freshservice
    Feature
    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Freshservice
    7.6
    149 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Configuration mangement00 Ratings8.2140 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard00 Ratings7.2145 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement00 Ratings7.5107 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued) and Freshservice
    Feature
    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Freshservice
    8.1
    146 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Change requests repository00 Ratings8.2140 Ratings
    Change calendar00 Ratings7.7118 Ratings
    Service-level management00 Ratings8.2138 Ratings
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    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)Freshservice
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    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)Freshservice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.3
    (187 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    6.7
    (148 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)
    7.7
    (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)
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)Freshservice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    For small industries, it can prove to be a better solution as Cherwell offers comparatively affordable costs for small organizations. But for larger companies, there are many other solutions available in the market that are less complex and offer a variety of additional features. It can be a little complex to use because of its high configuration.
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    Freshworks Inc
    Freshservice is well suited for tracking issues and customer tickets. I enjoy being able to narrow down the tags so I can see trends. My biggest issue with Freshservice is using it to look up customers and tickets. Even if I know a ticket is linked to a specific customer, the system often doesn't pull it up. It's almost too specific with what you need to search. Unless you have the exact wording, etc., it won't pull what you're looking for. Using it as a customer directory isn't really helpful with this setup right now.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Automation
    • Integrating with other systems
    • Full control over how ITSM platform is set up and used
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    Freshworks Inc
    • A robust support portal that's easily configured by a power user, but also supports developer level customization.
    • The workflow authoring tool is a very easy drag and drop. For more experienced admins, a robust amount of logic and actions.
    • Dozens of integrations out of the box, including most all mainstream business software.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Very costly licenses.
    • Requires comparatively high amount of configuration.
    • Comparatively complex to use other solutions available in market.
    Incentivized
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    Freshworks Inc
    • auditing. Maybe it's the license we have, but auditing agent activity is very difficult or non-existent. Sometimes an admin will make changes, and we have no idea who made them.
    • As great as the workflows and ticket automation are, they seem to break for unknown reasons, which requires a lot of manual overrides. This may be due to newly added features that are forcefully integrated.
    • Better ticket analytics. Managers don't seem to have much insight into what we do beyond tickets resolved.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    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
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    No answers on this topic
    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
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    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
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Discontinued Products
    Cherwell support has been excellent! Always available to take our emails and calls and get back to us quickly.
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    Freshworks Inc
    Excellent. Every time I spoke to someone from the team they were very helpful. Last meeting we had they went over some features we were not using and explained how we could get the most out of our contract with them. Not many companies have this level of (actual human) support. The push to AI is nice but talking to actual experts is a lot nicer and to the point.
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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    Training was enough to use the base website
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    Online Training
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    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
    Discontinued Products
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    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
    Discontinued Products
    Cherwell Asset Management is a quite known and affordable solution for Asset management for organizations where there are more than 800-1000 users as it provides a complete integrated solution. There are many additional features that are available in Cherwell which is not available in other solution, like tracking of cost, management of procurement, etc.
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    Freshworks Inc
    Freshservice is on par with ManageEngine SD Plus in terms of: 1. No/Low code configuration, 2. ITSM module certification 3. SLA 4. CMDB etc. However, the level of support that ManageEngine offers with its post-sales engineer is better than that of Freshservice. While using ServiceNow, they lack many features, as ServiceNow is enriched with numerous modules and an app engine, allowing for customization without OEM assistance.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Discontinued Products
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    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
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    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    We did not have professional services.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Consolidated other systems into a single platform
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    Freshworks Inc
    • Alleviate our support team by providing knowledge directly to the end users.
    • Better response times from our IT support team, thanks to automation and dashboard use.
    • Better tracking of our assets by assigning them to users so we know which device was handed out to who. During off-boarding, we know which devices to ask back.
    Incentivized
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