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    Cherwell Service Management (discontinued)

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/ACherwell Software was a full suite of service management tools competing with BMC Remedy, ServiceNow, and IBM SmartCloud. It was acquired by Ivanti, and has reached EOL.N/A

    ProofHub

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AProofHub is a SaaS based project management software from ProofHub LLC in Walnut, CA. It is an online project management and collaboration tool that comes with integrated Group chat, quick Discussions on projects, Workflows and boards, Project reports, among other features. Document (e.g. Excel, Powerpoint) uploading and sharing is supported, along with an integrated an Online proofing tool to aid in image and document review. ProofHub aims to enable teams to…

    $50

    per month

    Pricing
    Cherwell Service Management (discontinued)ProofHub
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Essential
    $45
    per month (billed annually) unlimited users
    Ultimate Control
    $89
    per month (billed annually) unlimited users
    Large Team
    $279
    per month (billed annually) unlimited users
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cherwell Service Management (discontinued)ProofHub
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cherwell Service Management (discontinued)ProofHub
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    ProofHub
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    29 Answers
    80%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    Cherwell Service Management (discontinued)ProofHub
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Cherwell Service Management (discontinued) and ProofHub
    Feature
    Cherwell Service Management (discontinued)
    10.0
    53 Ratings
    20% above category average
    ProofHub
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    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets10.052 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory10.041 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service restoration10.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools10.051 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications10.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation10.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards10.051 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Cherwell Service Management (discontinued) and ProofHub
    Feature
    Cherwell Service Management (discontinued)
    10.0
    44 Ratings
    21% above category average
    ProofHub
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    Ratings
    Configuration mangement10.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard10.041 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement10.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of Cherwell Service Management (discontinued) and ProofHub
    Feature
    Cherwell Service Management (discontinued)
    10.0
    50 Ratings
    17% above category average
    ProofHub
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    Ratings
    Change requests repository10.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar10.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management10.045 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Cherwell Service Management (discontinued) and ProofHub
    Feature
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    Ratings
    ProofHub
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Cherwell Service Management (discontinued) and ProofHub
    Feature
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    Ratings
    ProofHub
    10.0
    3 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Cherwell Service Management (discontinued)ProofHub
    Small Businesses
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.4 out of 10
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    Cherwell Service Management (discontinued)ProofHub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (57 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    8.8
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (16 ratings)
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cherwell Service Management (discontinued)ProofHub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Well suited in an IT environment where you have limited staff. It can be managed by one administrator. Reliability of the SaaS environment has been excellent. Flexibility in developing automated workflows to open, manage, and close Incidents. Change Management due to ability to modify OOB to meet the needs of our staff. Contract Management allowing us to be notified when a contract or license is up for renewal and setting reminders. Integrations are not easy to create and manage.
    Incentivized
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    ProofHub
    It suits well for those businesses who want to operate on a global level without investing too much over creating infrastructure. A business can easily reach out to various clients, customers, partners and other stakeholders and communicate and collaborate with them in a fast and transparent manner and can effectively tap any opportunities coming its way. Such opportunities if
    properly implemented can lead to gains for the parties involved.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Cherwell's email handling automation works flawlessly. The only time that I have ever needed to reset the automation service that drives it is when my own server that houses the small connecting agent has some kind of problem and disconnects us from our hosted Cherwell instance. It just works. Emails to a certain address always result in a new ticket or update to an existing ticket.
    • Cherwell is literally 100% customization in so many ways that it would be pointless to try to enumerate them. There is a very sizable list of already-created customizations (called "mApps") that you can download and apply to your instance. If you don't like them you can roll them back in seconds. But you can add and configure entire modules using one of these pre-defined, completely free, add-on packages. It's so easy to add features this way that I check the list of available mApps every month or so just to see what functionality I can add.
    Incentivized
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    ProofHub
    • The obvious, proofing! We need something in-house that can do this instead of hiring one person for this job. Each person on our marketing team knows how to use it.
    • Organizes team projects in a friendly way.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Cherwell lacks modern UI capabilities such as responsive forms and CSS styling for web portals.
    • Built-in reporting engine is hard to use and resource intensive to run.
    • No patching model for small platform fixes, must upgrade to receive platform code changes.
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    ProofHub
    • Proofhub can improve a bit in areas of helping people customize their accounts a bit more. That makes managing work even more easier, when you have things just the way you want them to be.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    Cherwell is still the best tool for the job in the market. Even though Ivanti bought them and are trying to convince everyone to move over to Neurons for ITSM, they have stated Cherwell will remain supported indefinitely and have a roadmap for future Cherwell development. Unfortunately, ISM is not as flexible as Cherwell (and the UX is atrocious), hence why many people are sticking with Cherwell (and why many Cherwell customers never purchased ISM originally)
    Incentivized
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    ProofHub
    With an array of useful features available that solve all our work issues, each department has an access to it. Each one knows what’s going on with different teams. This makes collaboration easier, as different teams just need one tool to come together and get things done. I think this is a great product! it has really helped my company get MUCH better organized.
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    I enjoy the layout and configuration of our Cherwell Service Management instance. It did take me a bit to get used to, as with any new ticketing system, but now that I understand the system more, I thoroughly enjoy it! There are just so many options and the UI is very intuitive.
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    ProofHub
    It's convenient, simple, and clear.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    Almost always available, with exception for a handful of outages due to infrastructure related issues
    Incentivized
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    ProofHub
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    The browser client is mostly acceptable in terms of performance, but still lacks parity with the rich client. The rich client is not very performant at all. It's built on old architecture and relies heavily on a fast internet connection, good caching and database indexing. There are several unwritten rules with form design (and form arrangement) which most users are not aware of, but can severely impact performance in the rich client. This is where the flexibility of Cherwell can come back to bite you if you step outside the boundaries of these unwritten rules
    Incentivized
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    ProofHub
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    We generally have a good time with Cherwell support, however, there are the few niche cases where I have to explain how Cherwell works to the customer support agent on the other end. A little more product education for tier 1 support could go a long way in helping expedite support requests from SaaS customers.
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    ProofHub
    Great support website and had reps follow up multiple times in our trial process. Getting started was very straightforward and adding people is easy too.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
    I didn't partake in the in-person training, but it was available. I preferred the online method instead, which was a great experience. It was nice to have someone available to bounce questions off of and demonstrate how certain functions worked.
    Incentivized
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    ProofHub
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
    The training was great! We got together to review the system, its UI, and how to perform basic functions. Then there was plenty of time to ask questions and test out the system while there was someone available to assist.
    Incentivized
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    ProofHub
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Implementation is a breeze. Each time I've implemented it, we had an outsourced vendor overseeing it & assisting where needed. However, Cherwell OOTB is ready to go, and configuring it for LDAP/SAML, etc. for authentication and user-imports is really straight forward. The infrastructure needed for Cherwell is extremely simple too - and installing the server & database takes no more than 20 mins
    Incentivized
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    ProofHub
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Much more customizable than other products, especially when ran in a self-hosted environment. Cherwell [Service Management] allows for greater flexibility of custom development and integrations to allow for automating tasks that traditional ITSM apps are not well suited for. Cherwell [Service Management] gives you the freedom to develop your own objects with minimal licensing costs.
    Incentivized
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    ProofHub
    We used Basecamp in the past, but we did encounter some problems while working with it. But these concerns have been better addressed in ProofHub. It has a simple interface which is so easy to operate and this was not the case in Basecamp. ProofHub lets us quickly chat with our team members over various work matters through its inbuilt chat feature and resolve them fast while Basecamp provides this feature through a third-party tool which added to our expenses and it was not a very convenient affair. ProofHub has got an inbuilt proofing tool which allows us to get quality feedback over designs instantly saving our time and costs, whereas Basecamp enables proofing through a third party tool which again was not convenient for us. ProofHub’s casper mode feature helps us to protect privacy and secrecy over confidential issues but Basecamp lacks such an important feature. So ProofHub has more to offer and better too in comparison to Basecamp. (answer to Describe how ProofHub stacks up against them and why you selected ProofHub.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Discontinued Products
    We have had great contracts with Cherwell and love the concurrent licensing model
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    ProofHub
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    We have never had any major show-stopper issues with Cherwell itself - more so with the infrastructure it sits on. Moving from in-house cloud (on Cherwell's side), to AWS then to Azure has caused multiple problems over the years (some still on-going), however the product has remained fairly stable
    Incentivized
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    ProofHub
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Discontinued Products
    As mentioned, they were always great to work with (minus the project management side). My only feedback would be to push back on requirements that don't make sense
    Incentivized
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    ProofHub
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • As with any standard ticketing system, it helped decrease the time before first contact with clients.
    • Our department was always concerned with keeping a low budget, and it was cheaper than most.
    • My supervisor could easily tell how many resources were being put into each employee, so we had more visibility of our team's capabilities at a given time if we needed to take on something complex.
    Incentivized
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    ProofHub
    • Proofhub has a great impact on our ROI. Due to a systematic approach of handling each clients’ project, we have been able to double the number of clients we had prior to signing up for Proofhub.
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