Likelihood to Recommend I think it's great for giving any/all users the ability to deploy servers for whatever they want. It's also great for scaling up/down large quantities of servers. It also has some pretty good plugins and "orchestration actions" that you can write for yourself. I don't think it would be best suited if you want to set and forget it. It needs some TLC, and the interface and initial setup [are] not the most user-friendly. So if you're planning on using it for some complex tasks, make sure you have someone dedicated to it, at least for the initial setup. And make sure you have monitoring on it.
Read full review We have taken advantage of the single platform for different IT disciplines over the past few years and now we are doing more and more with the integrations. Our teams are looking at the same information which stops the blame game a lot. Their newest AIOps has been a very nice surprise as we've tried another tool for about 2 years and it required us to hire outside consultants to try and build what we needed. So far, ServiceNow found a lot of things we didn't know to look for. It's not perfect in fixing everything, but really has provided a lot of visibility and troubleshooting.
Read full review Pros Create configuration with Microsoft endpoints. Support complex globally distributed multi-domains. Create and remove dynamic OU. Allows for static text in combination with dynamic content. Read full review The centralized dashboard allows us to keep track of production incidents as they come in, and allow us to view and sort them based on severity, making sure it's tracked The read/edit access and role granting process is straightforward, meaning that only the right people can change /update the statuses of incidents without unintended consequences With AI driven classification, it's easy to track outage impacts Read full review Cons Support could be improved on a >tier 1 level Logging could be more descriptive/specific Stability of the actual server Read full review Scan network is limited to their discovery tool, which is costly Integration to jamf and ubunto tools Agents TCO integration to password management tools which are critical for successful scans Gal Avraham Manager, IT and Information Security Division
Read full review Alternatives Considered We selected SovLabs Microsoft Active Directory because is one of the best automation tools for Active Directory. The tool offers a lot of features that we use. Good support from the vendor and a good community. I strongly recommend SovLabs Microsoft Active Directory for automation. The tools does a great job.
Read full review BMC was our legacy system before deploying ServiceNow. It's time had passed for us as it couldn't really keep up with our move to cloud and the number of services we were using. The cost kept getting higher, especially with all of the customization we had to do. Over the years, just got unwieldy. We still use
Splunk for raw data and log analysis, but we upgraded to ServiceNow event management and the Loom system log analytics. We had Loom before ServiceNow bought them, but it's nice it's all on one platform for us.
Splunk at times had so much info, we didn't know where to start, but ServiceNow gives us a great starting point.
Read full review Return on Investment We have invested countless man hours to troubleshooting and being support's QA. Most of our teams have saved an invaluable amount of time by being able to automate their deployments. After the initial time you spend [understanding] all the nuances, the configuring of groups, permissions, etc., does make administering it easier. Read full review With the regular use of ServiceNow IT Operations Management platform, our incident resolution time has gone down by over 90% over the past year Our access and role granting process has been streamlined leading to increased developer hours by around ~90 PM With the enablement of AIOps driven impact prediction, we expect an improvement of user communication time by over 90% Read full review ScreenShots