Directly vs. ServiceNow Now Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Directly
Score 6.8 out of 10
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Directly’s crowd platform harnesses thousands of independent experts and AI technology to automate common customer questions and deliver customer service that consumers love. The vendor states companies like Airbnb, Microsoft, and Samsung partner with Directly to improve the customer experience, boosting CSAT by 20% while reducing contact center volume and saving millions per year. Directly is based in San Francisco and backed by Microsoft’s M12 Ventures, Samsung NEXT, True…N/A
ServiceNow Now Platform
Score 8.7 out of 10
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The ServiceNow Now Platform is a digital workflow building and extension tool for ServiceNow featuring a number of low-code / no code tools.N/A
Pricing
DirectlyServiceNow Now Platform
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DirectlyServiceNow Now Platform
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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DirectlyServiceNow Now Platform
Small Businesses
EZ Texting
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Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Quadient Inspire
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Quadient Inspire
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
DirectlyServiceNow Now Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.2
(27 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(20 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(21 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(7 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
DirectlyServiceNow Now Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
Directly Software, Inc.
It is well suited for customer experience service management but, it should focus more on a support system.
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ServiceNow
ITSM is straight forward creation of Incidents and Requests. It can get more confusing as you layer more modules on top of it with event management, risk, project, etc. It also becomes more costly as everything is a different license. Integration between other external applications is very easy to do with their API. You can easily create endpoints for external apps to talk to or create REST messages for the platform to reach out directly.
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Pros
Directly Software, Inc.
  • customer messaging management
  • IVR
  • Branding
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ServiceNow
  • The best ITSM management just in 1 tool.
  • User friendly for no IT people when they must raise a IT issue.
  • It offer very good workflow during incident or request item.
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Cons
Directly Software, Inc.
  • support
  • moderation
  • termination process
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ServiceNow
  • Providing admins/devs with easier mechanisms for providing businss stakeholders with self-service admin capabilities across the platform
  • Tutorials on how to be the best at reporting in servicenow
  • Guided tour functionaltiy is a bit rigid and could use more workflow capabilities
  • Making it easier to push form variables to the user so there is more context when providing an approval. The out of box approval UI/form is terrible in my opinion.
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Likelihood to Renew
Directly Software, Inc.
No answers on this topic
ServiceNow
While we are very likely to renew, we are also assessing if we should renew all of what we currently subscribe to as we try to reduce costs. Some parts of the business feel there may be a better tool out there to fit their process requirements. We are currently working with them to identify what those requirements are to see if it makes sense while also pointing out a reduced cost of tooling is not always the best fit if we have an increased cost of customization and maintenance between tools.
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Usability
Directly Software, Inc.
No answers on this topic
ServiceNow
It provides a lot of modification options which is wonderful for certain team usage but becomes too much of a job when it comes to the Service Desk. Also on the app support side, since too much information can be carried, it affects the GUI and makes it complex.
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Support Rating
Directly Software, Inc.
No answers on this topic
ServiceNow
The platform is provided as a SaaS solution and support from the vendor has been good. There are regular software releases with bug fixes, new features and enhancements, and furthermore we are given the opportunity to fully test these before rolling these new releases out into the production environment to minimise the risk of business disruption
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Implementation Rating
Directly Software, Inc.
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ServiceNow
We went through a re-implementation last year with a partner and were very pleased with the outcome. We looked at several partners and chose one that was able to provide an entire scope and cost upfront of what would be required to complete our requirements. We worked very closely with the dedicated team assigned to our project throughout the process and they fully delivered on all of our requirements that we presented in the initial scope.
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Alternatives Considered
Directly Software, Inc.
Directly is more user-friendly and provides an easy interface. It's help desk software and chat support is very interactive
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ServiceNow
ServiceNow is by far a better tool over Remedy. Its ability to integrate so seamlessly to so many tools allows for plenty of opportunity to streamline and improve processes. Servicenow has intuitive flows that allow you to quickly pivot if process change. Its adaptiveness is what makes it far better solution over Remedy
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Directly Software, Inc.
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ServiceNow
Our base managed service MSA is very clear and focused on our use of ITSM (ITIL role license). Other parts of the platform use some sort of transaction count licensing. This type of pricing does not work for an implementation of our scale.
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Professional Services
Directly Software, Inc.
No answers on this topic
ServiceNow
Very easy to use. Capture more data from the Incident and problem management. Easier to escalate and following the change management process to resole the issues.
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Return on Investment
Directly Software, Inc.
  • increased branding
  • increased numbers of customer
  • increased customer loyalty
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ServiceNow
  • Ensuring good service support internally and externally has triggered opportunities to sustain good links with everyone and opened the door to more sales and successful business and ServiceNow has been key in all this, so the investment came back to us faster than expected.
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