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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Freshservice

    Score8.4 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

    IBM Cloudability

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloudability is a cloud cost management and optimization (FinOps) tool that enables IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their cloud spend across all cost sources, all maturity levels, and for all stakeholders.N/A
    Pricing
    FreshserviceIBM Cloudability
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $29.00
    per month per agent
    Growth
    $59.00
    per month per agent
    Pro
    $119.00
    per month per agent
    Enterprise
    Custom
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FreshserviceIBM Cloudability
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.—
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    FreshserviceIBM Cloudability
    Considered Both Products
    Freshworks Inc
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    Apptio an IBM Company
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    171 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    145 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    163 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    107 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    171 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    139 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    131 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    87 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    136 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    98 Answers
    Features
    FreshserviceIBM Cloudability
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Freshservice and IBM Cloudability
    Feature
    Freshservice
    8.4
    179 Ratings
    3% above category average
    IBM Cloudability
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.1181 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory7.8130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service restoration8.1114 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools8.2162 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.5131 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.5150 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards8.3156 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Freshservice and IBM Cloudability
    Feature
    Freshservice
    7.6
    143 Ratings
    6% below category average
    IBM Cloudability
    -
    Ratings
    Configuration mangement8.2135 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard7.2139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement7.5102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of Freshservice and IBM Cloudability
    Feature
    Freshservice
    8.1
    140 Ratings
    4% below category average
    IBM Cloudability
    -
    Ratings
    Change requests repository8.2135 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar7.7114 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management8.2132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    FreshserviceIBM Cloudability
    Small Businesses
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FreshserviceIBM Cloudability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (181 ratings)
    8.8
    (147 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    6.4
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (15 ratings)
    7.8
    (147 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.5
    (7 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.8
    (143 ratings)
    2.3
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.6
    (6 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FreshserviceIBM Cloudability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshservice is well suited for companies looking to implement ticketing / case management across the organization, but only if IT will be using it. Otherwise, I'd recommend Freshdesk. IT departments that don't function in the ITIL style of incident, request, change, and project management may find it overkill if they are only looking for a simple Help Desk solution.
    Incentivized
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    I don't have much exposure to the tool. I mean, I'm relatively new to using it as a platform, but I haven't really seen the benefit, especially with the actual renewal talks at the company. I'm not seeing what AWS native solutions are, how probability improves on that as opposed to just using AWS and just, I don't know. I'm not seeing the benefit, at least in my eyes.
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    Pros
    Freshworks Inc
    • The smartphone app is very well designed and adding assets from there is very easy
    • If you have questions or support, the support desk is fast to respond and setup a meeting to explain the features
    • Very customizable and everything can be easily changed with a wizard
    • Reporting feature does what it needs to do and is not complicated to work with
    • The overall ticketing system is very good and we have not run into any issues
    • The whole system is incredibly responsive and does not hang or freeze
    Incentivized
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • We are able to integrate multiple sources of data to have a comprehensive view of our spend.
    • We are able to get more detailed insights via container dashboard for kubernetes spend
    • A unified platform to manage overall cloud spend along with related FinOps spend
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Freshworks Inc
    • To have more options on what to do with the emails that arrive in the support mailbox (which goes to Freshservice), Setting some special rules or detailed filtering is not possible.
    • Non 3rd party tools to connect to Intune are missing. Additionally, the third-party tool available in the store is not satisfactory. It would be nice to have native support for importing devices from our Azure cloud.
    • The contract requires you to prolong your contract end-date by two years instead of just one year, which to us is a bit aggressive.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • For me, it is a lot of anomaly detection and I think there's a lot of improvement that can be made to show anomalies that happen over time because if it's just day to day or week to week, you may not see the change. But if you see the trend over a period of time, show me something that has grown 40%, 50% over the past three months and maybe you can do those things and we just haven't figured them out yet. So we are very new to the product, but I think anomaly detection for me is one of the bigger things.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Cloudability has been one solution for almost all of our FinOps needs. Except for Data transfer costs, we have covered all use cases and have made significant savings across our cloud infrastructure. Reporting has provided management a deeper analysis into their spending and helped them forecast their budgets for next year
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    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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    Apptio an IBM Company
    I gave the IBM Cloudability a 7/10 because it is good, but it could improve in some places. It is easy to get data uploaded and ready to view, but it is only up to a certain point in time, and not live data. As for how it looks, the interface is good for viewing, however navigation could be a little better, maybe supported with a roadmap.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Only been 1 or 2 occaisions when not available, in 3 years
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    Performance
    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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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Afternoons tend to be a little slower, due to US traffic I assume
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Freshworks Inc
    Support from OEM is decent but needs improvement. Sometimes OEM also needs to understand the criticality of the customer and help as an Ad-hoc, which is somewhat lacking at Feshservice. Although the normal support team is well-equipped and helps according to the matrix, if something critical for the partner or customer requires immediate attention, it still goes through the L1-L2-L3 levels, which wastes a lot of time.
    Incentivized
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    While there have been few support cases where the experience was good. But in multiple support cases it's firstly delayed and even after weeks or months of time, team is not able to provide us with the RCA of the issue. All they are claiming is the issue is now fixed which I still see coming back after few days or weeks as we've never identified and addressed the root cause.
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    In-Person Training
    Freshworks Inc
    Training was enough to use the base website
    Incentivized
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Training was adequate, but the real learning begins when you start using the product, like most things. All major functions were covered so as an entry point, was a good introduction to the product. The training pace was good as well, the areas were covered in decent depth, without being too much of an information overload.
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Within months
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    Alternatives Considered
    Freshworks Inc
    Easy setup and a lot of customization which can be made. They offer the full ITSM tool for 75$ per agent and all the PRO are included in the package, which makes it easy to calculate and use. There are only a few add-ins that you need to pay for, based on the number of agents or the number of executions.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Before Apptio we extensively used the cloud native and in house automated and developed cost optimization tool using python , powershell and leveraging the various cloud native services like AWS systems manager , Azure Functions and Azure automation run books.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    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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    Apptio an IBM Company
    I wasn't personally involved, but all dealings with Apptio have been easy
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    Scalability
    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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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Works as designed
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    Professional Services
    Freshworks Inc
    We did not have professional services.
    Incentivized
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Freshworks Inc
    • We had no ticketing system at all so we had no idea of the workload, we now do
    • We have been able to go from nothing to seeing workload to identifying areas for improvement by having the metrics
    • We have lowered MTTR every month since turning on fresh service
    • We have increased 1st all resolution every month
    • We have been able to start talking about real SLA's with the business
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Apptio Cloudability has enabled us to charge back 100% of our cloud spend to our business users and on an automated basis through the use of ApptioOne
    • Apptio Cloudability's transparency and metrics have enabled us to save millions of dollars in cloud spend across our user base.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Freshservice Screenshots

    Screenshot of Android App SupportScreenshot of Asset ManagementScreenshot of Project ManagementScreenshot of Asset ManagementScreenshot of Change ManagementScreenshot of Project Management

    IBM Cloudability Screenshots

    Screenshot of ML backed rightsizing recommendations surfacing multiple scenarios with tools to help sort those that can me realistically actioned on, with Jira and ServiceNowScreenshot of an allocation of cloud viewed through the enterprise grade tools to tailor data for chargeback/showback across an organizationScreenshot of intelligent forecasting including seasonality, cost drivers and net new spendScreenshot of anomaly detection capabilities to stop issues in their tracks via the right people for the job