Freshservice vs. SailPoint Identity Security Cloud

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.

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We are happy with the management of the Id, accounts where the user can request any access easily. Also the many connector which Sailpoint is offering in order to onboard lots of applications is quite helpful. The access review module has also have been improve so that large campaigns can we work out easily.

Where we see some improvement is on the UI as here it is not so intuitive for the end user, so that we need to make lots of communications and training so that the user is able to understand how to use it.

For the administration and creation of roles it also would be great to have some improvements here to make it more easily its management.

• 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

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• Brings users access, profiles and accounts all into one place
• Manages the Life Cycle Management process across ALL identities, permanent and Temporary
• Secures and manages access to critical applications and resources across the group
• Enables Info. Security to customise, share and delegate authority across the group
• Single version of the truth across our technology platform

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• 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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• The user interface is not very intuitive. It is hard for the occasional user to navigate through the request process. There are no instructions on the screen to help the user to know what to do. It is left up to the user to figure out what to click on and how to navigate through the process.

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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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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.

Overall usablity is excellent. The product is capable of performing all the expected tasks for a IAM solution.

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Downtime is minimal (it does happen but not often)

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Most reports are quick, however, it can take some time for emailed exports to come via email. It would be helpful to have the exports live in the system rather than having to wait on emails.

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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.

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Support for Customizations is very limited.

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Training was enough to use the base website

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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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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.

Implementation was done correctly and all the requirements were met.

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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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The on-prem SailPoint IdentityIQ platform provides the necessary customization that is required in our dynamic environment. Although we may look at a cloud-based Identity Management service again in the future, (there are many advantages), our identity management, authentication, and application assignment processes cannot be quickly consolidated to a single cloud-based service at this time.

Was not able to update us proactively about our renewal causing lost of access

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The software is very scalable from a small to mid sized team. The features have seemed to scale exceptionally well.

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We did not have professional services.

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• 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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• Over 300,000 password change/reset calls avoided to the helpdesk annually.
• 1,000 plus accounts with proper accesses provisioned via automated birthright processes weekly versus 1-2 days of manual provisioning and approvals. With a call center population that churns many people per week, this brings many dollars of efficiency to the operations teams.
• Flexibility on terminations to manage accounts and access for target applications based on regulatory or business rules to ensure compliance and avoid fines for non-compliance.

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