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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Freshservice

    Score8.3 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

    SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AAustin-based SolarWinds offers Internet Protocal address management (IPAM) networking service.N/A
    Pricing
    FreshserviceSolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    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
    FreshserviceSolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.SolarWinds professional support is included to help customers on active maintenance 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
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    Community Pulse
    FreshserviceSolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Considered Both Products
    Freshworks Inc
    No answer on this topic
    SolarWinds
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    175 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    68 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    168 Answers
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    57 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    175 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    69 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    135 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    140 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    57 Answers
    Features
    FreshserviceSolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Freshservice and SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Feature
    Freshservice
    8.3
    185 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.1187 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory7.8135 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service restoration8.1120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools8.2167 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.5135 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.5155 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards8.3162 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Freshservice and SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Feature
    Freshservice
    7.6
    149 Ratings
    6% below category average
    SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    -
    Ratings
    Configuration mangement8.2140 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard7.2145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement7.5107 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of Freshservice and SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Feature
    Freshservice
    8.1
    146 Ratings
    4% below category average
    SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    -
    Ratings
    Change requests repository8.2140 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar7.7118 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management8.2138 Ratings00 Ratings
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    FreshserviceSolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    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
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    Enterprises
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FreshserviceSolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (187 ratings)
    8.0
    (94 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (15 ratings)
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    7.5
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.7
    (148 ratings)
    10.0
    (58 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.6
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FreshserviceSolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshservice is well suited for tracking issues and customer tickets. I enjoy being able to narrow down the tags so I can see trends. My biggest issue with Freshservice is using it to look up customers and tickets. Even if I know a ticket is linked to a specific customer, the system often doesn't pull it up. It's almost too specific with what you need to search. Unless you have the exact wording, etc., it won't pull what you're looking for. Using it as a customer directory isn't really helpful with this setup right now.
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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds IP Address Manager is very useful the bigger and more complex the environment. Smaller organizations will have to consider the cost as it provides little benefit over monitoring maybe 2-3 servers. But I have over 24 DHCP servers with on average 15 subnets each so tracking and monitoring all that was very time-consuming. As a result, it was generally ignored until there was an issue. With SolarWinds IP Address Manager, I was able to set alerts to monitor scope utilization and duplicate IP addresses.
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    Pros
    Freshworks Inc
    • A robust support portal that's easily configured by a power user, but also supports developer level customization.
    • The workflow authoring tool is a very easy drag and drop. For more experienced admins, a robust amount of logic and actions.
    • Dozens of integrations out of the box, including most all mainstream business software.
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    SolarWinds
    • With IPAM automated address scanning, we can be confident that we are looking at an up-to-date, accurate snapshot of our network.
    • The built-in alerts are a great safety net. We know that even if we aren't paying close attention to our IP address space, IPAM is. If a range is nearly full, IPAM lets us know before it becomes a real problem.
    • IPAM's event logging gives us insight into any and all changes made by our network engineers.
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    Cons
    Freshworks Inc
    • auditing. Maybe it's the license we have, but auditing agent activity is very difficult or non-existent. Sometimes an admin will make changes, and we have no idea who made them.
    • As great as the workflows and ticket automation are, they seem to break for unknown reasons, which requires a lot of manual overrides. This may be due to newly added features that are forcefully integrated.
    • Better ticket analytics. Managers don't seem to have much insight into what we do beyond tickets resolved.
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    SolarWinds
    • The user experience is not as intuitive as other products. We have to be more restrictive around level 1 help desk access compared to NCM or NPM in SolarWinds.
    • Making and enforcing changes, not just monitoring, has been hit or miss in some instances.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    We are heavily invested in SolarWinds. We currently own Network Performance Monitor, Netflow Traffic Analyzer, User Device Tracker, Server Application Monitor and Network Configuration Manager. We have NOC mode setup for deskside support for monitoring any down devices that may effect our network across the globe. This application gives us the information we need when we need it.
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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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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds IPAM is like what SolarWinds itself says, i.e. easy to use and simple. SolarWinds has really made their orion and non-orion platform products so simple that any newbie can give a try and make the best use out of it. I learned SolarWinds IPAM by myself in a POC environment, and not just IPAM but other modules and now I own 6 certifications. You see how easy to use this product is.
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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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    SolarWinds
    We don't have any issues with availability. Our cluster setup provide us a 99,9% availability that is enough for us.
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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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    SolarWinds
    We do not integrate IPAM into other systems other than the standard Orion integration. The performance is reasonable, however, we are running all the SolarWinds applications on a very large server.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Freshworks Inc
    Excellent. Every time I spoke to someone from the team they were very helpful. Last meeting we had they went over some features we were not using and explained how we could get the most out of our contract with them. Not many companies have this level of (actual human) support. The push to AI is nice but talking to actual experts is a lot nicer and to the point.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    I have not contacted customer support and therefore have no experience in this area. I know we have some issues with our VAR support at this time for Orion, but I don't know if the IPAM falls into the same support structure. Perhaps others in the organization may know more regarding the support area.
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    In-Person Training
    Freshworks Inc
    Training was enough to use the base website
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    SolarWinds
    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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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    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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    SolarWinds
    Know the full scope of what you will be installing. Solarwinds can be a very complex installation. IPAM is just one fairly simplistic piece.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshservice is on par with ManageEngine SD Plus in terms of: 1. No/Low code configuration, 2. ITSM module certification 3. SLA 4. CMDB etc. However, the level of support that ManageEngine offers with its post-sales engineer is better than that of Freshservice. While using ServiceNow, they lack many features, as ServiceNow is enriched with numerous modules and an app engine, allowing for customization without OEM assistance.
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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds IP Address Manager was cheaper than both alternatives and far easier to manage. Device42 interface is years behind what Solarwinds offers. It is very outdated; BT Diamond required remote management and we constantly had to message support, it reached a point where it was better not to have the product at all.
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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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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    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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    SolarWinds
    We have not experienced any scalability issues with this product. However, SolarWinds needs to allow users to scale horizontally without any license restrictions. For example, we would like to separate Netflow and Orion onto different platforms but are unable to due to license restrictions.
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    Professional Services
    Freshworks Inc
    We did not have professional services.
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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Freshworks Inc
    • Alleviate our support team by providing knowledge directly to the end users.
    • Better response times from our IT support team, thanks to automation and dashboard use.
    • Better tracking of our assets by assigning them to users so we know which device was handed out to who. During off-boarding, we know which devices to ask back.
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    SolarWinds
    • IPAM has saved countless hours of running scripts and gathering data to compile reports to plan re-subnetting globally.
    • IPAM has reduced helpdesk incidents by immediately spotting bad DNSR and IP conflicts.
    • IPAM has helped eliminate blocks on projects whereas there is not currently enough address space requiring major changes to accommodate more IP'ed servers, gear, etc.
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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

    SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Customize your IP address management dashboard to quickly focus on your top priorities.Screenshot of Manage your DHCP and DNS services in one place.Screenshot of Streamline IP requests with a simple intake and approval wizard.Screenshot of Automatically scan for subnets or manually add.