IBM Case Manager vs. ServiceNow Customer Service Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Case Manager
Score 10.0 out of 10
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IBM Case Manager is a case management product that allows customers to resolve complex cases by providing persistent access to information, workflow, tasks, and analytics.N/A
ServiceNow Customer Service Management
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Built on the Now Platform, ServiceNow offers their Customer Service Management solution through the Standard and Professional Customer Service Management bundles. Both include agent workspace, knowledge management, survey and assessment module, and the community module, oriented in this edition to support customers rather than internal employees. The Professional bundle also includes performance analytics, predictive intelligence, and related tools to support customer support agents improvement…N/A
Pricing
IBM Case ManagerServiceNow Customer Service Management
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Case ManagerServiceNow Customer Service Management
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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Features
IBM Case ManagerServiceNow Customer Service Management
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
IBM Case Manager
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Ratings
ServiceNow Customer Service Management
9.2
10 Ratings
11% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.78 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings9.39 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.810 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.310 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
IBM Case Manager
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Ratings
ServiceNow Customer Service Management
9.5
9 Ratings
17% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings9.58 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.59 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
IBM Case Manager
-
Ratings
ServiceNow Customer Service Management
9.3
10 Ratings
15% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings9.77 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.88 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.89 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings9.59 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Case ManagerServiceNow Customer Service Management
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(10 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Case ManagerServiceNow Customer Service Management
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
It's well suited for complex applications in health, banking industries, legal departments that deal with repeatable complex business problems and it allows/provide those authority to case workers to resolve these issues. And I feel IBM Case Manager might not be suitable for organization who deal with less complex problems that can be easily resolved by other business process products.
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ServiceNow
It is well suited for medium to large companies that manage different teams and need to communicate constantly and track progress in a timely manner. It is less suited for small enterprises as it will overwhelm users with the features and functionalities embedded.
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Pros
IBM
  • IBM Case Manager provide case builder to build customer solution that create your case types, workflows, relevant document types that connect with cases, and capability of authorizing people to access through different roles.
  • IBM Case Manager provides lot extensive case REST API which allows applications to integrate with IBM Case Manager and Content Engine.
  • IBM Case Manager comes with one of the admin client tool which is very easy for an administrator to manage the solution deployments.
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ServiceNow
  • We manage internal tickets through ServiceNow Customer Service Management. We raise tickets with IT and other team
  • We manage our datapipe customers through ServiceNow Customer Service Management and it efficiently manages our customer interactions
  • ServiceNow Customer Service Management helps us manage projects and tasks and keep a log of all our migration customers
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Cons
IBM
  • Integration with IBM BPM.
  • Integration with Cloud
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ServiceNow
  • Adding in additional chat features would be nice
  • Viewing where you stand in priority
  • Having a way to automate more of the processes
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Usability
IBM
No answers on this topic
ServiceNow
Bottom line is that it does what you need it to do. We've been using Service Now as a ticket managing tool for a few years now. There's really not much it can't do when it comes to recording interactions. It has been nice using inventory tracking for software licenses and hardware as well.
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Support Rating
IBM
No answers on this topic
ServiceNow
Support has been very good. Any time there has been a real issue, the team has responded very quickly and identified the issue without a lot of repetitive questions that I've seen from other services. There is a great external community and internal knowledge base that covers pretty much anything you need.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
IBM Case manager suites comes with bunch of underlying products, 1. Content Platform Engine, 2. IBM Content Navigator which provide rich user interface and room for customization's, 3. IBM Case Manager admin client, Case builder 4. Extensive Case Manager Rest API 5. User friendly configuration tool for configuring case manager environment and many more. And we feel this is one of the leading product that provides shared service platform.
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ServiceNow
Atlassian Jira lacks certain features and process which was delivered by ServiceNow Customer Service Management. Also, flexibility to customise was a point to select ServiceNow Customer Service Management tool. Cost which was high than Atlassian Jira compensated as it improved overall customer satisfaction and reduced resolution time by taking help of Knowledge base integration
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • We have been seeing organizations who implemented ICM had faster processing of their transactions.
  • We have been seeing organizations who implemented ICM found improved customer service
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ServiceNow
  • The negative impact for my team is the delay in team completing tickets but not a system issue.
  • A positive impact for my team is we can easily view the status of tickets and the follow-up emails are beneficial to maintain records of tickets.
  • Negative impact is that there is no user job aid or helpful tools for new users.
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