ServiceMax vs. Travelize

Small deployments, where you have some specific need for ServiceMax and absolutely need offline capabilities, and are willing to deal with the problems. Otherwise, you may be better off looking at the built-in Work Orders and field service module that Salesforce is now providing. Their app is direct competition for ServiceMax and integrates much better with cases and knowledge articles.

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Travelize allows users to
save time for travel claims, leads management, manpower management, and leaves processing. Geobased employee tracking is an awesome feature for the sales team along with sales data analysis. Its automated distance calculation feature works well although it needs bit of accuracy. Overall this software actually saves time and user efforts, resulting in more productivity.

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• As it's built on Salesforce, the reporting tools are fairly robust
• The service flow managers can be setup to easily lead technicians to entering data in the right place

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• Online approvals
• Travel data history
• Provision for additional analytics
• Automated reports
• Tracking location of the user

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• Dispatch console seems slow and the data is more of a pull than a push into the database.
• It seems to be a Ferrari and takes a lot of labor hours to configure.
• Still does not integrate with Apple's products very well.

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• Employee GPS tracking should be improved, as sometimes location information differs from actual locations in rural areas
• Lead management needs more customization with respect to the different product ranges and customer segments
• Support option and features could be bit easier to use in mobile app user interface

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Engaged account management. Support is based worldwide but handoffs have not been too painful.

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ServiceMax has an offline capability, and also integrates with our Salesforce side of business. At the time, Salesforce did not have a field service application so we could not consider it, but if we could now, we would probably go with that instead. ServiceMax is also expensive. But at the time, ServiceMax was the only offering out there that integrated with Salesforce, had mobile offline capability, and could operate at the scale we needed.

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Webexpenses is bit of affordable software compared to Travelize's pricing. Travelize has more features, such as leads management, leave management, etc. whereas Webexpenses is for travel expenses and online booking only. Geotracking of employees is available with Travelize only, not with Webexpenses.

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• ROI for ServiceMax is mostly dependent on how in depth the organization wants the software. Our ROI is expected within the second year of operation due to the complexity of integration and the initial training requirements for in-house programmers.
• Inventory control ROI is expected within year three or four due to the number of technicians and creating the foundation of information to import into ServiceMax. Expectations are the front end programming will be complete and our programmers will be better acquainted with the modules and architecture to make the inventory integration smoother than the initial integration.
• Our organization has been working with ServiceMax for ten months and beginning to incorporate the financials to the work orders. This process has not been as seamless as once projected and the root causes are under investigation. It appears the original fields available to track time between employees were not in depth nor segregated sufficiently for granularity.

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• Its saves time and effort, resulting in employee productivity
• Pricing is bit on the higher side per user for the premium version
• Mobile app provides almost all the web features, which is travel friendly and saves time

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