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    ServiceNow AI Platform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe ServiceNow AI Platform is the company's workflow automation solution, and it is the unified foundation for every ServiceNow product. It brings together AI, data, workflows, and security to execute work across IT, CRM, employee experience, risk and security, and app development.N/A

    TOPdesk

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    TOPdesk is the flagship highly-modular cloud-based or installed ITSM service desk and asset management solution from the Dutch company of the same name, for enterprise companies.

    $76

    per month Per agent

    Pricing
    ServiceNow AI PlatformTOPdesk
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Essential
    $76
    per month Per agent
    Engaged
    $109
    per month Per agent
    Excellent
    $155
    per month Per agent
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ServiceNow AI PlatformTOPdesk
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—The TOPdesk license model: - Modular: Organizations purchase only the modules needed - Saas or On premise - Supports unlimited number of assets. - Service agents based. - Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    ServiceNow AI PlatformTOPdesk
    Considered Both Products
    ServiceNow
    No answer on this topic
    TOPdesk
    Chose TOPdesk
    Single source of data, one system that contains all assets, users, tickets etc. is what i like the most about Topdesk.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
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    97%
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    145 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
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    24 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    118 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    144 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    74 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    88 Answers
    Features
    ServiceNow AI PlatformTOPdesk
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of ServiceNow AI Platform and TOPdesk
    Feature
    ServiceNow AI Platform
    -
    Ratings
    TOPdesk
    7.5
    254 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.4254 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.6181 Ratings
    Service restoration00 Ratings7.3174 Ratings
    Self-service tools00 Ratings7.7236 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings7.5178 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.3199 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards00 Ratings6.7211 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of ServiceNow AI Platform and TOPdesk
    Feature
    ServiceNow AI Platform
    -
    Ratings
    TOPdesk
    7.5
    213 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Configuration mangement00 Ratings7.8200 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard00 Ratings7.5185 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement00 Ratings7.4142 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of ServiceNow AI Platform and TOPdesk
    Feature
    ServiceNow AI Platform
    -
    Ratings
    TOPdesk
    7.5
    207 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Change requests repository00 Ratings7.9200 Ratings
    Change calendar00 Ratings7.0157 Ratings
    Service-level management00 Ratings7.6172 Ratings
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    ServiceNow AI PlatformTOPdesk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (29 ratings)
    8.2
    (255 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.6
    (166 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (22 ratings)
    8.6
    (35 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.6
    (20 ratings)
    8.4
    (215 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.8
    (20 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (10 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (20 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    7.0
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    Vendor pre-sale
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    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    ServiceNow AI PlatformTOPdesk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ServiceNow
    ITSM is straight forward creation of Incidents and Requests. It can get more confusing as you layer more modules on top of it with event management, risk, project, etc. It also becomes more costly as everything is a different license. Integration between other external applications is very easy to do with their API. You can easily create endpoints for external apps to talk to or create REST messages for the platform to reach out directly.
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    TOPdesk
    It is an easy-to-use platform with a lot of capabilities. We use it for knowledge databases and it makes my work as Application Owner way easier and faster. It also provides a clear view of the issues running in our organization. We can clearly see where our colleagues are having problems. It also provides a clear view of my support tickets. Also, the reporting tools and the asset management are very nice.
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    Pros
    ServiceNow
    • The ServiceNow platform is very good at incident management.
    • ServiceNow as an ITSM system is very as it integrates with a lot of different systems.
    • The CMDB module of ServiceNow effectively makes relationships between configuration items and other infrastructure objects in ServiceNow.
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    TOPdesk
    • TOPdesk's UI is pretty intuitive. Its often not needed to explain colleagues new functionalities as they are self-explaining.
    • TOPdesk is visually cleaner compared to interfaces of other ITSM tools
    • TOPdesk offers a lot of UI's that are easy to customize, like the home dashboard
    • TOPdesk support is really good. Once we notice we do not get an answer that works for us, the issue is escalated directly to a specialist on demand.
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    Cons
    ServiceNow
    • The ServiceNow performance speed has big room for improvement, as it is quite slow in loading Dashboards with more than 5-6 widgets. We are keeping our ServiceNow version up to date with latest releases.
    • Usually there are issues with having multiple ServiceNow tabs open in the browser and have different dashboards open in those tabs.
    • The way of showing a history log of all activities on Incident ticket is not optimal and easy to use or search in and have very old design.
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    TOPdesk
    • assigning rights is too extensive, making it very complex to manage this up to date.
    • Topdesk has gained so many features that it is difficult for a new user to become familiar with it.
    • action sequences remain tricky and certainly not for everyone to understand.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ServiceNow
    While we are very likely to renew, we are also assessing if we should renew all of what we currently subscribe to as we try to reduce costs. Some parts of the business feel there may be a better tool out there to fit their process requirements. We are currently working with them to identify what those requirements are to see if it makes sense while also pointing out a reduced cost of tooling is not always the best fit if we have an increased cost of customization and maintenance between tools.
    Incentivized
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    TOPdesk
    If I could choose a new ticketing/asset/ITSM tool and a company I would definitely go with TOPdesk. I like the fact that the support team is also in Dutch and the pricing at the time we purchased it was very affordable. It had all the features we needed and since then the product has come a long way and has many built in out-of-box features that require much less config and setup time. However still very customizable so can be adapted to any customer/environment.
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    Usability
    ServiceNow
    It provides a lot of modification options which is wonderful for certain team usage but becomes too much of a job when it comes to the Service Desk. Also on the app support side, since too much information can be carried, it affects the GUI and makes it complex.
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    TOPdesk
    In short, we've been able to remove many pain points, automate multiple things, and empowered the end-user by being able to manage more items via the Self Service Portal. We've been able to do more than we were able to do with our previous ITSM platform. The TOPdesk development team added some things recently that will allow us to make some other things more efficient.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ServiceNow
    No answers on this topic
    TOPdesk
    Like I said somewhere else in this review: the helpdesk of TOPdesk is top of the bill! In the Netherlands, that is. I can not plea for the helpdesks in other countries, but I guess the TOPdesk organization will make sure the quality of the helpdesk is the same in every country.
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    Performance
    ServiceNow
    No answers on this topic
    TOPdesk
    Although being a SAAS solution, TOPdesk performs pretty fast. One can imagine that any SAAS solution is slow or has hiccups, but we have not experienced such with TOPdesk. Pages load quickly, logging in goes smoothly. We have made reports on premise in the past - that always took some time, as you might expect with such complex tasks. It seems that in the SAAS solution TOPdesk somehow has managed to make it even faster!
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    Support Rating
    ServiceNow
    I was not in the team that take care of the installation of ServiceNow but their feedback was very positive. Go live was done by the planned date and their support at the beginning provided always a timely response. Their customer service is friendly and easy to reach. Today we don't use their customer service anymore because we have an internal IT dedicated to maintaining the system.
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    TOPdesk
    Most if not nearly all questions are answered within the same or a few days. The helpdesk is very knowledgable about their product and are always willing to help. The only downside is that for more difficult questions it can take a while due to the experts being further removed from the helpdesk. But they are always willing to answer questions, even if they are not directly related to a problem with the service.
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    In-Person Training
    ServiceNow
    No answers on this topic
    TOPdesk
    We had Topdesk in-house here training staff for almost a month (2-3 hour meetings 3x a week.) It was invaluable and we were able to take that training and share with the rest of our IT staff. Once implemented we were able to fly from there. The challenges we found were in how to get started. Once started the knowledge base offered from Topdesk has been invaluable.
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    Online Training
    ServiceNow
    No answers on this topic
    TOPdesk
    Online training documentation is easy to access and consume. There is no real challenges with finding information on how to use the product and some really helpful knowledge base items that show us how valuable these options are in our own implementation of it. The online training we've used has been self driven
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    Implementation Rating
    ServiceNow
    We went through a re-implementation last year with a partner and were very pleased with the outcome. We looked at several partners and chose one that was able to provide an entire scope and cost upfront of what would be required to complete our requirements. We worked very closely with the dedicated team assigned to our project throughout the process and they fully delivered on all of our requirements that we presented in the initial scope.
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    TOPdesk
    It was a challenge to port over years of the same thing and we ended up keeping old ideas in Topdesk that we will eventually weed out as time passes and we learn how users view categories and flows of tickets. Planning is key but bear in mind that just because you used to do it this way doesn't mean you still have to
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    Alternatives Considered
    ServiceNow
    I've used Freshservice which is very similar to ServiceNow. I can definitely say ServiceNow performs better in a larger environment. Freshservice is usually used in smaller organization or less complx environment. Plus the ServiceNow reporting and dashboard features are more accurate than Freshservice. ServiceNow is a bit costly but gives way more features that really helps my organization.
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    TOPdesk
    Spiceworks is an easier-to-use Help Desk solution but it lacks all other features that Topdesk has. Freshdesk was just too much for our environment. It was cost-prohibitive for our intended use. TOPdesk fit our org size and budget better than the others.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    ServiceNow
    1. It is not great when they can't seperate apps/products from a particular sku, forcing you to make a business case for a larger portion of functionlity than your current business case seeks to address. 2. ServiceNow reps are able to work with you when economies of scale are projected out. They are willing to start at a desired tier and provide pricing at applicable upgraded tiers
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    TOPdesk
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    ServiceNow
    No answers on this topic
    TOPdesk
    TOPdesk is very flexible and scalable. Every department in you organization can you the software. Perhaps some persons need some training, but that can be provided by TOPdesk ot some keyusers.
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    Professional Services
    ServiceNow
    Very easy to use. Capture more data from the Incident and problem management. Easier to escalate and following the change management process to resole the issues.
    Incentivized
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    TOPdesk
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    ServiceNow
    • Fast implementation of our Sales & Operation/Projects controls and process - tool adapted to our needs, not us to adapt to the tool.
    • Once we are a consulting/implementation company, our customers are happy to see that we use what we sell, and it is easy to show them how this platform/tool can have an impact on our own business.
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    TOPdesk
    • A good number of incidents can solved more quickly. Those cases can be solved by the customer itself and in TOPdesk it is very easy to send the self-service-solution with your answer.
    • It is easier to report some things based on categorization and good search filtering
    • If there are two or more tickets, they are difficult (or impossible) to merge correctly. There is a merge function, but there is for example, only one client possible. A solution where you close one merged ticket and send separate emails to every single customer would be really nice!
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