ServiceNow App Engine vs. Socialtext (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ServiceNow App Engine
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
ServiceNow App Engine aims to bring creator workflow apps to production quickly for mission-critical tasks. Design with best-practice guidance and templates within a holistic low-code dev experience.N/A
Socialtext (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Social Text was a tool that focused on social learning and includes Twitter-like microblogging capabilities. The product competed with MindTouch,Confluence, Jive Team Collaboration and other collaboration platforms. It was acquired by PeopleFluent in 2012 and is no longer available as a separate product, though similar capabilities are supplied by the PeopleFluent platform.
$1
Starting Price Per Month
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Socialtext
$1.00
Starting Price Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ServiceNow App EngineSocialtext (discontinued)
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
ServiceNow App EngineSocialtext (discontinued)
Low-Code Development
Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
ServiceNow App Engine
8.2
10 Ratings
3% below category average
Socialtext (discontinued)
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Ratings
Visual Modeling7.510 Ratings00 Ratings
Drag-and-drop Interfaces8.49 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Security8.510 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform User Management8.310 Ratings00 Ratings
Reusability8.69 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Scalability8.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
ServiceNow App Engine
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Ratings
Socialtext (discontinued)
7.6
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Task Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Search00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
ServiceNow App Engine
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Ratings
Socialtext (discontinued)
7.2
1 Ratings
11% below category average
Chat00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Notifications00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Discussions00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Surveys00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
ServiceNow App EngineSocialtext (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
6.8
(7 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.6
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ServiceNow App EngineSocialtext (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
ServiceNow
Well suited - for someone who enjoys minimal coding with maximum throughput. For organisations who look for IT solutions basis customer a priority. Very well suited for creating tickets for incidents, changes etc Not well suited - for small scale organisations where the customers are less and managing them is easy
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We use Social Text as a platform to air our issues with different departments. We voice our concerns and suggestions so we can help find a solution to the problems we incur on a daily basis. We need to have social text as an app so we can communicate in real time not only during work hours.
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Pros
ServiceNow
  • Workflows
  • Notifications
  • Management
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  • Version history - Always keeps the edited versions and one can revert back any time
  • Creating and Editing an article is very easy and intutive
  • Sharing the articles with peers
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Cons
ServiceNow
  • Not much for this tool, just the deep setting to new users.
  • Managing multiple project data.
  • Huge amount of data migration to new user.
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  • Search needs a ton of improvements. It was very slow a year ago
  • Search result quality was also not that good
  • I know they have improved their UI recently but when i used it last year it did not really have any design elements which could be used to make the articles look more presentable. It was important for us as we used it for external communication as well.
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Likelihood to Renew
ServiceNow
There are limited use cases where we are just using the service now app engine as of now
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Discontinued Products
We have a lot of info in Socialtext already. It would be hard to get all that info out and port it to a different system
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Usability
ServiceNow
Since people can handle the tool without any development background, this was really helpful and can be adopted by anyone, as reusability functions and drag-and-drop features are very easy. Many in-built features and functionality for integrating other applications are handy and adaptable.
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Reliability and Availability
ServiceNow
Almost 100% available on time
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Support Rating
ServiceNow
They tried their best to resolve our queries every time we contacted them about any technical support
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Implementation Rating
ServiceNow
App engine can be used just to process the minimal amount of the data which is being received from the user. We are service now catalogue items or any other data technology.
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Alternatives Considered
ServiceNow
ServiceNow App Engine is best among all the competitors. Its integration is best with Outlook and ERP, its SLA management is best, and very organized filters are very useful. Categorization of tickets is something that is very useful. It's very easy to search the tasks/order with limited keywords and very easy to customize. The best part is we can simply reply on mails using ServiceNow App Engine and keep a proper log of the tickets.
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Discontinued Products
I frankly like Confluence better than socialtext because of the speed and the quality of search. They also have better design elements which can help make the articles pleasant to the eyes.
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Scalability
ServiceNow
It is scalable but not reliable
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Discontinued Products
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Return on Investment
ServiceNow
  • We have managed to close the un applied cash item from 56% to 89% in a given five working days period by using ServiceNow App Engine
  • By automating and entire money laundering process, we have managed to provide the background check data as quickly as within a day, which was actually taking weeks Same reports when we were doing the things manually.
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  • We get solutions to concerns much faster
  • We promote interactions with the other depts
  • We listen and have discussions
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