ServiceNow Customer Service Management vs. Zendesk Guide

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.

In our company, we host our benefit articles based on country on our Zendesk Guide. However, these articles should not be seen by employees that are outside their respective article country. For example, an employee that is based in Thailand shouldn't be seeing Malaysia benefits article as employees might compared benefits. With Zendesk Guide, the system allow us to set the configuration of the article so it is only visible Thailand-based employees, and for Malaysia article, only Malaysia-based employees

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• They give us ability to control the whole frontend of the Communities by giving us access to manipulate HTML (in HBS file), CSS and JS
• They give handlebars templating engine in backend which helps us to show various listing rendered through server side without having need to implement client side rendering of the listing and features.
• They provide us dynamic content fields, which can be useful for mapping categories or storing category and topic IDs so we don't need to hard code IDs in Sandbox and Production separately.

Incentivized

• Adding in additional chat features would be nice
• Viewing where you stand in priority
• Having a way to automate more of the processes

Incentivized

• Formatting according to our brand guidelines can be tricky
• Reporting metrics are lacking
• The user interface can be confusing
• Their support team takes a long time to respond
• They have comments open on their KB articles, but almost noone responds, which is frustrating.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

The support is good but can sometime be frustrating to get a quick answer. We end up being sent articles that don't answer the question and then we have to go back and try again

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

It is an attribute of Zendesk that allows for easy over the phone communication between agents and customers. It is more personal and allows for better productivity. Phone support from anywhere with reliable internet connection which is essential to call center communication whether in the office or in the home of the agent.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• We used it for multiple customer so we can say ROI of Zendesk Guide is very competitive.
• Zendesk meet[s] most of the business objective[s], which suits [a]s best product among its competitor.
• I highly recommend to use Zendesk for knowledge base and tickets and agents.

Incentivized