Cherwell Service Management

- Ticket Management System
- Tracking the SLA of the users
- Working closely with the clients
- Helpful in getting the issue insights
- Best suited for Service-based industries
- Monitoring of open tickets and notifications/ alerts of the SLA
- Easy tracking for each of the workforce to share the work.

It is best suited for companies day to day ITSM needs. It is user-friendly and modifications in the tool are much easier as compared to others in the market. Also, it is cost-effective.

Great tool for change management and support tickets for deployment process

Cherwell, [Service Management], as an ITSM tool, is effective at executing user management and change management. Cherwell is very powerful and adaptive to meet your organizations personal needs.

Cherwell is a well-rounded product that can really be utilized as far as one's imagination can stretch. I've used the product in both a corporate and medical environment, where the tool was used for vastly different reasons (i.e., ITSM, business & retail functions, vs hospital orderlies & medical equipment tracking in a CMDB, etc.). Cherwell is so versatile that you can really use it to develop any workflow or process that is unique to your line of business - there are more than enough functions and tools available within Cherwell to effectively manage any enterprise solution your organization needs. The major drawback of flexibility is supportability. Given that you can essentially develop anything you want (content-wise) in Cherwell, it can quickly become highly complex and difficult to support by anyone other than the original developer. Documentation is key (F-spec & T-spec especially!) when developing larger solutions in Cherwell.

Cherwell [Service Management] is the perfect tool for any organization big or small that needs a solution to handle inter-departmental and customer facing business processes and services. Cherwell offers a complete suite of tools that allow you to maintain a robust service catalog, publicize those services through a web portal, and gives your end users a way to engage with self-help and self-service. In addition, Cherwell's low code architecture makes configuration and customization a breeze without a concern of rendering the system unusable and un-upgradeable. Cherwell is designed for change and we find that we are able to easily manage ever changing workflows with ease. If you are a small organization, you can set up and maintain Cherwell with minimal staff. If you are a large organization with complex business needs, you can leverage Cherwell to solve a wide variety of business problems rapidly.

For common ticketing or request types, our instance is set up very well for efficient, intuitive submission by non-technical users. For less common issues, however, you either need to know the right terminology or stumble across the right items in the complex cascading menus or search results to find the right way to request what you need.

It's great for automating processes but hard to work with.

Support is sometimes slow and doesn't always have a fix.

I think if you have the time to spend making this product into what you want and adapt it to your environment you will be in a really good place. If you are looking for a purely out of the box solution it might not be the best product for you.

Managing stock is great. We control the whole asset life cycle with Cherwell. Complex automation is possible by combining PowerShell and one step, although a fair degree of expertise is required to do this. For instance, our HR system will now create user accounts in Active Directory and applies the correct privileges. It will so expire the accounts when a member of staff leaves the organization. The person's equipment will be delivered to the correct location with the appropriate tickets sent to correct teams to facilitate this.

It is great. We rarely experience any performance issues and when we do they are attentive and responsive. There are is an active support forum and quarterly user group meeting. These are great for innovation and idea-sharing on how to get the most out of the system. Bear in mind that you are using a cloud system and some of the issues that you may have might be with your own internal network.

Cherwell [Service Management] is well suited out-of-the-box for all things IT Service Management, from Incident and Service Request management, to Change, to Asset and Configuration Management. With Cherwell's official FSM module, it is also well suited for Facilities Management. I see Cherwell's vision with the HRSM module, but more work needs to go into it for it to be able to compete with existing HR solutions. With custom development, Cherwell is also great at custom webpages using a WYSIWYG style.

As a manager of 8 engineers who frequently create or have tickets, changes, or requests assigned to them, Cherwell Service Management does a great job of helping us manage all of that work in one place. I can easily see what's assigned to my team and who's responsible for it. It also does a good job of time tracking from start to finish and alerts us as to when items have gone past their required response time that the company sets. It can be a little overwhelming from a UI standpoint to those that are less technical but it works well.

Change Management approval processing is a good example. Cherwell, as an ITSM tool, is effective at executing the different change configurations, and requiring distinct approvals to proceed forwards.

Well suited if you have people dedicated to developing the views and back-end C# client, and if you work in a more silo type environment.

They are an exceptional company with exceptional products. Whether you are using Cherwell Service Management for your support or services, it is [...] flawless software. Using our consultants to deliver it, you cannot go wrong. Cherwell Service Management is well suited for any sized company. I have seen very small companies use it and massive, billion-dollar companies use it.

Users can create tickets even if they are not employed by the organization.

Cherwell Service Management is suitable for straight-forward engagements with specific tasks.

Requires a lot of support, not very intuitive

Though the Cherwell Service Management offers multiple benefits to the organization, it's pretty slow in response while comparing it to the other competitive service management systems out there. Since we are using the on-prem hosted version of Cherwell SM, we are experiencing frequent service outages as well as user login issues to the portal.

Since we've on-prem hosted CSM, we'll contact our partner for any tech/troubleshooting issues that may occur. However, direct customer support from Cherwell is appreciatable comparing to the others.

If you have multiple support teams in your organization, this tool is great for incident/service request handling. Tool also great for dashboard and reports creation.

Support team for the tool was good and professional. All needed improvements or updates were done in a timely manner.

It is well suited for the Customer Service Portal and Customer Service Fulfillment along with Change Management. The framework allows you easily to grow out of IT.

Cherwell support replied almost immediately to your support request.

I am still going to praise the standard template process. it's great! Using an existing approved Normal change, and nominating it into a standard template is quite easy. The only thing that could be easier is having an easy view of which templates are awaiting approval. I had to create a saved search for that.

I haven't used Cherwell support - everything I do goes through my admin.

Cherwell is great for logic and process-based situations where you want "X" to occur when "Y" happens to "Z".

Support has always been concerned with giving us the best help they can. I have not used them often, but I have had great interactions with them.

I like the ability to segregate high sensitive data from the general database, especially for meeting federal regulatory requirements.

Scalability.

Cherwell would work great within the managed services space, as well as internal departments. It has the ability to be highly customizable between different types of users and departments, so there are a significant amount of issues that it could address. Overall, the home-run hit is in-house usage within an organization.

Sometimes is does take us some time to reach a higher tier support for significant issues, but overall, the support is good.

Cherwell is a good choice for any sized enterprise that needs an extremely customizable IT help desk solution that triggers (again, entirely customizable) automated actions, spawns workflows (and auto-spawns tasks and sub-tasks for them) for multiple IT technicians and multiple tiers of technicians. It can do project management, change management, asset management, all the same things that the others can do and far, far more. If you do NOT need a highly customized help desk solution and if you don't need automated workflow creation and task tracking, then you could buy a less expensive solution that you can use out of the box without any of the frills. But as I said, Cherwell can do a lot more than just IT help desk, and it has a huge array of "plug-in" / "add-on" features, most of which are free, that make every Cherwell implementation completely unique to the enterprise that uses it. Cherwell is just right for a company that wants to manage and customize the help desk application with a PTE resource. I manage it myself at my company, and I spend very little time maintaining it now that it's solidly established ... although it's so much fun to customize that I wish I had more time to add new features and play with it. I do strongly advise some training for the admins ... your Cherwell admins MUST take the online, instructor-led introductory admin class to kick you off, and you MUST have implementation help from Cherwell to setup your instance, especially their hosted offering, over which you don't have database admin control (you can't even turn it on to get it working without their help). But after that, there is very little support needed from your own in-house Cherwell admin resource, unless, of course, you are constantly growing the solution to make it do more. I can see how that could happen because Cherwell can do almost anything. I can imagine some departments wanting to make it into the swiss-army-knife of IT .. and HR .. and facilities .... and physical security ... and you could spend many hours down the rabbit hole doing that if you wanted to.

Cherwell technical support is superior. Even when they don't know the answer to something they will find out how to help you.

We had a disappointing experience just after purchase because our salesman failed to include an implementation package into our purchase. This was in violation of Cherwell's own policy so we never found out why he did this. If it would have been a self-hosted instance, it probably would have been OK, because I just would have set it up myself using their (surprisingly good) self-help implementation documentation. But it was NOT self-hosted, it was hosted at Cherwell-on-Demand. So I didn't have access to their server where it needed to be implemented.

I was waiting for someone at Cherwell-on-Demand to contact us to get us rolling, and no one ever did, because our salesman did not hand us off to the implementation team. So I called technical support. They were very confused at first because they kept asking me who were were working with on the implementation team. Once I finally got them to the point of understanding that we had no implementation help whatsoever, they were amazing. They went way past their normal role and even the manager of the entire Cherwell support team in Denver got involved. They got me the help that I needed (which really wasn't much help, just turning on the hosted server and setting up a connector) quickly and apologized to me for the salesman's failure.

This implementation help is just a first example, however. I've opened about three or four tickets (for regular operational issues and routine maintenance) since we've been using Cherwell over the last 3 years and in every case, I got the answer I needed quickly and all of my questions were answered.