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Freshservice

Score8.4 out of 10

333 Reviews and Ratings

What is Freshservice?

Freshservice is a cloud-based service desk and IT service management (ITSM) solution that currently serves more than 10,000 SMB, mid-market, and enterprise customers worldwide.

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Change Management
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1 / 7

Top Performing Features

  • Organize and prioritize service tickets

    Prioritize tickets to ensure most urgent are tackled first

    Category average: 8.9

  • Self-service tools

    Repository of information documenting common issues and known resolutions which can be accessed directly by users

    Category average: 8.1

  • Subscription-based notifications

    Users subscribe to notifications for ticket updates

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Policy and contract enforcement

    Ensuring that requesters have eligibility before fullfullment

    Category average: 7.7

  • Change calendar

    Calendar showing change schedule to stakeholders

    Category average: 8

  • Asset management dashboard

    Dashboard showing organization's software portfolio

    Category average: 8.1

Freshservice An emerging top contender for ITSM

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Freshservice as our primary ITSM tool. This helps us manage issues reported by our employees, provide our services, and manage problems and changes on our environment. Freshservice also helps us with Asset management.

Pros

  • Configuring settings in Freshservice is simple specially on integrating other tools.
  • It has complete modules for ITSM
  • The interface and reports are simple yet effective
  • Support experience is excellent

Cons

  • Automations need improvement such as being able to run scripts or codes based on an event
  • The search functionality needs improvement specially on keyword searching. A lot of filters are already available but it lacks flexibility.

Return on Investment

  • Freshservice helped us manage Incidents on a systematic approach
  • Freshservice helped us enforce our SLAs

Alternatives Considered

ServiceNow Now Platform

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Island, NinjaOne, Check Point Harmony SASE, Hyperproof

Usability

Freshservice a fresh approach

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Freshservice on a daily basis in everyday ticketing, the solution serves as the main internal ticketing system and itsm tool for all the employees.

Pros

  • Ticketing
  • Change Management
  • Asset Management
  • Projects management

Cons

  • Rebranding for Agent portal
  • Customizing the change lifecycle
  • Automating change ticket submission
  • SLA for Approvals

Return on Investment

  • System increased our digital transformation by more than 80%
  • Significantly better employee satisfaction results were achieved
  • The system increased the productivity by reducing the load by 50% on agents by using automation tools

Other Software Used

Freshchat, Freshdesk

Great tool for smaller teams and managing tasks

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Freshservice to assign tasks across our teams and to improve collaboration with teams. We then have daily stand ups to discuss what's on the board and figure out what we will work on for that current week and in future weeks. We do usually have many tasks as our team is quite small.

Pros

  • Clear visual of tickets board
  • easy to organise and switch between boards
  • easy to use UI

Cons

  • it would be nice if you could colour code the tasks
  • the notes features on tickets seems very simple and unstructured
  • dark mode for the UI?

Return on Investment

  • so we have shorter MTTR when it comes to urgent tasks/tickets
  • SLAs are not being breached as much as they were before dua to the clear UI and notifications
  • overall higher productivity

Alternatives Considered

Tasks for Zendesk and monday CRM

Other Software Used

Miro, monday CRM

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Freshservice as our main ticketing tool in the company. This is also integrated to FreshSales which is our CRM tool. Majority of our company's processes from Onboarding to Offboarding is in Freshservice. The integration between Freshsales and Freshservice is an advantage as we are able to automate parts of our processes.

Pros

  • Integrations to Freshsales
  • Integration to Freshdesk
  • Webhooks

Cons

  • Service catalog
  • Custom objects
  • Email integrations

Return on Investment

  • Streamlined onboarding and offboarding
  • Partially automated onboarding and offboarding

Other Software Used

Freshdesk, Freshsales, Jotform