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.
System Administrator in Information Technology at Peak Support LLC (1001-5000 employees employees)
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
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Expert ITSM Engineer in Information Technology at THIQAH (501-1000 employees employees)
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
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Team Lead in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Freshservice to Integrate with Zoom Phone and Dialpad Telephony. Basically we do Integrations with CRM,ITSM with multiple Cloud Telephony. So Freshservice is one of the ITSM tool we integrated for the customer and as a marketplace application.
Pros
Freshservice makes it super easy for my team to manage IT tickets
Tickets automatically get categorized, prioritized and routed to the right agent.
Easy to use for both agent and user
Cons
More complete API Coverage, especially for automation and CMDB
Better webhook reliability and event filtering
Easier way to create and manage custom Integrations
Return on Investment
Freshservice has had a significant positive impact on our clients IT operations and service delivery metrics.
Alternatives Considered
ServiceNow IT Asset Management, ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Jira Service Management, Zendesk Suite and Zendesk Guide
Other Software Used
ServiceNow IT Service Management, Zendesk Suite, Zendesk Guide, Freshchat, Freshsales, Freshdesk
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Application & System Engineer in Information Technology at Viabuild NV (201-500 employees employees)
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Freshservice as an IT tool for logging and handling our tickets. Mostly incidents and service requests. The scope is IT support for end users and logging messages from our monitoring tool. We are also using the built-in asset-management service to register all of our assets and software licenses.
Pros
A user-friendly end-user portal that is easy to understand and roll-out.
A discovery client that is being installed on all devices collects hardware and software information, so this doesn't need to be done manually.
The possibility of adding an automatic workflow for creating new Teams groups or other automations.
Cons
To have more options on what to do with the emails that arrive in the support mailbox (which goes to Freshservice), Setting some special rules or detailed filtering is not possible.
Non 3rd party tools to connect to Intune are missing. Additionally, the third-party tool available in the store is not satisfactory. It would be nice to have native support for importing devices from our Azure cloud.
The contract requires you to prolong your contract end-date by two years instead of just one year, which to us is a bit aggressive.
Return on Investment
Alleviate our support team by providing knowledge directly to the end users.
Better response times from our IT support team, thanks to automation and dashboard use.
Better tracking of our assets by assigning them to users so we know which device was handed out to who. During off-boarding, we know which devices to ask back.
Alternatives Considered
4me.com
Other Software Used
FileZilla, Discord, OneDrive
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