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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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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: 8.4

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

Modern Easy to use ITSM platform.

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

Freshservice A Smart ITSM Solution.

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