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ServiceNow IT Operations Management

Score8.6 out of 10

57 Reviews and Ratings

What is ServiceNow IT Operations Management?

Built on the Now Platform, the ServiceNow IT Operations Management bundle is designed to help users gain visibility across infrastructure and apps, maintain service health, and optimize cloud delivery and spend.

Top Performing Features

  • Configuration and Change Management

    The tool tracks and manages configuration changes across IT infrastructure and applications to ensure system stability and compliance.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Incident Management

    The tool helps manage and track incidents by providing a centralized platform for logging, notifying, and resolving incidents.

    Category average: 7.1

  • Service Desk Integration

    The tool integrates with service desk platforms to streamline and automate the incident management process.

    Category average: 7.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Collaboration and Communication

    The tool provides features for collaboration and communication among IT teams, such as chat, ticket commenting, and shared dashboards.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Threat Intelligence

    The tool can leverage external libraries of known issues, best practices, and troubleshooting guides to support IT teams in problem-solving and decision-making.

    Category average: 7.1

  • Capacity Planning Tool

    The tool predicts future resource utilization and helps IT teams plan for capacity upgrades or adjustments to avoid performance issues.

    Category average: 6.8

ServiceNow IT Operations Management review.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used ServiceNow as our ITIL platform for incident, change, problem, and release management practices. We also use ServiceNow as our knowledge base for reporting, including a dashboard, and we use the API to export the data. We also use ServiceNow CMDB as our data source. ServiceNow also allows our customers to open incidents and requests through their dedicated portal.

Pros

  • Self serve portal.
  • Incident management.
  • Change management

Cons

  • Problem management.
  • Knowledgebase
  • Reporting.

Return on Investment

  • Self-serve feature.
  • Single system.
  • Cost of operation.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

BMC Helix ITSM, BMC Helix Client Management and BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

Other Software Used

ScienceLogic SL1, Jira Service Management, BMC Helix Client Management

ServiceNow ITOM Because The Phones are Down Shouldn't Be Your Morning Alarm.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As someone who bridges the gap between core infrastructure and the contact center, I’ve found ServiceNow ITOM to be the "secret sauce" for moving away from constantly fighting fires as they arise. While most teams use ServiceNow just for the help desk (ITSM), the ITOM suite is what actually lets the contact center stay ahead of technical outages by having an easy overview of platform health. It’s not just a simple tool; it’s an insurance policy for your Customer Experience.

Pros

  • Using Service Mapping, I can show a contact center director exactly which servers support their IVR or SIP trunks. When a server goes down, ITOM tells me detailed information. For example, "This isn't just a server issue; your voice gateway in Dublin is at risk." That level of data is absolutely golden for our team and me.
  • We’ve built integrations that enable ITOM to detect a hung process on a call-recording server and trigger an Orchestration workflow to restart the service before the shift starts. The agents had no clue that there was even an issue.
  • Since most modern contact centers, including the ones we work with, are Cloud-based, ITOM’s Cloud Management gives us a single pane of glass to track the health of our AWS/Azure environments.

Cons

  • Not suitable for small-scale businesses due to the cost. Don't get me wrong, you really get best in class features and reliability, so you get what you pay for. Really!
  • Messy data equals messy configuration and setup. It's important to plan, sit down, map an architectural overview, and ensure the data remains consistent. Otherwise, this tool will lose its value for your team if the data is unreliable.
  • The learning curve is steep. It takes time and almost requires prior experience with similar systems or deep knowledge about ServiceNow in General.

Return on Investment

  • I'll give you an example: Organizations typically see a 25–35% reduction in high-priority incidents within the first year. A customer that previously suffered 10 major outages a year can avoid just three of them, resulting in an estimated €1M in immediate cost avoidance.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Jira Service Management

Other Software Used

Genesys Cloud CX, Webex Contact Center, Cisco Unified Contact Center, Google Cloud AI, Azure AI Studio, Azure App Service

Service Now - 710

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ServiceNow is used to manage Support Teams Tickets, Pro-Services Projects, and CRM for Sales. As a tool for the Service Desk, it is very good at clearly and quickly providing the required related information to navigate to. The Project function did not have the same ease of use or the ability to quickly navigate to key relevant details.

Pros

  • Incident and service request tickets.
  • Problem Management.
  • Change Management.

Cons

  • Project Management.

Return on Investment

  • Project Management department required additional tool sets.
  • Problem Management delivered ability to reduce ticket numbers.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Datto Autotask PSA

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, IT Glue, Kaseya VSA

Leading IT management tool

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my org we are using ServiceNow for automation of IT access where if any new or existing user specific access then the service is working very fast and accurate in the form of ticket management system. User raised a ticket via ServiceNow, select the application and access as per the customization and bingo automation designed in the way to assign it asap without any manual work.

Pros

  • New employee onboarding
  • Automation access task
  • Knowledge article

Cons

  • AI for ticket logging
  • Knowledge article
  • report limitation

Return on Investment

  • Saved 20% time than last year for customer issues management
  • Estimated time of resolving issue increased
  • Nearly 1000+ article got created on 1 year

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce Service Cloud and Microsoft SharePoint

Other Software Used

Salesforce Service Cloud, Microsoft SharePoint, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Snagit

SNOW ITOM - Excellent module for IT Ops from SNOW

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The SNOW ITOM is used mainly for below use cases: 1) Discovery of assets 2) Service mapping - apps to low level (till servers) 3) Reporting data 4) Comliance requirements We are exploring other features that can be leveraged (we know of them) in the coming future. Once the vanila implementation is now in place, work is progressing with next set of feature activation.

Pros

  • Discovery of assets
  • Service mapping
  • Comliance
  • Reporting data feed

Cons

  • ease of customisation
  • annual cost of the module too high
  • Learning new features - quick help is difficult to find

Return on Investment

  • Discovery of assets to enhance visibility of assets
  • Service mapping - again to provide right visibility

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Dynatrace

Other Software Used

Dynatrace