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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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ServiceNow is a fast-growing service management provider that went public in 2012. Built on the ServiceNow Now Platform, the IT Service Management bundle provides an agent workspace with knowledge management, and modules supporting issue tracking and problem resolution, change, release and configuration management, and (on the higher tier ITSM Professional plan) ITAM and software asset management.
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite, IFS Assyst, and CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager are common alternatives for ServiceNow IT Service Management.
Reviewers rate Service-level management highest, with a score of 9.1.
The most common users of ServiceNow IT Service Management are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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ServiceNow IT Service Management is a versatile tool used by organizations to address a wide range of IT requests and processes. Users across various departments, from DBAs to human resources, rely on ServiceNow to handle and schedule delivery processes, submit change requests, and track ticketing and asset management. It serves as a central repository for all IT-related information, allowing for efficient communication and improved organization. With its customizable dashboards, user-friendly interface, and integration options with Jira, ServiceNow proves invaluable in tracking tasks, incidents, change requests, and managing IT hardware equipment. Additionally, it extends beyond ITSM to provide solutions for HR and CRM needs. Consultants implement and integrate ServiceNow across different domains and industries, consolidating enterprise service processes onto one platform. Whether it's managing cases, device interactions, project management, or procurement tasks, ServiceNow has become the go-to solution for organizations seeking to streamline their operations efficiently.
Comprehensive and scalable ticketing system: Users have found ServiceNow to be a comprehensive and scalable ticketing system that caters to both internal and external customers. They appreciate the ability to categorize tickets easily, making it simple to organize and manage requests.
Robust permissions and security rules: The robust permissions and security rules in ServiceNow are highly praised by users. These features ensure a high level of security, giving users peace of mind when using the platform.
Seamless integration with Microsoft Active Directory: Users value the seamless integration between ServiceNow and Microsoft Active Directory. This integration provides a smooth user experience, allowing for easy access and management of user accounts.
Difficulties with User Interface: Users have expressed confusion and frustration with the user interface of ServiceNow. Some reviewers have mentioned missing features and a lack of customization options, making it difficult to tailor the platform to their specific needs.
Performance Issues: Several users have reported performance issues with ServiceNow. They have experienced freezing, slow loading times, and occasional errors while using the tool. These technical problems hinder productivity and create a frustrating user experience.
Concerns about Pricing: The pricing of ServiceNow has been raised as a concern by some users, particularly for small and medium-sized organizations. Reviewers have felt that the cost of the tool is too high for the value it provides, which poses challenges for budget-conscious businesses.
Users commonly recommend using ServiceNow as a ticketing tool and for managing IT assets. They find it to be well-defined and more performance-oriented than other tools on the market. Another common recommendation is to utilize ServiceNow as a solution for service management and tracking tasks. Users appreciate its high integrability and ease of use, making it easier to solve business problems efficiently. However, they suggest improving the user interface and acknowledge the learning curve when initially using the tool. Comparing ServiceNow with other tools like Zira and Remedy, users specifically highlight its effectiveness in tracking customer issues in large companies. Overall, users believe that ServiceNow is the best ITSM product with innovative modules that can benefit any organization. They recommend thoroughly configuring ServiceNow before production and integrating other applications like Power BI for better reporting. Additionally, having a dedicated team to run ServiceNow support is considered crucial, along with thorough planning and communication for maximum benefit. Users appreciate ServiceNow for its contribution to organizational improvement and incident reporting. They also emphasize the cost-saving benefits of reducing paper usage and time spent on business technical issues. Migrating to ServiceNow is recommended for better visibility, automation, continuous improvement, auditing work, and ease of use. Lastly, users find ServiceNow to be an excellent tool for auto-correction of internal processes, believing it to be the best tool currently available in the industry. They suggest understanding the license cost per user role and highlight its suitability for various departments within an organization.
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Our organization uses ServiceNow as our IT [Service Management] tool across the organization. It provides IT with a tool to manage incidents, problems, changes, releases, tasks and more. For our customers, it provides a portal to access knowledge base articles, request catalog items and report issues. Before ServiceNow, we struggled with solutions across multiple platforms.
- Workflows
- Change Management
- User Interface
- Creating custom search queries
- Workflow designer
- Initial Setup
February 08, 2020
Great Software for any IT organization
ServiceNow is being used in the IT Department as a way to manage Incidents and Change Requests at this time. It allowed us to put all the information into one reliable system. It also allowed us to customize the process with in the organization for these processes. The system is also available outside of the organization and is cloud-based, where our prior system was only on-premise.
- In the Cloud
- Reliability
- Initial setup can be daunting
- No dark theme
February 05, 2020
Currently the best ITSM application on the market
ServiceNow is being used for IT Service Management, the central ticketing system to report and solve issues across all company departments. It was also used to drive some of the core company processes like New to hire processing. Where the workflow triggers and creates several tasks and gets them assigned to different departments and individuals to accomplish all tasks needed to supply a new hired individually with all the required accesses to applications that the company uses.
- Report and assign issues that employees are having with a system or application that they need to use to help them complete their work.
- Keep track of all IT assets (Employee computers, company telephones assigned to employees).
- To accomplish some of the tasks like the discovery of servers and retrieval of info from these servers on the network, ServiceNow requires you to pay extra to get the additional services, and these services can get very expensive.
- ServiceNow has between 1 or 2 version releases per Year, these New releases introduce new features but most of the cases they have issues or create new problems on existing components on initial release, so we decided to skip releases and make the updates on every other release and wait at least for the first set of fix patches to be available
January 30, 2020
ServiceNow - the hard to use workhorse
ServiceNow is used for knowledge-base management (help articles), incident/ticket management (help desk), and lots of internal processes for managing groups, forms, and other internal processes within the IT department. It is used across all of IT internally and then externally for the help articles and incident help tracking (emails). It has grown from originally handling just incidents to doing everything we can possibly think of - which isn't a great thing.
- Flexibility
- Feature set
- Difficult to use
- Lacks clarity
December 12, 2019
Great information repository if configured correctly
ServiceNow is used to track IT hardware equipment, along with interdependencies. It is also used to track changes. It is meant to function as a central repository for all changes and all hardware equipment; along with high-level data such as an operating system and software versioning. Instead of having multiple systems of record for an accounting of hardware/software/network addressing; ServiceNow functions as the central information repository.
- Ability to track all changes to a specific and individual item (such as a Linux server).
- Retrieve and display interdependent items. Servers run OS' and connect to a network via addresses 1, 2, 3, etc.
- Very difficult to onboard configuration items one by one.
- Very difficult to remove items added by mistake. For example, once a contact number is entered for an individual resource, it is impossible to remove it.
October 24, 2019
Powerful yet Clunky
ServiceNow is used at my business organization across the entire organization for CI (Configuration Item) inventory, service desk ticketing, infrastructure design and build requests and specifications, firewall rule change requests, and is tied to AutoCloud for the automated deployment of Cloud based virtual machines (VMware). In short, everything related to IT in my company uses ServiceNow.
- When I have a number of requests to make, for example a request to add a dozen or so user accounts to more than one group account in Active Directory , I can put all the needed information into the initial form, add it to my "shopping cart" and all of that information remains on the screen for the next item for which I only need to edit a few items (like the AD group name in this example), and keep adding them to the shopping cart until I have them all. When I "Check Out" each of those items is generated as a separate task under the one request. It simplifies and expedites the creation and tracking of these kinds of requests.
- I can easily and quickly see what tickets are currently assigned to me in order to prioritize them and remain aware of my workload.
- Numerous fields for CIs can be used when trying to find the entry for a particular item. For example, IP Address, server name, raw text, classification, and so on.
- To help with making sense out of related tasks, when a task is assigned to me and I need to open another task for a different team to work in order to complete my task, I can open a sub-task from my ticket so that the relationship between the two can be pulled up later into reports. For example, I may have a task to build a new vm, and need to open tasks for networking, security accounts, software installation and so on. By opening sub-tasks from my assignment, the time spent by all parties concerned is tied together for more meaningful cost accounting.
- Finding requests that I opened and have since been completed by the assigned group/individual is very difficult to accomplish unless I've written down the request numbers somewhere.
- Requests that I opened and are subsequently closed, often continue to appear in the list of "My Open Requests" giving the appearance that they were not completed when in fact they were.
- It may exist, but if it does I haven't found it yet, which makes it less than intuitive, but I would like to see the ability to recall a request in ServiceNow.
- I believe our firewall rule change request for is a custom form, but it has a serious drawback. If I submit such a request and need to make a correction to it before it is approved, there isn't anyway for me to do so. The request has to first be rejected with the creation of a sub-task in order to edit it before it is resubmitted for approval.
July 20, 2019
ServiceNow could be exactly what you are looking for
ServiceNow is the ticketing system used by our entire company. Anyone from production, engineering, executives, field sales/support, finance, customer service and anything I may have missed uses ServiceNow to log tickets. The IS department uses ServiceNow to update, track, monitor and close out Tasks, Incidents, and Change Requests. ServiceNow is a pretty vital part of our business. We also use it for process documentation. I am sure that we use it for many other roles that I am not aware of.
- I like the way the dashboard is setup, very easy to access reporting I need to see to help run my team better.
- Its very easy to train end user on how to input a ticket. The process is typically very easy.
- I also enjoy to ability to export reports to an excel file for further analysis.
- When adding additional filters to a report that has already been created, that seems to create issue with pulling information from the database correctly.
- We use SN for asset management, it can sometimes take awhile for information to update.
- Alot of times, KB articles do not save to my favorites correctly and I have to go try to find them again. That can be a bit tedious.
March 11, 2019
ServiceNow
ServiceNow is being used across the whole organisation. The infrastructure management [team] runs the full CMDB service hierarchy on ServiceNow and it is used to support the full ITIL environment in terms of change, incidents, requests, knowledge and asset management. End users make use of features such as the Service Catalog and are able to track their requests
- The interface in terms of Incident and Request Management between Supplier, Business and Customer is simple and efficient.
- Many changes to inventories can be made in real time.
- The plug in modules are good but a high level of customisation is also possible.
- When I click on an item on the left hand pane, it would be nice if ServiceNow could show a summary at the top of where I currently am in ServiceNow, similar to Windows Explorer. An example of this is: If I click on "User Administration - Users" All it shows is Groups at the top left of the right hand pane. What I'm asking for is that is shows the full path of where I currently am. This would also apply to SvcNow links that are sent to me.
- My first point also also applies to ServiceNow links that are sent to me.
- If I look at software models and then return to a specific request, the moment I approve it the screen jumps to the models before I've had a chance to populate a task.
February 15, 2019
ServiceNow is THE BEST!!
ServiceNow is used in our organization for internal tickets as well as with our customer facing requests. It is used for ticketing, asset management, and software management.
- Asset management - ServiceNow provides detailed asset management capabilities.
- Reports - ServiceNow allows reports that can be endlessly customized to provide any information.
- Software Management - ServiceNow allows serial number and software deployment information to be centralized.
- Customer Interface - ServiceNow can be difficult to use at first. It does require some initial training to get the hang of.
- KB Articles - It really depends on who makes them but even the best KB article can be hard to understand at times.
- ITIL Interface - The ITIL statistics interface could use some work, can be hard to understand.
February 13, 2019
ServiceNow - a Great choice for ITSM for any sized company
ServiceNow is in use across our entire enterprise. It is the one location for Incident Management, IT Procurement, Problem Management, and System Access and Change Control. This allows Tickets to be routed to the owners for approval and for completion. Reporting is completed from one system and allows for the streamlining of processes.
- Incident Management -- Calls to Incidents to Problems for tracking of issues.
- Reporting -- very intuitive User interface to create reports, dashboards, and other metrics.
- Ease of Integration -- Has many API's exposed to integrate with other systems.
- Complex reporting requires data extracts.
- Initial Setup (Lookup Data - Groupings and Categories/subcategories) must be done correctly or it can impact your ability to expand in the future.
- Creating of users and user groups must be thought out and you must understand specifically what roles and tasks are to be completed in ServiceNow.
February 08, 2019
The Next Generation IT Service Management
We are currently using ServiceNow ITSM (IT Service Management) and ITOM (ITOM) modules. ITSM is currently being used for Incident, problem, change and request management. ServiceNow ITSM has allowed our organization to embrace ITIL best practices using various ITSM and ITOM modules. It has boosted productivity by automating many of our processes. Provides management on-demand reports and dashboards, with a single data model to generate and distribute important information on demand and in real time. ServiceNow is being used both at the back office and roadside. Asset Management Module is used for maintaining and tracking all inventory at the roadside along with purchase orders and transfer orders. We use the Procurement Management module for maintaining all our contracts and vendor management. In a nutshell, Service Now is one stop shop for all your IT needs.
- Utilize ServiceNow API’s to perform integrations with 3rd party applications and also automate the ticket creation process as applicable.
- Restore service after an unplanned interruption by investigating the root cause of an incident or escalating it to a major incident to quickly resolve critical service disruptions. ITOM CMDB is a must have for this scenario.
- Improvement in mean time to respond (MTTR) for all Incidents. Reduce incident response times and improve the mean time to restore service (MTRS) for all Incidents.
- ServiceNow supports a subset of the standard functionality on smartphones and similar devices, allowing mobile users to remotely access their ServiceNow instances to perform common tasks. This improves the ITSM processes and increase the level of accessibility for all our customers.
- Reporting. Building Reports need unnecessary scripting unless you have activated paid plugins performance analytics.
- Some of the API's which comes with ServiceNow support.
September 28, 2018
ServiceNow is our modern day customer communication tool
ServiceNow is our new customer communication tool within Amtech Software and Futura Services. It is replacing our old system, Remedy, and we find that access to it is so much simpler. We are able to publish press releases and news on ServiceNow, we are able to send notifications to users about news we do not want them to miss. We like the ease of being able to receive tickets, or issues, and also keep all customer information in one place.
- I like the ease of setup and access for all users within the system, including our employees and customers.
- I like that we can personalize our ServiceNow site, which we have branded iServe for our customers.
- I like that we can use the system similar to our social media accounts, and pass along news to our users.
- The only issue we have had thus far is that it doesn't integrate with HubSpot, without going through a third-party.
January 31, 2018
Simple and Easy to use. But, prepare to pay for consulting
ServiceNow is being used by the entire organization, solving the trouble of integration between the different areas of the organization. With the previous tool, we couldn't track what was happening sometimes, for example when lots of people opened an incident ticket and relate them to a problem. This tool helped us to solve this.
- Integration between areas and the user
- Run in the cloud
- Integration with other tools, as monitoring tools creating a ticket automatically
- Integration depends on consultant work.
- No on-premise option
- Price
October 03, 2016
Harness the underlying platform and anchor yourself to a philosophy, because everything else can be changed
We are using ServiceNow mainly for IT processes (ITIL): Incident, Problem, Change, Service Catalog (Requests), Project Portfolio, etc. With our CreateNow license, we have slowly been creating break-fix or request-fulfillment tickets for other operationally focused groups such as Pipeline Services, Owner Relations, and others who were previously using shared mailboxes to do this work. They have seen the value of standardizing the types of work they do and are enjoying the historical metrics and clear technician performance.
- Any type of work that keeps occurring and can easily be compared across "technicians", or the people fixing/fulfilling/completing the ticket, and across timeframes.
- Once all those "chunks" of work are in the lowest common denominator of activity, it's a direct analog of performance in your organization and can be used to report valuable data.
- Having those activities be very repeatable is the first step in automating them and removing them from your human workload - so they can be freed up to work on more difficult or creative tasks.
- Haven't tried the new Project creation tool in Geneva yet, but Projects are always tricky when the tasks associated with them have dependencies on the order of completion and amount of work involved with each. To get each task down to a chunk of 3-4 hours would be a lot of work and hundreds of task dependencies.
- It's very expensive if only used as a service desk ticketing system instead of an entire task management platform across the business. ServiceNow Express or other competitors would be much cheaper if only looking for IT service management.
- Talent to heavily configure or add new functionality (developers) are costly, but you can mitigate this cost by training someone internal who has Javascript or similar object-oriented programming experience.
March 28, 2016
Power to simplify
ServiceNow is used throughout the County of San Mateo including all of 28 Departments within the county. It's the central ticketing system, problem management, change management, event management, knowledge base and asset management solution. It's also used as Request Management to all of 28 Departments that they can order services and products from the IT groups.
- Change Management is better than anything else that I've seen.
- Asset Management/CMDB tied to Change Management is simply one of the kind.
- Approval/notification workflow is flexible and powerful enough for any use cases.
- Portfolio management is few generations behind compare to other leading solutions
- Still has versionitus symptoms - some dramatic changes with each release
September 26, 2015
ServiceNow is engineered for your success.
ServiceNow is a Platform as a Service product. It is typically used across the spectrum of IT in my customers' architecture. In virtually every deployment it has began as either an improved or even first time service desk tool and once the value has been demonstrated other enterprise stakeholders are quick to adopt its use - change management and problem management followed by product and services catalogs, asset management, etc.
I can honestly say that I have never been let down by the platform to meet a business goal - even those that might not be possible with other tools. The platform is extremely versatile and easily configurable to meet, thus far, any need.
I can honestly say that I have never been let down by the platform to meet a business goal - even those that might not be possible with other tools. The platform is extremely versatile and easily configurable to meet, thus far, any need.
- Incident Management is the obvious first choice. It arrives out of the box (OOB) fully able to meet the needs of an ITIL compliant/guided Service Desk. The relatively low amount of configuration (usually data and/or special use needs) required to get up and running in an enterprise means that you can immediately be productive with the product and begin identifying mission critical concerns that impede your business success. The #1 benefit, in my estimation, is that the product prevents issues from falling through the cracks. Clients will no longer fail to get resolution because their incidents get lost, passed over or simply forgotten.
- Change Management, always a challenge, benefits from the task based nature of ServiceNow. When combined with the Configuration Management Database and the intrinsic Workflow Manager, ServiceNow provides an integrated set of tools to respond to IT change processes. When integration of Incident, problem and change are in place an enterprise has all it needs to identify concerns, investigate root cause, make critical changes or reparation expediently. The platform also provides for executive level (and deeper) reporting to identify trends of service improvement - or degradation.
- Keep in mind that the tool does not necessarilly require a troop of developers to configure. Most configurations and behaviors require either no or a only a few simple javascript code lines to accomplish. Very often the stakeholders themselves can perform the module changes they need.
- While the individual topic modules are excellent, they would be less effective were it not for the notification engine that permeates the entire platform. Keeping everyone on the same page is a snap. Customer facing communications are separate from internal facing communications. Messages are automated at configurable ticket state changes, at defined events in the system, on the fly in a task form... The methods are email - easily customized to be branded and even personalized by user or department, and SMS notifications.
- Complex reporting is an area that still needs improvement. It is not yet possible to obtain parameterized reporting. In truth, this is the only function of the platform that I would count down.
September 18, 2015
ServiceNow product review
It is used across the whole organization. It is being used for incidents, change requests, problem management, reports
- Incidents - when configured properly, incidents are easy to create, track, report on, link to change requests
- Change requests - easy to link to incidents, easy to approve, report on
- Service Catalog is pretty powerful as well. As well as the knowledge module
- Incidents and CR - search on keywords could use some improvements
- Reporting module - more built in reports would be useful
- IT Asset management can use some improvements as well
August 05, 2014
Disgruntled IT Lead Finally Finds Product Worth Using
Score 9 out of 10
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ServiceNow was used by our company for a government agency, to help manage help desk incident, request, change, and problem tickets. It was used by our Tier 1 analysts to input tickets into the system, to be escalated to Tier 2 or Tier 3 technician's on the government side.
- It is highly customizable. If you need to tweek something you don't like with out of the box features, it has far better malleability than other platforms I had used for the same purpose such as SharePoint, and Microsoft's ticketing system.
- It has high functionality. Where we had problems before in other systems was in relating tickets to one another, and being able to run custom reports. ServiceNow can run reports on metadata and data across multiple ticketing systems, and it had no problems being able to relate keys from one table to the next. In addition, we were able to link fields from one ticketing system in another ticketing system, for each ticket.
- It's easy to learn and tinker with. Having trained a team of help desk agents, this part was key. I've fumbled through training in multiple systems. This one by far was the most intuitive to use.
- It's cheaper than other products with the same ratings. Remedy can be almost 10 times as expensive, depending on the customization needed and the number of users.
- The look and feel could use a little bit of a facelift. Other than that, I wouldn't really change anything that can't be customized already.