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ServiceNow IT Service Management

Overview

What is ServiceNow IT Service Management?

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…

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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 …
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Great Service Management Tool

9 out of 10
April 08, 2022
ServiceNow is our primary ITSM tool, we use the modules like Change Management, Incident Management and Problem Management extensively. …
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Popular Features

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  • Self-service tools (64)
    9.0
    90%
  • Organize and prioritize service tickets (66)
    8.8
    88%
  • ITSM reports and dashboards (61)
    8.8
    88%
  • Subscription-based notifications (62)
    7.6
    76%
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Pricing

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Starting Price

$10,000.00

Cloud
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Incident and problem management

Streamlining ticketing and service restoration processes

8.3
Avg 8.1

ITSM asset management

Managing all IT assets and enforcing policy rules

8.5
Avg 8.2

Change management

Ensuring standardized processes for making changes to IT infrastructure

8
Avg 8.4
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Product Details

ServiceNow IT Service Management Integrations

ServiceNow IT Service Management Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

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.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For a large scale organization, it's been working perfectly. We have used it for over 5 years and I'm happy with it. Some users complain about small things but I'm sure no other tool can solve what a 10k+ person organization needs.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is well suited to an organized IT department who has multiple people with the time to understand and help others use it effectively. Having lots of end users, even IT people, create their own articles and manage tickets is difficult due to a non-intuitive interface. This might be due to how our organization setup and implemented ServiceNow originally. Nonetheless, I find it very difficult to navigate and to remember where things are. Building reports is a struggle. However, it's not my primary role to understand ServiceNow and I only use it 1-2 a week. My advice is to reduce the number of people who need to interact with ServiceNow to a bare minimum. If you can have one person who helps others create and manage help articles and incidents (if they are infrequent) it'll ultimately save time.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Over the years I have tried multiple ticketing and change management systems and Service Now is by far the simplest to use, but without compromising any of the functionality or configurability of the other products. And being a cloud-based system, the maintenance is almost non-existent which is always a plus.
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Tracing a piece of hardware like a node within a cluster of servers, to its data center and network connection is very easy if configured properly within ServiceNow. Determining what changes have been made to a configuration item, or a dependent item is very easy. This is critical to problem diagnosis, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
October 24, 2019

Powerful yet Clunky

Gardiner Jones | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In very large enterprises. ServiceNow can handle a multitude of operations to help with overall IT management. The downside is two-fold: it can get quite clunky at times, and is expensive. While much of it is not intuitive and can be difficult to figure out and use, it has quite a wide range of reporting capabilities. If set up properly with solid process flows, it can be a tremendous tool for IT consumers, technicians and management.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SNOW is great for Service Desk activities (Incidents, requests, etc). It is very scalable and robust, allowing proper segregation of duties and controls (ITIL type).

In my opinion the forms and workflow offering is limited as it requires a dedicated and expert dev team. Simple business processes are more challenging to be automated using SNOW as it is harder to identify an ROI.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is a great tool for any deskside or MSP team. Overall, it is easy to use, very end user-friendly and just makes my job a lot easier. I manage 7 deskside techs and our queue often gets to over 120-150 tickets. We support roughly 1000-1200 employees. One thing I did notice is the status of the tickets seems to have no effect on the SLA warnings like it should. Putting a ticket into Awaiting caller status doesn't seem to stop the "timer" on our SLAs as it should.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you have very specific custom needs for your ITSM and want to integrate with numerous other platforms, ServiceNow is highly appropriate. There is a very active community of admins and developers to help. Development is reasonably straightforward. If you want to have a modern look to your ServiceNow instance, however, expect to put in some development hours. If you're using the product extensively, expect to have a team of developers and admins on hand to support it.
March 11, 2019

ServiceNow

Adam Sylvester | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's well suited for our process owners in Change, Incident, Request and Problem scenarios. These areas are covered well. However in Event Management, I noticed that in every new release of ServiceNow, there seems to be an update in Event Management, where it's not required. It breaks our current setup, so we raise an Incident with ServiceNow’s support which takes months to resolve. A current example of this is that we've upgraded to the London release from Jakarta and Alert Management Rules were introduced. This prevented us from creating new Alert Rules until we enlisted an expensive training course! There was nothing wrong with the old Alert Rules, as they worked well. So why bring thing new functionality when it's not required?
February 22, 2019

ServiceNow Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for IT support requests and incidents. We use it to manage approval for purchasing. The main benefit realized was the reporting. It is way ahead of what we got from our previous ticketing system. Since tasks can be divided up between techs, it makes the request process much easier with less clutter.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The tool is great, very powerful and provides so many valuable features used in large companies. The product is very integrated and provides amazing customization and dash-boarding options. I have looked at several ITSM products, and ServiceNow is by far the best product I have worked with. Everything is thought out and you will not find any feature or function it is missing.
February 17, 2019

A versatile ITSM solution

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is like a Swiss army knife for IT services management. It is great for asset management, bugs/issue tracking and now, with advanced analytics, it can provide trend analyses and metrics on different scenarios.
February 15, 2019

ServiceNow is THE BEST!!

Jonathan Ayers | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is really suited anywhere. Since it is so customizable, you can make it fit any situation or organization. I like to think of it as a "Swiss Army Knife". The software management piece is really useful, it allows you to manage software deployment and serial number management. It also has a self-service feature that allows users to submit requests through templates that gather the pertinent information. I've used other systems like Remedy and KACE but ServiceNow is by far the best I've used.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is great for any size company. Due to Cloud Deployment Options, it is quick and easy to deploy. If you are looking to create custom flows and work products, you will need either an in-house owner or contract with a company to support it for you. It is a very strong tool, but you must be willing to hire the talent to use the tool to its utmost capability.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The ability for ServiceNow to provide several offerings on one page.
Well suited for the following:

1. Generates and populate data for report quickly.
2. Incident Tracking.
3. Agile Workbench and Development.
4. Change request tracking.
5. Process Management.
6. Maintaining Knowledge articles.

Some limitations are: event rules are tough to manage, the need for more simplification, confusions in trigger function and scheduling jobs.

It works very slow with Internet Explorer. They should find a way to make it faster in Internet Explorer.
We run into a lot of permission related issues. We utilize a small team of developers to help us manage the upstream/downstream impacts

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Easy to customize and has many options available to tailor your needs. The application is very scalable. ITSM guided setup provides a sequence of tasks that help you configure the IT Service Management (ITSM) applications on your ServiceNow instance. Ease of moving customization from one instance to another. ServiceNow provides a developer instance which is free for developers to learn and explore the product. Ability to build your own custom app. Reporting needs some improvement.
Jesse Bickel, MS - PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is a perfect and great fit for A to B style helpdesk ticketing! I would tend to shy away from this product is your project management shop is on the medium or larger scale. It is ok for smaller projects but not for large complex, multi-team projects. ServiceNow is also great for establishing routine and frequently used workflows that you want to publish to an external or public customer base. There is a lot of potential to relieve a lot of administrative overhead but it requires a lot of back end work to see those results.
February 06, 2019

Service Now is Amazing!

Jonathan Norwood | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Great all around, we love the ability to communicate inside of ServiceNow. we are able to work a ticket with multiple people even if from different departments. The ease of function in creating tickets is also nice. On a daily basis, we create tickets and are able to search them if something new comes from the user.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is well suited for the large organization with multiple locations. Because it is web-based, it is easily accessible throughout the entire organization. However, depending upon your implementation, it can be a bit technical and cumbersome for the less technical user. I would not recommend ServiceNow for any type of publicly accessible interface as there are likely much less complex, and certainly less costly solutions.
Anthony Zappala | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Centralizing Data / Reporting - ServiceNowexcels in providing easy ways to import/export data from the platform. Some automated, some manual, all users benefit with properly designed ServiceNow connected tables.

CMDB / Inventory Mgmt - Discovery and the CMDB functionality provide an easy means of keeping track of your configurable HW and SW environments. Best CMDB tool I have seen to date, in the market.

Change / Incident Mgmt - This is really the best out of box experience ServiceNow has. Very straightforward, with unlimited benefits to be provided in this space when enhancements to the CMDB are made. When everything is connected, gleaning context off a ticket becomes easy. Automation based on historical data is also a big feature in this space

Automation Tool - If you have tools which provide orchestration/automation, and you're just looking to replace them with a cheaper option, look elsewhere.
Shalindra Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If the requirement is for internal IT management or Service Cloud (operations) internal or external, ServiceNow is a perfect solution. ServiceNow is moving towards becoming a complete ERP but it will take some time to reach there.
Ashley Gennett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow will work perfectly for organizations that had ticket logs, etc. We have found, through the implementation process, that it also works for us in seeing who is compliant and who is not. We can see who has expired on support, who is not paying and who is using more licenses than what they pay for.
August 22, 2018

ServiceNow for Success

Phanindra reddy Bommu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is well suited in the areas where we need to have service desk features. Incident management and change management are the other two areas where SN is well suited. The knowledge base scripts provide a method for both customers and help desk to resolve issues very quickly.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Any arena where SLAs and Ticketing is a factor, SN performs terrifically. If you need a tool that is easy to learn and train, then SN is your choice. An area of issue is also a strong point (oddly enough), as with its wide range of custom-ability, many customers often create more work for our SN team to make changes, while subtle at times, if only to appease 1 person. Basically, its flexibility can create bottlenecks.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow works very well in a service oriented environment. Our environment is customer driven, nothing happens unless there is a customer need. ServiceNow provides that place for customers to report their requirements and issues. Where in some cases, we are mission centered, our goal is to provide areas where service is weak and improve them, ServiceNow lacks the functionality for us to quickly and easily identify these areas.
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