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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
Everyone in my organization uses ServiceNow. High level: some people complain about the performance or features but to be honest, there's no way any other application can service a 40k user company. It does a great job tracking requests and other services. I've been a user for a while and it allowed me to easily track requests and open requests for other users. It has a good user interface and an advanced back end for more technical people.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
October 24, 2019

Powerful yet Clunky

Gardiner Jones | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ServiceNow extensively in the organization for Incident Management, Change management, Application Life-cycle management, Knowledgebase, and Content Management. It is the key system to control and support our IT operations globally.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is our central hub for ITSM, project and product management, and our CMDB. It is primarily used by our MSP branch but internal IT also uses it for ticketing, as well as HR and our app dev team. We use it for ticketing, project management, and integrate with our customers' ServiceNow systems.
March 11, 2019

ServiceNow

Adam Sylvester | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
February 22, 2019

ServiceNow Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SercieNow helps us to maintain and track all tickets from incidents to change requests. Better and efficient Project management. Reduces the number of hours someone has to spend to make reports that identify what is going on, where the problem is and what the root cause is. Incident tickets can be categorized and tracked as well as reporting features are amazing to be able to keep track of metrics. One central location for all ticketing and problem/change management information.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using ServiceNow in a proof of concept that includes the ITOM and ITSM products. We worked with a ServiceNow partner to set up the instance and connect the mid-server required for ITOM to the instance. The product is very powerful and is able to scan the network for devices and provide data on those devices.
February 17, 2019

A versatile ITSM solution

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At my previous job, working at Florida State University, we had a massive inventory of computer systems and other IT equipment that we were responsible for managing. We needed a robust IT service management system and after careful evaluation of several products, we decided to go with ServiceNow. It's an excellent IT service management solution that can handle inventory tracking, incident reporting and ticketing, and a self-service portal. This tool was used by the IT department across the whole organization.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Easiness of the Tool in setting up things like workflows, application/module arrangement makes things to be understood easily unlike other famous tools in the market. Documentation is also good and the best part is you don't need to face any hassles in maintaining the server/hardware performance.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Jesse Bickel, MS - PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow was used as the centralized IT ticking solution for the student, staff and faculty helpdesk. It was later expanded to include the project and program management module. This was used by network operations teams, development teams as well as customer facing portal to submit tickets which will follow a back-end workflow to ensure it is properly triaged.

This product allowed us to address having a one-stop shop for ticketing internal and external. We are able to ensure tickets are routed properly without too much administrative overhead in triage.
February 06, 2019

Service Now is Amazing!

Jonathan Norwood | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for our service desk and the entire IT department, as well as our medical enrollment department, and we are adding groups monthly so that we are all on the same system. We are better able to communicate this way. It has helped to be on the same page as well and be better organized.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is a fully integrated part of our corporate intranet. It is used to allow users to open service requests ranging from technology issues to HR issues, to facilities issues. ServiceNow (aka SNOW) is used across our entire organization. Because it is full-featured and a fully integrated solution, we no longer have multiple systems by which problem tickets and/or requests are opened and managed. This unified system improves efficiency and enhances the overall user experience.
Anthony Zappala | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is currently gaining market share, here at Wayfair. It was on-boarded to the company in early 2018 due to our Monitoring / Critical Response teams need for a robust reporting platform with available integrations to our monitoring tools (Data Dog/Logic Monitor).

Since then, we have seen team after team approach the ServiceNow Engineering group at Wayfair to onboard their ticketing needs.

I say ticketing, and not "Incident, Change, or Request needs", as ServiceNow is providing our team with the conduit to help all Wayfair employees understand how to organize themselves in a more ITIL based approach, where it makes sense. We haven't adopted a full ITIL approach, but the segmentation within ServiceNow allows the Wayfair ServiceNow team to coach its users to understand the importance of labeling, organization and building automation with a platform or layered (not app/tool/single use case based) approach.

Since then, our Monitoring, DC Operations, Infra Ops, and Help Desk organizations have partnered to build solutions in ServiceNow.

Business Problems addressed:
- Change, Incident, Request, Problem, Assets, CMDB: We are using these modules, out of box, to solve everyday operational needs
- Alert >> Monitoring: Infrastructure teams are storing and reporting on alerts, and creating custom INC records based on event mgmt logic (custom)
- General Use: digitizing process, decommissioning other internal apps
Shalindra Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am a consultant and do works towards ServiceNow Implementation and Integration at end customers. Since I work with various customers in various verticals and domains, I come across a wide variety of use cases that ServiceNow can resolve and the way it can be implemented to achieve it. ServiceNow is known for ITSM solution. But in my opinion, ServiceNow very well works for ITSM, ITOM solutions. Nowadays ServiceNow has also launched their HR and CRM solution but I have not used those much.
Ashley Gennett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
August 22, 2018

ServiceNow for Success

Phanindra reddy Bommu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is used as a Service desk tool where we can track customer incidents, Change management, task assignment, and SLA's. It also automates the flow of the business process with the help of structured workflows. We will get the customer requirements as we will be developing the new applications or adjusting the existing ones.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My interaction and usage with ServiceNow(SN) was/is two-fold.
1-Was: While with FDA, we used SN for our FDA Wide ticketing system for our IT Help Desk contract and other various support. Supporting over 20,000 customers, those customers would call the Help Desk, and log Interactions and Incidents for assistance. SN is very robust with lots of customizing, and ease of use for not only the Help Desk and Technicians but also customers as well.

2-Is: Currently I'm beginning the process of development and implantation of SN. The training program and eventual certification process so far have been straightforward and easy to follow. Eventually, I will be customizing SN for use over various contracts and agencies.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Both my previous and current employers have implemented ServiceNow to help us to better assist our customers and staff. In networking, everyone is a customer. ServiceNow allows us to focus on improving the network by providing the leadership with insight to how the network is performing from a customers point of view. ServiceNow is used for incident management, problem management, change management, and inventory.
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