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ServiceNow IT Service Management

Score8.1 out of 10

542 Reviews and Ratings

What is ServiceNow IT Service Management?

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.

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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

  • Change calendar

    Calendar showing change schedule to stakeholders

    Category average: 8

  • Service-level management

    Process for negotiating agreements regarding service level expectations, and ensuring these are met

    Category average: 8.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Service restoration

    Impact assessment and automated fixes for common problems

    Category average: 8

  • Configuration mangement

    Database for tracking and reporting all business assets

    Category average: 8.3

  • Expert directory

    Directory of IT and businesses services available to customers to help route tickets to appropriate subject matter experts

    Category average: 7.8

Uber tool for ITIL processes

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The ServiceNow IT Service Management suite offers a variety of features for ITIL processes, primarily utilized for change requests and problem requests in the SDLC, which evolve into changes and requirements for software teams.

In our business it is used by teams to streamline their future work based on changes that are supposed to be done in a future date for higher environments.

Problem requests streamline work into requirements for teams to work on in the SDLC

Pros

  • Organizing change requests normal, emergency and other changes which require code promotion to higher environments
  • Incidents to raise issues that disrupt the flow
  • Problem management tickets that are used by business to open requirements for SDLC teams

Cons

  • Too much information is required by changes to be filled
  • Some parameters such as date and time can be suggested by using AI based on similar changes that were raised in the past
  • Clone feature can be improved as well

Return on Investment

  • Cost reduction
  • faster resolution on incidents
  • self service option that has been given to both internal and external folks

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Jira

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira, Digital.ai Agility, Zendesk Suite

Simple IT management for teams

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ServiceNow IT Service Management helps me to move everything from messy sheets and my cluttered emails into a clean dashboard. I mailnly use it to keep a track of the daily tickets that are due for resolution and to manage system changes. It automates my whole workflow and provides me a clear visibility on what tasks need to be prioritized first.

Pros

  • In case if a server goes down, Configuration Management Database shows exactly which departments are affected and I have the option to fix it quickly without wasting my time finding the error.
  • Assigns the tickets to a specific team based on a description of a ticket. For ecapmple, if the description contains text like "billing account", the ticket will automatically assigned to Accounts team.
  • AI powered agents which can automatically reset passwords or provide access to users.

Cons

  • Running through forms sometimes gets slowed down.
  • Running queries on CMDB is slow.

Return on Investment

  • Real time view of all operations running, making zero untracked assets.
  • Automated password resets or ticket routing to a specific department saves a lot of time.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SuiteCRM and RouteIQ for Zoho CRM

Other Software Used

SuiteCRM, Expensify, Slack

A good platform for ITIL processes and service management

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use ServiceNow for Incident and Request and Problem logging and time recording. It allows all logged calls to be acknowledged, tracked from logging to resolution. All responses and activities have a record and response is sent to the customer with tracking numbers. Time recording helps the organisation to see where people are being untilised in terms of projects and activities to justify funding etc.

Pros

  • Being able to track logged calls
  • Being able to track time against projects
  • Allows dashboards so that you have an overall view of what calls are outstanding that still needs resolving

Cons

  • Takes a lot of user time to learn to navigate the interface
  • Complex when trying to make quick customisations
  • User interface consistency

Return on Investment

  • Faster resolutions on calls overall
  • Problem management allows things to be managed and steps taken on proactive approach to get to the root cause of issues instead of constant firefighting
  • More customers are satisfied being informed of where their calls are at a given time

Usability

Other Software Used

Azure DevOps

Powerful platform but high administrative overhead

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ServiceNow IT is a very robust platform with extensive capabilities for any organization. It offers a wide range of features that can cover almost every business need; However the user experience is hindered by its complexity. Many configurations that should be automated or "plug-and-play" are actually quite manual and require specialized knowledge. This complexity creates a steep learning curve for the team and increases the administrative overhead. While the platform's potential is high, the daily effort required to maintain and customize it makes it less agile than expected, the process is not very intuitive. As summary; It is powerful, but the administrative effort is higher than I expected.

Pros

  • CMDB as Single source of truth
  • Automated change management
  • SNOW Service Portal
  • AI assistance

Cons

  • manual setup, requires sometimes intensive work.
  • Data management, complex, tool becomes slow performing over the time.
  • Upgrade changes, minor customizations.

Return on Investment

  • Robust CMDB reduces change impact
  • complex tool management effort is high
  • Large data maintenance requires high goverance parameters.
  • Automated changes improves tool agility.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Jira Service Management

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira

Solves the most pressing ITSM issues but could do without the licensing complexity

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a global elite ServiceNow partner, I implement ServiceNow IT Service Management for my clients across diverse industries. I use ServiceNow IT Service Management to automate IT and ops workflows, Customer interaction workflows and manage employee experience and management lifecycle for my clients in the tech, BFSI, industrials and auto sectors. ServiceNow is one of our core ITSM offerings.

Pros

  • Managing hybrid cloud environments
  • Single pane of view and work for all HR related stuff
  • Combing FrontOffice and BackOffice ops

Cons

  • Licensing complexity
  • User interface inconsistency
  • Legacy customization

Return on Investment

  • ROI is approx. 200-300%, both productivity increase and cost reduction included
  • Payback time is approx. 8-15 months
  • Licensing cost is almost half of what we pay on SI, implementation and consulting

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Freshdesk Omni, Atlassian Atlas and BMC Helix Business Workflows

Other Software Used

Freshdesk Omni, Atlassian Atlas, BMC Helix Business Workflows