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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

(51-75 of 78)
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Antonio Acosta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow can be used to any organization no matter the sector. Companies that want to consolidate on a single platform with many enterprise services provided for internal users or customer. For small companies it could be an expensive solution.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is great for IT service management in which you can capture customer incidents and implement a great change process. All of these processes aim to make your internal structure more efficient and easy. However, when it comes to managing customers on top of performing your daily internal processes, ServiceNow lacks that full 360 view of how handling customers can affect your internal processes and vice versa.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Works very well across all service management disciplines. Generally, you need to treat the product itself as being under change management to ensure you do not break it or misconfigure it. You should have well-trained ServiceNow staff who can tailor the system to your needs.

While the tool can be used as a general ticketing tool for business desks its purpose is for service management teams.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When you need to start quickly, that's a great option. Fast deploy, fast integration with active directory, and the IT stuff if needed, it's quick to add too. To not pay the extra license, the team of the company that deployed it gave an option to create a single portal, allowing a common user to create tickets and watch all that was happening to the ticket.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Servicenow is fantastic for incident-centric environments (anywhere you'd use a CRM solution to track customer/user/agent interactions). With the flexibility of licensing and deployment, along with the application being hosted by ServiceNow, it has applications for both large and small organizations. This application is also great for IT teams who want to be able to track trending issues and implement good problem management strategies.
December 21, 2017

ServiceNow Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
- Very well suited for ITSM. Standards based approach with simple and natural alignment with ITIL. - Very good reporting tools and going beyond simple obvious dashboards with multiplatform capabilities including mobile. - Although not at the same level as ITSM capabilities, a multitude of other capabilities in the finance, HR, project and portfolio management and other business areas makes this a very interesting proposition for an enterprise platform.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is best suited for implementing across all service departments as a company-wide initiative; that is where it will maximize ROI. For smaller organizations that don't have aspirations of rolling it out to an entire company, it might be too expensive unless you go through a multi-tenant managed service provider (MSP). Once more than 40-50% of employees are using it to work and assign tickets, there is an enterprise license option that may save some money.
Michael Sypes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is an enterprise level solution for managing service incidents, tasks, and projects. It is best suited for large organizations with the manpower to educate administrators of such a massive system. There is no doubt a lot of configuration and specialized knowledge involved in using this tool well. Smaller teams will find it unwieldy as it presents a lot of information which may or may not be useful to individuals.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is best suited in organizations that want to improve process. Organizations that are looking strictly for a tool, but have no process to support the tool will get lost in the many features available in the product and likely never use the tool fully.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is a great tool but many companies make the mistake of thinking it's a magic wand that delivers ITSM maturity. Process design and improvement are critical pre-work.
Randall Hodgins | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Every aspect of the product was born, natively, in the cloud and it shows. Mostly it shines in direct comparison with other so-called cloud platforms that actually were either legacy client-server products or merely web-extensions of the same.

From sales discussion through to GoLive! deployment, ServiceNow excels. Secure access, multi-function modules, unified data source, open access web services architecture, (pardon the phrasing but:) idiot-proofed configuration layer - dangerous coding is caught and prevented at several interpreted layers of execution. It is scalable and extensible.

Additionally, I would be remiss to fail to mention that ServiceNow as a multi-domain platform install provides all the benefits mentioned in a virtually turn-key managed services platform product.
September 25, 2015

ServiceNow at NIDCR / NIH

Kevin Chu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
You get to see tickets, assign / create new tickets for users.
Track tickets that are in each techs queue.
Run basic reports and metrics of a team or individual.
It would be better if there was a more robust mobile version, and if reports had a better GUI interface and ease of use was improved.
Paul Trupka | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would tell people that ServiceNow is definitely more helpful to larger organizations that can more heavily utilize all of the features of the software. Both of the instances I have used ServiceNow in have been larger companies and found that there was always a way to integrate almost anything that was requested into ServiceNow.
September 18, 2015

ServiceNow product review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

SN is well suited for incidents and change requests. Also well suited for problem management. Key questions to ask during the selection process:

What kind of environment is SN going to be used in?

What type of incidents that business has? How many in average?

How many problems do they have and how would they like to track them?

How important reporting on incidents and CRs is?

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would not recommend ServiceNow for a type of CRM or work order scheduling software. There are no great scheduling capabilities and with our experience the UI isn't great for the site/customer collection portion. That being said, there is great value in the ticketing/prioritization queue from an incident management standpoint. ServiceNow can easily be set up for sensible notification workflows and SLAs. It is also quite easy to integrate with.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is good for ITIL. If you want to implement a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) for your own product you need to have a better understanding of the current and future requirements of the Business User/Stakeholders. Also, if you are trying to implement it as CMDB, you need to architect the relationships between configuration items (CIs) in an efficient way.
Lee Cullom | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well-suited:
  • Usability - Enterprise IT looking to establish a strong and simple front-end for automation of repeatable requests.
  • Simplicity - Small-Medium size enterprises who wish for a quick deployment of a user-friendly ITSM application.
  • Performance - Companies who are looking for an ITSM solution with strong, mature SaaS operations.
  • Flexibility/Agility - Companies that are interested in a customizable solution that fits their unique needs.
  • Breadth - Companies that are truly looking to establish a common platform (and database) for the most common ITSM/ESM needs.
Key Questions to ask:
  • How much do you charge for approvers?
  • Under what circumstances do you charge for employees accessing the system?
  • When would a customer use the out of the box mobile interface vs. purchasing a 3rd party add-on such as Mobile Reach? Why?
  • Under what circumstances would I need to consider purchasing ServiceNow business edition? Can you please tell us how to avoid customizing an out of the box script include up-front? So that we can avoid upgrade issues down the road?
  • Can you please show us how to create a change approval process that doesn't leverage one of the out of the box templates?
  • How often must we upgrade the application?
  • Which CMDB requirements would make Blazent or BDNA a necessary add-on purchase?
  • Use cases - Please, please, please come up with a detailed list of use cases.
Keep in mind:
  • Sometimes a vendor can win because they have the best demonstration. Consider using an independent 3rd party for demonstrations.
  • Vendors are typically not professional services companies, they are product companies. If possible, get multiple statements of work from different consulting organizations.

Akil Franklin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ServiceNow is best suited to large organizations with the maturity and resources necessary to manage an ITSM implementation and the capability to champion use of the product across the entire organization. Smaller organizations or organizations with a less mature ITSM environment will have more challenges in realizing the benefit of the tool.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
How many users will be using this? How many will you need imported into the system as just metadata (such as affected users), and how many admins will need to be able to log in and make customizations? If these numbers are low, you may want to think about a cheaper system. Otherwise, this product is perfect.
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