Complete solution tha's easy to deploy and manage
August 05, 2016
Complete solution tha's easy to deploy and manage
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cherwell Service Management
We use Cherwell Service Management for enterprise IT Service Management. We are currently using Incident, Change, Problem and CMDB. We are in the process of implementing Purchasing and Asset Management.
- Single platform that is easily managed.
- Customer service and support is outstanding.
- Continuous improvement of the product - new features (which are frequently customer driven) are added regularly at no additional cost.
- Very easy to learn for users, administrators and developers.
- Licensing model is simple and flexible - can implement perpetual and subscription in one instance. Migrate from SaaS to on premises or third party cloud with little effort and at low to no cost.
- Database is not overly normalized. Very easy to understand and query.
- Documentation is improving but is still incomplete.
- "Codeless" architecture is great and easy to learn but it would be nice to have the a "power user" interface option to allow writing of things like expressions rather than click through drop downs.
- Web UI is a bit slow and still not on par with the features of the client application.
- Considerable improvement in ticket resolution times.
- Significant reduction in issues and collisions due to changes.
- Major reduction in phone calls to service desk due to automated email processing and self-service.
- Improved forecasting and process analysis with reporting tools including dashboards, trend analysis, ad-hoc queries, etc.
We found Cherwell to offer the best value when considering the features we needed, our organizational maturity and anticipated growth. CAPEX and OPEX were lowest, in some cases by orders of magnitude, of other products evaluated.
One key differentiator is the concurrent license model used by Cherwell vs. the named user license model used by others. We have several users who access the solution once or twice a month at most. This makes the named user license model very costly.
The other products have superior documentation and a much broader catalog of tools beyond ITSM, but for our requirements and maturity these were not important.