Cherwell Rocks!
October 01, 2019

Cherwell Rocks!

Zachary Louis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cherwell Service Management

Cherwell is being used by our managed services department to assist with our several practices (intel, Power I-series, Power AIX, networking, Converged (Compute)).

Our management accesses it here and there for KPI and other important metrics. We also create customized customer dashboards for use on the self-service portal. Beyond that, we also generate ticket reports for our SDMs and other customer relations employees.
  • Incident Management
  • Change Management
  • Problem Management
  • The Web UI
  • Overall UIX
  • CMDB
  • Positive - reduced amount of ticket touches via automations for our third-party ServiceDesk. Meaning less money we have to give them for ticket touches.
  • Reducing Change collisions, therefore ensuring service up-time meaning more consumption and overall better experience.
I believe Cherwell is trying to do something different than ServiceNow and because we are an MSP, we benefit greatly from that. On paper, ServiceNow is very powerful and can integrate with almost anything, but Cherwell is not far behind in that realm - and in the next year or so may even surpass them.
We generally have a good time with Cherwell support, however, there are the few niche cases where I have to explain how Cherwell works to the customer support agent on the other end. A little more product education for tier 1 support could go a long way in helping expedite support requests from SaaS customers.

Do you think Cherwell Service Management delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cherwell Service Management's feature set?

Yes

Did Cherwell Service Management live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cherwell Service Management go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cherwell Service Management again?

Yes

Well-suited:
To provide solid incident management between your service desk and customers.
To provide Change management to assist executives and overall business up-time. Help detect change collision while looking at scheduled change times and CIs upstream/downstream.

Less appropriate:
The overall reporting features are very non-user-friendly and it can be a bit of a pain to actually get the data out that you're looking for.

Cherwell Service Management Feature Ratings

Organize and prioritize service tickets
9
Expert directory
5
Service restoration
5
Self-service tools
8
Subscription-based notifications
8
ITSM collaboration and documentation
8
ITSM reports and dashboards
6
Configuration mangement
8
Asset management dashboard
8
Policy and contract enforcement
Not Rated
Change requests repository
10
Change calendar
10
Service-level management
10