ServiceMax was good, but Salesforce will eat their lunch
February 01, 2018
ServiceMax was good, but Salesforce will eat their lunch
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Enterprise
Overall Satisfaction with ServiceMax
We are using ServiceMax for our entire North America team of 200+ field service technicians. Backoffice support and technical support teams are also using it to support field service operations. This unifies us all into one system where a customer can smoothly talk to tech support, open a service call, be scheduled, and have a technician show up on site. The technician can then close the work order and report back into the system the results of the service call, and the call can then be billed out by our ERP system (we are integrated with Oracle).
- Offline support is there, but with many catches and caveats.
- A separate engine for the mobile app that runs and can be designed separately from Salesforce.
- Integration with Salesforce is decent.
- The offline sync is very buggy and has many limitations. Recovery of the sync if it fails because of technicalities is in many ways, unrecoverable and unexplainable by the user.
- No integration with Salesforce knowledge articles.
- Support is limited and usually not knowledgeable about their own products.
- Service efficiency is up about 20%
- Simplified work order closure process prevents errors and user frustration
- CSE satisfaction is much improved
- Work order closure process adherence is almost 100% because of the ability to close work orders anywhere.
ServiceMax has an offline capability, and also integrates with our Salesforce side of business. At the time, Salesforce did not have a field service application so we could not consider it, but if we could now, we would probably go with that instead. ServiceMax is also expensive. But at the time, ServiceMax was the only offering out there that integrated with Salesforce, had mobile offline capability, and could operate at the scale we needed.