ServiceNow - Great Features, but Pricey.
February 05, 2020
ServiceNow - Great Features, but Pricey.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with ServiceNow
ServiceNow is being used extensively through out our whole firm. We utilize the tool to manage requests. We have a portal built that allows our clients to escalate their request to our company. We also use it for change management. We have an approval process built in and it provides transparency across the firm to see what changes are happening each night. We leverage the knowledge base feature and maintain knowledge base articles in ServiceNow. We also have groups that manage projects via ServiceNow tickets.
- ServiceNow is highly customizable. You can build out your desired forms and leverage those forms to build out reports to track progress and trends.
- ServiceNow has e-mail forwarding built in, so anytime a ticket gets updated, the end-user associated with the ticket can have an e-mail notification sent to them.
- To get the platform to do exactly what you need, it requires a good amount of dev work. I wish the out of the box version had an easier way to build out customizations.
- The firm will have to hire ServiceNow experts to serve as administrators.
- ServiceNow isn't cheap. It's one of the more expensive platforms on the open market, but you get what you pay for.
We looked into a few different tools. We POC'ed Jira, and while it did a lot of things well, it didn't meet our needs. ServiceNow has a lot of different features that were attractive to our firm and ultimately, we decided the extra cost was well worth it. Zendesk was another tool we looked at, but it didn't even get into the POC stage.
Do you think ServiceNow IT Service Management delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with ServiceNow IT Service Management's feature set?
Yes
Did ServiceNow IT Service Management live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of ServiceNow IT Service Management go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy ServiceNow IT Service Management again?
Yes