What is our primary use case?
In my case, I have one customer using Service Creatio as a service tool to bring support to their customers, and the rest could be a couple of them using this way. In Chile, we have also one customer using Service Creatio as a platform to help children, where there is a government institution that helps and protects the children and the community. The community calls a number, and psychologists answer to help regarding their concerns. It could be about a boy who doesn't eat, or perhaps some violence problems or whatever kind of situation regarding children. This application receives these questions and complaints, and then they escalate to the appropriate health center, police, or wherever the call is directed to. This is the principal use implemented with Service Creatio.
Service Creatio is very easy to customize and adapt to specific use cases, as I mentioned before. I implemented Service Creatio to a Chilean government institution to help children who were reporting problems they had in their homes or denouncing certain events. It's very flexible, and you can adapt it to every need of the customer.
All my customers use Service Creatio in the cloud, except one. That one is the Chilean company dealing with children's information, which is concerned about publishing data to the cloud, so they decided on an on-premise implementation. Despite me telling them that Service Creatio has many certifications to protect data, they chose on-premise, which has created issues, as they must be responsible for updates, upgrades, and new releases. They haven't migrated from the 2018 release, which limits their access to the latest features. I think it's not a good choice to go on-premise if you don't have the resources to keep your infrastructure updated.
What is most valuable?
The process designer tool in Service Creatio can implement any kind of need of the customer. The ability of Service Creatio to notify by email, SMS, or WhatsApp to notify people involved in case resolution or those who need to receive some kind of notification regarding the case is crucial. The most principal used tool for Service Creatio is the process designer. You can implement anything, and the Dynamic Case Management (DCM) tool also helps manage the lifecycle of the case, along with the several channels of notification we use to keep people informed.
Service Creatio is a great tool in process automation. It is one of the most important features of Service Creatio. Principally, it manages the lifecycle of the case, which could be very complex with approvals, notifications, cases, and whatever. This is the principal use of the process to manage their lifecycle and also to manage other needs, such as sending an email when a case is received with specific data.
What needs improvement?
At this time, there is not specifically something to improve regarding Service Creatio, but a couple of years ago, Creatio started developing a new version called Freedom UI with new interfaces. The new interfaces are amazing, but we still have some features in Classic UI that we cannot use in Freedom UI. What we miss is having all features in Classic available in Freedom. Creatio works every three months to release new features, but they are taking too much time to make all those features available.
We could use more time. There are a lot of business rules we can use in Classic UI, but we cannot use many of those business rules in the Freedom UI because of the different interfaces. We miss several kinds of business rules or conditions that we could use in the design of the application or interfaces to the customer. For instance, I had a feature to introduce a formula graphically, but I can only use very basic formulas in the latest release. In Classic UI, we have powerful formulas, but in Freedom UI, I am limited to direct files from the current screen.
The only thing I miss is having all the features from Classic UI available in Freedom UI. For instance, managing duplicated records is a feature that we can easily use in Classic UI, but in Freedom UI I cannot merge contacts to resolve duplicates, which is not available yet.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Service Creatio for six, seven years.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
I am very happy with how Service Creatio is evolving over time. It becomes a better product that's easy to use and implement.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Service Creatio is very stable, and I have no concerns regarding its stability at this time.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Service Creatio rates as a nine in terms of scalability.
How are customer service and support?
Sometimes I have some issues with SLAs, but generally, the Creatio support team is very proactive and effective. However, there are times they fail, such as one case that has been open for more than a month without news. Typically, though, they resolve cases very promptly.
How would you rate customer service and support?
How was the initial setup?
It is really simple to set up Service Creatio once the developer understands the components such as SLA services, keywords, and all this stuff. It is very easy to implement Service Creatio as out-of-the-box. If I need to make adjustments for specific needs, it's not hard either.
What was our ROI?
We don't measure cost savings or ROI directly, but we believe that with Service Creatio, we can implement customer needs in a fraction of the time compared to traditional development tools or CRMs. Some projects can take a year with Service Creatio, but with traditional tools, they might take four or five years or more.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The affordability of Service Creatio depends on the kind of customer. I think it's affordable; the new pricing model is more accessible than the old one. However, we have a barrier now that prevents contracting projects for less than $10,000. For smaller customers, they must invest $10,000 or more in licenses to use Service Creatio, but for companies with 50, 60, or more users, it's quite affordable.
What other advice do I have?
My advice for those looking to use Service Creatio is to have a clear understanding of what they need to solve with the tool. Many companies lack professionals who understand the requirements to implement service tools appropriately, such as ITIL. The principal issue is having clarity on what needs to be done and how to work with the product. On a scale of one to ten, I rate Service Creatio a nine overall.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other