Agiloft ITSM ITIL Service Desk Suite vs ServiceNow comparison

Flexible ITIL and ITSM Software

Awarded “Best Overall Value” three years in a row by Info-Tech Research Group

What we can do for you

Improve Consistency: Pre-built ITIL processes and integrated asset management guides IT staff through your preferred processes and ensure consistent service. Workflow automation tracks performance and proactively escalates issues before they become problems.

Gain Actionable Insights: Dashboards, reports, and charts show turnaround times, staff productivity and overdue tickets at a glance. So you can plan and respond effectively.

Close Tickets Faster: The self-service portal with single sign-on empowers users while reducing the burden on your staff. Eliminate errors and duplication of effort with a centralized knowledgebase.

Features

End User Portal: With a 24/7 self-service portal, users are able to report issues or request services online. A dynamic knowledge base with FAQ, and full text search, provides answers to common issues.

Live Chat: Provide real-time service for critical issues and convert chat transcripts into tickets with one click. LogMeIn Rescue or Bomgar integration enables fast and effective remote support.

Personalized Home Pages: Improve staff productivity with easily customized home pages that allow IT staff to work the way they like and see the information most important to them.

Full Auditability: Available via historical snapshots that display the entire record as it existed at any point in time and configurable audit logs.

Efficient Resolutions: Through configurable ticket assignment and escalation rules that alert you to blockages and proactively escalate issues when necessary.

Global Support: With multi-language functionality and follow-the-sun case assignment that can be customized for the working hours of different teams.


“Agiloft is one of the most caring and responsive vendors that I have ever worked with”
— Dave Ross, Cal Poly


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What Makes Us Different

• Built on an agile platform for rapid configuration of the most sophisticated requirements, without any coding.
  
• Available both as a hosted cloud solution and as an in-house deployment.
  
• Fully extensible, with 10+ out-of-the-box applications and the flexibility to map any custom business process.
  
• One affordable price that includes all features and functionality. No hidden fees, no surprises.

ServiceNow is a cloud-based task-management platform that specializes in IT operations management (ITOM), IT services management (ITSM), and IT business management (ITBM). ServiceNow allows users to manage their teams, projects, and customer interactions using a variety of different plugins and apps with which it easily integrates.

ServiceNow offers prebuilt applications to support any process, as well as a framework and tools that allow you to build your own.

ServiceNow’s service management solutions include change, request, incident, problem, and cost management, as well as HR, IT, field service, and facilities management solutions. They also cover business management solutions such as vendor performance management, financial management, performance analytics and project portfolio suite, as well as governance, risk, and compliance.

“The Smarter Way to Workflow”

ServiceNow’s activities, processes, and tasks are overseen as part of a comprehensive managed workflow that supports such features as real-time collaboration, communication, and resource sharing. ServiceNow’s suite of products allow for operation using serverless computing, and include the categories of Business Apps, Customer Service, HR, IT, and Security.

ServiceNow can be used to support most workflows because of the wide range of tools it offers. These include on-suite ticketing tools, predictive modeling to manage workflows, and benchmarking for the tracking of progress. ServiceNow can assist with artificial intelligence and machine learning processes and can be used to organize the cases of a help/service desk as well as for instance management and problem management. It also smoothly integrates with many legacy systems.

ServiceNow offers service management software for industries including:

Cloud services
Education
Financial services
Government
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Telecommunications

Reviews from Real Users

PeerSpot users prefer ServiceNow to its competitors because of its scalability, stability, and ease of use. It helps everyone in the company to be on the same page by creating a single source of record across all departments. One user stated that “I’ve definitely used over 20 project management solutions, but they can't be compared with ServiceNow.” Another said that “ServiceNow is an industry leader in multiple areas and provides an excellent ROI.”