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Cherwell Service Management vs Micro Focus Service Anywhere [EOL] comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Cherwell Service Management
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (29th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (25th)
Micro Focus Service Anywher...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Thobile Moeketsi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Sasria SOC Ltd.
Having everything in one location has significantly improved our efficiency and reporting
We need to be on VPN in order to set up and access the solution, and that has created some challenges. Even though it uses our Windows login, we still have to be on VPN. The product should be able to log tickets directly from system to system. We haven't got there yet and I'm not sure it's possible but it would determine the product's capability to integrate with other systems.
it_user568017 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It is accurate, secure and stable.
Anything that can basically reduce the amount of time that the guys spend working on a specific problem or task. There is always room for improvement that can be in terms of functionality, cost of market, ease of use, training of the product and so on. If it brings functionality into the solution, that would be good. I'll leave it at that because there's so much that they can offer, it's unreal.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Its integration features, orchestration features, and discovery tools are the most valuable."
"The most valuable features are problem management and change management."
"Implementing CSM has made us very efficient and we're now able to plan changes and the steps required for implementation."
"The best feature is the ability to create functional dashboards, where the IT manager can interact with its data through the dashboard using the drill down feature."
"The dashboard is very useful to get a quick overview of current tasks."
"The most valuable features are problem management and change management."
"All our activities are carried out in the one place."
"We use the solution every day and quite extensively."
"The self-service portal is good, the dashboards are good, and it's an improvement over what we had before."
"Within the target domain, I think Service Anywhere is a good product with a good feature set."
"Just the use of big data is a game changer for us."
"We've got faster time for our agents to open tickets, they find the screens really easy to use, and they're pre-populated with information about our users which our old system didn't have."
"We can provide a rollout in two to four weeks from customer engagement to production use."
"We chose Service Anywhere because it provides a cost effective pricing model, was quick to implement, and provided a good end user experience."
"So far, the initial setup time for the initial configuration to get it up and running and usable was surprisingly fast."
"It helps to capitalize everything in our company and also to leverage the activity between the teams."
 

Cons

"The support from the actual manufacturer is poor."
"We need to be on VPN in order to set up and access the solution, and that has created some challenges."
"Areas for improvement would be the service catalog and customer catalog, which is not very user-friendly. The shopping cart experience is also terrible - you submit and go straight to the cart, you can't continue shopping or see your overall cost."
"Agile delivery should be supported."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"Access is only available if we're on VPN."
"Application service mapping, GRC, SecOps, and things like that need improvement."
"Areas for improvement would be the service catalog and customer catalog, which is not very user-friendly."
"Customer service is 3/10 as it has a lot of scope for improvement."
"The process of moving updates from development to production."
"It's not as mature, and so we have got a few things we're looking for there that we're working with HP on."
"They're terrible as there was just a lack of response. We had to go through other avenues to get responses from the first level support."
"Typically in the customers that we work with it's not a product that offers enough flexibility to support their needs."
"Technical support is okay. They have a large customer base so the technical support is not quite the same as the on-premises solution."
"Reporting is a challenge. We're working out how we can effectively report on what's going on."
"I'd like to see better ways of getting reports into a paper copy which means the ability to export into Excel."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For an ITIL user, the cost is probably about 50 bucks a month."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
11%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Energy/Utilities Company
9%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise10
 

Also Known As

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HPE Service Anywhere
 

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Sample Customers

Ausenco, Highlights for Children, B/E Aerospace
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