Device42 vs ServiceNow Discovery comparison

Device42 and ServiceNow are both solutions in the IT Asset Management category. Device42 is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.2, while ServiceNow is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.8. Device42 holds a 4.1% mindshare in IAM, compared to ServiceNow’s 3.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Device42 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of ServiceNow users who would recommend it.

Device42

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100% willing to recommend

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97% willing to recommend

Device42

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Device42 and ServiceNow Discovery compete in the network discovery and IT operations management space. ServiceNow Discovery appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive integration with ITSM and broader cloud deployment capabilities.

Features: Device42 offers lightweight setup and efficient network device discovery with Application Dependency Mapping through agentless discovery. It provides effective IP address management and password management, enhancing security protocols. ServiceNow Discovery excels with its integration in the ServiceNow suite, offering comprehensive service mapping and a unified CMDB that supports robust relationship-building and dependency-mapping features.

Room for Improvement: Device42 could improve in intuitive management of purchase requisitions, bulk operations, and enhancing initial setup processes. Reporting and certificate management also need refinement, along with mobile-friendly options. ServiceNow Discovery could focus on simplifying setup processes for legacy applications, tuning its cost and licensing models, and improving service mapping complexity regarding off-network device discovery.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Device42 is easy to install in on-premises environments, although some deployment complexities and support issues persist. Its customer support is generally responsive but can delay. ServiceNow Discovery provides flexible deployment across cloud and hybrid environments with competent technical support, though initial training resources could be enhanced.

Pricing and ROI: Device42 is cost-effective for mid-sized businesses but can be expensive with additional features. Users report a good ROI due to reduced IT management hours. ServiceNow Discovery, often perceived as costly, justifies its price with integration within the ServiceNow ecosystem and its holistic ITOM capabilities, presenting a pronounced ROI in service delivery and resource utilization.

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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:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.6

Device42 enhances ROI by streamlining IT asset management, application mapping, and offering insightful reports for cost-effective operations.

Sentiment score

5.7

ServiceNow Discovery offers scalable value with automation, but ROI varies due to pricing, data challenges, and organizational needs.

The TCO calculations based on five years and three years have yielded a remarkable ROI compared to on-premise workload, validating the business case submission to the customer.

Manmohan Rao

Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited

I can confidently say at least 30% is the savings which we have seen.

AbhishekGupta2

Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

Device42 is a fully-featured tool that includes everything we need with powerful auto-discovery and intelligent application dependency mapping.

Likod Andrew

Financial Specialist at Wells Fargo

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

8.1

Device42's customer service is praised for prompt, knowledgeable support, despite occasional delays, frequently earning high satisfaction ratings.

Sentiment score

6.1

ServiceNow Discovery's support receives mixed reviews, with inconsistent response times and effectiveness, but training materials are valued.

Customer support for Device42 is fantastic.

Manmohan Rao

Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited

Our internal teams have also leveraged the platform which is available for the customers and the partners to onboard them, have a bit of training on the tool and then ask any specific questions to either the TAM or the customer support team.

AbhishekGupta2

Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

When it comes to resolving technical issues, the support team is responsive and always available to help.

Funmilola Olayiwola

Cloud Presales Engineer at Activedge Technologies Ltd.

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The 'follow the sun' model, where the time of raising the ticket and where it lands, plays a crucial role.

reviewer2759271

Manager, Solution/Service Delivery at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

This rating is because there are features on the tool that never worked and despite calling our support, there were no results.

Ayobanji Iluyomade

IT Service Performance Manager at MTN

I would rate the technical support by ServiceNow as good.

Abhinay Sharma

Service Now Developer at Bangmetric services pvt ltd

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.2

Device42 effectively scales for organizations, enhancing expansion with API integration and Remote Collectors, despite horizontal scaling limitations.

Sentiment score

7.2

ServiceNow Discovery offers scalability and easy setup, but faces challenges with cloud services, financial concerns, and legacy application complexity.

It is very much scalable and allows you to design your discovery solution without facing any challenge.

Manmohan Rao

Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited

Device42's scalability works well for me; if I want to add more resources, such as a Remote Collector for a new site, I can easily connect it to the main appliance.

reviewer2799393

Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is good and with the increase in the size of the environment, it has definitely grown and changed over the last couple of years.

AbhishekGupta2

Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

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I would rate it as a nine on a scale of one to ten, indicating it is highly scalable.

UdaySiddu

Software Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Small companies will not be able to afford ServiceNow Discovery from the pricing perspective.

reviewer2759271

Manager, Solution/Service Delivery at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It receives this rating because it can be difficult to troubleshoot when the discovery is failing.

Ayobanji Iluyomade

IT Service Performance Manager at MTN

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.0

Device42 proves reliable with minimal downtime, easy integration, manageable resources, quick issue resolution, and high user satisfaction.

Sentiment score

8.0

ServiceNow Discovery is highly reliable, scoring 8-10 for dependability, with occasional issues influenced by external factors.

Device42 is stable and has been reliable for my organization.

Manmohan Rao

Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited

Device42 has been pretty stable.

AbhishekGupta2

Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

Stability for Device42, in terms of reliability, is generally acceptable.

Hafidz Rusydi

Solutions Architect at KAF Group

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I would rate the stability of ServiceNow Discovery as nine, as we never had downtime.

Ayobanji Iluyomade

IT Service Performance Manager at MTN

That is not a mistake of the product. It is due to excessive security on the network.

reviewer2759271

Manager, Solution/Service Delivery at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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Room For Improvement

Device42 users seek enhanced interface, integration, pricing, with improved widgets, graphics, navigation, automation, and support efficiency.

ServiceNow Discovery requires enhancements in application discovery, integration, pricing, user training, and improved technical support and reporting capabilities.

Device42 could benefit from improvements, specifically regarding the deployment of the software, which sometimes can be hectic and become time-consuming.

Likod Andrew

Financial Specialist at Wells Fargo

I foresee areas of improvement for the agent-less solution, which could be very useful for those organizations that might not allow configuring an agent in their source machines for workload discovery.

Manmohan Rao

Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited

From an ITSM and ticketing perspective, I would say if there were integrations available, that would have really been better because a lot of times what we end up seeing or leveraging is ServiceNow because they have that native or out of the box capability, and even Freshservice has that capability out of the box.

AbhishekGupta2

Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

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ServiceNow ITOM is particularly not very strong in terms of monitoring capabilities. They do not have any monitoring tool.

reviewer2759271

Manager, Solution/Service Delivery at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Improvements could include implementing chatbots to simplify ticket creation.

UdaySiddu

Software Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The areas of ServiceNow Discovery that have room for improvement are getting custom reports on the relationship between CIs that are not on the same table.

Ayobanji Iluyomade

IT Service Performance Manager at MTN

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Setup Cost

Device42 offers cost-effective pricing for managing 1,000-2,000 devices, though addon costs and competition may affect perceptions.

ServiceNow Discovery is costly yet valued for its advanced features, with potential cost savings despite high total ownership costs.

Compared to other competitors, it does not cost much, and I would recommend it from a cost perspective.

Manmohan Rao

Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited

For example, I felt the BMC Discovery pricing was quite high.

AbhishekGupta2

Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Device42 are relatively cost-effective and affordable.

Likod Andrew

Financial Specialist at Wells Fargo

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ServiceNow is considered more expensive compared to other products.

UdaySiddu

Software Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I think the price of ServiceNow Discovery is cheaper than BMC.

Ayobanji Iluyomade

IT Service Performance Manager at MTN

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Valuable Features

Device42 excels in asset discovery, dependency mapping, and integrated IT management, enhancing security, cloud readiness, and efficiency.

ServiceNow Discovery enhances IT operations with automated discovery, dependency mapping, scalability, and efficient management of network devices and cloud infrastructure.

Device42 has positively impacted my organization by providing granularity toward application discovery compared to other assessment tools, which is a differentiator since none of the other tools provide such granularity, leading to better decision-making for my migration to the public cloud.

Manmohan Rao

Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited

We have leveraged that to discover IT assets such as physical servers, VMs, network devices, containers, storage devices, the applications, cloud resources and their relationships or their dependencies with each other and to the outside.

AbhishekGupta2

Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

Device42 has positively impacted our organization by helping us become one of the best companies for asset management and inventory for the enterprise businesses we work with.

Funmilola Olayiwola

Cloud Presales Engineer at Activedge Technologies Ltd.

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The workflows are beneficial as they allow tasks to be assigned to respective teams without the need for coding.

UdaySiddu

Software Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

ServiceNow Discovery helps with operations, audits, and allows people to assess how a particular change in infrastructure impacts other components.

Hemant_Arora

Director, Information Technology at Gen™

ServiceNow Discovery has normal discovery of CIs, as well as horizontal discovery for understanding Service Mapping.

reviewer2759271

Manager, Solution/Service Delivery at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Device42

Ranking in IT Asset Management

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Configuration Management Databases (2nd), IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools (3rd), Data Center Infrastructure Management (1st)

ServiceNow Discovery

Ranking in IT Asset Management

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (7th), Cloud Resource Discovery Services (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the IT Asset Management category, the mindshare of Device42 is 4.1%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow Discovery is 3.5%, down from 5.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Asset Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Device42	4.1%
ServiceNow Discovery	3.5%
Other	92.4%

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Featured Reviews

Manmohan Rao

Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited

Granular discovery has ensured confident workload migration and optimized cloud move group planning

Device42 offers the best features for workload assessment, particularly useful for cloud-to-cloud workload or on-premise data center workload, especially when planning for workload migration to the public cloud. For application and infrastructure discovery, Device42 has enabled me to know the number of machines running in the on-premise environment and has managed to capture complete utilization metrics or trends of their utilization. This has benefited me in right-sizing systems for my public cloud total cost of ownership (TCO) planning, providing me granularity to right-size these systems while planning a migration to the public cloud. Device42 has positively impacted my organization by providing granularity toward application discovery compared to other assessment tools, which is a differentiator since none of the other tools provide such granularity, leading to better decision-making for my migration to the public cloud. Device42 has improved my migration projects by providing granularity around system dependencies that gave me confidence knowing which systems communicate with each other parked in a particular move group. My move group planning became so robust that I am not leaving any system behind in the on-premise data center from my planning, which saves a lot of time and effort, leading to cost optimization—a value addition.

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Abhinay Sharma

Service Now Developer at Bangmetric services pvt ltd

Cloud discovery has improved asset visibility and reporting but still needs smarter automation

The impact of ServiceNow Discovery on my organization's strategic planning depends on various factors. Some customers have their own discovery tools which they do not want to switch from, even if we explain why ServiceNow might be better, because they have been using them for a long time. Some customers are dynamic, so we need to have some kind of proposition that comes with ServiceNow. Sometimes, we need to talk with ServiceNow people themselves to give them a bundle offer in which we can have Discovery and ITSM at a much more affordable price than the competitors, so that is our main goal. Currently, I would say there might be a possibility if we can use some AI discovery features that could be helpful for our organization. If we can get discovery jobs running based on AI schedules, that would be beneficial. I believe in the coming future that I want to see myself working more with ServiceNow in this capacity.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	20

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	23

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Device42?

The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Device42 are relatively cost-effective and affordable. I do not know if a small organization would be able to afford it, but I presume it would also be co...

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What needs improvement with Device42?

I think Device42 can be improved by adding more features around the CMDB aspect and lifecycle management. I do not think many people use it for that functionality, but if they were to expand the su...

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What is your primary use case for Device42?

My main use case for Device42 is that we use it as a CMDB and affinity map to check out network topology or determine when we need to decom something in a life cycle. We use it for many different p...

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What do you like most about ServiceNow Discovery?

The solution can prioritize the discovery of IP ranges. The product automatically places all Discovery CIs into the correct class within the CMDB.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow Discovery?

Regarding pricing, I have not dealt much with it. I am more focused on the feature side of things, so I cannot comment on the latest pricing because it is dynamic as well. Sometimes it is cheaper f...

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What needs improvement with ServiceNow Discovery?

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Overview

Device42 empowers enterprises with automatic IT asset discovery, application dependency mapping, and agentless discovery, streamlining asset management, improving decision-making, and supporting migration initiatives.

Device42 automates network discovery and provides comprehensive IT data management, making it indispensable for asset and infrastructure management. The platform’s integration capabilities, such as with ServiceNow, allow seamless management of physical and virtual environments. Its application dependency mapping is a critical feature for efficient cloud migration, while advanced search and dashboards enhance operational tasks. Device42's ease of deployment coupled with integration into cloud services offers robust operational insights and simplifies onboarding.

What are Device42's key features?

Automatic IT Asset Discovery: Enables detailed information collection on hardware and software.
Application Dependency Mapping: Facilitates tracking of application dependencies for effective cloud migration.
Agentless Discovery: Assists in uncovering assets without the need for specialized agents.
Network Topology Visualization: Assists in visual representation of network connections.
Cloud Integration: Simplifies the integration with cloud services for enhanced insights.

What benefits should be evaluated in Device42?

Improved Decision-Making: Optimizes resource utilization and boosts strategic initiatives.
Seamless Integration: Enhances connectivity with platforms like ServiceNow.
Efficiency in Auditing: Eases compliance and auditing processes.
Simplified Onboarding: Streamlines initial setups and deployment.
Enhanced Operational Insights: Supports better management through comprehensive data visualization.

Device42 is widely used across sectors for IT asset and infrastructure management, where automation in inventory and documentation aids compliance and resource optimization. It excels in industries requiring integration with existing systems and comprehensive network solutions. Application dependency mapping bolsters cloud migration efficiency in enterprise environments.

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ServiceNow Discovery automates relationship building with agentless discovery and accurate dependency mapping. It seamlessly integrates with CMDB, offering secure operations and efficient data management, suitable for multi-cloud operations.

ServiceNow Discovery transforms IT infrastructure management by automating the mapping of hardware and software components, enhancing application visibility, and supporting predictive monitoring. It boasts expansive plugin options, low maintenance, and centralized data storage, all while operating effectively across cloud and on-premises environments. Users benefit from robust performance, comprehensive impact analysis, and easy setup. However, improving unnecessary data elimination, simplifying debugging, and enhancing global deployment could make it more effective. It requires more intuitive interfaces and code-free customization for better reconciliation and discovery of remote devices. Improved reporting, competitive pricing, and seamless integration with legacy and newer applications are valued enhancements.

What are the key features of ServiceNow Discovery?

Automated Relationship Building: Facilitates seamless integration with CMDB.
Agentless Discovery: Offers accurate mapping without the need for additional agents.
Dependency Mapping: Provides detailed infrastructure insights.
Multi-cloud Support: Ensures operations are streamlined across cloud environments.
Centralized Data Storage: Supports efficient data management.
Comprehensive Impact Analysis: Enhances capacity management.

What benefits and ROI should be considered?

Integration with CMDB: Enhances asset tracking and management.
Secure Operations: Minimizes security risks across IT environments.
Efficient Data Management: Streamlines processing and analysis of data.
Low Maintenance: Reduces operational overhead and downtime.
Robust Performance: Ensures reliability in diverse settings.

Companies in diverse sectors use ServiceNow Discovery for asset tracking, CMDB population, and identifying Configuration Items. This enables IT teams to map hardware and software components, enhance visibility, and facilitate predictive monitoring and auto-remediation processes. Integrating with other systems, ServiceNow Discovery provides valuable insights from IT environments, supporting both cloud and on-premises operations.

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