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Freshservice vs Micro Focus Service Anywhere [EOL] comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Freshservice
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (5th), Project Management Software (10th), Cloud Management (12th), IT Asset Management (4th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (4th), Configuration Management Databases (5th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (8th), AI IT Support (3rd)
Micro Focus Service Anywher...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

RF
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
Automation and AI have transformed our service delivery and have made IT support faster and more efficient
I always keep up with Freshservice's roadmaps and new features. Freshservice has been very good at listening to feedback and adding those feature requests into their next iterations. I wish they would offer more granular data export options for utilizing in Power BI, along with predictive analytics for capacity planning and SLA breaches to enable more proactive support management and reduce firefighting. While the dashboards are effective, some users find custom reporting limited compared to ServiceNow or Jira. I would also appreciate deeper integrations, especially for niche apps requiring development coding work to enable advanced orchestration. Native integrations for DevOps pipelines such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins, along with stronger API flexibility for complex workflows, would enhance functionality. Although the CMDB and asset management are solid, they do lack advanced dependency mapping compared to other enterprise tools. My wishlist includes automated impact analysis for changes and improved visualization of asset relationships, enabling quicker resolutions from an agent's perspective when alerts come in. I acknowledge that Device42 may enhance this, but it is an extra cost beyond what we already pay. While Freddy AI is excellent for triage and suggestions, some users desire more proactive automation, such as predictive ticket routing based on historical patterns and AI-driven capacity forecasting. Lastly, the pricing tiers might seem rigid for mid-sized teams, so a more granular add-on option for features such as Device42 or pay-per-use for orchestration workflows could be beneficial.
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

"What it's allowed us to do is bring everyone in our department into the journey of customer experience and customer service."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the user experience."
"Freshservice is very user-friendly and easy to customize."
"I would recommend this solution to others because it is good and the price is reasonable."
"We use the ticketing system primarily, which is very easy to use for all users."
"Ultimately, we saw a 77% reduction in average resolution times with a return on investment realized within 6 months."
"The tool is an easy, off-the-shelf product which allowed us to decommission our in-house system."
"The solution is very responsive with a 97% success rate in funneling customer tickets."
"If ITIL adoption is important, then this would be the product as it is cloud based, quick, cost-effective, and easy to implement."
"The self-service portal is good, the dashboards are good, and it's an improvement over what we had before."
"Now, our customer has a flow chart to maintain requests, and the service desk has got good feedback from the customer."
"We chose Service Anywhere because it provides a cost effective pricing model, was quick to implement, and provided a good end user experience."
"It helps to capitalize everything in our company and also to leverage the activity between the teams."
"Within the target domain, I think Service Anywhere is a good product with a good feature set."
"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."
"So far, the initial setup time for the initial configuration to get it up and running and usable was surprisingly fast."
 

Cons

"There is a need for improvement in terms of automatic escalation to the next level if an issue is not resolved."
"A chat bot needs to be added to the portal."
"Freshservice has an AI agent that needs improvement for finding knowledge base articles."
"I am not too happy with the page layout or screen layout since it always looks messy."
"A chat bot needs to be added to the portal."
"There are some limitations in reporting. For example, I would like to have a report of conversations or replies."
"The analytics could be better."
"They can improve the search. While searching the inventory, when I cancel a selected category, the search box disappears, and I have to reload the page. It is a small glitch. Currently, we can have only one plan per subscription. All users have to be on the same plan. We can't have two users for plan A and five users for plan B. It might be good if there was an option to have different plans within one subscription so that you can assign each agent to the corresponding plan."
"Technical support is okay. They have a large customer base so the technical support is not quite the same as the on-premises solution."
"We had some teething problems with Dev tenant export to production tenant import."
"Customer service is 3/10 as it has a lot of scope for improvement."
"I'd like to see better ways of getting reports into a paper copy which means the ability to export into Excel."
"The technical support could be better."
"Integration: The integration capacity of the tool is limited."
"Typically in the customers that we work with it's not a product that offers enough flexibility to support their needs."
"However, this application won't be enough for us."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't think it's expensive for the US or some European markets. Still, when I used Freshservice in Mexico, some customers found it a bit pricey, especially considering the platform's features. I think the pricing is fair for use in the European market, but it might be perceived differently in Latin America."
"The price of Freshservice could improve, it is expensive."
"It was a middle tier. It wasn't an expensive one. It was a tier model usage. Licensing costs varied between admin users and regular users."
"It is $34 per license, per agent. Currently, we don't see any add-ons at extra fees."
"Compared to other tools, Freshservice is affordable."
"The solution may be around 20,000 euros a year."
"Its price is great. Its pricing is supposedly a lot less than ServiceNow and other alternatives."
"One of the key benefits of Freshservice is license management. Asset management has the possibility to keep track of licenses and that's very useful. The price of the solution is very good."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
University
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Educational Organization
8%
Retailer
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise15
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Freshservice?
I do not have any experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing, as it was assigned to the infrastructure team.
What needs improvement with Freshservice?
Freshservice has an AI agent that needs improvement for finding knowledge base articles. When issues or incidents are received in Freshservice, new users should be able to receive direct help from ...
What is your primary use case for Freshservice?
Freshservice is used to redirect ticket handling and acknowledge tickets and incidents received. Tickets are redirected with their short description and subject line in Freshservice, which allows f...
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Also Known As

Flint
HPE Service Anywhere
 

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Sample Customers

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Western Carriers, Judson University, Golf Canada, Travix, Proxama, Paymentez, Ready Auto Transport
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