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ManageEngine IT Asset Management vs ServiceNow Discovery comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

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

ManageEngine IT Asset Manag...
Ranking in IT Asset Management
8th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
License Management (1st)
ServiceNow Discovery
Ranking in IT Asset Management
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
Server Monitoring (4th), Cloud Resource Discovery Services (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the IT Asset Management category, the mindshare of ManageEngine IT Asset Management is 4.3%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow Discovery is 4.4%, down from 5.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Asset Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
ServiceNow Discovery4.4%
ManageEngine IT Asset Management4.3%
Other91.3%
IT Asset Management
 

Featured Reviews

CP
Technical Consultant at alnafitha IT
Tickets are managed efficiently across departments, ensuring continuous network monitoring
I predominantly use ManageEngine OpManager for network monitoring. Starting from my switches, firewalls, routers, and so on, the main use case is to ensure continuous monitoring of network devices. It provides unified console access, offering live performance metrics and granular details, including…
reviewer2759271 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Solution/Service Delivery at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Has supported enterprise needs well and addresses discovery across environments
Small companies will not be able to afford ServiceNow Discovery from the pricing perspective. Hence, they will not opt for ServiceNow Discovery as a solution, either as an ITSM solution or ITOM solution. It will not be affordable. I am specifically talking about the Middle East and Africa region. ServiceNow ITOM is particularly not very strong in terms of monitoring capabilities. They do not have any monitoring tool. They use event management from getting events from other tools. In that front, they had a roadmap for going for an open-source solution, but I have not seen that materialize. There is a lack of tools perspective for monitoring. Perhaps they do not have a plan because there are hundreds of tools available, and they prefer to focus on integration and event management.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The technical support is great."
"In my opinion, it is the MDM; patch management and deployment are the valuable features."
"ManageEngine IT Asset Management helps with guarantee and warranty period management, license expiration tracking, device patches, and integration with our finance system for depreciation and invoicing."
"The ability to define custom templates for asset management helps track assets, budgets, warranties, and expiries effectively."
"We are satisfied with the product because each module is user-friendly, and we can customize it based on our organization's requirements."
"As far as IT Asset Management is concerned, I would rate it at ten out of ten."
"The most valuable component of the ITSM tool is the help desk due to its organized way of raising tickets."
"This is a very stable solution."
"I like ServiceNow Discovery's overall structure and the way data comes in without creating a different dashboard or interface."
"The most valuable feature of ServiceNow Discovery is its performance."
"Stability-wise, I feel it is a good product."
"The solution finds public cloud infrastructures globally and updates the integration management database, service catalogs, and asset management details."
"We can scale the solution."
"They provide the ability to see into the Discovery tools I want. They offer the best tool view."
"It does a good job of collecting the data that's necessary for data centers, and IT's operations."
"ServiceNow Discovery has normal discovery of CIs, as well as horizontal discovery for understanding Service Mapping."
 

Cons

"Responses from ManageEngine should be faster."
"It requires some development to be better, more comfortable, and usable, enhancing customer satisfaction."
"I hope it includes barcode features, as barcode scanning and MacAdes cannot currently be mapped with this field."
"The asset management tool is costly."
"The engineering area needs improvement."
"The assets that can be discovered are pretty easy to manage, but there should be a better way to manage non-discoverable assets. Our development team works on bots and tests particular hardware. They have got different varieties of hardware. They want a feature for managing these assets within a warehouse kind of environment. For example, our IT has received 100 items, and they have assigned these items as a bulk unit to a project manager. The project manager further wants to distribute these items within his or her team. Instead of maintaining a separate Excel sheet, the project manager should be able to reallocate these items from within the tool so that we have hierarchical entities for the same unit."
"I would love to see a digital adoption feature or guide that navigates first-time users through the application, as it is quite complex with many relevant and irrelevant elements."
"I would love to see a digital adoption feature or guide that navigates first-time users through the application, as it is quite complex with many relevant and irrelevant elements."
"The solution needs to improve the cost of the solution. There are a few different solutions and they do act the same and have the same types of capabilities, however, the cost is quite high."
"In a few instances, ServiceNow has failed to discover some basic things. Some other tools are better at network discovery than ServiceNow. I'm not talking about database servers or any other infrastructure—only networking. Cloud discovery could also be better."
"Application discovery could be improved. And, right now, ServiceNow needs to be coupled with another solution in order to verify information."
"The product could improve some of the visualization and architecture setups."
"In terms of improvement, I would like for it to be possible to use without coding. I would like a dropdown so that every customer can do it easily for himself and can understand it."
"I feel that credential-less discovery could be improved."
"Its integration with legacy apps is one area for improvement. ServiceNow Discovery offers out-of-the-box reports, and though that's okay, allowing easier report customization would improve the solution."
"The solution is too high priced."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price is reasonable, but I wish it was lower."
"ServiceNow Discovery is expensive, but the company has a monopoly and we need to use the solution. We use it because we do not have a choice."
"ServiceNow Discovery's licensing is not a very small investment, but it definitely pays off."
"The solution is not inexpensive so pricing is rated a three out of ten."
"It's on a yearly basis. We renew our contract for three years at a time."
"Setting up and licensing for ServiceNow can be expensive, especially for enterprise service management."
"The solution is very expensive."
"There is a subscription for ServiceNow Discovery. It's expensive, but I think it's one of the best solutions on the market, so it's worth it."
"This solution is a paid option within the ServiceNow framework."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
10%
Computer Software Company
6%
Healthcare Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise23
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ManageEngine IT Asset Management?
The pricing of ManageEngine IT Asset Management is publicly available, so customers can verify its fairness. Some companies may request discounts, which ManageEngine can provide. The licensing mode...
What needs improvement with ManageEngine IT Asset Management?
When we encounter issues with ManageEngine IT Asset Management, we check the online portal or ChatGPT, and they provide numerous knowledge bases on YouTube and Google. However, the issue is that th...
What advice do you have for others considering ManageEngine IT Asset Management?
The pricing of ManageEngine IT Asset Management is handled by the management team, so I am not involved with that aspect. I consider it a stable solution. My overall rating for ManageEngine IT Asse...
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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow Discovery?
The pricing information for ServiceNow Discovery was requested but not provided.
What needs improvement with ServiceNow Discovery?
A CMDB debugging tool to give indication about the errors that appear would be appreciated.
 

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Sample Customers

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York, National Grid, DXC Technology, experian, BEACHBODY
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