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Micro Focus Service Anywhere [EOL] vs ServiceNow comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Micro Focus Service Anywher...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ServiceNow
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
228
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (1st), IT Asset Management (1st), IT Service Management (ITSM) (1st), Rapid Application Development Software (2nd), No-Code Development Platforms (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Hemanthreddy Vakiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Structured workflows have improved SLA compliance and now support prioritized incident handling
I think the licensing and pricing of ServiceNow is quite expensive compared to other tools. For large organizations, it is acceptable, but specifically for small and medium organizations to track incidents or change requests, ServiceNow is quite expensive. Sometimes performance can be slow when workflows and integrations are configured for complex tasks. For advanced customizations or advanced features which we rarely use, the documentation is not up to standard. The documentation needs to be improved for advanced customization features. However, the platform is stable overall and the features are quite good. The user experience and performance concerns I mentioned are areas I want to be improved. When many workflows and interactions are configured, performance is slow. For the features it is providing, it is quite expensive. If these performance features are improved, we can easily pay that price and get the return on investment.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"For me, it saves time; it is accurate, secure, and reduces overhead cost."
"The benefits for the company is the ability to reuse the knowledge that you can capitalize on the entire process and be able to share the same process worldwide for all of our countries."
"Our users have traditionally been slow to adopt new systems, and in the past have not raised requests in our previous ITSM systems, but when we launched Service Anywhere to our staff we found they instantly adopted it, and the number of requests handled through the system has almost completely replaced other methods, allowing us to shut down several email addresses and have our staff use one single point of contact in Service Anywhere."
"It helps to capitalize everything in our company and also to leverage the activity between the teams."
"We can provide a rollout in two to four weeks from customer engagement to production use."
"Easier access to data and for reporting which gives the data for managing IT."
"The self-service portal is good, the dashboards are good, and it's an improvement over what we had before."
"We chose Service Anywhere because it provides a cost effective pricing model, was quick to implement, and provided a good end user experience."
"ServiceNow helps to improve IT incident handling in a more comprehensive way, and the latest version provides extensive information, including AI that allows us to program it in such a way that our L1 support can be eliminated."
"What I like the most is the functionality, it's features are rich, and there is a high degree of compliance with IT standards."
"The biggest feature is that it is cloud-based, so it's always updated, it's always current; we don't have to worry about patches or revisions because we're always working with the latest version and the features continue to improve."
"ServiceNow gives us a lot for free: workflows, organizational structures, service portal, forms, reporting, disaster recovery, and so on."
"Go for it."
"I find the incident management part to be the most valuable. That's how the service desk tracks tickets."
"I find almost all the features valuable; it can do nearly everything except make your coffee, as my colleagues always say."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
 

Cons

"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."
"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."
"The process of moving updates from development to production."
"Integration: The integration capacity of the tool is limited."
"Customer service is 3/10 as it has a lot of scope for improvement."
"We had some teething problems with Dev tenant export to production tenant import."
"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 need to be providing vendors and implementation partners with materials and guidance on implementation."
"We still have some issues with some of our ITIL users, like some things aren't as intuitive as they could be."
"It would be nice if we could, with some specific access rights, move histories from one squad to another, as they generate dependencies or duplicate or flag them."
"One thing I don't care for is the reporting and the way it functions."
"We would like to have an Asset Management and/or Project Management feature enabled in this version and in the IT Service Management edition."
"If you have a lot of users, a lot of developers on a single platform, probably not everybody knows what the other ones do and you have, of course, different quality and experience of the developers."
"Some enhancements to the self-service platform would be helpful. That part is still a little barebone."
"Some of the things which I've seen that they're improving now, it was the UI. It was a pretty basic UI which needed improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I know that it's not too bad because people continue to use it and they are happy to renew up their contract."
"The product cost is higher than that of other vendors."
"For the modules we use, we found it competitive. I can't think of any costs in addition to the licensing fees."
"I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten. The pricing for ServiceNow is based on a SaaS platform with annual contracts. However, it may not offer much flexibility for adjusting usage in the short term."
"ServiceNow's pricing is comparatively higher than Helix's."
"The cost is quite high."
"The solution is expensive."
"ServiceNow is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business55
Midsize Enterprise35
Large Enterprise171
 

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Which solution is better for developing non-ITSM applications: OutSystems or Service Now?
The short answer is that OutSystems is far better for 2 main reasons. Firstly, with Service Now you are locked into that platform for good. The business model is to lock in and then keep pumping th...
Would you choose ServiceNow over Microsoft PowerApps?
Hi Netanya, I will choose ServiceNow because ServiceNow is a very good tool compared to Microsoft PowerApp. Because ServiceNow has a very strong module (Performance Analysis) reporting which will ...
What do you like most about ServiceNow?
The solution has a user-friendly interface.
 

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Sample Customers

·         United Airlines·         America First Credit Union·         AerLingus·         PointClick Care·         Faro Europe GmbH·         The Hutton Institute·         Tunise Electronique
AAA, AstraZeneca, Becton, Dickinson and Company, Broadcom, Christus Health, Epicor, Equinix, GE Capital, Intuit, KPMG, Loyola Marymount University, OshKosh, Quantas, RedHat, Royal Bank of Scotland, Swiss Re, U.S. Department of Energy, Safeway, Yale University, and Zillow    
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