ServiceNow and Quest KACE Asset Management Appliance compete in the asset management space. ServiceNow seems to have the upper hand due to its extensive features and robust support network.
Features: ServiceNow provides comprehensive asset tracking, automated workflows, and integration with ITSM processes. Quest KACE Asset Management Appliance focuses on detailed asset discovery, inventory management, and strong reporting capabilities.
Room for Improvement: ServiceNow could benefit from reducing initial setup complexity and costs. Additionally, enhancing ease of deployment for smaller businesses could extend its reach. Quest KACE could improve by offering more extensive support options, enhancing integration capabilities, and expanding its feature set to cater to larger enterprises.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ServiceNow offers scalable deployment models suited for large enterprises with extensive support options. Quest KACE Asset Management Appliance is designed for quick setup aimed at small to mid-sized businesses and offers responsive customer service.
Pricing and ROI: ServiceNow typically has higher initial costs, justifying ROI for large organizations needing comprehensive solutions. Quest KACE offers lower entry pricing, providing favorable ROI for businesses focused solely on asset management.
The KACE Asset Management Appliance provides comprehensive hardware and software inventory and asset management across a variety of operating systems — Windows®, Mac®, Linux®, UNIX® and Chrome OS™, plus network-connected non-computing devices — through the entire IT asset lifecycle, giving you and your team more time to focus on IT innovation. Fast to implement and easy to use, this tool discovers all hardware and software on your network, and provides ongoing IT inventory management, IT asset management (ITAM) and software asset management (SAM).
ServiceNow is a cloud-based task-management platform that specializes in IT operations management (ITOM), IT services management (ITSM), and IT business management (ITBM). ServiceNow allows users to manage their teams, projects, and customer interactions using a variety of different plugins and apps with which it easily integrates.
ServiceNow offers prebuilt applications to support any process, as well as a framework and tools that allow you to build your own.
ServiceNow’s service management solutions include change, request, incident, problem, and cost management, as well as HR, IT, field service, and facilities management solutions. They also cover business management solutions such as vendor performance management, financial management, performance analytics and project portfolio suite, as well as governance, risk, and compliance.
“The Smarter Way to Workflow”
ServiceNow’s activities, processes, and tasks are overseen as part of a comprehensive managed workflow that supports such features as real-time collaboration, communication, and resource sharing. ServiceNow’s suite of products allow for operation using serverless computing, and include the categories of Business Apps, Customer Service, HR, IT, and Security.
ServiceNow can be used to support most workflows because of the wide range of tools it offers. These include on-suite ticketing tools, predictive modeling to manage workflows, and benchmarking for the tracking of progress. ServiceNow can assist with artificial intelligence and machine learning processes and can be used to organize the cases of a help/service desk as well as for instance management and problem management. It also smoothly integrates with many legacy systems.
ServiceNow offers service management software for industries including:
Cloud services
Education
Financial services
Government
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
Reviews from Real Users
PeerSpot users prefer ServiceNow to its competitors because of its scalability, stability, and ease of use. It helps everyone in the company to be on the same page by creating a single source of record across all departments. One user stated that “I’ve definitely used over 20 project management solutions, but they can't be compared with ServiceNow.” Another said that “ServiceNow is an industry leader in multiple areas and provides an excellent ROI.”
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