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ServiceNow Customer Service Management vs SugarCRM Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 2025

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

ServiceNow Customer Service...
Ranking in CRM Customer Engagement Centers
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Customer Experience Management (5th)
SugarCRM Platform
Ranking in CRM Customer Engagement Centers
9th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
CRM (25th), Marketing Automation (12th), Sales Force Automation (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the CRM Customer Engagement Centers category, the mindshare of ServiceNow Customer Service Management is 4.6%, down from 10.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SugarCRM Platform is 4.5%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CRM Customer Engagement Centers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ServiceNow Customer Service Management4.6%
SugarCRM Platform4.5%
Other90.9%
CRM Customer Engagement Centers
 

Featured Reviews

BasilJiji - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Structured ticket workflows have improved resolution speed and have supported SLA-driven support
ServiceNow Customer Service Management is offering very good things, but I felt improvements to our process would allow us to depend on this tool in many other ways. Regarding the interface, currently the user who creates the ticket has a very limited interface with only the options for creating a ticket and providing details, while the support team has a much larger interface with many options, including SLA details and report generation. While this classification is great, I felt that some modifications could be brought to the interface. I felt that further modifications can be made so that it could be a perfect tool.
reviewer1345677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager / IT Planning & Architecture Services at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Easily customizable, automation enhances the marketing campaigns but support is the main hiccup for us
It has been effective in managing customer relationships. It has sales email campaigns, plus integration with Active Directory. And there are centralized reports for the CEO and the general managers. We work with automation for these marketing and email campaigns. It sends out emails to prospective customers related to sales offers automatically. And it copies the sales team so that they can follow up. They are tracking the sales leads. So, the automation within SugarCRM enhances the marketing campaigns. For now, my work is done because I am the IT strategy and planning manager. I just try to deliver the solution according to the requirements of the business. From my side, it's implemented already, the requirement related to the sales funnel. But if they have any other requirement from the business side, they will submit it to me, and then I will look for a suitable solution.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Our organization has received excellent tech support for ServiceNow Customer Service Management."
"The tool is very useful as it helps us run businesses smoothly."
"Overall, I like the workflow capabilities, orchestration, and integration with existing business apps. The product is awesome in terms of capabilities."
"The integration capabilities of ServiceNow are wonderful."
"The best features ServiceNow Customer Service Management offers are a platform to manage all our clients at one place."
"The integration capabilities of ServiceNow are wonderful, I can integrate it with different tools and various platforms to get the job done, and the workflows provided by the platform are amazing, saving me a lot of time while the automatic notification process eliminates the need for me to seek approvals or send reminders."
"Resolution speed has immensely improved because of ServiceNow Customer Service Management, especially the actionable insights, IT performances, and incident trends."
"We can integrate different technologies in ServiceNow Customer Service Management. An organization would like to offer a digital transformative experience to its employees and customers, which the tool can offer. It can be integrated with any external system. There are also automation possibilities."
"It has sales email campaigns, plus integration with Active Directory."
"The most valuable features of the SugarCRM platform include its flexibility in customizing fields, layouts, and dashboards."
"By default, it comes with a really good model where you can start working with it without having a lot of developers in your team."
"This solution's stability is very good, it runs almost without effort, and we don't have any support issues with it."
"Available source code, good documentation, training programs, and a relatively active community, provide the hallmarks for a successful open source effort."
"The performance and stability are fine."
"The most valuable features of Sugar Enterprise are the exports of graphics, statuses, complaints, and tasks."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is its low cost, and it works well."
 

Cons

"One area for improvement would be integrating IVR systems. Many customers need the ticketing solution and a native IVR system within the same platform. ServiceNow Customer Service Management doesn't offer an IVR solution that works natively or comes in the same package. Customers often have to integrate their IVR with third-party solutions like Twilio. However, the agreement between ServiceNow and Twilio ended some months ago, making it more challenging to integrate IVR functionalities."
"ServiceNow Customer Service Management works fine for me, for now, so there isn't any room for improvement I see in it. In the next release of the tool, I'd like users to be able to download all reports because as a user, I can only download a limited number of reports from ServiceNow Customer Service Management, but my management team can do so. I'm unsure if it's a feature that's included in the tool or not."
"ServiceNow Customer Service Management could be improved by incorporating Gen AI into ServiceNow."
"ServiceNow Customer Service Management is offering very good things, but I felt improvements to our process would allow us to depend on this tool in many other ways."
"The product does not cater to businesses of every scale and budget."
"The price could be better. ServiceNow should price products more reasonably."
"ServiceNow Customer Service Management is expensive. It's one of the most costly CSM options in the marketplace."
"The product lacks customization capabilities. In the future, the product should include more options for customization to be able to meet the demands of the customers."
"Sugar Enterprise could improve by removing bugs and glitches. For example, a comment was made but in the comment section, it was never displayed."
"It lacks customization, and this is the main reason that we are switching to a different solution."
"In the next release, I would like to see personalization of information about customers or specific businesses or opportunities."
"I would like to see more integration on a mobile platform in the next release."
"Putting so many things into SugarCRM became a much-hated task, mainly because of the horrible UI."
"You cannot include all your entities under one instance at the moment."
"At the moment, there is a complicated flow in regards to the user's permissions and what they can see."
"Pipelines, forecasts, and reporting in general, are not that good in the free version."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product has a premium price"
"ServiceNow Customer Service Management is expensive. It's one of the most costly CSM options in the marketplace."
"I rate the product's pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. The solution is neither cheap nor expensive."
"I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
8%
Retailer
8%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Construction Company
14%
Engineering Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow Customer Service Management?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that these were done by the VP of our company, thus I have no idea about the same.
What needs improvement with ServiceNow Customer Service Management?
ServiceNow Customer Service Management could be improved by incorporating Gen AI into ServiceNow. Though ServiceNow has a Now Assist feature for their CSM module, it still needs a lot of work to do...
What is your primary use case for ServiceNow Customer Service Management?
My main use case for ServiceNow Customer Service Management is that I use it as an end user to provide customer support to our clients. For a specific example of how I use it to provide customer su...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sugar Enterprise?
All are almost the same pricing. Maybe the cheapest is Salesforce, I believe.
What needs improvement with Sugar Enterprise?
The only challenge was that we implemented it in our on-premise data center instead of using it in the cloud. That was a little bit of a challenge. But it was overcome with the help of SugarCRM com...
What advice do you have for others considering Sugar Enterprise?
To start with, SugarCRM is a very good platform. It's easy to implement and easily customizable. Might be later when you want to scale, then I would recommend Salesforce. Overall, I would rate it a...
 

Also Known As

ServiceNow CSM
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Sample Customers

Siemens Healthineers, SAP SuccessFactors, Asurion
Redglaze Group, TengoInternet, Hilco, Bancvue, Vet Adivsor
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