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ServiceNow Now Platform vs WaveMaker comparison

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Categories and Ranking

ServiceNow Now Platform
Ranking in Rapid Application Development Software
16th
Ranking in Low-Code Development Platforms
12th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
No-Code Development Platforms (4th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (18th)
WaveMaker
Ranking in Rapid Application Development Software
31st
Ranking in Low-Code Development Platforms
31st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Rapid Application Development Software category, the mindshare of ServiceNow Now Platform is 2.2%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WaveMaker is 1.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Rapid Application Development Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ServiceNow Now Platform2.2%
WaveMaker1.4%
Other96.4%
Rapid Application Development Software
 

Featured Reviews

Vishal Savajiani - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at DXC Technology
Low-code workflows have transformed how we automate processes and build enterprise apps
First and foremost, ServiceNow Now Platform allows us to do a low-code or no-code platform, which is the wonderful first feature. On top of that, if you want to do some customization along with the low-code and no-code, you can do it. Beyond that, if you write a full-fledged customized code and make your functionality, you can do it. Workflow is there, and we can automate our workflows. Flow is there as an option. Apart from workflow and flow, we have many business rules and script includes. These are all the technical components and features of ServiceNow Now Platform that allow us to achieve our objective. ServiceNow Now Platform offers a very easy feature that we call workflow or flow. Using workflow or flow, we can customize industry workflows. The development on that flow is very simple, and you can use drag and drop functionality. If you want to do some scripting, you can do it. This is an awesome feature of ServiceNow Now Platform that allows us to develop or automate any flow in quick time. Internally, ServiceNow Now Platform uses a lot of AI features and machine learning features. This makes it more wonderful. AI and machine learning are the core of ServiceNow Now Platform, and they are using it heavily. It is making a lot of impact on deliverables. You can develop anything whatever you want on ServiceNow Now Platform. If you understand ServiceNow Now Platform capabilities, you can develop a full-fledged application on ServiceNow Now Platform easily. You don't have to write scratch code or do any database operations. You just need to create tables and forms, which are very easy to develop if you are familiar with ServiceNow. Everything is on one platform, so it is a single source of data that you can find on ServiceNow itself for the overall enterprise. ServiceNow Now Platform offers a reporting feature very well. Along with the reporting, they are offering workspace and dashboard. All these UI interfaces you can use to extract precise information for your customer. This is really helping the customer make decisions with the precise and versatile reports. You can have a list report view, a graph report view, or a pie chart. All these features can be developed quickly and used in ServiceNow. This is where ServiceNow Now Platform makes a lot of difference.
it_user576294 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Software Developer at a tech services company
This is a RAD tool to build business apps, tables, and forms.
It needs a desktop version for developers with license type CE. I would like to have the possibility to have a CE that lets me migrate from SQL Server Express, Access, and OpenOffice Base and keep all UI front-end development in just one system. In short, the 6.7 was good enough. The question is: Will there always be a desktop version CE that will let me work with, for example, five users for free, and then start to pay from user six, or in my case, three users? Right now, I do not see WaveMaker in this field, and there are others points to ask for from a desktop.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Aside from the fact that the license module is very expensive, it's a great product."
"The simplicity is great."
"ServiceNow offers a lot of features when it comes to IT service management and IT operations management. What interested me in ServiceNow was that a lot of service management."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The CMDB is robust, with a strong data model and well-structured data."
"Assignment Group history is really important to me."
"ITOM Discovery is great in the sense of the entire ServiceNow platform, as well as the ITSM and ITOM modules."
"ServiceNow can document and produce a historical working tool that deals with projects themselves. The user interface is another strong suit."
"It is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool to build business apps that lets you work with many diverse data stores and build tables and forms easily."
 

Cons

"The price is a bit high and can be a bit of a barrier for some customers."
"What could be improved in ServiceNow Now Platform is the availability of skill sets; for some reason, we don't get too many people who know this technology easily."
"Because of the high cost of this product, you don't always see an ROI."
"The Robotic Process Automation features are not mature enough. ServiceNow could work toward that because we can leverage RP only from this platform."
"The number of API calls processed by the tool, specifically when the API calls increase, will cause a lot of load on the platform, and it tends to not work very efficiently."
"ServiceNow Now Platform's technical support needs to improve."
"In the next release of this solution, we would like to see mobile capability."
"When it comes to integration, it can be complex compared to other tools I'm currently using."
"It needs a desktop version for developers with license type CE."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are extra expenses for maintaining the product apart from the licenses."
"People seem to be buying the tool a lot. I think its licensing is okay."
"In my opinion, it is expensive. However, they do offer favorable licensing for charities, for example."
"I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being very expensive solution."
"It's expensive and if you need some analytical views of your activity, there is an additional cost."
"From what I heard, the license for the ServiceNow Now Platform is paid monthly, and on a scale of one to five, I'm rating it a three in terms of pricing, so it's on the cheaper side. I don't know of any additional costs associated with the ServiceNow Now Platform, apart from the standard licensing fees."
"ServiceNow is not open source, so there is a license you must pay. As for how much it costs, what I have observed is that it often depends on your subscriptions."
"Price-wise, I would describe the product's cost to be more than the average, but it compensates for that with the functionalities that it provides."
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Top Industries

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13%
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
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Company Size

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Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise36
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow Now Platform?
I do not know the setup cost details. I am not at that level where I make decisions on the cost.
What needs improvement with ServiceNow Now Platform?
There are areas of ServiceNow Now Platform that could be improved or enhanced in the future. So far, I do not have many complaints with ServiceNow Now Platform, and it is working as intended. I do ...
What is your primary use case for ServiceNow Now Platform?
As a customer of this solution, I use it as a ticketing platform in my projects. I have multiple use cases for ServiceNow Now Platform as I use it for service, requests, incident, and change and pr...
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