We use the product for discovery and visibility management.
Senior Business Analyst at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Helps with discovery and visibility management
Pros and Cons
- "I like the tool's discovery feature."
- "The solution's licensing model is a bit complicated. It should be simple and easy for people to understand."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
I like the tool's discovery feature.
What needs improvement?
The solution's licensing model is a bit complicated. It should be simple and easy for people to understand.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product for five years.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the solution's stability an eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the product's scalability a seven out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The product's setup is simple.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I would rate the product's pricing a five out of ten since there are vendors who are cheaper.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate the product a seven out of ten. The solution is for most customers but enterprise customers will face some restrictions with it.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Reseller
CyberSecurity Executive IAM Engineer at Tata Consultancy
A stable and scalable solution that helps to manage tickets
Pros and Cons
- "I am impressed with the tool's ability to track information in an easy way."
- "The product needs to add a workflow insight tool."
What is our primary use case?
I use the tool to create tickets and solve incidents. It also helps us to check and review dashboards and present them to the management.
What is most valuable?
I am impressed with the tool's ability to track information in an easy way.
What needs improvement?
The product needs to add a workflow insight tool.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The tool is scalable and my company has 3000 users for the product.
How was the initial setup?
The product's setup is easy.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate the product a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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IT Architecture Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Useful integrations; helped us communicate better with teams in other time zones
Pros and Cons
- "The way this solution has helped us is that it improved our communication."
- "When it comes to improvements, I think that my colleagues and I often have issues finding the correct screen and the search box does not work as intended."
What is our primary use case?
I usually use two open objects that I need and if any requests come in, I request that the IT guys do it for me.
How has it helped my organization?
As my security department colleague is based in Australia, talking can be difficult because of different time zones. The way this solution has helped us is that it improved our communication.
What is most valuable?
The feature I like the most is the integrations. Whenever I create a new asset team, all the information is filled in automatically and linked with the initial part. In addition, finding all of this information is quite easy.
What needs improvement?
When it comes to improvements, I think that my colleagues and I often have issues finding the correct screen and the search box does not work as intended.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for about a year and a half.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability of this solution a nine, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability of this solution a nine, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best. I think there are currently around 100,000 users of this solution.
What other advice do I have?
This solution is deployed on the cloud for us.
I would rate this solution as a whole a nine, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Sr Software Engineer at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
The solution has some helpful modules and serves as a good platform
Pros and Cons
- "You can improve integrations of the operation with the solution."
- "I advise others not to customize a lot while using the solution."
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution for infrastructure management and managing the changes. We have multiple teams of developers thus we come across a lot of modifications occurring daily. We handle them with the help of ServiceNow.
What is most valuable?
The solution has some helpful modules and serves as a good platform. While using it, you don't need to configure the implementation. You can improve operation integrations with its help.
What needs improvement?
The user interface is better than other alternatives but not that easy. They should improve the user interface to the latest version, so the customers can use it more easily.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have worked with ServiceNow for about five years, and with IT Operations Management for about two years now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is very stable. However, our consumer experiences are pretty diverse. We deploy the solution using XML access, and we have about 1,000,000 consumers. Each consumer has a server. Sometimes ServiceNow goes down. It is not as stable as the other solutions.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution takes time to scale. You need to contact the support team to analyze your needs.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support is fine. It's not so good and very inconvenient. The documentation could be better too. There are a lot of things I can't comprehend.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We have used three to four solutions before. They were not able to integrate well with the other systems. Wherein ServiceNow helps us to manage all the changes in just one place. It has a good UI as well. Also, the Director of our company thought ServiceNow would be a good solution. Our IT Operations team and the Director of the customer service department wanted to buy ServiceNow and implement it for our customers. Thus, we switched to ServiceNow IT Operations Management.
How was the initial setup?
It's not so easy to understand the setup concept, but it's easy to manage the incidents and problems.
What about the implementation team?
We have an in-house team for integration. But it's just that ServiceNow enables the integration of features and helps us configure the setup. We update the XML file with the help of our developer in the environment. We develop it in that instance. Later, we go through the stages and steps and deploy them to the system. We have a centric component to help us manage the production environment. So the developers follow the documents in the environment to make the centric component implement the deployment.
What other advice do I have?
I advise others not to customize a lot while using ServiceNow. Just use it as it is. The maintenance is complex. In ServiceNow, we have a lot of options for customization. They can cause problems, and detecting which customization is causing them isn't easy. Usually, the customizations break in the new versions. They do not get upgraded to the following versions. Thus, it requires a lot of work for the team to test each version to ensure no customization breaks.
I rate this solution a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Head Of Architecture at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Provides great features and everything in a single platform
Pros and Cons
- "Provides everything in one solution."
- "Lacks the ability to do its own monitoring."
What is our primary use case?
ITOM is a vast solution so primarily we are using cloud management or discovery event management. We also use ITOM for certification management. We're using the enterprise version which includes all modules. I'm a solutions architect.
What is most valuable?
The main beauty of the product is that you have everything in one solution. Other products require a variety of solutions and separate installation and configuration, but ITOM offers everything in a single platform. Every six months, they bring out a new release with enhancements to the solution.
What needs improvement?
The one drawback is that ITOM isn't able to do its own monitoring of the infrastructure. I believe they are planning to introduce it in an upcoming release, so we are waiting for that.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using this solution for over five years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is definitely scalable. One of our customers has around 1200 users.
How are customer service and support?
ServiceNow provides us with product support.
How was the initial setup?
If you fulfill the prerequisites from the infrastructure perspective, the initial setup is straightforward.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Licensing is a little on the expensive side but we get so much benefit from it, that it's worth the extra cost.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated other products before we chose ServiceNow but we found this to be a better solution. ServiceNow offered more features than other solutions. In addition, it was beneficial to us that it was a single platform that didn't require infrastructure.
What other advice do I have?
I'm waiting for them to add the monitoring and then I can rate this product 10 out of 10. For now, my rating is nine out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Lead Consultant | Service Assurance & Automation at Column Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd
A single platform that manages ITSM, asset discovery and service mapping but ootb reports needs to be more user friendly.
Pros and Cons
- "The solution allows you to subscribe to the features you need and utilize CMDB, ITSM, and discovery on the same platform."
- "The solution allows you to subscribe to the all required ITSM modules, asset discovery and service mapping on a single platform, its guided setup provides easy implementation process and I found these features most valuable."
- "The out-of-the-box reporting feature is not as user friendly as other tools."
- "The out-of-the-box reporting feature has room for the improvement, it can be make more user friendly as other tools."
What is our primary use case?
My company implements the solution both on-premises and in the cloud for clients.
The solution is used to discover assets, their dependencies , service mapping and implement all required ITSM modules including CMDB and Asset Management on a single platform.
What is most valuable?
The solution allows you to subscribe to the all required ITSM modules , asset discovery and service mapping on a single platform, its guided setup provides easy implementation process and I found these features most valuable.
What needs improvement?
The out-of-the-box reporting feature has room for the improvement, it can be make more user friendly as other tools.
Troubleshooting can be confusing if you are not well versed in scripting.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable and new versions are released twice per year.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I found the solution scalable, it is now highly recognized in the industry and there are many compatible products available.
For example, CyberArk and SCCM provides out-of-the-box integration with the solution.
How are customer service and support?
For one client, we wanted to clean the CMDB excluding few records so we contacted technical support. Rather than assist us with the task, they provided written steps for completing the task without losing data. We would have preferred a higher level of assistance.
For some errors I face, I have not found proper resolution in the available documents or through the community.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Few of our clients previously used BMC Remedy and BMC Discovery but moved to ServiceNow for it's one plateform solution feature.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is easy once you get used to it.
Initially, I found the solution's setup to be a bit more complicated than BMC Remedy and BMC Discovery.
As I learned more of the solution's features, I became confident with installation and deployment. ServiceNow is a cloud based solution and you need to install a MidServer application to interact it with clients environment and data centers in cloud and on-premise. You can install more than one MidServers for an environment to cover all the assets and DMZ's as per the requirement. It's guided setup for step by step installation instructions gives an easy approach to implement it.
What about the implementation team?
I implement the solution for clients.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution offers yearly licenses and a subscription model for add-on features.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend any solution only after proper assessment of clients environment and requirements and if you are looking for implementing asset discovery, service mapping, CMDB and most of ITSM module on a single place then ServiceNow is good to choose for.
I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
IT operations management solution that offers stability and a valuable auto remediation feature
Pros and Cons
- "The auto remediation feature has been most valuable. They have also introduced an AOP feature of ServiceNow that we are keen to explore."
- "The auto remediation feature has been most valuable."
- "Even though they call it low code there are a lot of customizations needed, especially from an ITOM standpoint."
- "Even though they call it low code there are a lot of customizations needed, especially from an ITOM standpoint."
What is most valuable?
The auto remediation feature has been most valuable. They have also introduced an AOP feature of ServiceNow that we are keen to explore. They have also come up with a lot of anomaly detection and self healing through orchestration.
What needs improvement?
Even though they call it low code there are a lot of customizations needed, especially from an ITOM standpoint. We have the opportunity to pick elementary data but there is a lot of scope when it comes to training bots and the ML capability. I think this solution still needs to mature, especially from an ITOM perspective. It is still very difficult to train the bots to to detect anomalies.
The ML capability also needs improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
This is a stable solution. I would rate it seven out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
This is a scalable solution.
How are customer service and support?
The availability of the contact center for high priority tickets is really good. If you are an ITOM user and you depend on a particular vendor to get a response, especially when it comes to new product features, there is a lag.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
For us, the initial setup was straightforward but this does depend on your organization. If you don't have a proper CMDB set up, whether it is internal or outside ServiceNow, the ITOM implementation may not be very easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
This solution offers good value but comes at a very high premium. Pricing could be reduced by 10 to 20%.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Solutions Consultant at Dhatatech
Comprehensive incident management module
Pros and Cons
- "The scalability of ServiceNow is good."
- "There is room for improvement in the stability of ServiceNow."
What is our primary use case?
We use ServiceNow for incident management. When an incident occurs, it is assigned to the respective team, who works on resolving the issue based on its severity level. We also define severity levels such as critical, medium, or minor.
How has it helped my organization?
Initially, some of our customers faced issues with the solution as they were not very familiar with it. We helped them identify and rectify the issues, such as incidents being assigned to the wrong teams due to group-related issues. Once we corrected these issues, our customers were satisfied with the solution's performance.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement in the stability of ServiceNow.
Overall, the performance and everything is good for the product. However, sometimes customers face issues related to misconfigurations, particularly related to respective groups. Other than that, the performance of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is good.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using ServiceNow IT Operations Management for five to six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is fine. I would rate it a seven out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of ServiceNow is good. I would rate scalability an eight out of ten. My company is a startup organization, so I have few customers. Two or three customers are using the solution.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward, and it took around a week to deploy the solution. Initially, we need two or three members for deployment. Once we hand over the solution to the customer, it depends on how they manage it.
What about the implementation team?
We need a manager, developer, and QA personnel to deploy the solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Licensing is chargeable. For example, earlier, it was monthly.
What other advice do I have?
ServiceNow is a very good product, but it's widely used in the industry. Overall, I'll give it an eight out of ten.
I would advise customers that this is a very useful setup. We get a lot of real incidents, apart from false incidents. Also, ServiceNow has its pro application setup related to AI ops. So, as per the customer, if we need to figure out any issue, we can initially use the standard ServiceNow application. After that, if we separate ServiceNow using AI ops, we can get many features. It is machine learning and AI-based. After that, we can get a lot of features.
In normal ServiceNow, we have to search for routers and other things, but we can get these things automatically from the system in AI operations. So, there is a set of things we can advise the customer in such a way.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
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