ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management Reviews

We primarily use the solution for project and portfolio management.

It's a good solution for portfolio management and to manage all the projects that you have with the client. It's easy to manage all the resources in projects as well as all the costs involved.

The interface is user-friendly. It's one of the most user-friendly on the market, and the most complete.

The cost could be improved. The solution is quite pricey.

The solution should have the capacity to integrate with the latest promotion of MES projects. Right now it's not working so well. 

The solution is very stable. The availability of service is 99.9% at the moment. It's very, very, good.

The solution is very scalable.

I've worked with the technical support team of ServiceNow many times. In the market, it's one of the best support teams I have dealt with.  I worked with BMC, CA and other solutions as well and this solution offers a faster response for MEA issues. Others take much longer to respond. Resolving issues with them is very fast.

We looked at CA technologies, which were acquired by Broadcom, specifically CAPPM. Gardner had recorded that CAPPM was the leader in the market, but at the moment ServiceNow is more complete and more user-friendly. 

The initial setup is straightforward. It's easy to implement. An average deployment takes about two months. CAPPM, in comparison, would take about four months.

All the processes of project management have to be very well defined. When these requirements aren't defined, we have to approach that first before we can implement the solution. It's very important for the success of deployment.

Compared to CA, ServiceNow is more expensive. When you pay for your licensing, you must also pay for an SLA.

We use the hybrid cloud deployment model. We're integrators for the solution.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

Previously, when we had incidents, we couldn't discover where a bug was coming from. Now, if we have an incident, we attach it to an application, and when we look at the application, we know the specific development machine, and we know that it's on specific hardware, as well as where this hardware is located on a specific data center. We know everything about the network connection, so it's easier to find issues. We now have good visibility of our entire information system.

When we change something in production, somewhere, we now can easily understand the risks we are taking. We know if this application is dependent on another. The visibility, the risk, and whether we want to do the change during the day, or overnight, for example, becomes very clear.

The CMDB, and the database of assets that we are using are the most valuable. After that, we really enjoy the incident management, and change management features.

The solution offers a lot of opportunities for integrations. We can integrate with Slack,
Azure, all the API alternatives, etc. There's a lot of integration modules provided.

The timing reporting module, and how it's used is a bit difficult to understand. 

Everything related to project management is quite extensive. It needs to be simplified. At first, our users didn't want to use it, because it seems a bit complex.

The stability is very good. It's transparent. We don't know how they manage to get the system up and running, every hour, every day, but we have an availability of 99.98. If I remember correctly, regarding the performance, we've never had any problems. It's a large cloud service; I don't know what they do from the back office, but it's always working.

I don't deal directly with their technical support. We have a dedicated team to handle everything related to ServiceNow, so if I ever have some problem or something to ask, I'll ask the team at our company. 

We use a sort-of a public cloud deployment model. The way ServiceNow works is, it's never public or private. It's kind of public, but you have your own server on the data center, however, you don't know how they're managing it. It's public, but it's not really public, it's hosted privately.

One big takeaway for us is that you need to be able to change the users. The product is complex, so you have to help the user by providing some training, or to have them watch some videos of how it works. It's really about change management and user training. The product is quite complex to understand, and even if you know ITIO, you will need to do some training on the application; it's far too complex to understand otherwise.

It's an application that does everything you want, it's just that you don't know that you can do it because it offers so many things. It does have good documentation, however, which is quite useful. The solution is still new to us, and we are learning more every day.

I would rate the solution eight out of ten.

The most valuable features are its easy development and that the interface is very friendly. ServiceNow is also more competitive in terms of research.

I have been using this solution for two years.

This is a very stable solution.

The initial setup was very simple, and we implemented it very quickly.

I implemented using an in-house team.

I would rate this solution as ten out of ten.

The solution is used for demand management.

The solution is scalable. It is good so far. It is adaptable.

The product comes with little options out of the box. We need many more features for the implementation of a strategic portfolio. The product must provide more features for common scenarios. There are many functionalities that the product could have given directly. Instead, we had to customize and give them to our customers.

I have been using the solution for one month.

I rate the tool’s stability a six out of ten.

One of our customers is using the product. We have a team of four people to deploy and maintain the tool.

The technical support is good.

The initial setup is straightforward. We took two weeks to deploy the solution. It is an agile process. The product is cloud-based.

The tool is expensive. The price must be improved.

Organizations that want to use the solution must have a strong team that understands the process. I would recommend the solution to others. Overall, I rate the tool a seven out of ten.