We performed a comparison between Freshdesk and ServiceNow based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Help Desk Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is very easy to make reports."
"The organization that is possible with other departments is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Their knowledge base is phenomenal. The way that it learns from our users is awesome, and responses are really awesome as well. It does a pretty good job of picking up what's needed. The knowledge bases are great."
"It's easy to use and integrates with other tools. We can embed Jira into it, link Jira tickets with Freshdesk tickets, and use it for our knowledge base."
"It's free of charge for us. For our scale of business, it's very important. We don't have a lot of tickets."
"It is quite easy to program custom apps and integrate them."
"Freshdesk significantly improved our customer issue resolution process. We can now easily record and track all customer requests, ensuring that no tickets are lost."
"The user experience on the platform itself is fantastic. The UI is clean and uncluttered, so it's easy to find any information about your customer or the issue at hand. You can find out the person responsible for that particular issue, what the problem is, who the stakeholders are, and how to resolve it. There are lots of tools that will help you do that as well."
"It's great to do statuses or to review tasks."
"HR Case Management and Customer Service Management are two of the key areas which clients are using."
"The look and feel is a valuable benefit for adoption."
"For the nuts and bolts running of an IT organization, I can't really say there's anything lacking feature-wise."
"It is user-friendly and simple to use."
"You can have it installed and up and running within hours if you know what you're doing. Time to market would be one of the main things to consider."
"Remote access is most valuable."
"I really like ServiceNow and all of the features. The way incident management is built is very helpful. You have a lot of options to optimize it, customize it, and automate it. You also have a lot of options for reporting. There are plenty of possibilities to do preference management within your customer CMDB file. These are very useful features, which I missed in BMC Remedy ITSM. ServiceNow is the best ticketing tool I have used so far."
"I would like on-the-go translation,"
"While it's good for a small number of tickets, definitely in the future, we will require something more powerful."
"I would like to see improvements in the account management aspect, having a customer portal for better visibility into my subscription, invoices, and trouble tickets."
"The dashboards are useful but could be so much better. As a product manager, and data scientist, we couldn't use the dashboard for analytics and had to move the data in Power BI."
"Technical support is not the best. It could be much, much better and offer better support to users."
"Sometimes our requirements are not matched with Freshdesk's free version as most of the advanced features are not available to us."
"If Freshdesk had forms in it so that I could go to the portal and fill out a service request, that would improve it immensely and make it more valuable for enterprise customers, but that's not a current functionality. You can't have a certain catalog of any type. You can't be like, "Hey, I want to just go submit a ticket," and then type in. You can't prompt them to ask anything. It is just a blank form."
"There aren't any features that we want to enhance, but we need to mature in our usage of some of them. I can't say any feature is missing or needs improvement, but a tool's built-in features need to evolve customer feedback. We have a dialogue set up for that kind of feedback."
"We don't have a huge amount of password reset requests, but the minimum package of resets that ServiceNow offers is much more than we need."
"It's moving at a very fast pace. It is difficult for developers or engineers to keep up with it. That's the only issue."
"There should be greater integration with other enterprise applications. We're using Microsoft, Oracle, and other applications, and it would be good to have a greater integration on some of the immediate hiccups that you have with these services. It doesn't mean that when we have a problem with using another application, ServiceNow should be able to fix it, but ServiceNow should be able to alert us to things. There should be a bit more automation or integration."
"The major area for improvement for our needs would be monitoring the metrics of the times to acknowledge and resolve issues and escalations."
"Change Management is the area I have found that this tool can be improved because there are so many fields which are missing, such as urgency of the customer request and how the priority is defined. These are some of the areas in which I found that BMC Remedy is much better than ServiceNow."
"They could improve license management, particularly when integrating different applications or toolsets."
"We are struggling with the scheduling part, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it is a ServiceNow issue. It could be the way we have configured it. We don't have it configured in a way where you can schedule a support call with our end users. We are looking for more automation in the box and the chat feature."
"Making a mobile version would be helpful."
Freshdesk is ranked 9th in Help Desk Software with 27 reviews while ServiceNow is ranked 1st in Help Desk Software with 212 reviews. Freshdesk is rated 8.4, while ServiceNow is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Freshdesk writes "Incredibly user-friendly, flexible, and affordable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ServiceNow writes "A stable and scalable solution that has excellent features and is useful for collecting data and building KPIs". Freshdesk is most compared with JIRA Service Management, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Spiceworks, TOPdesk and BMC Helix ITSM, whereas ServiceNow is most compared with BMC Helix ITSM, Microsoft Power Apps, Pega BPM, IBM Maximo and Appian. See our Freshdesk vs. ServiceNow report.
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