We performed a comparison between ServiceNow and Spiceworks 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."We can keep track of incidences. There is a bucket where we keep all our information, and it enables communication between stakeholders. It helps us collaborate with each other."
"It enables us to meet SLAs, track issues across the environment, and report those issues."
"The Workflow feature is the most valuable."
"ServiceNow provides quite good insights about what is happening in the organization."
"There are features included in the new release for intelligent software, like the chatbot. For HR services, the HR agent which is in that chatbot has been fantastic."
"The workflow makes things extremely efficient and it improves effectiveness."
"ServiceNow has also enabled our Management Consulting business to provide Digital Transformation services for our clients the world over, as we use the platform as an accelerator for doing IT Target Operating Model transformations."
"ServiceNow is one of the few easiest platforms you can integrate with products like Ansible to automate your workflows."
"It was easy to integrate Spiceworks with our existing setup."
"If you're in the market for a low-cost service desk system, Spiceworks is a good software solution to start out with, especially when it comes to startups and those organizations that don't currently have any existing service desk software in place."
"The most valuable features are the inventory and personalization."
"The solution is easy to use and easy to manage."
"Helpdesk and inventory are both equally valuable, and they form the true core of the product."
"Spiceworks is generic and free."
"It lets us know whether devices are getting out of date and tracked warranties. Spiceworks also gave me visibility in terms of what software was installed on each device and its status."
"The nice thing about Spiceworks is always it's free. Monitoring of printers for low toner. Finding machines that have low memory or low hard disk space."
"Its setup is tough. It takes a lot of knowledge and a lot of experience."
"The customization that we are doing for the needs of our organization are difficult to do and could be improved."
"Transparency in the pricing model needs to be improved."
"It should have more artificial intelligence for business and work capabilities. The community is not so active. There must be initiatives to make the community talk more and share more information."
"if I consider from the IT operations management side, ServiceNow is pretty premature on some things, especially the discovery, while the other tools like Micro Focus and BMC Remedy, those that have been in the market for quite some time. ServiceNow is evolving itself in the discovery piece of the future."
"I would like to see Advanced Intelligent Automation."
"Creating service catalog forms could be made easier."
"It should include information on navigating various user interfaces for creating diverse requests directed to different teams."
"With Spiceworks, like, when I open the websites, I have to Zoom in. I need to zoom in on those websites sometimes because it makes it horrible to use."
"One of the biggest ways in which Spiceworks could improve is by developing better and more automated workflows. For example, in another solution called ServiceDesk by ManageEngine, you can have levels of approval in the event that there is a request for new software, or when someone requests a VPN or WiFi connection. This kind of multi-stage approval feature provided by ServiceDesk does not appear to exist in Spiceworks, and it is one of their main shortcomings for me."
"Once a device was recognized on the network, Spiceworks never got rid of it even after you took it off the network. You had to go in and manually remove it."
"Having an integrated asset management tool, where I can plug in things that are offline, would be good."
"There are a lot of disadvantages to Spiceworks because it's not an agent-based solution."
"They've also tried to integrate it with social logins, like Twitter and LinkedIn, and that type of login authentication has no place in a corporate application."
"Sometimes, it can be difficult to integrate what you need."
"I would like the solution to allow for more direct interaction with computers. I can open tickets and I can see their status, but I can't interact directly with the computers themselves."
ServiceNow is ranked 1st in Help Desk Software with 212 reviews while Spiceworks is ranked 16th in Help Desk Software with 47 reviews. ServiceNow is rated 8.4, while Spiceworks is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of ServiceNow writes "A stable and scalable solution that has excellent features and is useful for collecting data and building KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spiceworks writes "Good low-cost service desk system, but lacks in automation workflows and categorization ". ServiceNow is most compared with BMC Helix ITSM, Microsoft Power Apps, Pega BPM, IBM Maximo and Appian, whereas Spiceworks is most compared with Zabbix, Lansweeper, Freshdesk, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus and Nagios Core. See our ServiceNow vs. Spiceworks report.
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