Integrating departments for unified service while managing complexity and learning curve
I reviewed ServiceNow Customer Service Management as a tech advisor. It effectively unifies various departments, enhancing efficiency and visibility. However, it features a high integration cost and learning curve, requiring sophisticated handling compared to other solutions.
What is our primary use case?
I have reviewed
ServiceNow Customer Service Management as a tech advisor. I have not worked on it directly.
What is most valuable?
ServiceNow Customer Service Management integrates the admin, finance, HR, and service departments, enabling an employee of an organization to get service from a single window. It integrates all different queues into one dashboard and consolidates various departments, ensuring visibility across the organization is transparent. It helps to create a shared services organization, reducing the operational complexity and facilitating a more unified service delivery. It consolidates all service desks under one umbrella, enhancing efficiency.
What needs improvement?
The integration cost and learning curve are very high, and managing this platform requires sophisticated handling, which is more complex compared to other solutions.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have reviewed it over the last two years because it's an upcoming solution.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution. I would rate it as eight or nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is scalable, scoring an eight or nine. However, scalability can lead to performance issues.
How are customer service and support?
You need an intermediate partner to support
ServiceNow. It is better because partners have a deep understanding of the code and configuration challenges. I rate the technical support as six out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
How was the initial setup?
Templatized rollouts would be very useful for ServiceNow Customer Service Management because you are working on centralized customer data across all channels. Simplifying processing and streamlining manual tasks would make the process more consistent.
What was our ROI?
As mentioned, it helps in creating shared services and brings efficiency, though I may not have the metrics in terms of specific savings or benefits in dollar terms.
What other advice do I have?
It is a powerful tool. Large enterprises should experiment with it, while medium enterprises should consider alternative solutions. I would rate the overall solution as seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public 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: Adviser