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CA Service Operations Insight [EOL] vs ServiceNow comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CA Service Operations Insig...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ServiceNow
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
231
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (1st), IT Asset Management (1st), IT Service Management (ITSM) (1st), Rapid Application Development Software (2nd), No-Code Development Platforms (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user558297 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
The integration and the presentation layer are valuable. It needs some work in the stability area.
I rated this product highly because it does what it is supposed to do, and it's configurable and adaptable, but it still needs some work. What exactly it needs to improve is too complicated to answer. I'd have to think about that for awhile, so I can't really think about that.
Hemanthreddy Vakiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Structured workflows have improved SLA compliance and now support prioritized incident handling
I think the licensing and pricing of ServiceNow is quite expensive compared to other tools. For large organizations, it is acceptable, but specifically for small and medium organizations to track incidents or change requests, ServiceNow is quite expensive. Sometimes performance can be slow when workflows and integrations are configured for complex tasks. For advanced customizations or advanced features which we rarely use, the documentation is not up to standard. The documentation needs to be improved for advanced customization features. However, the platform is stable overall and the features are quite good. The user experience and performance concerns I mentioned are areas I want to be improved. When many workflows and interactions are configured, performance is slow. For the features it is providing, it is quite expensive. If these performance features are improved, we can easily pay that price and get the return on investment.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"In my position, the ability to pull information from various management tools is a must, and SOI allows me to do that with ease."
"Technical support is very good."
"The most valuable features are the integration and probably the presentation layer."
"It's really going to be a game changer once it hits the market, and it really hits the world – when it starts being used by everybody."
"We can bring in all the CIs that we have and associate them with services."
"The pricing and licensing costs are very cheap and as there is no comparable product offered by other vendors, CA SOI is truly a unique solution with a very affordable price bracket."
"It's enabled us to decommission a number of different systems that we were using such as incident change, problem management, asset management, financial etc. and it's enabled us to pull them all together so now we can develop an entire portal inside of ServiceNow."
"Primarily, we use it for incident management and change across the landscape. It is the virtual repository for our incident management processes. It gives us visibility about what's happening from the change management perspective across our CABs, including our enterprise CABs."
"ServiceNow is really good."
"It actually has quite a wide list of modules and processes. Currently, we are implementing project management and Scaled Agile Framework for one of our customers."
"I think it's a very, very well architectured platform, and that's the strength of ServiceNow."
"If a company is looking for more accessibility, a user friendly environment where they want to explore other functionalities like HR and CSM, then ServiceNow provides that."
"For change management, I find the CAB workbench very useful. I haven't seen any other solution that has a CAB workbench or advanced automated solutions for a change advisory board. ServiceNow also has the Workflow Engine which works very well and is very intuitive."
"It provides internal clients with greater transparency about their projects and deliverables."
 

Cons

"They need to look at going beyond Windows and go in more of an analytics direction."
"It’s not as scalable, but it’s not as big a platform as UIM."
"Customer Service: 8/10 - due to a complicated integration setup for CA COTS, a lack of proper documentation, as well as a limited featured topology, and no GIS map capability."
"It needs some work in the stability area. It's enterprise ready, but it's not as robust for a large volume."
"The only thing it's missing is High Availability with remote locations. They should bring this is in ASAP."
"In regards to their newly released Operational Analytics interface for mainframe systems, so far, the first releases are a limited set of data."
"We have implemented some various complex ACLs and they've impacted our performance significantly, and we've had several incidents open to help with performance, and it's been kind of a struggle to get the ServiceNow support group to say "Yup, I see it's a problem, let's do this.""
"The solution is lacking in the mobile application area that could be improved."
"The challenge with ServiceNow lies in its expansive portfolio of services. It can be complex, and users may find it expensive and challenging to understand. There is a need for a configurator within ServiceNow that guides users on how to utilize the tool effectively. This configurator should provide insights into licensing, team requirements, and the best licensing model based on whether companies prefer ownership or consumption-based models."
"The usability and user experience is a really big issue and needs to be improved."
"If you have advanced questions, technical support often doesn't know the answer."
"The discovery of assets could be improved; right now they only allow for one domain."
"I find ServiceNow to be a little bit clunky."
"Needs additional software titles and easier normalization."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Initially, the licensing model ServiceNow came up with was very good. But now, from a licensing perspective, they are changing their model day by day. It is becoming a bit expensive for customers."
"For the modules we use, we found it competitive. I can't think of any costs in addition to the licensing fees."
"In Tunisia, the companies find the licensing costs to be expensive."
"We are happy with the pricing."
"ServiceNow tends to be a little bit more expensive as compared to BMC Helix ITSM."
"The solution is expensive."
"ServiceNow pricing is an art, not a science. The deal depends on how commercially savvy you are, which does make it something that is quite difficult to get right. It is most definitely an opportunity area for ServiceNow to improve and have more visibility around pricing of the different products within the platform."
"I am from Brazil. For Latin American markets, ServiceNow is very expensive as compared to other vendors, such as VMware."
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Manufacturing Company
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Financial Services Firm
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Outsourcing Company
9%
Government
6%
 

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Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise35
Large Enterprise179
 

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Which solution is better for developing non-ITSM applications: OutSystems or Service Now?
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Would you choose ServiceNow over Microsoft PowerApps?
Hi Netanya, I will choose ServiceNow because ServiceNow is a very good tool compared to Microsoft PowerApp. Because ServiceNow has a very strong module (Performance Analysis) reporting which will ...
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