"Its integration features, orchestration features, and discovery tools are the most valuable. It is also pretty stable, and it can be as scalable as you want."
"The most valuable features are problem management and change management."
"I like the reporting service. SCSM has a good reporting service and analysis service for analysis requests."
"For our cloud-based deployment of SCSM, the Autopilot is the best feature."
"The support from Microsoft is good and we also have local support on the ground in Nigeria."
"We've been in contact with Microsoft technical support mainly. After doing the research ourselves and troubleshooting, etc., if we can't find a permanent solution, we contact Microsoft to help us fix the issue. Sometimes the issue never gets fixed even by Microsoft. It can sometimes require us to reinstall the solution. However, these are very rare instances."
"It is quite scalable."
"Application service mapping, GRC, SecOps, and things like that need improvement."
"Areas for improvement would be the service catalog and customer catalog, which is not very user-friendly. The shopping cart experience is also terrible - you submit and go straight to the cart, you can't continue shopping or see your overall cost."
"I have found SCSM not adequate enough to carry out some functions."
"It would be better if they had a portal for administrators. It would help me use it from anywhere and connect to any device from anywhere. I can administer the solution without a VPN."
"One of the disadvantages in this product is that the reporting module is not very easy. It requires SQL development skills, which not all customers or IT professionals have."
"We have had some issues with the SCSM on-premise deployment version in the imaging aspects."
"There is no development with this product, and we had to go and buy additional ITSM solutions to sit on top of it. We had to buy products from companies like Cireson and Cased Dimensions in order to get the functionality that we need out of it. So, we're using Service Manager as an engine, rather than as a full-blown product. It is the engine, but we have other products sitting on top of it to make it work properly."
Cherwell Service Management is ranked 27th in Help Desk Software with 2 reviews while SCSM is ranked 11th in Help Desk Software with 5 reviews. Cherwell Service Management is rated 7.0, while SCSM is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Cherwell Service Management writes "A scalable solution with good discovery, integration, and orchestration features, but application service mapping, GRC, and SecOps need improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCSM writes "Good technical support and integration capabilities but it needs to be easier to create custom reports". Cherwell Service Management is most compared with ServiceNow, BMC Helix ITSM, Ivanti Service Desk , JIRA Service Management and HEAT Service Management, whereas SCSM is most compared with ServiceNow, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, Clarity SM, JIRA Service Management and Zoho Desk. See our Cherwell Service Management vs. SCSM report.
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