Freshdesk vs Ivanti Neurons for ITSM comparison

Freshworks and Ivanti are both solutions in the Help Desk Software category. Freshworks is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.2, while Ivanti is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.3. Freshworks holds a 3.4% mindshare in HDS, compared to Ivanti’s 2.3% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Freshworks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Ivanti users who would recommend it.

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Ivanti Neurons for ITSM

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 1, 2024

Freshdesk and Ivanti Neurons for ITSM compete in the IT service management software category. Freshdesk is preferred for its cost-effectiveness and user-friendliness, whereas Ivanti Neurons for ITSM is recognized for its comprehensive service management and automation capabilities, particularly catering to large organizations.

Features: Freshdesk offers a customizable solutions center, an efficient ticketing system, and omnichannel flexibility, making it attractive to small to medium businesses. It also provides simple integration with social media and in-house apps, alongside scalable automation for ticket allocation. Ivanti Neurons for ITSM is distinguished by its workflow automation, asset management, and service catalog configuration, delivering a detailed ITSM-focused experience. Its strengths include endpoint management and seamless integration across IT operations.

Room for Improvement: Freshdesk may enhance its technical support responsiveness and reduce integration complexity. Users have noted the need for improvements in asset management and the customization of certain features like chat translation and reporting modules. Ivanti Neurons for ITSM could refine its self-service options and improve community support. Additionally, updates in UI design and cloud integration are sought to streamline user adaptation and operations in hybrid settings.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Freshdesk is mainly deployed in the public cloud, appreciated for an easy setup and responsive service, though suggestions for more direct support exist. Ivanti Neurons for ITSM, available in hybrid and on-premises environments, offers complex infrastructure support but faces calls for better deployment communication and support services.

Pricing and ROI: Freshdesk provides a range of pricing plans with transparent costs per agent, known for its affordability compared to ServiceNow, benefiting businesses of varying sizes. Ivanti Neurons for ITSM follows an annual subscription model, perceived as more costly, yet it justifies its expense with extensive capabilities that are attractive to larger enterprises, enhancing ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Freshdesk

Ranking in Help Desk Software

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Customer Experience Management (4th), Field Service Management (3rd), Knowledge Management Software (5th)

Ivanti Neurons for ITSM

Ranking in Help Desk Software

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Service Management (ITSM) (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Help Desk Software category, the mindshare of Freshdesk is 3.4%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Ivanti Neurons for ITSM is 2.3%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Help Desk Software

Featured Reviews

Alexey Timchenko

Senior Vice President Information Technology at TASC Towers

Incredibly user-friendly, flexible, and affordable

Automation and ticket routing rules in Freshdesk save us daily by streamlining routine tasks. We use reports to identify issues, allocate resources, and continuously improve our processes. It is a vital part of our daily operations, helping us stay proactive and efficient in handling various types of tickets. The reporting and analytics tools in Freshdesk are effective for measuring customer service performance. While our current subscription level has some limitations in terms of reporting, the next level provides more options. Budget constraints currently prevent us from upgrading, but the available reporting features still meet our basic needs. I highly recommend Freshdesk, especially for companies in their early stages. It is user-friendly, easy to configure, and great for those with a moderate volume of customer requests. The cost is reasonable, making it a quick and efficient solution to implement. Overall, I would rate Freshdesk as an eight out of ten.

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Sanjay Mukhopadhyay

Director - Sales & Operations - India at Intertec Systems

The solution comes with a host of features for hyper-automation

The initial setup is a mix of complex and straightforward because it depends on which modules you are implementing for ITSM. There are a lot of complex workflows and SLAs around the workflow. We have to configure much more complex things than just Patch Management and Endpoint. For example, it might not take even two weeks to roll out APM for 10,000 assets, but it will take three months to roll out ITSM for 10,000 assets and an equal number of users. That's because the modules you were implementing require much more knowledge, and there are a lot of complexities and nitty-gritties inside the tool which need to be understood. ITSM skill sets are in demand because reaching an L3 certification is not easy. We have those certified skill sets. That's why we're able to roll out at a fast pace. With standard documentation available, it's very clear for a certified resource to understand step-wise implementation. For every step, there is a "build and test" approach. It's a continuous integration. You follow this process, so you don't suddenly realize there are many issues at the end of setup. You have to keep testing each module and process as you roll out. It's not complex, but you need to know the product.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The ticketing system is smooth, but since we use a free version, we do not have many facilities available."

"We have made use of the training academy and the technical support team from Freshdesk. Both have been very good resources."

"The feature that I have found most valuable is the way that it connects to various folders especially because we use it as a CRM tool. We can connect it with our phones and our chat, and also with the API and have it as an email service. Freshdesk just makes our life easier."

"These features are easy to use, and the filtering is really good, providing a good overview of active tickets and who's working on them."

"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 very easy to make reports."

"Its simplicity is most valuable. It is easy and simple, and it requires negligible training effort. I don't spend all my time goofing around trying to find stuff in the ticketing system."

"The most valuable features of Freshdesk are the automation of tickets to assign them to different agents, and the managing of documents is easy."

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"This is an excellent alternative to ServiceNow for smaller companies."

"They allow us to automate ticketing processes and create requests more efficiently, improving our overall support operations."

"The main feature for us is incident management, as it assists me in knowing my assignments, because we have group assignments. When we go to the group assignment they can assign it to me there."

"HEAT Service Management is good for asset and service desk management. It is the focal point for this solution."

"It is easy to set up."

"The solution is easy to use and has a user-friendly interface"

"The integrations are quite simple and clear."

"Ivanti Neurons allows me to adjust our workflow according to our needs."

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Cons

"Freshdesk's major drawback is its limitation in integrating tools for App Store and Play Store reviews, and social channels like Twitter, which come with additional costs."

"I would like a better integration towards Azure DevOps. The current integration is more complicated and doesn’t work as well."

"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."

"We have many cases where a ticket comes in, and it ends up having multiple team members working on it. It would be really nice to be able to assign a single ticket to multiple people, rather than having to create the parent-child hierarchy that they have set up. It generates a proliferation of tickets that I really don't want to have. Having to jump from a parent to one child and then to another child makes it harder for me to be able to see the entire case from end to end. A simple example is our new hire process or our termination process. We have people who leave. We also have people who come on board. We have got multiple people participating and doing things related to the leaving or onboarding process. Currently, I have to go to different tickets to be able to see whether all tasks are really done or not. If I could assign lots of people to one ticket, it would be really nice."

"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."

"There are a few things we have asked for, like a forward button. When a ticket comes in, we forward it, but it doesn't sync up with the forward. That is the one they have to rework. The other is when we forward the ticket, it doesn't go all, or certain things don't go with it. We have told them about it, and they are working on it. It would be better if they gave us a more standard reporting template. Although they already have some, many aren't usable. It would be easier if we had more templates to work with."

"Asset management and branding are two areas in the solution that have scope for improvement."

"Technical support is not the best. It could be much, much better and offer better support to users."

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"There's a lack of integration with other products. This needs to be improved."

"There is room for improvement in terms of response time. The support team takes a long time to respond."

"I have had to open a few support tickets with the HEAT Service Management. They are very good but there are some areas that they could improve on."

"Ivanti Neurons for ITSM is not a user-friendly tool when compared to ServiceNow."

"We'd like more integration with solutions like SolarWinds."

"The user interface must be made simpler and more effective."

"Sometimes I can't get the reports that I want until I go to the manager. They need to put more into the new reports. The standard reports are great, but there do not communicate as much."

"There could be an improvement in the ability to easily integrate other systems without extensive development."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It was definitely not expensive. It was two grand or maybe three grand total for a year. It has just straight and simple standard licensing fees. There is no additional fee."

"The pricing is pretty manageable and acceptable."

"The best system plan is enterprise. It costs basically 79 Euros per agent per month when it's billed annually and 95 Euros per agent per month when it's billed monthly."

"Freshdesk was the best solution with the best price. It was cost efficient and included all the features that we needed."

"We use a combination of Freshdesk, Freshservice, and Freshchat. We use the whole suite. Weirdly enough, we pay more for Freshdesk than we do for Freshservice. I would rate it a three out of five in terms of pricing. You can get different bundles, and you can always move to different plans that are standard. Freshservice can go anywhere from $19 up to $120 per agent, per month. There is such a wide range, and it is very customizable to your needs."

"It is costly."

"We pay approximately $70 per agent to use Freshdesk. We have 10 agents, which is approximately $700 or $800 per month. It is a fixed license, there are not any additional fees."

"The price could be better, but it's okay. Compared to ServiceNow and JIRA, Freshworks offers a competitive price. There are also additional licensing costs because you need Microsoft Outlook. Each new email account costs around $15 to $19."

More Freshdesk pricing and cost advice

"If you want to add more users who can handle support there will be additional fees. What we call our extensions, we need to pay more for. They tell us that we need to acquire more licenses or something like that. I think it's very expensive, because in terms the pula, our local currency, it's about 20,000 per license for each user. It is an annual fee."

"The price is on the higher side. The support is included in the standard licensing fees."

"The product is affordable for small businesses."

"I came to know from my team members that my company used to operate ServiceNow but shifted to Ivanti Neurons for ITSM due to its low licensing prices."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

25%

Financial Services Firm

Real Estate/Law Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Freshdesk?

Freshdesk significantly improved our customer issue resolution process. We can now easily record and track all customer requests, ensuring that no tickets are lost.

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What needs improvement with Freshdesk?

I would like a better integration towards Azure DevOps. The current integration is more complicated and doesn’t work as well. There's not a really good one for Jira, which we are also using.

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What is your primary use case for Freshdesk?

I mainly use Freshdesk as a support system for our customers.

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What do you like most about Ivanti Neurons for ITSM?

I like Cloud Neurons. Since it's a cloud version, it's much easier to enhance productivity because it collects all the information automatically.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Ivanti Neurons for ITSM?

The price is on the higher side. The support is included in the standard licensing fees.

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What needs improvement with Ivanti Neurons for ITSM?

There could be an improvement in the ability to easily integrate other systems without extensive development. iPaaS has been introduced to help with this, however, I have not fully explored it yet.

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Overview

Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer support solution that provides organizations with the features necessary to effectively streamline their support processes. This includes powerful multichannel capability, integrated game mechanics, smart automations, and more.

The solution is designed to automate agent workflows and resolve routine questions using AI and bots. Freshdesk allows managers to prioritize, categorize, and assign tickets to their agents, making it easy for them to collaborate and quickly respond to customers.

Freshdesk Features and Benefits

Some of the solution's top features and benefits include:

Simplified ticketing: With Freshdesk, you can easily prioritize, manage, and assign trackable tickets. The management system ensures that multiple agents don’t work on the same ticket by accident. You can easily set deadlines for ticket resolution based on specific categories and create custom statuses that suit your workflow to identify what stage a ticket is in.

Automation: Automatically assign tickets to agents and groups based on keywords and requests and set up automated repeated actions and provide quick, consistent responses to common questions using pre-formatted replies. In addition, you can choose to prevent the reopening of tickets when customers reply with a thank you.

Improved collaboration: Share tickets with other teams while retaining full visibility into the progress being made on the issue. Related tickets can be linked together to better keep track of the big picture. Tickets can also be split into smaller child tickets and assigned to multiple agents to help resolve complex, multi-stage issues.

Build up your knowledge base: Create effective support documentation by enabling agents to convert their ticket replies into knowledge base articles, while they reply.

Metrics and reporting: See how different agents and groups are performing by viewing various help desk metrics and improve performance by identifying problems based on insights.

With Freshdesk’s reporting tools, you can schedule the periodic delivery of out-of-the-box and custom reports to your inbox. The solution’s customer satisfaction reports provide you with feedback on how your customers rate your support.

Forum moderation: Set up moderation workflows to ensure that forum posts that violate your guidelines are not immediately published. Critical issues raised in the community are automatically converted into tickets to ensure they get the required response.
Integration: Freshdesk’s open API can be used to integrate the solution with multiple third-party systems.

Comprehensive security: Freshdesk’s security features allow you to:
- Set custom access permissions for agents.
- Perform comprehensive audits of networks and systems.
- Secure your own support domain or vanity URL with custom SSL certificates.
- Whitelist IP ranges and restrict login access outside of work, or link IP whitelisting to a VPN.
- Set up SSO scripts for credential authentication.

Reviews from Real Users

Freshdesk stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its effective ticketing system and its intuitive interface.

Deepak B., an application manager, writes, “Freshdesk has allowed us to measure and track the response and resolution time of tickets which has been reduced from seven to eight hours down to 30 minutes to one hour. This information is valuable for board meetings.”

Freshworks

Automate workflows, eliminating costly manual processes, while making your business more efficient, compliant and secure. Whether you’re looking for an IT helpdesk/support ticket solution or need to perform more advanced ITIL service management processes, Ivanti Neurons for ITSM can easily scale and adapt to meet your specific business needs.

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Sample Customers

Honda, 3M, Hugo Boss, Petronas, Sony Pictures, The Atlantic, goodreads, Clear Channel Radio, Penn University of Pennsylvania, unicef, Kuoni, Movember

AFS Group, Auckland Airport, Baylor University, County of Maui, Dis-Chem Pharmacies, Elia, Essentia Health, Government Research Laboratory, Groupe Webhelp, HSBC Africa, Midwestern University

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