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Categories and Ranking

Freshservice
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (5th), Project Management Software (10th), Cloud Management (12th), IT Asset Management (4th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (4th), Configuration Management Databases (5th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (8th), AI IT Support (3rd)
Micro Focus Service Anywher...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

RF
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
Automation and AI have transformed our service delivery and have made IT support faster and more efficient
I always keep up with Freshservice's roadmaps and new features. Freshservice has been very good at listening to feedback and adding those feature requests into their next iterations. I wish they would offer more granular data export options for utilizing in Power BI, along with predictive analytics for capacity planning and SLA breaches to enable more proactive support management and reduce firefighting. While the dashboards are effective, some users find custom reporting limited compared to ServiceNow or Jira. I would also appreciate deeper integrations, especially for niche apps requiring development coding work to enable advanced orchestration. Native integrations for DevOps pipelines such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins, along with stronger API flexibility for complex workflows, would enhance functionality. Although the CMDB and asset management are solid, they do lack advanced dependency mapping compared to other enterprise tools. My wishlist includes automated impact analysis for changes and improved visualization of asset relationships, enabling quicker resolutions from an agent's perspective when alerts come in. I acknowledge that Device42 may enhance this, but it is an extra cost beyond what we already pay. While Freddy AI is excellent for triage and suggestions, some users desire more proactive automation, such as predictive ticket routing based on historical patterns and AI-driven capacity forecasting. Lastly, the pricing tiers might seem rigid for mid-sized teams, so a more granular add-on option for features such as Device42 or pay-per-use for orchestration workflows could be beneficial.
it_user568017 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It is accurate, secure and stable.
Anything that can basically reduce the amount of time that the guys spend working on a specific problem or task. There is always room for improvement that can be in terms of functionality, cost of market, ease of use, training of the product and so on. If it brings functionality into the solution, that would be good. I'll leave it at that because there's so much that they can offer, it's unreal.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the user experience."
"This solution has provided us with a level of ticket traceability that didn't exist previously, and we now have statistics and data that tell the story of what our support engineers have been doing, improving speed and reliability."
"Freshservice was up and running without any expensive project planning, and all that without sacrificing features."
"The tool is an easy, off-the-shelf product which allowed us to decommission our in-house system."
"The stability is pretty solid; we've never had major outages or any workflow issues that weren't caused by an administrative error, and it's been pretty stable as far as a ticketing platform is concerned."
"There is a nice user interface."
"Freshservice is more stable and easier to use; it's also less expensive, and for small and medium-sized organizations, it's quite good."
"We have definitely seen a return on investment based on the use cases we have implemented."
"The self-service portal is good, the dashboards are good, and it's an improvement over what we had before."
"We chose Service Anywhere because it provides a cost effective pricing model, was quick to implement, and provided a good end user experience."
"Within the target domain, I think Service Anywhere is a good product with a good feature set."
"Easier access to data and for reporting which gives the data for managing IT."
"Now, our customer has a flow chart to maintain requests, and the service desk has got good feedback from the customer."
"We can provide a rollout in two to four weeks from customer engagement to production use."
"We've got faster time for our agents to open tickets, they find the screens really easy to use, and they're pre-populated with information about our users which our old system didn't have."
"It helps to capitalize everything in our company and also to leverage the activity between the teams."
 

Cons

"Freshservice's technical support has issues with delays and translations."
"There is a need for improvement in terms of automatic escalation to the next level if an issue is not resolved."
"Freshservice could improve the delegation and workflow management features."
"The most significant area for improvement is consistency across the different modules, as they are inconsistent. It makes me think the modules have different development teams with no consistent approach. From an end-user perspective, I can do certain operations in one module, such as instant management, but not in problem management, for example, and I don't see why that should be the case. It would be good to see more consistency in the development process."
"We did a review of our project management tool internally within the company, and it was one of the choices, but it didn't match up anywhere close to any of the other tools we were considering."
"Asset management can definitely be improved because it doesn't pick up every single device on the network or every single piece of information. Some manual information still needs to be entered."
"The automation workflows are powerful, but the UI can feel limited; once the workflows get complex, it becomes hard to visualize them."
"I've had some problems with Freshservice's technical support. They often drag out cases by continually passing them on to other people, and they seem overeager to close tickets and sometimes mark them as resolved without checking first."
"The technical support could be better."
"I'd like to see better ways of getting reports into a paper copy which means the ability to export into Excel."
"Customer service is 3/10 as it has a lot of scope for improvement."
"Technical support is okay. They have a large customer base so the technical support is not quite the same as the on-premises solution."
"The process of moving updates from development to production."
"We had some teething problems with Dev tenant export to production tenant import."
"Integration: The integration capacity of the tool is limited."
"Reporting is a challenge. We're working out how we can effectively report on what's going on."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I can't recall exactly how much we pay, but it is somewhere in the middle compared to the rest of the market. The more we purchase, the cheaper it becomes, and I think the solution offers good value for money."
"It is good for the price you pay. It has different plans. If you need all features, you need to go for a higher plan. Currently, with the second tier plan, you cannot completely separate the group of agents. So, the agent in each group can see another person's ticket. You also cannot modify the rules based on the viewable, readable stuff and cannot have a custom role in this plan. If you want to do that, you have to go for a higher plan. It works in our case because it doesn't matter if the other group can see our ticket because it doesn't contain anything sensitive. We also didn't need the project or change management features. That's why we didn't go with a higher plan."
"Our licensing fee for Freshservice is $2,500 a year."
"One of the key benefits of Freshservice is license management. Asset management has the possibility to keep track of licenses and that's very useful. The price of the solution is very good."
"The solution has an annual licensing model."
"The pricing information is on their website. It's my understanding that their Pro Plan, for example, is around $89/month."
"Compared to other tools, Freshservice is affordable."
"The solution may be around 20,000 euros a year."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
University
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Educational Organization
8%
Retailer
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise15
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Freshservice?
I do not have any experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing, as it was assigned to the infrastructure team.
What needs improvement with Freshservice?
Freshservice has an AI agent that needs improvement for finding knowledge base articles. When issues or incidents are received in Freshservice, new users should be able to receive direct help from ...
What is your primary use case for Freshservice?
Freshservice is used to redirect ticket handling and acknowledge tickets and incidents received. Tickets are redirected with their short description and subject line in Freshservice, which allows f...
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HPE Service Anywhere
 

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