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IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT vs ServiceNow comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Tivoli Asset Management...
Ranking in IT Asset Management
22nd
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
License Management (7th)
ServiceNow
Ranking in IT Asset Management
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
228
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (1st), IT Service Management (ITSM) (1st), Rapid Application Development Software (2nd), No-Code Development Platforms (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the IT Asset Management category, the mindshare of IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT is 1.4%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow is 12.9%, down from 21.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Asset Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ServiceNow12.9%
IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT1.4%
Other85.7%
IT Asset Management
 

Featured Reviews

HarshalDeore - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Parseq
A user-friendly solution that has a good user interface, but its technical support is not good enough
Around 20 to 25 staff members are needed to deploy and maintain the solution, including two managers, one architect, and other implementers. IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT does not adopt the latest technology. The solution can be integrated with our existing IT environment through some web services and connectors. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
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

"IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT is a user-friendly solution that has a good user interface."
"ServiceNow will become the new SAP."
"I would say one of the best things on ServiceNow platform is the way how you can quickly automate delivery of services or goods to the end-user."
"It's a great platform but it's so open that you can get bogged down pretty quickly in trying to make all of your customers happy."
"The area where we have benefited a lot is that, initially, it was very difficult to have end-to-end visibility into what was happening, and we were able to establish that with ServiceNow."
"I would tell you to take a look at it; it's a great product, get a demo and get familiar with it, because you can pretty much do anything you need to do with it."
"The flow designer for application development is the most valuable. The newest version of flow designer allows us to develop applications quite fast. We can have custom and mobile applications. It has an interface for mobiles, and it also has a good reputation."
"It allows us to filter the data, create graphs, and get detailed reports."
"ServiceNow has got all the features and functionalities, it is a solid solution, it is also easy to get into and use, and it is certainly highly scalable."
 

Cons

"The solution’s initial setup is complex and technical support is not good enough."
"There should be greater integration with other enterprise applications. We're using Microsoft, Oracle, and other applications, and it would be good to have a greater integration on some of the immediate hiccups that you have with these services."
"There was an outage at the ServiceNow data center servers, especially on the eastern site. Two weeks later we found out about it through some other call, not to the engineer and it was not notified anywhere on the system."
"We did have some performance issues where some of the system areas were slow, but that was really our fault."
"For me, there's a real opportunity, especially within the IT Service Management suite, to give a much better overall view of the workflow that individuals have across the different applications. At the moment, a lot of information is quite siloed in the different tables in ServiceNow."
"From a configuration/discovery perspective, how you map your infrastructure and the relationship — that could be improved in a sense to make it simpler."
"I would say there is a lot of room for improvement when it comes to technical support."
"I find ServiceNow to be a little bit clunky. If I need to report an issue they have a number of different options. I can report an issue, I can ask a question, I can make a request and it has varying levels of importance or levels of attention required. I find that what's required to submit is not always clear."
"The setup was time-consuming and required a lot of internal resources."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT is an expensive solution."
"The mandatory minimum is US$ 20,000 for licensing."
"It is an expensive platform."
"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."
"It is very expensive because it is a big organization. You have to pay for additional things."
"The CapEx version is great."
"ServiceNow is an expensive solution."
"I would say it is moderately expensive, ranging from six to seven on a scale of ten."
"The pricing is reasonable and affordable, making it suitable for businesses ranging from small to large scale."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

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Small Business55
Midsize Enterprise35
Large Enterprise171
 

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Sample Customers

Migros Zurich, Tyr_ns AB, Port Otago Limited, BTC, Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., AIG, Swedish Match, DTE Energy
AAA, AstraZeneca, Becton, Dickinson and Company, Broadcom, Christus Health, Epicor, Equinix, GE Capital, Intuit, KPMG, Loyola Marymount University, OshKosh, Quantas, RedHat, Royal Bank of Scotland, Swiss Re, U.S. Department of Energy, Safeway, Yale University, and Zillow    
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