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Intercom Customer Communications Platform vs ServiceNow Customer Service Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 20, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Intercom Customer Communica...
Ranking in CRM Customer Engagement Centers
12th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
CRM (29th), Social CRM (6th)
ServiceNow Customer Service...
Ranking in CRM Customer Engagement Centers
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Customer Experience Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the CRM Customer Engagement Centers category, the mindshare of Intercom Customer Communications Platform is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow Customer Service Management is 10.4%, up from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CRM Customer Engagement Centers
 

Featured Reviews

Karan-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
A good tool that can be used to capture inbound leads and manage all customer interactions
Sometimes, the solution lags and takes time to update something. If I put a specific tag on an inbound lead, it would take around five minutes for that tag to reflect throughout the solution for all the users. If my colleague and I are using the solution simultaneously and I create a tag for a specific lead, then that tag would not be visible to my colleague for about three to four minutes. Since the solution is great at capturing leads and giving me an overview of all the people interacting with our platform, I would love to see a CRM structure created. We can create a pipeline in the solution itself, and then it can give us that CRM experience.
Arvind  Mehrotra - PeerSpot reviewer
Integrating departments for unified service while managing complexity and learning curve
ServiceNow Customer Service Management ( /products/servicenow-customer-service-management-reviews ) integrates the admin, finance, HR, and service departments, enabling an employee of an organization to get service from a single window. It integrates all different queues into one dashboard and consolidates various departments, ensuring visibility across the organization is transparent. It helps to create a shared services organization, reducing the operational complexity and facilitating a more unified service delivery. It consolidates all service desks under one umbrella, enhancing efficiency.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The live chat is pretty good because you can create a macro, which is a predefined input we can give customers."
"One of the solution's most valuable features is its integration with the ITSM suite. When you acquire it, you also get access to incident and problem management from ITSM. This allows you to register a ticket in the product to work with the end user while using ITSM to handle the internal resolution process."
"Our organization has received excellent tech support for ServiceNow Customer Service Management."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the service portal."
"The integration capabilities of ServiceNow are wonderful."
"ServiceNow Customer Service Management integrates the admin, finance, HR, and service departments, enabling an employee of an organization to get service from a single window."
"The best aspect of ServiceNow Customer Service Management is its out-of-the-box features that support all customer service processes."
"What I like best about ServiceNow Customer Service Management is that it's a good tool. I like how fast it is and that it's cloud-based. I also like that it's very easy to use. ServiceNow Customer Service Management has minimum options, for example, column options and tab options when compared to other solutions, which makes it easier to use over others."
"ServiceNow Customer Service Management is highly stable, which is critical because it operates as a live system 24/7."
 

Cons

"Sometimes, the solution lags and takes time to update something."
"The pricing must be more flexible."
"The product lacks customization capabilities. In the future, the product should include more options for customization to be able to meet the demands of the customers."
"Sometimes ServiceNow Customer Service Management lags, meaning the speed is low or there is a delay in operations."
"ServiceNow Customer Service Management works fine for me, for now, so there isn't any room for improvement I see in it. In the next release of the tool, I'd like users to be able to download all reports because as a user, I can only download a limited number of reports from ServiceNow Customer Service Management, but my management team can do so. I'm unsure if it's a feature that's included in the tool or not."
"If our organization wants to customize features that are not initially available in the system, these customizations might cause issues during upgrades."
"The product's AI feature should be improved."
"The price could be better. ServiceNow should price products more reasonably."
"The integration cost and learning curve are very high, and managing this platform requires sophisticated handling, which is more complex compared to other solutions."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The product has a premium price"
"ServiceNow Customer Service Management is expensive. It's one of the most costly CSM options in the marketplace."
"I rate the product's pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. The solution is neither cheap nor expensive."
"I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
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Top Industries

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Educational Organization
19%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Intercom Customer Communications Platform?
The live chat is pretty good because you can create a macro, which is a predefined input we can give customers.
What needs improvement with Intercom Customer Communications Platform?
Sometimes, the solution lags and takes time to update something. If I put a specific tag on an inbound lead, it would take around five minutes for that tag to reflect throughout the solution for al...
What is your primary use case for Intercom Customer Communications Platform?
We use the solution to capture leads and interact with them. Our company manages all the customer interactions through the solution.
What do you like most about ServiceNow Customer Service Management?
We can integrate different technologies in ServiceNow Customer Service Management. An organization would like to offer a digital transformative experience to its employees and customers, which the ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow Customer Service Management?
ServiceNow Customer Service Management is expensive, although there is value for money considering the time and administrative efficiencies it brings.
What needs improvement with ServiceNow Customer Service Management?
The integration cost and learning curve are very high, and managing this platform requires sophisticated handling, which is more complex compared to other solutions.
 

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