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Micro Focus Service Anywhere [EOL] vs ServiceNow comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Micro Focus Service Anywher...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ServiceNow
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
228
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (1st), IT Asset Management (1st), IT Service Management (ITSM) (1st), Rapid Application Development Software (2nd), No-Code Development Platforms (2nd)
 

Featured Reviews

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.
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

"Just the use of big data is a game changer for us."
"For me, it saves time; it is accurate, secure, and reduces overhead cost."
"It helps to capitalize everything in our company and also to leverage the activity between the teams."
"Now, our customer has a flow chart to maintain requests, and the service desk has got good feedback from the customer."
"So far, the initial setup time for the initial configuration to get it up and running and usable was surprisingly fast."
"Within the target domain, I think Service Anywhere is a good product with a good feature set."
"The self-service portal is good, the dashboards are good, and it's an improvement over what we had before."
"If ITIL adoption is important, then this would be the product as it is cloud based, quick, cost-effective, and easy to implement."
"The feature that I have found most valuable from ServiceNow is the ability to assign sub-tasks to different teams, including problem tickets and the regular and chain tasks."
"The product scales wonderful, we don't have to worry about the scalability and someplace else, and I wouldn't say there are any issues with the product right now from the performance and scalability point of view; it's been performing very well."
"I can see a very good product strategy, we see enhancements or enhanced features in each of the releases, I see the roadmap is good and the technology underneath is also good."
"The most valuable features of ServiceNow for me are its ticketing and reporting capabilities."
"I have found many features that are important and that are easier when compared to Remedy; for example, the Scripted REST APIs and the Flow Designer... The Client scripts are simpler when you compare with Remedy."
"There are a ton of features and capabilities that can be used to automate processes within your organization and have a single source of data and this is an exceptional tool for that."
"There are a lot of features within ServiceNow. There are plenty of add-ons that go beyond the typical core helpdesk operations, such as HR facilities, BRM functionality, and various compliance and governance capabilities."
"We have found change management and CMDB to be very useful."
 

Cons

"One area that needs improvement is the means of moving code from the development to production environment."
"Customer service is 3/10 as it has a lot of scope for improvement."
"They're terrible as there was just a lack of response. We had to go through other avenues to get responses from the first level support."
"Reporting is a challenge. We're working out how we can effectively report on what's going on."
"It's not as mature, and so we have got a few things we're looking for there that we're working with HP on."
"However, this application won't be enough for us."
"Integration: The integration capacity of the tool is limited."
"We had some teething problems with Dev tenant export to production tenant import."
"Primary areas of inefficiencies and delays were related to change resistance and lack of support from the IT Team Lead and IT Manager level staff for involvement in ServiceNow design and training workshops, and lack of support for governing new process policies."
"It's a very new system, and we see bugginess."
"The pricing model is a little bit prohibitive for us."
"The big area of improvement that I see is in the licensing model for the CreateNow app."
"Since I've been working with the product for a long time, it feel like in the old days it was kind of a smaller, cult-like following. You had a more family-like community."
"The installation and deployment of ServiceNow can be a bit challenging. One major issue I've encountered is that ServiceNow doesn't provide the same mobile responsiveness or features that we used to enjoy with other tools. For example, with Splunk, our response times were about five minutes, and we could manage alerts and incidents directly from our mobile devices."
"The setup wasn't as straightforward or easy as it should have been."
"Technical support could be better. We are not satisfied with the level of support they offer."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We know that ServiceNow is not cheap, it's more expensive than other solutions. But we are trying to increase our ability to handle tickets so that the cost per ticket is less."
"ServiceNow pricing is an art, not a science. The deal depends on how commercially savvy you are, which does make it something that is quite difficult to get right. It is most definitely an opportunity area for ServiceNow to improve and have more visibility around pricing of the different products within the platform."
"This is a pretty expensive product, so the licensing could be better."
"The price of the solution is comparable to industry standards. For the features that we received, it is reasonable."
"The cost is quite high."
"It's sold as a less expensive solution, but it has to be highly modified. That's where you get into the cost."
"The price is okay for us. It's reasonable."
"The product cost is higher than that of other vendors."
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Top Industries

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

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business55
Midsize Enterprise35
Large Enterprise171
 

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Which solution is better for developing non-ITSM applications: OutSystems or Service Now?
The short answer is that OutSystems is far better for 2 main reasons. Firstly, with Service Now you are locked into that platform for good. The business model is to lock in and then keep pumping th...
Would you choose ServiceNow over Microsoft PowerApps?
Hi Netanya, I will choose ServiceNow because ServiceNow is a very good tool compared to Microsoft PowerApp. Because ServiceNow has a very strong module (Performance Analysis) reporting which will ...
What do you like most about ServiceNow?
The solution has a user-friendly interface.
 

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Sample Customers

·         United Airlines·         America First Credit Union·         AerLingus·         PointClick Care·         Faro Europe GmbH·         The Hutton Institute·         Tunise Electronique
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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