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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

ServiceNow and Samanage compete in the IT service management space. ServiceNow has the upper hand in scalability and customization, while Samanage holds an advantage for ease of use and quicker implementation times.

Features: ServiceNow integrates IT and business processes and features workflow automation and extensive integration options, suitable for large-scale environments. Samanage provides a user-friendly design with robust incident management and configurable IT asset management, appealing to smaller organizations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ServiceNow requires a more involved deployment process due to its complexity but offers extensive customization. Samanage offers a simpler deployment model with intuitive onboarding and faster setup. Its customer service is recognized for responsiveness and an easier start.

Pricing and ROI: ServiceNow incurs higher setup costs, leading to a significant initial investment with long-term ROI through automation and integration. Samanage offers a more competitive pricing structure and quicker financial return for smaller setups due to lower initial costs and efficient deployment.

To learn more, read our detailed Samanage vs. ServiceNow Report (Updated: March 2026).

Samanage vs. ServiceNow

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Categories and Ranking

Samanage

Ranking in Help Desk Software

16th

Ranking in IT Asset Management

12th

Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)

17th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

License Management (5th)

ServiceNow

Ranking in Help Desk Software

1st

Ranking in IT Asset Management

1st

Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

225

Ranking in other categories

Rapid Application Development Software (2nd), No-Code Development Platforms (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the IT Service Management (ITSM) category, the mindshare of Samanage is 1.6%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow is 15.8%, down from 24.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Service Management (ITSM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
ServiceNow	15.8%
Samanage	1.6%
Other	82.6%

IT Service Management (ITSM)

Featured Reviews

Meechai C.

Consult at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Detects incidents quickly, improves our SLA performance and solves issues faster

We mainly use it for incident logging. We'd like to add service request functionality, but we don't have the knowledge to configure the requests and the workflows properly. We'd like to integrate our workflows with the incident management, so we use it to manage our work better. We'd like to implement the service request feature. Right now, we just record everything as incidents. Some activities can take a long time, maybe one or two weeks. This makes it hard to maintain a good SLA, even if we work hard. So, response speed and workflow improvements.

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MichaelTang1

Manager of Security Engineering & Architecture at a outsourcing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Seamless data integration and advanced automation improve service delivery efficiency

I think that nothing needs to be improved with the product; you just need the user to commit and spend appropriate time to overcome that learning curve. Once that is done, the product itself is pretty wonderful. I've seen a very nicely built interface with ServiceNow, and I've also seen the ugliest version that feels outdated. ServiceNow does allow that team to exist. They should modernize their fonts and their layout, the UI friendliness. They did introduce AI, chatbots, and AI on the back end, so that's wonderful and extremely useful if you train it. If you don't train it, it's pretty useless. Assessing the impact of ServiceNow's automation on service delivery times is complicated. The engineers who operate on ServiceNow find it isn't straightforward because the data set is accessible by everybody. The problem is that understanding how to manage that data set requires an enormous amount of engineering skill set to run the product. I would not hand the key to the customer; I would highly recommend that ServiceNow take control of that. Instead of offering support for the software, they should offer administrative support for the software. They should provide professional service or some kind of support system that allows us to use their product at a faster pace. I'm sure they offer something, but it's often outrageously expensive, or they rely on another company to resell their product and offer professional service. It makes no sense in my opinion, and they should offer the team at the front to help customize the product to fit each company's needs, as every company has different demands and forms of submitting a request that need adjustment over time.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The best part is the ability to keep records, especially incident records. It's easy to use the tool to store data and monitor it."

"The solution has a great filtering feature."

"I would recommend Samanage from the IT support perspective because it's a great ticketing system and the only downside is the site shutdowns and the messy nature of the UI and UX."

"Samanage has not only taken over asset and inventory management, but it also has the ability to function across departments, making it easy for end users to submit help desk tickets for IT, HR, and Finance."

"It's more about the ease of use of ServiceNow, plus everything is there in a single platform, and if you need any additional functionality, you just need to enable the plugins without even installing anything on the servers."

"It's great to do statuses or to review tasks."

"It just enabled us to see the whole organization as a single organization, which, especially for higher ed and places like that, just doesn't happen."

"The ability to implement end-to-end flows, including business ones, is the most important aspect of the solution."

"It has more extensive features as compared to the other competitors."

"Identifies better ways to license software or eliminate unused software to save money and maintain a choice between buying more licenses or reclaiming licenses to stay within compliance."

"There are many expansions available."

"As I'm a developer, what I would say is that it's very flexible."

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Cons

"We've had some problems with the system shutting down about once a month. It sometimes takes five or 10 minutes to start working again but it can also take hours."

"There are definitely areas for improvement, but so far, so good."

"The system shuts down about once a month which is frustrating."

"The setting up process is not quite easy. It's quite difficult."

"The solution could be made cheaper. Machine learning and artificial intelligence should be introduced in the next release."

"I think the biggest thing that I've seen is when we've moved to the knowledge-based version three, which happened relatively recently, there were a lot of new improvements that came with that, but there were a lot of things that actually seemed like a little bit of a step back."

"HR Service Management is one module that needs a lot of improvement because it's a pretty new module."

"I find some features are difficult to use."

"It's missing monitoring capabilities."

"There is a need to enhance ticket details visibility on the portal, such as displaying SLA information, which currently requires development effort."

"The interface can be a bit more intuitive."

"It has a higher cost compared to local/regional solutions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is expensive."

"I'm not aware of any additional costs. I'm pretty sure that the current client is paying just the licensing fee per user. I do know that they've got some support agreement with ServiceNow, but I don't think that is broken out or specific to Project Management. It is just inclusive."

"Some time ago it was expensive, but large companies have special contracts. It's enterprise prices, and we're talking about millions per year."

"ServiceNow's pricing is comparatively higher than Helix's."

"I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten. The pricing for ServiceNow is based on a SaaS platform with annual contracts. However, it may not offer much flexibility for adjusting usage in the short term."

"This is a pretty expensive product, so the licensing could be better."

"The price could be a little lower for the solution. Many of my customers have issues with the licensing process, they have to make it easier and straightforward."

"There are licensing fees."

"Certainly, from a product-platform perspective, the price is not too bad."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

15%

Construction Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	55
Midsize Enterprise	35
Large Enterprise	168

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Samanage?

The best part is the ability to keep records, especially incident records. It's easy to use the tool to store data and monitor it.

What needs improvement with Samanage?

What is your primary use case for Samanage?

I use it for incident recording based on your inventory.

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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Overview

"Samanage enables organizations worldwide to deliver a superior service experience. Samanage’s IT service management software accelerates efficiency and visibility into services requested and delivered across an organization, making it easy to continuously streamline process improvement and greater productivity. The fully integrated service desk and asset management solution utilizes a SaaS/multi-tenant platform, allowing IT and other service providers to effectively manage and connect service requests to IT assets. The revolutionary user interface delivers an unmatched user experience and enables code-free customization, allowing customers to fully deploy a robust ITSM solution in days not months or years. "

SolarWinds

ServiceNow is a cloud-based task-management platform that specializes in IT operations management (ITOM), IT services management (ITSM), and IT business management (ITBM). ServiceNow allows users to manage their teams, projects, and customer interactions using a variety of different plugins and apps with which it easily integrates.

ServiceNow offers prebuilt applications to support any process, as well as a framework and tools that allow you to build your own.

ServiceNow’s service management solutions include change, request, incident, problem, and cost management, as well as HR, IT, field service, and facilities management solutions. They also cover business management solutions such as vendor performance management, financial management, performance analytics and project portfolio suite, as well as governance, risk, and compliance.

“The Smarter Way to Workflow”

ServiceNow’s activities, processes, and tasks are overseen as part of a comprehensive managed workflow that supports such features as real-time collaboration, communication, and resource sharing. ServiceNow’s suite of products allow for operation using serverless computing, and include the categories of Business Apps, Customer Service, HR, IT, and Security.

ServiceNow can be used to support most workflows because of the wide range of tools it offers. These include on-suite ticketing tools, predictive modeling to manage workflows, and benchmarking for the tracking of progress. ServiceNow can assist with artificial intelligence and machine learning processes and can be used to organize the cases of a help/service desk as well as for instance management and problem management. It also smoothly integrates with many legacy systems.

ServiceNow offers service management software for industries including:

Cloud services
Education
Financial services
Government
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Telecommunications

Reviews from Real Users

PeerSpot users prefer ServiceNow to its competitors because of its scalability, stability, and ease of use. It helps everyone in the company to be on the same page by creating a single source of record across all departments. One user stated that “I’ve definitely used over 20 project management solutions, but they can't be compared with ServiceNow.” Another said that “ServiceNow is an industry leader in multiple areas and provides an excellent ROI.”

Sample Customers

SXSW, PRA Group, Fandango, Inteva Products, Amherst College, Tensator

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

Samanage vs. ServiceNow