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ServiceNow Customer Service Management vs SugarCRM Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 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

ServiceNow Customer Service...
Ranking in CRM Customer Engagement Centers
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Customer Experience Management (4th)
SugarCRM Platform
Ranking in CRM Customer Engagement Centers
8th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
CRM (25th), Marketing Automation (10th), Sales Force Automation (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the CRM Customer Engagement Centers category, the mindshare of ServiceNow Customer Service Management is 4.3%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SugarCRM Platform is 4.4%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
CRM Customer Engagement Centers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ServiceNow Customer Service Management4.3%
SugarCRM Platform4.4%
Other91.3%
CRM Customer Engagement Centers
 

Featured Reviews

BasilJiji - PeerSpot reviewer
System engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Structured ticket workflows have improved resolution speed and have supported SLA-driven support
ServiceNow Customer Service Management is offering very good things, but I felt improvements to our process would allow us to depend on this tool in many other ways. Regarding the interface, currently the user who creates the ticket has a very limited interface with only the options for creating a ticket and providing details, while the support team has a much larger interface with many options, including SLA details and report generation. While this classification is great, I felt that some modifications could be brought to the interface. I felt that further modifications can be made so that it could be a perfect tool.
reviewer1345677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager / IT Planning & Architecture Services at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Easily customizable, automation enhances the marketing campaigns but support is the main hiccup for us
It has been effective in managing customer relationships. It has sales email campaigns, plus integration with Active Directory. And there are centralized reports for the CEO and the general managers. We work with automation for these marketing and email campaigns. It sends out emails to prospective customers related to sales offers automatically. And it copies the sales team so that they can follow up. They are tracking the sales leads. So, the automation within SugarCRM enhances the marketing campaigns. For now, my work is done because I am the IT strategy and planning manager. I just try to deliver the solution according to the requirements of the business. From my side, it's implemented already, the requirement related to the sales funnel. But if they have any other requirement from the business side, they will submit it to me, and then I will look for a suitable solution.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The tool is very useful as it helps us run businesses smoothly."
"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."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the service portal."
"The product provides flexibility in managing and categorizing the incidents."
"ServiceNow Customer Service Management is highly stable, which is critical because it operates as a live system 24/7."
"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 tool can offer. It can be integrated with any external system. There are also automation possibilities."
"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 integrates the admin, finance, HR, and service departments, enabling an employee of an organization to get service from a single window."
"The most valuable features of the SugarCRM platform include its flexibility in customizing fields, layouts, and dashboards."
"It works well with Jira. You can customize it to fit your needs."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is its low cost, and it works well."
"This solution's stability is very good, it runs almost without effort, and we don't have any support issues with it."
"The most valuable features of Sugar Enterprise are the exports of graphics, statuses, complaints, and tasks."
"It has sales email campaigns, plus integration with Active Directory."
"Available source code, good documentation, training programs, and a relatively active community, provide the hallmarks for a successful open source effort."
"My advice to others is this is a good solution for importing or exporting any graphics."
 

Cons

"If our organization wants to customize features that are not initially available in the system, these customizations might cause issues during upgrades."
"The price could be better. ServiceNow should price products more reasonably."
"The product's AI feature should be improved."
"ServiceNow Customer Service Management is expensive. It's one of the most costly CSM options in the marketplace."
"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."
"ServiceNow Customer Service Management could be improved by incorporating Gen AI into ServiceNow."
"ServiceNow Customer Service Management is expensive, with costs around half a million US dollars per year. While suitable for enterprises and medium-sized clients, it may be cost-prohibitive for smaller businesses."
"In terms of the initial setup of ServiceNow Customer Service Management, the complexity of scripting is challenging. Sometimes, extensive scripting is required and many checks have to be made to add basic functionality."
"At the moment, there is a complicated flow in regards to the user's permissions and what they can see."
"Pipelines, forecasts, and reporting in general, are not that good in the free version."
"Functionality and features are well suited for small business companies only."
"It lacks customization, and this is the main reason that we are switching to a different solution."
"You cannot include all your entities under one instance at the moment."
"I would like to see more integration on a mobile platform in the next release."
"Putting so many things into SugarCRM became a much-hated task, mainly because of the horrible UI."
"Sugar Enterprise could improve by removing bugs and glitches. For example, a comment was made but in the comment section, it was never displayed. However, the problems we faced might not be the fault of the solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"ServiceNow Customer Service Management is expensive. It's one of the most costly CSM options in the marketplace."
"I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
"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."
"The product has a premium price"
"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Retailer
7%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Construction Company
16%
Engineering Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow Customer Service Management?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that these were done by the VP of our company, thus I have no idea about the same.
What needs improvement with ServiceNow Customer Service Management?
ServiceNow Customer Service Management could be improved by incorporating Gen AI into ServiceNow. Though ServiceNow has a Now Assist feature for their CSM module, it still needs a lot of work to do...
What is your primary use case for ServiceNow Customer Service Management?
My main use case for ServiceNow Customer Service Management is that I use it as an end user to provide customer support to our clients. For a specific example of how I use it to provide customer su...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sugar Enterprise?
All are almost the same pricing. Maybe the cheapest is Salesforce, I believe.
What needs improvement with Sugar Enterprise?
The only challenge was that we implemented it in our on-premise data center instead of using it in the cloud. That was a little bit of a challenge. But it was overcome with the help of SugarCRM com...
What advice do you have for others considering Sugar Enterprise?
To start with, SugarCRM is a very good platform. It's easy to implement and easily customizable. Might be later when you want to scale, then I would recommend Salesforce. Overall, I would rate it a...
 

Also Known As

ServiceNow CSM
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Sample Customers

Siemens Healthineers, SAP SuccessFactors, Asurion
Redglaze Group, TengoInternet, Hilco, Bancvue, Vet Adivsor
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