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ServiceNow vs Splunk On-Call comparison

 

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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
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
231
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 (1st)
Splunk On-Call
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Systems Management solutions, they serve different purposes. ServiceNow is designed for IT Service Management (ITSM) and holds a mindshare of 14.2%, down 23.9% compared to last year.
Splunk On-Call, on the other hand, focuses on IT Alerting and Incident Management, holds 3.4% mindshare, down 4.8% since last year.
IT Service Management (ITSM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ServiceNow14.2%
JIRA Service Management6.9%
BMC Helix ITSM5.5%
Other73.4%
IT Service Management (ITSM)
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk On-Call3.4%
PagerDuty Operations Cloud11.0%
Opsgenie7.5%
Other78.1%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Ramani Happy - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at Data Elicit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Streamlined incident response has reduced downtime and improved on-call collaboration
A few things I would improve in Splunk On-Call. Honestly, the reporting and analysis side feels a bit weak. If I want to deep dive into the on-call load, including MTTD and MTTR rates, I kind of have to export data and build my own dashboard, which is not as out-of-the-box as I would prefer. The UI has improved, but it still feels a little chunky in certain areas, particularly when managing schedules. When I have a lot of teams, it can get messy. Additionally, the pricing model is per user, which starts to get expensive as the team scales.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We always get good support."
"It acts as a one-stop shop for customers to be able to go in and create instant problem tickets if the incident is severity one or two."
"Discovery is super advantageous and has gotten us away from the manual work of walking the floor to find assets, while Automatic Workflows are a big deal that helps streamline processes and interconnect incident management."
"I like the flexibility on ServiceNow; we use it for our help desk admin and our call center, but we also use it for our knowledge management system, which is our growth area, and we get to add our custom homemade apps plus vendor apps to integrate into it to get the total package that we need."
"They have thought through it, and not just the whole domain in the platform but now they have connected it to the business side, the business needs and the processes, the work that people do down to the technology."
"Everything about the schema, including the design of ServiceNow, is great."
"It's ease of use, extensibility and just the ability to take it out of the box and use it with minimal custom configuration."
"The flow designer feature of ServiceNow has had the biggest impact on our productivity because it has helped me reduce manual efforts by creating automation and robotics."
"Technical support is an A+ or a 10/10; if I could give an 11/10, I would, and it is what I love about them."
"We are very satisfied with the tool."
"Transmogrifier and automatic solution report gives me a report with the solution and the way to solve issues when an error occurred."
"Its the best solution of its type out there, you should go for it."
"My VP of Operations is ecstatic about the VictorOps product."
"VictorOps has decreased the meantime to acknowledge an incident management process, our developers can be on-call faster when we are using this solution, and we can fix our incidents much quicker."
"The flexible schedule is the most valuable feature. It was very easy to set out a rotation."
"Since implementing Splunk On-Call, our mean time to acknowledge has dropped significantly, and we have fewer escalations to senior engineering for things that could have been caught earlier."
 

Cons

"The RPA needs improvement. That's a new area for them that they're just entering into now."
"The customer service of the product right now isn't very good. It's an aspect they really need to improve."
"Needs additional software titles and easier normalization."
"Data access is a bit difficult, where you sometimes wish you had a relational database for some queries. The flexibility of data access in general is a bit on the low end. Of course, there is flexibility in some ways, but when I need a certain combination of data for some report, it can become a challenge."
"That package is very expensive. It's more expensive than if I were to have someone in-house who was dedicated to doing those tasks."
"The interface, in my opinion, is not very good."
"There is a need to learn scripting because as in the case of all the ITSM tools, scripting is needed for customization."
"It's a great platform, but there's still room for improvement. As the solutions stands now, you do need a lot of previous experience to use it. It would be great if they could develop some use case templates. This would be beneficial for a small and medium-sized businesses."
"Another example is that you cannot check the incidents created in VictorOps from the previous Friday."
"A few things I would improve in Splunk On-Call. Honestly, the reporting and analysis side feels a bit weak."
"At that stage, all our needs are fulfilled, but at the beginning, we had some feature requests and they were deployed during their roadmap."
"Should have more YouTube webinars."
"Should have more YouTube webinars."
"The only feature that we are currently waiting on right now is really kind of an annoyance factor: when we get on the timeline on the main dashboard, there’s an ACK All button."
"User management has to be improved and more user types need to be added as there is currently only Admin or User."
"The third-party configuration tool could be easier to use."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of this solution is expensive."
"This is a pretty expensive product, so the licensing could be better."
"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."
"$230 per user."
"They could be more competitive with their licensing."
"Some time ago it was expensive, but large companies have special contracts. It's enterprise prices, and we're talking about millions per year."
"It is very expensive because it is a big organization. You have to pay for additional things."
"The product cost is higher than that of other vendors."
"The price of the solution could be less expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
Performing Arts
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business56
Midsize Enterprise35
Large Enterprise179
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow?
ServiceNow's pricing is fine. We have accounting for each headcount for ServiceNow, and the pricing is actually good.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VictorOps?
The pricing aspect is per-user licensing, which is standard for this category, making it competitive compared to PagerDuty. In the past, we used PagerDuty, but it is not cheap once you start adding...
What needs improvement with VictorOps?
A few things I would improve in Splunk On-Call. Honestly, the reporting and analysis side feels a bit weak. If I want to deep dive into the on-call load, including MTTD and MTTR rates, I kind of ha...
What is your primary use case for VictorOps?
I have been using Splunk On-Call for nearly about two years. Our main use is incident alerting and on-call scheduling for our engineering and DevOps team. Basically, whenever something goes down, a...
 

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Sample Customers

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    
NVIDIA, Cisco, NBC, Rackspace, Intuit, DirectTV, NASCAR, Arrow Electronics, Alliance Health, NetApp, Edmunds, New York Times, Return Path, Sony Playstation, CA Technologies, Sphero, Symantic, HBO, Weatherford, Blackboard, Epic Games
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