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Curtis Braun - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Consultant
Sep 19, 2022
Great rules-based automation with a helpful FreshChat widget and useful auto-responses
Pros and Cons
  • "We really like the Freshchat widget that allows people to engage with our FAQs on any kind of webpage or web property."
  • "Their analytics need improvement."

What is our primary use case?

We're using the product for an HR service center.

How has it helped my organization?

We had a historical kind of email-based contact center. What it's allowed us to do is bring everyone in our department into the journey of customer experience and customer service. When you're just dealing with Outlook and mailboxes, those are typically only limited to certain teams. This allows us to scale. It allows us to scale and engage other people that may be required to help support a ticket. We may need a certain level of expertise or help from a subsidiary area, allowing us to bring them into the conversation much more quickly without losing sight of the ticket or the customer. You don't get lost in multiple emails. You can, essentially, manage everything off an initial inquiry.

What is most valuable?

We really like the Freshchat widget that allows people to engage with our FAQs on any kind of webpage or web property. We really like that. 

We really like the auto-routing. 

The rules-based automation that they've got built into auto triage and auto disseminate to the right groups. 

We really like the auto-responses, as well. 

Their dashboard and their ability to follow the history of the ticket to see who's all engaged is very useful. It allows us to see who's engaged with it.

What needs improvement?

Their analytics need improvement.

Some of their integration could be better as well. 

Maybe this might be new in some of their newer versions. However, the chat should be an inherent part and shouldn't be a separate module.

The way they run their service portal, it would be nice if you didn't require users to log in. If they could go to a login agnostic model and be able to, using AI, auto triage and recognize if somebody submitted a ticket before, they should be able to do that in an automated fashion. They shouldn't force users to log in anymore.

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For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for about two years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We've had no issues with stability or downtime at all.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution can scale well. 

We have a couple of different deployments. In our specific deployment that I'm attached to, we would have about 40 users.

We have seen growth inside of our organization. We're not the only team that uses it. There's a second team, and they're much larger. They have about 150 users.

We've seen other scaled deployments for other purposes because of the success we've seen with Fresh. Will we see more growth in our specific HR area? Probably not. We're a small HR shop.

How are customer service and support?

They're not very good at technical support.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I've used some of the Oracle products, like RightNow. I've had some ServiceNow utilization, as well.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup wasn't easy or difficult. It was kind of in the middle. There's a lot of configuration you can do on your own. There is some stuff where you've got to involve your IT department. Overall,  that's what I like about Fresh compared to something like ServiceNow. It's pretty lightweight. It's pretty scalable and has a much simpler ease of implementation.

It requires very little maintenance. Maybe we had one person attached to it. However, it wasn't a full-time job for them. We don't have to have an in-house Fresh technical expert. It's pretty easy to figure out.

What about the implementation team?

We did it in-house with some of the initial onboarding direct from Fresh.

What was our ROI?

We have seen an ROI.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I'm not sure of the exact cost. I recall it being pretty small. 

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

When considering options,  I looked at Oracle again. We were looking at ServiceNow and Fresh, and we decided to go with Fresh, at least for short to medium term.

What other advice do I have?

I don't know what version we are using, however, in terms of what modules we're using, we're using Freshservice and Freshchat.

Like anything, the tool doesn't fix your service issues. It can help, however, you got to have the right philosophical mindset and your process fundamentals in place because the tool isn't always your silver bullet. 

In terms of your process and your philosophy, I find doing an implementation like Fresh should get you in that mindset. The other piece of advice I would give people contemplating this is, for example, where I love dashboards and data, and Fresh doesn't do the best job in this space. It's not implementation and done. There's always fine-tuning required, and there's always room for improvement. That's where it's important to look at your data, look at your utilization, and always go back and challenge some of your concepts once it's implemented.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Infrastructure Architect -Application Dynamics at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Sep 17, 2022
Intuitive, easy to implement, and offers helpful support
Pros and Cons
  • "You can just register and within five to minute minutes, you are ready to go."
  • "We'd like to see a CMDB, a Configuration Management Database, in the future."

What is our primary use case?

At my previous organization, we had an alliance partnership with Freshservice. Part of that alliance involved me implementing Freshservice for North American and Europe clients. Freshservice is an ITSM product. The PLC would be done by the thresholds and as part of the alliance, and we would implement the Freshservice ITSM solution for the clients. It's completely based on the customer requirements, which modules need to be implemented. We will do the data collection, the requirement gathering, et cetera, and we will do the solution and implementation for the Freshservice to cater to the client's needs. As part of this, we'll do the infra, we'll do automation, orchestration, and everything as part of this integration with multiple sources. We'll do the portfolio management.

What is most valuable?

We like that the product is a SaaS-based service. You can just register and within five to minute minutes, you are ready to go.

It's very intuitive. It's not complex or anything. Anyone with some IT knowledge, IT service management knowledge, can just spin up an instance within the cloud and register for an instance. He can just go through configurations very easily. 

Maximum, within a week, if you have a basic ITL, if you have good technical instance, you can spin up an instance with a basic idea of some incident management for these catalogs.

The product itself comes at 60% to 70% configuration. It's already done for you. Out of the box, there are around 40 plus service catalogs available. You simply need to customize your requirements. The product is loaded with all the features you need.

At the moment, they are adding a lot of functionality to the product. It is beginning to mature. 

What needs improvement?

This product is very good for small and mid-level markets. However, I'm not sure about the enterprise level. I'm not sure about expanding to a 100,000 to 200,000 user base or more. 

We'd like to see a CMDB, a Configuration Management Database, in the future. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I used the solution about six months ago at my previous company.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is in the cloud and very stable. there are no bugs or glitches. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability may be limited. I'm not sure it can handle enterprise-level deployments. 

I've done implementations for up to 2,000 users. 

The users are unlimited. The licensing is based on how many agents and end users you have; there is no limit.

There will be a team managing the tickets. They are mainly on the service desk or customer support. As an end user, you will be raising a ticket and I'll be looking at the ticket. If I need to log into the system and look at the ticket, I need a license. It's based on that agent licensing.

How are customer service and support?

Once you log into an instance, there is always chat support available. You can also email them. they are very easy to get a hold of. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is very easy. It's a SaaS product. You just sign up and get going within ten to 15 minutes. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The licensing is based on how many agents you have or need to manage tickets.

The licensing can be based on a monthly or yearly renewal.

Different payment options are available.

The pricing is available on their website. The pricing plans and everything is available. The cost is completely based on which plan you choose, as there are around four categories. The cost is completely based on the features the company must have.

What other advice do I have?

I was a customer and end-user.

It's a SaaS product. The product is continuously evolving and growing, although I'm not sure how well it would benefit an enterprise-level organization. However, in general, it's good. It's a really agile platform. 

We cater to small and medium-sized clients, and this solution is perfect for us.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Mark Freemantle - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of PMO at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Real User
Aug 25, 2022
A flexible, reasonably-priced solution for quickly getting your help desk up and running, but the project and reporting areas need some work
Pros and Cons
  • "It has a very easy, flexible model. You can open up a particular module and work on the next. That's what we did. Overall, it provides a simple way of getting your support teams up and running. That was one thing that I thought was quite easy to do."
  • "On the reporting side, when we were doing reporting, one thing that was a bit of a limitation was when you had a data list containing a list of changes that have occurred for the whole time and you had to fit the list onto a page. If the list went over the page, it would just truncate it at the page. You wouldn't get all your data. So, it didn't work. That was one big stand-out for me. What we tended to do was convert things into a more readable format, and then we had more targeted exception reporting, but it would be nice to have a full list of things that could be automatically generated and that can flow over pages."

What is our primary use case?

I was mainly using it for the functionality related to changes, such as tracking and reporting production changes going into our live systems. I also used it for APIs for the automatic generation of changes based on triggers from Jira.

In terms of deployment, I'm pretty sure it was SaaS, and in terms of version, it would've been a fairly recent version because they'd only been using it for about a year or so.

How has it helped my organization?

It has a very easy, flexible model. You can open up a particular module and work on the next. That's what we did. Overall, it provides a simple way of getting your support teams up and running. That was one thing that I thought was quite easy to do.

We were able to automate a lot of internal processes, such as onboarding of new users via forms, which had integrated notifications. It was really easy to do. Form management was very good. That was probably the main benefit. The automation of the support calls was the other part from which we got a lot of benefit.

What is most valuable?

On the changes side, I found the workflow network quite easy to set up. I didn't need a lot of hand-holding in that. I didn't have to go through training as such. The flows were pretty basic to set up, which made it fairly simple.

The additional fields that were required for our change process were easy to set up. I was able to get it up and running pretty quickly. I was working as the head of the project management team. I got a few of the guys onto that, and then we rolled it out.

What needs improvement?

We did an evaluation of the project functionality. That was a fairly new area they were launching. It was fairly underwhelming, but they were gradually building out this area. That was one area where I felt they still have a long way to go. We did a review of our project management tool internally within the company, and it was one of the choices, but it didn't match up anywhere close to any of the other tools we were considering. It wasn't a good match.

On the reporting side, when we were doing reporting, one thing that was a bit of a limitation was when you had a data list containing a list of changes that have occurred for the whole time and you had to fit the list onto a page. If the list went over the page, it would just truncate it at the page. You wouldn't get all your data. So, it didn't work. That was one big stand-out for me. What we tended to do was convert things into a more readable format, and then we had more targeted exception reporting, but it would be nice to have a full list of things that could be automatically generated and that can flow over pages.

In terms of additional features, their strategy is quite good in that they incrementally change things. They must be using some sort of agile methodology. They tend to be doing these little releases along the way, and then they say, "Oh, we've got this new feature." I would definitely encourage them in that area. It is working for them. So, on the project side, being able to easily add risks and issues and more complex dependencies were probably the key areas in the project space where I saw that they let themselves down, but it was just a burgeoning area that they were launching into. It was just part of their initial offering. The plans for the future were still fine.

For how long have I used the solution?

I used it in my previous role at another organization. I was there working on Freshservice for about seven months, and I was working with it a few times a week in various capacities. The last I worked with it would be in February.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I didn't see any real issues with it. I was there for about nine months, and I might have seen two outages in that time. I also didn't see any performance issues coming through on that.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability didn't seem to be an issue. It was probably about working out the best licensing model. We had some administrative people, and we had users as well. For Freshservice, we had about 150 users.

How are customer service and support?

I didn't have a direct connection to Freshservice's support itself. I used to go to our local support. Our IT help desk was the first line of support, and then they would contact the Freshservice desk if needed.

How was the initial setup?

I was involved in the changes area. The base of Freshservice was already in place, and that was being managed by our support manager. So, the initial setup for me was around the changes area. It came out of the box and then it involved deciding whether or not we add additional fields. We added the additional fields that we required, and then gradually, we would check out the workflow and then say, "Okay, we want to have an approval step here." We'd then add an approval step. So, we incrementally worked on it as we saw it and then tested it all the way through, and when we were ready, we made it available for a sample group. We could then test it out.

We didn't do it as a big bang approach. It tended to be segregated to a particular system area, and then we rolled it out to other areas after that. That seemed to be a good strategy for us.

In terms of duration, for the changes piece, we had a working prototype within about six weeks, and that included documenting how we wanted it to run. If I had to look at just the configuration time, it probably took about four weeks to work through configurations. That was pretty quick for the changes side. 

For the APIs, it was probably a similar duration. There was a bit of requirements gathering and working out. We had trigger conditions where we wanted to trigger a workflow so that it automatically creates a change based on a trigger condition within Jira. The longer part was just setting up the base integration. The actual configuration with the actual tool was probably of the order of two to four weeks.

What about the implementation team?

In the initial base setup, there was just me and another person. When it came to the rollout, we were up to about six different project managers, and there were a couple of integration people. There were probably 10 people all up. 

We also had API integration. We worked with an integrating company to do that. 

In terms of maintenance, there are definitely patches that come through all the time, but that tended to be managed through the support area. I wouldn't have as much visibility on that side.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

It was a middle tier. It wasn't an expensive one. 

It was a tier model usage. Licensing costs varied between admin users and regular users.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

ServiceNow was one. It was a much more comprehensive solution as compared to Freshservice, but it was also more expensive. ServiceNow is definitely more robust in terms of features, but Freshservice has a much better ability to configure. It is very flexible that way, from my experience.

Being a smaller company, we tended to keep fairly tight on cost. We didn't really want to spend a lot of money. My understanding was that ServiceNow was much more expensive, but I wasn't close to the details. Freshservice was considered to be about right for what they wanted to pay. It was in the middle of the range in terms of the subscription cost.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend it if you're looking for a really quick way of getting your help desk up and running with a ticketing system and some pretty cool automation with emails, notifications, etc. It is easy to set up and maintain, and it is reasonably priced for what it is.

I would rate it a seven out of ten. It is a solid product. It doesn't do everything that ServiceNow does, which is my only comparison point, but it definitely has good features for the price.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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CX Team at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
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Top 20
Feb 19, 2024
Enables users to automate email responses, improves user satisfaction, and increases productivity
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution’s timely automated triggers increase our IT team’s productivity."

    What is our primary use case?

    Our use cases are dependent on our clients’ requirements. If our clients have to acknowledge and follow up on emails manually, we can create automated acknowledgments using the solution. We can have scripted answers if the customer asks a frequently asked question.

    We can create responses on placeholders so that the agents can easily select them and send them to customers to ask for details. If the business has many channels to support, the tool helps connect all channels in one place. The agents don't have to move around in different tools. They can access all the tickets created from all the channels.

    What is most valuable?

    The solution’s timely automated triggers increase our IT team’s productivity. We can add all social media channels to the tool so that all tickets come to one place. The self-service portal impacts the user's satisfaction within the organization. Businesses must be ITIL compliant. Freshservice is the best tool for it.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I have been using the solution for three years.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    The tool is stable.

    How are customer service and support?

    If we have any doubts, we have many articles available online. We contact the support team only in a worst-case scenario. The support team provides timely support.

    How was the initial setup?

    Generally, before setting up the tool, we discuss it with the client to understand their present state. Setting up is not a big deal, but understanding the customers and their pain points and providing the best solution to improve their business takes time. Once we gather the business requirements document, the implementation along with UAT takes two to three months. We must configure the solution so the business can scale up anytime.

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    Compared to other tools, Freshservice is affordable. It is suitable for companies with a small budget.

    Which other solutions did I evaluate?

    I have used Jira Service Management and Zendesk. Most features like incident management, problem management, and project management in Jira Service Management are available in Freshservice. Enhancing the customer's experience is our main objective. We use whichever tool our clients require. We can also use Salesforce, which is a highly scalable platform. We can also develop things on Salesforce.

    What other advice do I have?

    We have to utilize more features available in the solution. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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    reviewer1200735 - PeerSpot reviewer
    Director Of Technology Services at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
    Real User
    Apr 5, 2023
    Intuitive with a nice user interface and good integration with SolarWinds
    Pros and Cons
    • "There is a nice user interface."
    • "We'd like better integration with other products."

    What is our primary use case?

    We primarily use the solution for health tests and incident management. It's the help desk of SolarWinds. They both talk to each other. There's an integration between the two. 

    What is most valuable?

    There's a good integration between SolarWinds and Freshservice. 

    This is a very intuitive, interactive product. It's quite extensive in terms of dealing with trouble tickets.

    There is a nice user interface.

    What needs improvement?

    We'd like better integration with other products. It could be a bit more flexible. 

    Technical support could be better.

    The solution is expensive. 

    It takes time to implement it and get it fully working. 

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I've used the solution for about a year. 

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    We have five admin agents on the solution.

    How are customer service and support?

    We did reach out to technical support in the past. Their response time and knowledgeability could be improved. 

    How would you rate customer service and support?

    Neutral

    How was the initial setup?

    The initial setup starts off easy enough. It does get more difficult when you start dealing with complexities in your environment.

    It took us about 30 to 60 days to get everything up and running. 

    What about the implementation team?

    We started off handling the setup in-house and then brought in a third party to assist us. 

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    We started off assuming it would be cheaper. It is quite expensive. It is based on user admins, and that's at a higher price. Even if you purchase only one or two users, it is quite an expensive product.

    What other advice do I have?

    I'm a customer and end-user. 

    This is a SaaS product. We chose the solution as it was designed to be an all-in-one solution to deal with service management. 

    I'd recommend the solution. It is a good tool, and it is growing fast. However, you need to be careful of your overall requirements. Those requirements need to be well thought-out and planned. Salespeople need to be in the mix as well. 

    I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

    Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

    Private Cloud
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    reviewer1960482 - PeerSpot reviewer
    Business Systems Analyst at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
    Real User
    Sep 18, 2022
    Easy to use and administer, integrates with a lot of things, and helps in meeting our SLAs consistently
    Pros and Cons
    • "Its ease of use is fantastic. It is just above and beyond, especially when you compare it to something like Cherwell, Salesforce, or anything like that. It is on its own level. It is so easy to administer. The way everything is organized and the way it builds its own documentation is very good."
    • "Some of the ways that tasks are reported on and shown can be better. You can't see tasks in your regular ticket list view. You can't see a combo view of tasks and tickets. It is a little bit difficult to get a solid overview of your list of things to do. You can only see them in separate views, instead of one single view."

    What is our primary use case?

    We use it for IT service management. We use it for HR service management. We also use it in an operations capacity in combination with some other tools.

    We use a combination of Freshdesk, Freshservice, and Freshchat. We use the whole suite. We're the third largest customer of theirs. 

    We have the Enterprise plan, and we have its latest version. We are in beta testing for another upgrade that they're doing, but it is still in beta. So, it is not live yet. It is a cloud solution. Freshservice owns everything. We just use it as a cloud platform.

    How has it helped my organization?

    Our SLAs are being met way more consistently. We're seeing that customer issues are getting answered in a timelier manner. Our tech issues are resolved in a more timely manner. We have more access to information with the combination of knowledge, tickets, etc. We have integrated it with Jira. So, I can look and say that I have a ticket, and I need to send something to a developer in Jira. I can just do that with a click from Freshservice, which makes it easy. Configuring it is also super simple.

    What is most valuable?

    Its ease of use is fantastic. It is just above and beyond, especially when you compare it to something like Cherwell, Salesforce, or anything like that. It is on its own level. It is so easy to administer. The way everything is organized and the way it builds its own documentation is very good. 

    It integrates with a lot of things. If they don't have an integration, once you bring it to them, a lot of times, they get that working in their pipeline. They get integration with different software going. They really are looking to do things a little bit better than others, and it shows how much work they put into the platform.

    What needs improvement?

    Sometimes, the billing process is an absolute nightmare. That's really frustrating. If you have a straightforward contract and don't need to make changes, it is fine, but if you need to make any changes, it'll take months.

    The other piece is that sometimes, they will push out updates without telling you they're doing updates, or they'll just have it as a notification. If you don't go and actively check, you just won't even know it is pushed out. You have to stay on top of it. You can't pick the version you're on. Everybody is on the same version, which is great and makes being an admin and working on the platform a much more consistent experience. For the most part, it is all pretty much the same.

    As compared to the Freshdesk knowledge base, it needs work. You can't save knowledge-based templates, which is a little bit ridiculous. For example, you can't have article templates in there. These are IT people. They're not thinking about formatting. We've got to do that for them.

    Some of the ways that tasks are reported on and shown can be better. You can't see tasks in your regular ticket list view. You can't see a combo view of tasks and tickets. It is a little bit difficult to get a solid overview of your list of things to do. You can only see them in separate views, instead of one single view.

    There should be the ability to add screenshots into a service request without having to download and attach them because that can be really frustrating for users. You can do that in the incident version, but you can't put a screenshot in a service request, which is frustrating. The users certainly don't want to take a screenshot, save it to their computer, and then attach it just to submit the ticket. They could just print the screen.

    I would like to see further integrated analytics, which is something that's on their radar. I would also like them to bring back some of the different metrics that they got rid of. I know that's on their radar too, and they're working on it. The unified bot builder is also on their radar. There is so much stuff that I know is already getting ready for deployment in the next year.

    The vendor-provided training material has some room for improvement. We disabled the incidents in our portals, and the customizability of all that has also been awesome, but beyond that, it would be good if I could see how a service request goes from end to end instead of being a whole lot of things.

    Their support could also be better. We have had some long-drawn-out and unnecessary experiences because of their support.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I have been using it for about two years. 

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    The uptime is fantastic. We very rarely have any issues with anything going down. Sometimes, it randomly slips into Arabic, which is weird, but it only happens to one user. So, I don't know what the user is doing. After refresh, it goes away. It might be a user problem.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    It is scalable. We're their third largest customer, or we used to be. I don't know if we still are. It works very well for us.

    We use it very extensively, and we're looking at expanding to additional teams. We have about 300 users. In this instance, I have 200, and then in another instance, I have 30 right now. I'll have another hundred in the next couple of months. We're bringing all of our dispatch operations into it. It is going to be a big list.

    From a scalability perspective, it is really good, but Freshcaller isn't. We can't use their full suite of solutions because even though Freshservice is extremely scalable on its own, when we're looking at upselling to Freshcaller, they just can't support the fact that we do a million minutes a month, which is a lot.

    How are customer service and support?

    We literally have weekly meetings with them, and for the last two years, we've had some hit-and-miss experiences. The response time is great, but when they reply with a knowledge base article, the way we are into the system, we would've already read that before approaching them. That's why we're asking them. I sometimes get a little bit frustrated about that.

    Sometimes, there are some communication issues with their support. I spent a year just being like, "No, we shouldn't be in Freshdesk for this." They were telling my bosses that we should be, and I was like, "I'm telling you that's incorrect. Why are you telling my boss that? You don't even work here?" You don't even go here. What are you doing? They don't even check your circumstances. I am a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. I gave them all of our process maps and everything, and they didn't even read over them. They just kept trying to put us into Freshdesk when Freshservice was a better fit because all we do is move around trucks, trailers, and drive. That's what we do all day long. I would like to know how we would do that without asset management or a portal with forums. They were just constantly trying to get us to implement break fix after break fix after break fix instead of putting us in the right product in the first place. It wasted a year's time and money.

    I brought a guy onto the call. He said the same thing to them in a guy's voice, and then they were like, "Oh, we get it now." I sent them a PowerPoint, and I said the exact same thing in email all the time. The guy was like, "I literally just said exactly what you said in the exact same words and with the same cadence." They just wanted to hear the guy say it. I said, "Are you kidding me?" And then they asked if he was my boss. He was not. I was training him. That was my one really bad experience because it went on for a full year, but it has been resolved now. Everything is good now, but I was deeply frustrated at the time. I would rate them a three out of five. That was a really long drawn-out experience, and it was so unnecessary.

    How would you rate customer service and support?

    Neutral

    Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

    For IT specifically, we used Cherwell. Operations were working out of email, and HR was also working out of email. Cherwell is just a nightmare to work with. It is a nightmare to administer. We were able to stand up and migrate away from them so quickly and easily. It might have cost a little bit more the way that we did it, but it was completely worth it. Our reporting looks better, and our analytics looks better. Everything is drastically improved.

    How was the initial setup?

    I run two instances of it, and I deployed both. It just depends on the needs of the business. If you need a lot of custom development, then you do, but if you don't, then you don't. It depends on the level of complexity that you have for your buildout such as:

    • How many workflows do you need?
    • How many admins do you have?
    • How many people do you have? 

    Because of the size and scope of our group, it took longer. We spent six months on it. Migration from Cherwell for IT and then for operations is an ongoing thing.

    What about the implementation team?

    It was implemented in-house. There are three of us who work on this and the intranet full-time. It is a combo role, and then I have two people on my team. They just added intranet to my role. So, it takes three of us just to make sure that we can support because we have so many different types of teams, but a smaller team wouldn't need as many. 

    What was our ROI?

    We deployed IT into Freshservice about eight months ago, and we reorged IT three times since then. It is a little bit difficult to quantify right now because the teams have been moving so much, but I do know that our teams are way happier with it.

    We see that the metrics are getting better. Cherwell metrics were just so bad that even our baseline was so off. We had people who just wouldn't ever close tickets. I found tickets that were three years old in VIP status in Cherwell. It was just that they would just get lost in there. Now, we actually have visibility into that.

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    There are some additional costs but not that many. For example, we have unlimited assets, which is something for which we pay extra. We also paid for additional orchestration. I would rate it a three out of five in terms of pricing. They are right in the middle.

    Which other solutions did I evaluate?

    We went through ServiceNow. We went through Cherwell and then landed on Freshservice. They might have vetted other options, but that was before my time.

    What other advice do I have?

    I would advise bringing somebody in who knows the product, at least as a part-time consultant. That's because a lot of times, they'll sell it as like, "Oh yeah, sure, just have your director of operations set it up." In some of the instances where I've done consulting work. it didn't work the way it should because one step was missed. It is very fixable, but that's also why it was not working. If you don't have someone who can dedicate time to learning how the workflows work and how to make things talk to each other within it, it can be frustrating.

    I would rate it an eight out of ten. It is so much better by leaps and bounds than everything else that I've worked with.

    Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

    Public Cloud

    If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

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    Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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    CIO at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
    Real User
    Dec 30, 2020
    Easy to use and implement with a good user interface
    Pros and Cons
    • "The overall functionality of the product is excellent."
    • "The product should look at BCM or ServiceNow and see if there are features that would make nice additions. It would help them stay competitive."

    What is our primary use case?

    We're primarily using the solution for incident management. We use it for ticketing for end-users. We are using also all the functionality around change management, release management, and this year we implement project management and software license management. We also make use of the analytics.

    What is most valuable?

    The analytics are very good.

    The solution offers very nice incident management.

    The overall functionality of the product is excellent.

    The change management is helpful. They have an agent that we installed in every single asset. We have the inventory for all assets automatically.

    Contract management is very valuable for us as an IT department, as we have the information for every single computer across the company.  

    We are starting to use the project management aspects right now. We have different projects and we have all information in the same solution, in the same place. It makes everything more centralized and easier to access. 

    The user interface is very nice and the solution is easy to use. You don't need to be an expert in order to navigate around and use the product. You don't need to read a lot of manuals in order to figure everything out. It's pretty intuitive.

    What needs improvement?

    While we're just starting with project management, I foresee some limitations with it two or three years down the line. The functionality we will likely need just isn't there right now. It's still very, very basic in terms of the offering.

    For example, measuring progress can be tricky. If you finish the sub-tasks and not the main task, it doesn't calculate the project's progress correctly.

    It would be nice if there were some standard KPIs around, for example, performance or support. It would help with budgeting.

    The product should look at BCM or ServiceNow and see if there are features that would make nice additions. It would help them stay competitive.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    We started using the solution 36 months ago. It's probably been close to three years.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    The stability of the solution is quite good. We don't have crashes. It doesn't freeze. there aren't bugs or glitches. It's reliable.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    The scalability is okay. However, if you have more than 100 or 200 agents how the performance will be.

    We had started with five, then with 10, then with 15 and now we have 20 or more. We don't need to report or to ask that they increase the capacity planning or anything of that nature. It was very transparent and so far very easy for us to scale up.

    We may increase usage in the future.

    How are customer service and technical support?

    Technical support has been very good. Their response times are very fast - faster than other competitors. We haven't really had any big problems with the product at this point. Therefore, we haven't really used them that much. However, we are quite satisfied with the level of service they provide.

    Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

    While I haven't used a different solution at this particular company, I have used other solutions in the past, such as BMC and ServiceNow.

    Freshservice is more stable and easier to use. It's also less expensive. It may not e as big as other offerings, however, for small and medium-sized organizations, it's quite good.

    How was the initial setup?

    The initial setup is pretty straightforward. It was not overly complex. We didn't run into too many issues.

    We constructed everything and handled the setup was in one day. Three days later we had to start with all the functionality and the implementation for the entire company including the change management process, the training, etc. Everything was done in less than one month.

    What about the implementation team?

    We didn't need a consultant or any type of expert in order to handle the implementation. We handled everything ourselves.

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    The pricing information is on their website. It's my understanding that their Pro Plan, for example, is around $89/month.

    There aren't additional costs on top of this. The price you see on the website is the price they charge and the price you pay.

    What other advice do I have?

    We're just customers and end-users.

    I'm not sure of which version of the solution we are using. They recently changed the names of their services. While we were previously using what I believe was called Enterprise, which is now called Pro.

    We may continue to use, not just this solution, but other Freshworks options in the future. We've recently asked the company to put together webinars for our company to learn more about their offerings.

    I'd recommend this solution. In fact, I already have - to other CIOs. The pricing is very straightforward, and the solution is easy to use. It's not overly technical.

    Overall, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

    Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

    Public Cloud

    If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

    Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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    PaulAlexander - PeerSpot reviewer
    Service Management Tool Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
    Consultant
    Oct 4, 2023
    An easy-to-maintain ITSM tool that helps with incident management
    Pros and Cons
    • "It is a stable solution. My company hasn't faced any problems with the solution."
    • "I am not too happy with the page layout or screen layout since it always looks messy."

    What is our primary use case?

    I use Freshservice in my company as an ITSM tool for incident management, service requests, and change requests.

    What is most valuable?

    The most valuable features of the solution are the ease of configuration and how easy it is to get things set up and working.

    What needs improvement?

    I am not too happy with the page layout or screen layout since it always looks messy. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement in the solution.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I have been using Freshservice for about six months. My company is a customer of Freshservice.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    It is a stable solution. My company hasn't faced any problems with the solution.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    It is a scalable solution.

    There are around 200 users of the tool in my company.

    Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

    Before Freshservice, my company was using Hornbill IT Service Management. As I used to work for Hornbill in the past, I would say that it is a better product than Freshservice.

    How was the initial setup?

    The initial setup of Freshservice is very easy.

    The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours.

    Three people in my company were involved with the deployment phase of Freshservice.

    The solution is deployed on the cloud.

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    Freshservice is a fairly cheap solution. Though monthly payments can be made towards the licensing costs of the solution, my company prefers to make annual payments.

    There are no additional costs apart from the licensing costs attached to the solution.

    Which other solutions did I evaluate?

    Apart from Freshservice, my company looked at another solution, HaloITSM, during an evaluation process.

    What other advice do I have?

    The solution is very easy to maintain.

    Freshservice is a tool you can choose if you want a product with an easy setup phase.

    I rate the overall product an eight out of ten.

    Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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