Freshservice Reviews

We are using Freshservice for the IT ticketing system for business users.

We use the ticketing system primarily, which is very easy to use for all users. Freshservice is helpful, especially in incident management. Incident management is very helpful, and the system is straightforward, making it easy to use for our enterprise-level company.

We are in a broadcast environment, making around 40,000 hours of TV every year. Our primary use case is for responding to tickets where the end user receives telemetry. It's a little different from traditional IT help desks and is geared towards live TV production. Our support engineers work in shifts and this product is also a  way of handing things over from one shift to the next in an efficient way with visibility. We are customers of Freshservice.   

This solution has provided us with a level of ticket traceability that didn't exist previously. We now have statistics and data that tell the story of what our support engineers have been doing. It's improved speed and reliability.

We use it for receiving internal services provided by IT, HR, VR, facility management fleet, financial affairs, and legal affairs. It is used for any service provided internally by our departments. We have a large number of branches and departments. We have about 40,000 requesters.

We have multiple levels of services. We have central services and geographical or location-based services for the same type of service. For example, in HR, we have a training team. There are some services that are managed or provided by a central L&D team, and there are some services that are handled by the local L&D team. It has reduced the time to look up who is responsible for a service, and it has reduced the time to finalize a service request because it now goes directly to the person who is responsible for the service in that location. So, a service request is handled quickly and directly by the person responsible for it.

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.

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.

For the most part, we're doing some asset management with it. We've got about nine departments that are handling their ticketing requests through it through our service catalog. We use it for workflow building and integrations within as well.

As far as organizing the ticketing between departments and the analytics, we can draw from the different types of tickets that we have across our catalog. 

The analytic aspect of it is fairly good. It's broken down pretty much on an agent-per-agent basis and even within groups as well. 

It's pretty versatile in that regard. 

Freshservice is our organization's IT service management solution. We are using it for ITSM. We use Freshservice for incident management, service request management, creating an IT service catalog, automating approval workflows, ticket assignments, and automated responses to users and agents. 

We also have change management and automated workflows for change requests. The asset management module is being used by us extensively.

With Freshservice in place, we have reversed the trend of creating tickets. There is a self-service portal where most users report their issues or raise requests. The ticket gets created, and if it requires approval, it enters the approval workflow automatically and gets assigned to the team after all the approvals have been done. This eliminates the need to chase anybody for approvals.

I implemented the solution for a client, and it's used in the typical service management processes, including incident, problem, and change management. It's also used for fleet and facilities management. It has a built-in project management functionality, but that isn't used at the moment. Generally speaking, the out-of-the-box modules are used, with customisation.

It has allowed the client to implement service management processes that didn't previously exist in the business and to have more visibility and control of process tickets.

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

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.