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Freshservice vs ServiceNow IT Operations Management comparison

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.9
IBM Turbonomic's customer service is praised for prompt, knowledgeable support and efficient issue resolution, maintaining high overall satisfaction.
Sentiment score
7.5
Freshservice support is praised for responsiveness but criticized for navigation challenges, misunderstandings, and inconsistent satisfaction with issue resolution.
Sentiment score
7.2
ServiceNow IT Operations Management support is generally prompt and knowledgeable, but some users seek better documentation and faster resolutions.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
6.0
IBM Turbonomic needs an updated user interface, enhanced reporting, better documentation, and improved integration with third-party tools.
Sentiment score
4.6
Freshservice needs better reporting, customization, integration, and workflow management, along with improvements in analytics and support features.
Sentiment score
6.0
ServiceNow IT Operations Management is costly, complex to deploy, with limited features, difficult integrations, and needs UI, AI, and performance improvements.
There's limited experience with the CMDB or asset management features.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
IBM Turbonomic scales effectively, managing large environments and thousands of virtual machines with flexible licensing and strong support.
Sentiment score
8.4
Freshservice scales well for small to medium businesses, despite customization limits and cost concerns for larger enterprises.
Sentiment score
8.4
ServiceNow IT Operations Management is highly scalable, allowing easy expansion, with seamless user addition but potential network integration complexities.
 

Setup Cost

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IBM Turbonomic offers flexible, cost-effective pricing, with significant savings over additional VMware hosts; negotiate for tailored deals.
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Enterprise buyers should explore Freshservice's flexible licensing and competitive pricing, assessing feature costs and scalability per needs.
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ServiceNow IT Operations Management provides customizable, premium pricing based on customer needs, making it a comprehensive but expensive solution.
The solution offers flat licensing and appears to be cost-effective.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.7
IBM Turbonomic is highly stable, with minor issues quickly resolved, maintaining strong performance and reliable recovery from disruptions.
Sentiment score
8.5
Freshservice is praised for reliability and stability, with minor issues in integration and data imports occasionally noted by users.
Sentiment score
8.6
ServiceNow IT Operations Management is highly stable and reliable, generally rated between seven and nine out of ten.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.2
IBM Turbonomic enhances IT efficiency through automation, resource optimization, workload management, integration, and efficient cost-performance balance.
Sentiment score
8.3
Freshservice excels with its user-friendly design, scalability, and comprehensive features, boosting IT productivity and offering flexible pricing.
Sentiment score
8.6
ServiceNow IT Operations Management excels in asset discovery, service mapping, user-friendly interface, scalability, and efficient tracking, reducing costs.
The most valuable features include ticket routing, automation in triage, data control, and flat licensing.
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Turbonomic
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Ranking in Cloud Management
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
205
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (5th), Virtualization Management Tools (3rd), Cloud Analytics (1st), Cloud Cost Management (1st)
Freshservice
Ranking in Cloud Management
17th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (9th), Project Management Software (14th), IT Asset Management (9th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (7th)
ServiceNow IT Operations Ma...
Ranking in Cloud Management
9th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
38
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (1st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (7th), AIOps (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 6.3%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Freshservice is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is 1.6%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

SubashSubbiah - PeerSpot reviewer
It can tell us where performance is lagging on the hardware layer, but the reporting on the application layer is lacking
The automation area could be improved, and the generic reports are poor. We want more details in the analysis report from the application layer. The reports from the infrastructure layer are satisfactory, but Turbonomic won't provide much information if we dig down further than the application layer. I would like them to add some apps for physical device load resourcing and physical-to-virtual calculation. It gives excellent recommendations for the virtual layer but doesn't have the capabilities for physical-to-virtual analysis. Automated deployment is something else they could add. Some built-in automation features are helpful, but we aren't effectively using a few. We want a few more automated features, like autoscaling and automatic performance optimization testing would be useful.
Tim Guilder - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides excellent traceability along with improved efficiency and reliability
It would be good to have the product integrated with Google because that's our corporate tool of choice. I'd also like to see a notice board where you can list a summary of the top 10 items being dealt with each day. It's something that would be very helpful. I believe they're working on a chatbot but we haven't seen that as yet. I'd like it to include a space where questions asked to a chatbot can be self-triaged in terms of support or with the ability to point you towards a knowledge-based article. We've been doing some of that ourselves but it would be good to have it through a chatbot.
Archana Menon - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to use and has great orchestration and automation capabilities
The solution's initial setup is straightforward. Complexity always comes when the company requirements are added. There is a reason why ServiceNow is a market leader. If they would also bring in the complex nature like their peers, force companies to stick to out-of-the-box all the time, and bring in product customizations or product revisions, which would force other users not to use customization, then it would not stay like that. ServiceNow should not go the same route as other vendors and restrict their products from being scaled up or scaled down.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
5%
Computer Software Company
26%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Turbonomic?
It offers different scenarios. It provides more capabilities than many other tools available. Typically, its price is...
What needs improvement with Turbonomic?
The implementation could be enhanced.
What is your primary use case for Turbonomic?
We use IBM Turbonomic to automate our cloud operations, including monitoring, consolidating dashboards, and reporting...
What do you like most about Freshservice?
The solution has been very helpful engineering insights into the client's environment. We have been able to manage c...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Freshservice?
We're on the pro model and the pro license. It is kinda expensive. There are several licensing options. We don't use ...
What needs improvement with Freshservice?
There are requirements, not only from our side but from different users worldwide. I work with some community groups ...
What do you like most about ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
From my perspective as an asset manager, the most valuable feature of the solution is the configuration management po...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
It is a little expensive. I rate the product’s pricing a six or seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expen...
What needs improvement with ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
The main issue with ITOM in an enterprise environment is performance. If you're ingesting hundreds of thousands of ev...
 

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Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager
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Sample Customers

IBM, J.B. Hunt, BBC, The Capita Group, SulAmérica, Rabobank, PROS, ThinkON, O.C. Tanner Co.
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Western Carriers, Judson University, Golf Canada, Travix, Proxama, Paymentez, Ready Auto Transport
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Find out what your peers are saying about Freshservice vs. ServiceNow IT Operations Management and other solutions. Updated: October 2024.
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