ServiceNow vs IFS Field Service Management Comparison

The most advanced and easy to use software for all Service management needs.

The cost is going high and becoming heavy software which might be a differentiator for the future

I have been avid ITIL practitioner and have been using various products in various companies of my job experience. ServiceNow supports ITIL processes completely and most efficiently where there are minor drawbacks. The level of compromise required to enable processes efficiently is less as compared to Remedy and HPSM. Service Now has harnessed the power of virtual assistants which is yet being explored by other companies. The ease of set-up and manageability makes configuration of ServiceNow a cake-walk.

If you are new to service management processes, the plethora of services will leave you confused. Configure one process and explore them in and out before moving into another process. Capacity Management is still a missing factor in ServiceNow though demand management can be somehow captured through projects. integration with risk management could have been made simpler to show the mapping of technical risks to business risks.

To rack incidents, problem management , change management in proper way. Also we can create knowledge base articles in ServiceNow platform. We can add service catalogue based on our requirement.

I couldn't feel any difficulties so far.

Easy to log incidents, update status and communicate with the customer about their tickets. Great for storing service documentation -- all of our services are documented in ServiceNow so that as tickets come into our queue, we have a repository of knowledge base articles to refer to in order to resolve the issue. The visual task board facilitates daily team standups to discuss status and priorities.

The only thing I could think of is it would be great if the visual task board had more Trello-like features, especially their power ups (custom fields, burndown chart, etc).

The ease of use is the best with Service Now. From the ticket creation up to building KPI reports, you can feel that the Service now was design for a great user experience. Web tickets feature is great, Backlog management, Incident, Problem, and Request management is all there in a very complete and intuitive way. The fact that it offers templates was really helpful since we are deploying a brand new service desk service on our company.

Since it´s web based there could be some incompatibility and web page display issues on some browser and Operative Systems.

A brilliant ITSM tool and available as SaaS. The licensing mechanism is based on the fulfiller and approvers . The cost per licenses is a bit high for a fulfiller and hope service now can bring it down a bit. The best modules are :- Incident management , Change Management , Problem Management and CMDB.

The upgrades , every 6 months are something that always keeps us on our toes. secondly it Whatsapp and telegram can be integrated with service Now...

The product did not change the way we have been conducting business but it made it easier. It is easy to follow through requests and incidents in the system rather than manually following. The system removes geographical boundaries as you can escalate an issue which can be resolved in a short time by someone in a different location. You can have a reports which can inform you on strategic decisions. For example you can realise you need more human resource from the reports

It needs to add some component of AI where a bot can assist other users on some of the petty frequent similar request

It is straightforward and can help manage related templates, knowledge and tickets and SLAs for help desk. It provides a comprehensive tool for ticket and help desk management and resources for day to day activities and reporting.

The interface is a bit clunky and not user intuitive. It takes some time to understand where things are and how to use them.

Service now makes integrating workflow automation easy. I am able to carry out multiple IT Service management activities, ranging from incident management to Change management. it helps to aid accountability, you are able to view the work effort of each employee and the time it takes for incidents to be resolved in line with SLA. With Service now, I am able to view all task and incidents raised to my team at every particular point in time, assign them to appropriate team for resolution and also follow up on resolution. It also provides a platform where i am able to identify trends and recurring issues. The dashboard allows me to view all related activities at a glance, for me it is the best ITSM tool .

From NON -IT user perspective, it is difficult to work around the platform, it needs etxra training to educate users on how to use it. Asides that it is a great ITSM tool.

One of the best tool to raise incident tickets across multiple teams in the organization. We are using service now for tracking log changes. We are mainly use for change management, logs tracking and product release incident tickets

Nothing to dislike in the product. It does what it promises to do.

It is one of the best ticket management. It allows you to create tickets under any of the projects that is already mapped to the service now accounnt. Graphical suggestion and the report suggest the management team can make the decision based on the UI. It also has email notifications for users or group email ids whichever mapped or ticket is assigned

UI layout is changing or too much customization not required I hope. If the user is working for multiple client UI changes that needs to be avoided.

ITIL based Service Portal (Self Service Portal for quick searches spanning instance or specific areas) Knowledge Base (despite that not being checked in the available features) Full Service Management solution for the ENTIRE organization Strong Workflow engine Visible Table structures for clean data flows Extremely customizable (Forms, Fields, Tables, Applications, Portal, Workflow, Knowledge Base, etc...) Best in the business system architecture (fully redundant instances) HI Administration portal and ServiceNow support are top notch Service Now community is extremely active Docs site (formerly wiki) well updated and complete. Great organization and User groups You get a cake upon launch! Extensive Integration capabilities

Cost Some out-of-box examples really don't match up to any organizations needs and leave you wanting more Email rules are more complex than they need to be (some of this can be mitigated by free add-ons like Postmaster) Configuration can sometimes be limited and requires some Javascript to get past basics Mid Servers for integrations can be more work to maintain than desired

I like service now because it's very minimal and direct, and time wasn't wasted on designing a pretty interface. we use it for ticket management, both for sending out tickets to other teams, and then also tracking our workflow. I find it incredibly helpful to be able to track all stages of my work, and don't think I could do my job without it.

It's a little clunky. It's not as intuitive as other options. But I feel as though the functionality, if you have a team dedicated to setting it up for your needs, is incredibly useful and will greatly help in the long run.

The dozens of functions and features are offered. Has made my job easy and enjoyable. Easy to navigate.

At first, a tad bit tricky to maneuver and use to its full potential. Would like to see an integrated help system.

ServiceNow can do everything. I personally use it for project management, but our team uses it for ticket management, automated workflows. Our IT team uses it for asset management and ticketing. I've never found an all encompassing tool before.

It's fairly complicated to learn. I am currently learning dashboards and the reporting feature is really hard. There isn't really good resources out there to learn it either.

I love that we were able to implement catalog services to hel automate various processes.

For knowledge management ServiceNow is not very user friendly. It is difficult when trying to maintain formatting of knowledge documents.