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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BookStack

    Score9.1 out of 10
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    ServiceNow Customer Service Management

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ABuilt on the Now Platform, ServiceNow offers their Customer Service Management solution through the Standard and Professional Customer Service Management bundles. Both include agent workspace, knowledge management, survey and assessment module, and the community module, oriented in this edition to support customers rather than internal employees. The Professional bundle also includes performance analytics, predictive intelligence, and related tools to support customer support agents improvement…N/A
    Pricing
    BookStackServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BookStackServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    BookStackServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of BookStack and ServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Feature
    BookStack
    -
    Ratings
    ServiceNow Customer Service Management
    7.0
    6 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings7.66 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings7.15 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings4.45 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.26 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings6.06 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of BookStack and ServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Feature
    BookStack
    -
    Ratings
    ServiceNow Customer Service Management
    4.7
    5 Ratings
    50% below category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings4.44 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings5.15 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of BookStack and ServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Feature
    BookStack
    -
    Ratings
    ServiceNow Customer Service Management
    6.3
    6 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings5.34 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings3.54 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    BookStackServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BookStackServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BookStack
    BookStack is fantastic for having business users and not-so-technically-savvy IT users. It enables them to create a documentation they like in a visual way while still forcing them to adhere to logical structure of a document. It works fine even for more technical matters such as integration guidelines, especially when these concern some of the more obscure technologies. The exported docs are presentable but lack any interactivity. Where it lacks is generating heavily technical documentations. Heavier REST or GraphQL integrations should for example be documented through other means. As for developer documentations, there are definitely more suitable alternatives, also.
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    ServiceNow
    It is well suited for medium to large companies that manage different teams and need to communicate constantly and track progress in a timely manner. It is less suited for small enterprises as it will overwhelm users with the features and functionalities embedded.
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    Pros
    BookStack
    • Documentation
    • Guides
    • Knowledge-base
    • Version control
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    ServiceNow
    • We manage internal tickets through ServiceNow Customer Service Management. We raise tickets with IT and other team
    • We manage our datapipe customers through ServiceNow Customer Service Management and it efficiently manages our customer interactions
    • ServiceNow Customer Service Management helps us manage projects and tasks and keep a log of all our migration customers
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    Cons
    BookStack
    • Continuity in backward compatibility
    • Dark mode
    • Absent tree view
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    ServiceNow
    • Adding in additional chat features would be nice
    • Viewing where you stand in priority
    • Having a way to automate more of the processes
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    Usability
    BookStack
    No answers on this topic
    ServiceNow
    Bottom line is that it does what you need it to do. We've been using Service Now as a ticket managing tool for a few years now. There's really not much it can't do when it comes to recording interactions. It has been nice using inventory tracking for software licenses and hardware as well.
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    Support Rating
    BookStack
    No answers on this topic
    ServiceNow
    Support has been very good. Any time there has been a real issue, the team has responded very quickly and identified the issue without a lot of repetitive questions that I've seen from other services. There is a great external community and internal knowledge base that covers pretty much anything you need.
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    Alternatives Considered
    BookStack
    Confluence, having only a slight advantage in terms of features compared to BookStack, really only makes sense to procure as a part of the Jira bundle. It requires much more maintenance from my experience and does not really deliver any extra value aside from the very strict certifications like HIPAA. DokuWiki and MediaWiki both provided way too much in terms of customizability, not really focusing on the business need. Of course, MediaWiki was conceived for a whole different purpose but is very often seen being used for both internal and public documentation delivery. DokuWiki did not provide the authors with the user-friendly environment that BookStack has and integrated most poorly with LDAP. As for OneNote, which was used for support docs prior to BookStack, it provided the authors with too much of a user-friendly environment, rendering the product of their work very inconsistent. Also, the sharing model was either peer-to-peer or within Teams, neither of which made it easy to audit and supervise.
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    ServiceNow
    Atlassian Jira lacks certain features and process which was delivered by ServiceNow Customer Service Management. Also, flexibility to customise was a point to select ServiceNow Customer Service Management tool. Cost which was high than Atlassian Jira compensated as it improved overall customer satisfaction and reduced resolution time by taking help of Knowledge base integration
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    Return on Investment
    BookStack
    • Spillover within Business IT staff up, nearly double substitutability. This is through the ability of a support technician servicing a different product to find a guide describing how to solve the more frequent issues the way a product lead would do it.
    • Time to draft and publish a documentation down some 20% compared to previous solution.
    • OpenSource that integrates fine with enterprise-grade software and somehow even passes security audit. 20 times cheaper to implement compared to Confluence, almost free to maintain.
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    ServiceNow
    • The negative impact for my team is the delay in team completing tickets but not a system issue.
    • A positive impact for my team is we can easily view the status of tickets and the follow-up emails are beneficial to maintain records of tickets.
    • Negative impact is that there is no user job aid or helpful tools for new users.
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