ER/Studio Business Architect vs. ServiceNow Now Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ER/Studio Business Architect
Score 0.0 out of 10
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ER/Studio Business Architect is a business process and conceptual modeling tool. It simplifies how business stakeholders and data architects document conceptual models and business processes and how those processes impact enterprise data, to align with business goals and regulatory requirements. The tool brings together the simplicity of a drawing tool with the rich semantics of the business process model and notation (BPMN) 2.0 standard. Business users and data professionals can model the…N/A
ServiceNow Now Platform
Score 9.1 out of 10
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The ServiceNow Now Platform is a digital workflow building and extension tool for ServiceNow featuring a number of low-code / no code tools.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing for new customers only, first year maintenance included. Maintenance includes access to technical support and product updates for the defined period of the agreement.
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Community Pulse
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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9.4
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Likelihood to Renew
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7.0
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Usability
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9.2
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Support Rating
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7.7
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Implementation Rating
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Using it in the application support team is worth it as it is capable of carrying a lot of information. But using it for a Service Desk operation might not be of much use as it won't be used up to its full potential and will be costly as compared to other alternatives available in the market.
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Pros
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  • It helps put manage the request really well. It is easier to create a request, track the request and manage the request. It doesn't get lost into a pile of requests.
  • We've already pre-setted some settings into our ServiceNow. So it automatically assigns the level of urgency and mentions on the ticke if its a high or low priority request.
  • I really like the ServiceNow dashboards. They ate setup in a really nice way. The dashboards show the real time data aswell as old data incase if we need to see if there is a pattetn in the request or to fix any recurring issue.
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Cons
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  • Providing admins/devs with easier mechanisms for providing businss stakeholders with self-service admin capabilities across the platform
  • Tutorials on how to be the best at reporting in servicenow
  • Guided tour functionaltiy is a bit rigid and could use more workflow capabilities
  • Making it easier to push form variables to the user so there is more context when providing an approval. The out of box approval UI/form is terrible in my opinion.
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Likelihood to Renew
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While we are very likely to renew, we are also assessing if we should renew all of what we currently subscribe to as we try to reduce costs. Some parts of the business feel there may be a better tool out there to fit their process requirements. We are currently working with them to identify what those requirements are to see if it makes sense while also pointing out a reduced cost of tooling is not always the best fit if we have an increased cost of customization and maintenance between tools.
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Usability
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ServiceNow is a web platform that does not require any installation on a customer's computer. It is very easy to use and it is user-friendly. The customer started to open incidents very fast without investing time and money in training. Customer loves the dashboard at the startup where they can see all their open incidents or look at KB articles for any issue.
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Support Rating
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The platform is provided as a SaaS solution and support from the vendor has been good. There are regular software releases with bug fixes, new features and enhancements, and furthermore we are given the opportunity to fully test these before rolling these new releases out into the production environment to minimise the risk of business disruption
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Implementation Rating
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We went through a re-implementation last year with a partner and were very pleased with the outcome. We looked at several partners and chose one that was able to provide an entire scope and cost upfront of what would be required to complete our requirements. We worked very closely with the dedicated team assigned to our project throughout the process and they fully delivered on all of our requirements that we presented in the initial scope.
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Alternatives Considered
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ServiceNow was chosen as replacement for Microsoft Project , due to better licensing model, more flexible configuration of the project stages and components, better API with Azure DevOps. Also ServiceNow is best in the area of Incident and Service management systems and the proof of concept with Jira and incident.io were not successful and we kept relying on ServiceNow. ServiceNow is much more scalable than MS Project for constantly growing enterprise companies for both employee and external contractor type personas.
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Return on Investment
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  • The biggest positive impact ServiceNow has made to our organization is reduced IT support cost. When we didn't use ServiceNow, we needed a bigger support team. Now we don't need as many support employees.
  • The other positive impact that I've noticed is faster solutions to any problems. ServiceNow makes very easy to resolve IT issues, in a efficient way. The tickets are organized in a way that the higher priority tickets get worked on quicker.
  • The dashboard has also made the job easy to find a recurring problem from its core and fixing it forever so that we don't repeatedly get the same issues again and again
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ScreenShots

ER/Studio Business Architect Screenshots

Screenshot of A drawing tool with the rich semantics of the BPMN 2.0 standard, where users can model the relationships between people, processes, and data with ER/Studio Business Architect.Screenshot of The Conversation diagram, a high-level representation of the Collaboration diagram. It shows various parts of the business process and who the participants are that engage in a particular process, with a logical relation of message exchanges.Screenshot of Choreography diagrams that show the exchange of information related to the messages between participants working together on tasks shown in the process. This defines the way business participants coordinate their interactions. Choreographies can also be connected in sequence to show a series of related tasks.Screenshot of A conceptual model, that captures the key categories and interactions of data objects that are used by the business, such as subject areas, business entities, interactions and relationships.Screenshot of Reference objects (e.g. steward, business unit, business rule, business element, and application) that can be included. Also can include external data objects (e.g. entity, table, view, data store, data feed, report, and flat file) in both BPMN diagrams and conceptual models.