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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    PagerDuty

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APagerDuty is an IT alert and incident management application from the company of the same name in San Francisco.

    $25

    per month per user

    ServiceNow IT Operations Management

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ABuilt on the Now Platform, the ServiceNow IT Operations Management bundle is designed to help users gain visibility across infrastructure and apps, maintain service health, and optimize cloud delivery and spend.N/A
    Pricing
    PagerDutyServiceNow IT Operations Management
    Editions & Modules
    Professional
    $25
    per month per user
    Business
    $49
    per month per user
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    Pricing Offerings
    PagerDutyServiceNow IT Operations Management
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    PagerDutyServiceNow IT Operations Management
    Considered Both Products
    PagerDuty
    Chose PagerDuty
    PagerDuty seemed to have a much more flexible setup that allowed the organization to build and manage how we respond to alerts and incidents. The ServiceNow product seemed to be a bit more rigid.
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    ServiceNow
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    95%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
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    User Ratings
    PagerDutyServiceNow IT Operations Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (141 ratings)
    9.5
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
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    Usability
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (85 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    PagerDutyServiceNow IT Operations Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    PagerDuty
    I think PagerDuty works great for medical practices. I have used other platforms through other companies, and PagerDuty is by far the best platform. It is because of the different features it has to communicate to other staff members how the call is being handled. It is easy to learn how to use.
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    ServiceNow
    [...] is changing the way our internal support staff (not only in the IT field) work and enhancing the experience for employees seeking IT assistance through ServiceNow IT Operation Management. We have moved the usual and personalized IT tools and functions from [...] service-desk to ServiceNow IT Operations Management. These advancements have sparked innovation in various aspects of our IT support management, such as enhancing accessibility, managing incidents, optimizing IT workflows and procedures, enforcing service level agreements (SLAs), incorporating AI/ML technology, utilizing virtual agents, streamlining automation, and sharing knowledge throughout the support team via data visualization, monitoring, and reporting. In brief, our collaboration with ServiceNow IT Operations Management is enhancing the effectiveness of our internal system and benefiting our shared clients.
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    Pros
    PagerDuty
    • Alerting notifications is its best attribute; it will continue to make contact until the alert is acknowledged by a user.
    • The calendar view provides valuable information regarding who is on call by the team and their full contact information.
    • The application also lets you initiate a tech bridge meeting instantly and notifies all on-call users.
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    ServiceNow
    • In platform expertise and workflows, so we don't allows have to build everything from scratch.
    • Tight integration within ServiceNow (especially ITSM) but also brings information and data in from other sources, so I don't feel we are stuck in a proprietary hole.
    • Increased investment in AIOps and automation
    • Relatively fast time to value with out-of-the-box capabilities and automation.
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    Cons
    PagerDuty
    • When getting a phone call, PagerDuty doesn't seem to allow acknowledgments of alerts through the phone, which it says it does. I constantly receive a message that it was updated by another person - when in reality, it wasn't.
    • Smarter notifications. If an alert was snoozed for a time, when it comes back, it sends out another alert. It should, I think, send a message asking if the alert is still an issue and give the option to close.
    • Make schedule changes more intuitive.
    • One button to acknowledge and close an alert.
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    ServiceNow
    • With the introduction of AIOps, we hope triaging outage impact can become more proactive
    • The UI could be greatly enhanced and simplified for daily operations
    • ServiceNow API access licenses are usually very limited bottlenecking use cases to build dashboards out from it
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    Likelihood to Renew
    PagerDuty
    They have been rock solid for us thus far and are not very expensive and to be honest no time to evaluate other software at this point.
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    ServiceNow
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    Usability
    PagerDuty
    The UI is more complex than I would like. Part of the challenge is that most users use PagerDuty infrequently; I don't remember how I changed a policy last time. Another part of the challenge is that some users expect alerting to be a trivial feature, and are reluctant to invest any time in reading the documentation.
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    ServiceNow
    We achieved in financial what we are aiming for, as our targets are fulfilled, we solved many issues using ServiceNow, Creation of knowledge article improved, Ticket system got customized, overall survey from the customer is 4 out of 5, customization is done without any hustle and integration was very easy.
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    Support Rating
    PagerDuty
    PagerDuty is reliable and easy to set up. It gives an effective way to notify the team about critical incidents which results in a faster turnaround time on issues. users can customize their alerts rules based on their preferences. Overall it's effective and easy to use which adds great business value.
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    ServiceNow
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    Implementation Rating
    PagerDuty
    When I setup notifications to PD thru the Python API I was impressed with the ease with which I could set up the software/service.
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    ServiceNow
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    Alternatives Considered
    PagerDuty
    I have not use the 2 technologies for as long as I have used PagerDuty but in my opinion PagerDuty makes things a lot easier. The other tools got the job done and got alerts out but PagerDuty just seemed to make the setup for on-call alert schedules and integrations easier than the others. This isn't to say the others are difficult, just that PagerDuty was slightly better. I also have noticed that more tools have options to integrate to PagerDuty over the other tools.
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    ServiceNow
    We wanted it integrated with ITSM and ITBM. Prioir to that we used JIRA for agile development and SysAid for ticketing. So we started with converting SysAid. We went live with Vanilla ITSM. Then we could have a basis for ITOM. However, we needed to migrated from JIRA to ITSM. Only then we felt mature enough to examine ITOM, which required quite a lot of resources. You need networking, motoring, IT and Cyber security team members in your project!!
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    Return on Investment
    PagerDuty
    • Allow our service to be available 24/7 with minimal downtime, improving customer experience
    • Monitor incidents and allow us to customize/schedule alert notifications, making engineers' jobs easier and preventing turnover
    • Prevent SEVs that could deteriorate, bring down our service, and cost us millions of dollars from loss in bookings
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    ServiceNow
    • Makes it MUCH easier to understand impact between application and server
    • Makes it easier to understand impact from a change and what all it affects
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    PagerDuty Screenshots

    Screenshot of Similar Incidents [Apple iPad], Open Incidents [iPhone 8], On-Call Schedule Menu [Apple Watch])Screenshot of the Machine Learning with Technical Service Dependencies, used to better understand related incidents.Screenshot of a glimpse of service health and team performance via PagerDuty’s Intelligent Dashboards.