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Cherwell Service Management (discontinued)

Score4.4 out of 10

108 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cherwell Service Management (discontinued)?

Cherwell Software was a full suite of service management tools competing with BMC Remedy, ServiceNow, and IBM SmartCloud. It was acquired by Ivanti, and has reached EOL.

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Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Organize and prioritize service tickets

    Prioritize tickets to ensure most urgent are tackled first

    Category average: 9

  • Expert directory

    Directory of IT and businesses services available to customers to help route tickets to appropriate subject matter experts

    Category average: 7.9

  • Service restoration

    Impact assessment and automated fixes for common problems

    Category average: 8.2

Areas for Improvement

  • Change requests repository

    Single repository of all planned changes and releases

    Category average: 8.4

  • Change calendar

    Calendar showing change schedule to stakeholders

    Category average: 8.5

  • Service-level management

    Process for negotiating agreements regarding service level expectations, and ensuring these are met

    Category average: 8.6

Who Buys & Uses Cherwell Service Management (discontinued)

Good Product - Cherwell CSM

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cherwell CSM is our first true ITSM solution. It has it's "Cherwellisms" but, it lived up to and exceeded our expectations for the cost. The flexibility in the One-Steps, Searches and Automation allows us a lot of flexibility. The User Groups are a huge help and knowledge share. We're looking forward to the convergence platform where Ivanti incorporates both products to bring an elevated value. I'd recommed (and have) the CSM product.

Pros

  • Automation
  • API's
  • One Steps
  • Searches

Cons

  • Reports
  • Losing values in one-steps after publishing
  • Form layout improvement

Return on Investment

  • Lower Cost
  • Higher Efficiency
  • Ease and flexibility to adapt

Alternatives Considered

ServiceNow Customer Service Management, BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy) and iSupport

Other Software Used

iSupport, Cherwell Asset Management, Bitbucket

Service Management System for easy maintainability

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our IT department had no Incident Management system until July of 2020. Everything was done on white boards, note pads, and spreadsheets. No real collaboration between the help desk and other departments like systems administration, networking, security, programming.

Implemented Cherwell to begin tracking and managing Incidents for our retail support team and 130 mid-west grocery stores. Have since expanded to managing assets (endpoints, mobile devices, network hardware, servers). CMDB's are configured for all teams with some automation.
Worked with a third party to implement a contract/license management system to track all IT based service contracts, Microsoft licenses, etc.
Converted our old change management system to Cherwell in summer of 2022 and streamlined the process with automated approvals and calendar entries. Service Management metrics have helped identify problematic areas where training can be applied to end users.

The only real negative is the current administrative console is client based not web. When Ivanti rolls out the converged platform with Neurons, I will be glad as the interface will be HTML5 and easier to use.

Pros

  • Incident and Problem Management
  • CMDB endpoint tracking
  • Change Mangement
  • Automation with one-steps

Cons

  • Administration Console is legacy
  • Self Service Portal hard to set up without outside assistance
  • Integrations with external applications like SCCM, VMware, AD

Return on Investment

  • Positive experience for our customers in managing their service issues
  • Positive experience in managing mobile devices where they are returned for repair and need to be tracked and returned to the end user.
  • Subscriptions can be a bit expensive for smaller customers.

Alternatives Considered

BMC FootPrints, ServiceNow Customer Service Management and BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy)

Other Software Used

Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune + SCCM), HCL BigFix, IntSights Cyber Intelligence, from Rapid7

Best business automation solution

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cherwell service manager assists us with automating all of our business processes. This assists us with processes outside of ITSM and Beyond ITSM. The ease of use of the product makes solution design and development a breeze. I can do everything from cradle to grave from designing to reporting on the processes that have been built.

Pros

  • Automation of Business Processes
  • Dashboard
  • ITSM

Cons

  • Business Intelligence (Reporting)
  • Web interface
  • UI / UX

Alternatives Considered

Halo Service Desk, ServiceNow Customer Service Management and Freshdesk Contact Center

Cherwell is an underrated powerhouse that solves your business problems

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cherwell Service Management for our main IT workflows including Incident, Service Request, Customer Self-Service, Change Management, and Asset Management. In addition, IT supports the use of Cherwell for Enterprise Service Management in core functions like HR, Finance, and Student for service desks and customer self-service. Finally, Cherwell is used as a business process engine for a variety of unique workflows that support all the areas already mentioned but also research services, auxiliary services, and healthcare customer service. We use Cherwell in many situations where the business function needs a quick turnaround on digitizing a workflow, setting up a business unit for service ticketing, or the business function is so unique that a custom application is required.

Pros

  • Low code solution development for business processes
  • Fantastic customer support and customer community
  • Exceptional value for the price
  • Highly usable out of the box for traditional ITIL processes

Cons

  • Cherwell lacks modern UI capabilities such as responsive forms and CSS styling for web portals.
  • Built-in reporting engine is hard to use and resource intensive to run.
  • No patching model for small platform fixes, must upgrade to receive platform code changes.

Return on Investment

  • Cherwell [Service Management] easily competes with other ITSM/ESM solutions on its capability but has a much lower price point than other comparable tools.
  • We have processed close to a million service transactions in just over 3 years.
  • Cherwell has allowed IT to successfully partner with the business to drive efficiency, customer service, and lower costs across functions.

Alternatives Considered

ServiceNow IT Service Management and TeamDynamix IT Service Management (ITSM)

Other Software Used

Oracle PeopleSoft HCM, Microsoft Teams, Statuspage

Cherwell , one stop ITSM tool.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cherwell Service Management is the solution if you are looking for a user-friendly ITSM tool. We use it for service requests/incidents, change, and problem management. The GUI is user-friendly and is easy to modify as per the company requirements. Data stored, can be extracted in all forms of reports and dashboards in order to showcase the trends for the last few months.

Pros

  • Logging Tickets.
  • Creating Dashboards.
  • Knowledge Database.
  • Analytical Reports.

Cons

  • Reporting Charts can be better.
  • Web portal has issues in seeing journals which is better in Cherwell client.
  • Web portal and Client should have same features.

Return on Investment

  • Cost effective.
  • Increase in Self service tickets which lowers the incoming calls.
  • Knowledge base helps in self resolving tickets at Level 0/1 without escalation.

Alternatives Considered

ServiceNow Customer Service Management and Zendesk Support Suite

Other Software Used

Cisco Jabber, Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Microsoft Teams