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ServiceNow IT Asset Management

Score8.2 out of 10

52 Reviews and Ratings

What is ServiceNow IT Asset Management?

ITSM / ITOM specialist ServiceNow launched its software asset management solution in 2017. Built on the Now Platform, the ServiceNow IT Asset Management bundle, which includes the CMDB module also as well as the relatively new SAM module, allows users to manage software licenses and hardware assets with IT workflows and lifecycle visibility. This bundle presents a solution to users not using the ServiceNow ITSM bundle.

Top Performing Features

  • Software and hardware inventory tracking

    Discovery and management of hardware and software inventory

    Category average: 8.2

  • License management

    Tracking license agreement compliance to ensure that infrastructure is neither over nor under licensed

    Category average: 7.6

  • Asset lifecycle monitoring

    Monitoring asset lifecycle from acquisition to retirement

    Category average: 7.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Contract management

    Tools to assist in managing purchase orders and contracts

    Category average: 7.3

  • Asset relationship management

    Asset relationship management is the ability to see relationships between assets to help with troubleshooting

    Category average: 7.6

Seamless Asset Tracking and Integration for Modern IT Teams

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our Organization we use ServiceNow ITAM primarily to track, manage and optimize our hardware, software and cloud assets. It’s integrated with our ServiceNow ITSM workflows, as well as Amazon Connect and Zoom Phone, to give agents real-time visibility into user assets during support calls, which has significantly improved resolution time.

Pros

  • Software License Optimization
  • Real time integration with ITSM and Agent tools
  • Automation Compliance and reporting

Cons

  • The ITAM dashboards and forms can feel overwhelming for agents or managers who don’t use the system every day.
  • While the reporting tools are robust. building custom, dynamic reports still requires a decent understanding of the ServiceNow Platform.

Return on Investment

  • By tracking license usage, we’ve been able to reallocate unused licenses instead of purchasing new ones, saving thousands annually.
  • With the integration to Amazon Connect and Zoom Phone, agents can instantly view user assets during calls, which has reduced average resolution time and improved customer satisfaction scores.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Freshservice, CRM and Deals for Zendesk, Zendesk Guide, Zendesk Talk, Zendesk Chat, SolarWinds Service Desk (SSD), Jira Service Management and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus

Other Software Used

Amazon Connect, Zoom Phone, Dialpad Connect, GoTo Connect, Freshchat, HubSpot CRM, Zendesk Sunshine, Zendesk Chat, Bigin by Zoho CRM, Zoho Analytics, Aircall, ServiceNow App Engine, ServiceNow Enterprise Asset Management, ServiceNow Automated Test Framework (ATF), Slack, ManageEngine ADManager Plus

ServiceNow IT Asset Management - My experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ServiceNow IT Asset Management tool has been a great addition to our organisation. We were able to implement it without any hassles. The UI is also quite user friendly and users can work on it without much difficulty right from the beginning. The best feature is the centralised location which works as an inventory/repository to monitor the resources.

Pros

  • Great user interface, easy to use for new users
  • Variety of integration options available
  • Good customer support

Cons

  • High cost of license for small companies which can be made affordable.
  • Updating the asset information can be buggy when dealt with a complex environment with large number of assets
  • It can have better documentation support with updated information.

Return on Investment

  • ServiceNow had a positive impact on our firms resource management as it's a one stop solution.
  • It made sure that we did not move to an alternative because of it's extensive features
  • Licensing cost can get better but overall it is worth the returns we get.

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams

Review For Service Now

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were using Service now for incident management and managing all new requests, any employee can open a request for it as we have thousands of employees are working from home hence Service now works efficiently to work with, also it is easy to have the current status as we can have current comments and steps to be taken are clearly visible.

Pros

  • Incident Management
  • Reporting for Incident
  • Dashboards

Cons

  • UI can be better, It sometime hard to search the tickets
  • Learning curve is Long ,

Most Important Features

  • Incident Management
  • Data Migration

Return on Investment

  • Effective Incident management saves lot of time.

IT Service Management Tool Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ServiceNow is our ITIL-driven service management portal where we manage all our resources, activities on one hand and make use of ITIL to the best on the other hand. We use it as our inventory system maintaining the IT assets comprising of all the physical systems and the Configuration Items regarding the systems we have for our business. It's a one-stop shop for all the IT landscape integrating people to systems to resources.

Pros

  • Incident Management
  • Inventory Management
  • Change Management
  • Problem Management
  • Knowledge Management

Cons

  • One quick thing is integration to reporting platforms like MS Power BI
  • License levels because a normal user with an ITIL license cannot schedule reports..need another license there
  • Easy way to track SLA for incident Management

Most Important Features

  • Configuration Items
  • Known Errors
  • Knowledge Articles

Return on Investment

  • I am always up to date with respect to the IT landscape that I have
  • I always know which of my assets are expired or expiring
  • I get to know the lifecycle of my end to end systems

Alternatives Considered

BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy)

Other Software Used

BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy), Jira Software, Dell Service Desk Outsourcing

ServiceNow is great tool for incident and change management

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to track our incidents, requests, and change management. It provides a better way to review and update incidents at a centralized location. It tracks our changes to environments including lower and prod. This also provides the interface for knowledge base articles which is very helpful for the team. Great tool.

Pros

  • Incident management
  • Change management
  • Knowledge base

Cons

  • Automated approval
  • Tableau API call improvement
  • Working with AppFlow seamless

Most Important Features

  • Incident management
  • Request management
  • Change management

Return on Investment

  • Better tool to track incidents and requests
  • Change management well tracked
  • Knowledge base article is useful

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, Redgate SQL Monitor, Orion