Efficient ticket automation with good incident management and service request management
What is our primary use case?
Freshservice is our organization's IT service management solution. We are using it for ITSM. We use Freshservice for incident management, service request management, creating an IT service catalog, automating approval workflows, ticket assignments, and automated responses to users and agents.
We also have change management and automated workflows for change requests. The asset management module is being used by us extensively.
How has it helped my organization?
With Freshservice in place, we have reversed the trend of creating tickets. There is a self-service portal where most users report their issues or raise requests. The ticket gets created, and if it requires approval, it enters the approval workflow automatically and gets assigned to the team after all the approvals have been done. This eliminates the need to chase anybody for approvals.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable aspects of the solution include incident management, service request management, creating an IT service catalog, automating approval workflows, ticket assignments, automated responses to users and agents, change management, and asset management module, which is extensively used.
What needs improvement?
Asset management can definitely be improved because it doesn't pick up every single device on the network or every single piece of information. Some manual information still needs to be entered.
We have also suggested improvements for functionalities such as onboarding and offboarding of employees and creating multiple tickets within a single ticket, which they have said will be considered as feature requests.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have used the solution for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Freshservice is quite stable as they host it on AWS. We have not had any major downtimes.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We haven't had any issues with scalability. It's a standard ITSM solution, and every user added to our Active Directory is automatically added to Freshservice as there is a sync happening. Those things are supposed to be scalable.
How are customer service and support?
Their technical support could be improved. There have been times where we have been bounced around for simple issues. However, they have improved over the period of two years.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have experience with other ITSM solutions such as BMC Remedy, ManageEngine, Microsoft Service Manager, however, those were on-premises solutions.
How was the initial setup?
It's a cloud-based solution, so it's not very complex. Once they create the instance for us, we define the fields, fill in drop-downs for locations, categorizations, etc., specific to our organization. Setting up and configuring the workflows is straightforward.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Freshservice is a subscription-based service. We pay a certain amount annually for the number of users, and as users increase, the cost increases. I'm not aware of how this pricing compares to other cloud-based ITSMs.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Previously used BMC Remedy, ManageEngine, and Microsoft Service Manager.
What other advice do I have?
Freshservice is very user-friendly and easy to customize. I would give it an eight rating out of ten overall. Based on my experience, I can recommend the product.
Freshservice to track and work on service requests
What do you like best about the product?
We are using Freshservice to integrate and work on service requests both for internal and external teams and easily track the requests and see that it is being handled by the relevant and right team.
What do you dislike about the product?
The user interface can be more professional as well as ease of integration and wider integration option can be benefiecial.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are managing the service request of internal and external teams for things like IT related or non IT related like HR or other employee benefits that may be required from time to time by the employees. This integrates very well with other internal tools we use and becomes very efficient overall for the organization.
Process-oriented efficiency and effective ticket automation while eliminating extensive triage
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution primarily for ITSM, but also in the capacity of ESM. It incorporates ITIL elements such as changes, problems, asset management, and ticketing, which is the main concept in use.
How has it helped my organization?
The solution facilitates a transition from an organizational structure that is function-based to a process-oriented approach. This improves efficiency in ticket routing and eliminates the need for extensive triage.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features include ticket routing, automation in triage, data control, and flat licensing. It allows for customization and offers a broad feature set.
What needs improvement?
I experienced some delay in response time for non-function critical queries. Moreover, there's limited experience with the CMDB or asset management features.
For how long have I used the solution?
We implemented the solution approximately four years ago.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I have not had any real experience scaling with this solution.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service is satisfactory, though there might be delays in response for non-critical issues.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We compared this solution with others in terms of feature comparison, licensing, and scalability.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is very easy, especially if the external components and organizational structure are pre-defined.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution offers flat licensing and appears to be cost-effective.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated Halo and compared it for feature capabilities and customization.
What other advice do I have?
None of my personal information should be published, and my comments should remain anonymous under GDPR regulations.
I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
Review for Freshservice
What do you like best about the product?
Freshservice is easy to use and there is a lot's of feature that improve my work.
What do you dislike about the product?
there is nothing major dislike about it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
when ever i faced any issue will raised a ticket on it and help me as well it person to cordinate with each other.
The Ideal IT Helpdesk Solution
What do you like best about the product?
The new modern UI is very attractive and easy to use. I also appreciate the updated Asset Life cycle Management feature, which is especially helpful for IT professionals like me to manage the complete life cycle of assets from procurement to disposal.
What do you dislike about the product?
The procing gets a bit expensive going forward and also the mobile app lags a lot. These areas can be improved a little.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It streamlines the ticketing issues as IT sometimes lost the way tracking their tickets without this tool and help in reduceing response time and ensures relevant team gets directed to the issues.
It also improves the SLA ensuring good customer satisfaction.
Streamlined our IT service management
What do you like best about the product?
- Onboarding and offboarding web forms
- Intuitive interface and automated workflows have reduced our resolution times significantly.
- A significant leader amoungst there competition
- Look a feel is very easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
- When requesting for feature, one doesnt hear anything from support after requested. Its as if the request disappears
- When asking for support, you are requested to find an available Calendy slot with an engineer, its usually a day later. Makes it difficult if you need support ASAP.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Onboarding and offboarding staff.
- Change Management
- Incident Management
- Release Management
- Inventory and Software management
Easy to integrate. covers most ITSM needs.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, implement, and integrate. covers most ITSM needs. Support is OK. Out business uses Freshservice very frequently for tickets and automation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of some features. Support is always very responsive but sometimes resolves issues too quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Freshservice provides the It agents great visabilty into active tickets. The canned responses is a great feature to speed responses.
We also use Freshservice workflows heavily to update out HRIS and ITAM (we do not use the built-in ITAM)
High level ticketing system
What do you like best about the product?
FreshService has a friendly UI which allows an easy track of tickers and tasks. In addition, the several services included allows to automate several processes. Also, every times I need support, I get fast answers and in case they cannot give me the service by email, a call takes place.
What do you dislike about the product?
When I did a migration process using the Workspace Organizer, some of the items from one workspace to another where not included to automatically migrate, making me involve lots of time into manual implementation. Also, I was negatively surprised about some FreshService management supposedly to test the differces between IT and Business agents and telling me that only a few differences, and I find out several differences.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows a cetralised way to manage, document and assign tickets opened by our employees, ensuring an effective communication and solving.
The best helpdesk out there!
What do you like best about the product?
Freshservice has been a lifesaver for our helpdesk and asset management. Freshservice has a wide range of features to use with a whole bunch of automation abilities as well. It easily integrated into our M365 tenant as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a little complicated to learn, but the guides provided and the customer support has been excellent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides multiple ways for our users to get in contact with the helpdesk.
Simple and clean to use, making our team more productive
What do you like best about the product?
Freshworks has made the way our team work much more streamlined. We previously used very old school methods of incident management, direct emails to team members etc., and we needed to get our way of working sorted. We have been using FreshService for over 2 years now and have found the way it helps us work, and the simplicity especially of that work, has meant that we are simply more productive.
I have used many ITSM tools in the past, Remedy, Clarify, HP's ITSM behemoth tool, and all sorts of homebrew solutions, but none comes close to the clean and simple web-based approach of this product. Initial set up and configuration is quick and easy, and ongoing configuration change and user maintenance is straightforward. We can all see exactly what we're doing, ticket portability between workspaces is simple and transparent, and we have no issues. FreshService hss just become a part of the furniture for our Infrastructure team management, and now many other teams, as we are rolling out to the whole business.
In time, we are planning to roll out additional features of the product in phases, Change Management being one of the first to be looked at following the initial roll out.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reporting is not as straightforward as it might be, but I'm an Infrastructure chap, and reporting is not one of my BAU responsibilities so perhaps it's not surprising that it has taken some time to get my head around it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Incident Management, it's just streamlining our BAU processes and daily work. Change Management and Problem Management are in sight to look at next too.
