ServiceNow vs. SolarWinds Service Desk Comparison


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		Related Products ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus Best in class online service desk software. Offer your customers world-class services with ServiceDesk Plus Cloud, the easy-to-use SaaS service desk software from ManageEngine, the IT management division of Zoho. Track and manage IT tickets efficiently, resolve issues faster, and ensure end-user satisfaction with the cloud-based IT ticketing system used by over 100,000 IT service desks worldwide. Manage the complete life cycle of IT incidents, problems, changes, and projects with out of the box ITIL workflows. Create support SLAs, define escalation levels, and ensure compliance. Automate ticket dispatch, categorization, classification, and assignment based on predefined business rules, and set up notifications and alerts for timely ticket resolution. Reduce walk ins and unnecessary tickets by giving your users more control. Enable end users to access IT services through your service catalog in the self-service portal. Help users create and track tickets and search for solutions. 1,946 Ratings Visit Website Freshservice If you're looking for an IT service desk solution that's actually simple, turn to Freshservice. A plug-and-play ITIL service desk by Freshworks, Freshservice helps businesses modernize IT and other business functions--without the cost and complexity. Freshservice offers everything teams need for proactive IT service management, including ticketing and asset management, configuration management and enhanced impact analysis, robust incident management functionalities, and more. 2,095 Ratings Visit Website Serviceaide Serviceaide is a complete service management solution that can be implemented in weeks, not months, and intuitive to use. With low administration costs and quick implementation, you will see a real return on your investment. A flexible platform that works either on premise or in the cloud. Serviceaide is based on ITIL best practices and has been designed to be a comprehensive solution with all the components your team needs. You can choose the environment that best suits your technology, compliance, and infrastructure needs. Affordable and comprehensive, Serviceaide provides IT staff with the functions required to manage everything from ticketing to incident, change and asset management and more. Serviceaide includes a virtual agent, self-service portals and AI-based features to support analyst and end user productivity. Automate processes across technical workflows, services and business processes for business agility. 244 Ratings Visit Website Zendesk Zendesk is an AI-powered service solution that’s easy to set up, use, and scale. It works out-of-the-box and adapts quickly, enabling businesses to move faster. Built on billions of CX interactions, Zendesk AI supports the whole service journey—from self-service to agents to admins—helping teams resolve issues faster and operate efficiently at scale. Zendesk empowers agents with tools, insights, and context to deliver personalized service on any channel—social messaging, phone, or email. It unifies personalized conversations, omnichannel case management, AI workflows, automation, and a Marketplace of 1200+ apps. Easy to implement, it frees teams from relying on IT or costly partners. Serving over 130K global brands in 30+ languages, Zendesk simplifies business complexity to create meaningful customer connections. Headquartered in San Francisco, it operates worldwide. 7,954 Ratings Visit Website Atera Atera, the first and only Agentic AI platform for IT management, offers IT teams and MSPs a digital workforce of AI agents to preemptively and autonomously manage their entire IT operations. Its all-in-one platform combines RMM, helpdesk, ticketing, and automation to reduce downtime, improve SLAs, and free IT teams to focus on strategic work over mundane tasks. At the core of Atera’s platform are two powerful AI agents built to enhance every layer of IT operations. AI Copilot helps technicians troubleshoot devices, run diagnostics, and generate actionable solutions in real time. IT Autopilot delivers 24/7/365, autonomously resolving Tier-1 issues and reducing IT workload by up to 40%. It acts like a personal AI technician for every employee, freeing your team to focus on what really matters. Trusted by 13K+ customers in over 120 countries, Atera scales with your needs while maintaining the highest security and compliance standards. 2,094 Ratings Visit Website NinjaOne NinjaOne unifies IT to simplify work for 35,000+ customers in 140+ countries. The NinjaOne Unified IT Operations Platform delivers endpoint management, autonomous patching, backup, and remote access in a single console to improve efficiency, increase resilience, and reduce spend. By automating IT and managing all endpoints, organizations give employees a great technology experience to work faster, smarter, and easier while IT teams modernize and improve efficiency. NinjaOne is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools. The company is obsessed with customer success and has retained a 98% customer satisfaction score for more than 5 years. 5,368 Ratings Visit Website SuperOps SuperOps is the AI-native unified platform for modern MSPs and internal IT teams. It replaces the typical four-to-six-tool IT operations stack - PSA, RMM, helpdesk, MDM, asset tracking, network monitoring, patch management and IT documentation - with a single, built-as-one platform on a shared data layer. That architectural choice is what makes the rest of the platform work, particularly its agentic AI. Monica AI, SuperOps' intelligence layer, was designed alongside the platform from day one. It triages tickets, surfaces patch and CVE risks, drafts worklogs, suggests knowledge base articles, and increasingly handles fully autonomous workflows for routine work. SuperOps supports Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, iPadOS and Android, integrates with the IT and MSP ecosystem (Slack, Teams, Azure AD, Okta, QuickBooks, Xero, Bitdefender, SentinelOne and more), and bundles Splashtop and ISL Online remote access free. Transparent pricing, fast deployment, founder-led product investment. 223 Ratings Visit Website ScreenMeet The leading enterprise cloud-native remote support platform, embedded in ServiceNow, Salesforce, Tanium, and more. Empower your IT Help Desk and Contact Center teams to resolve 32% more issues in the first call. With a sleek UX and multi-channel support, agents launch in a single click with no downloads necessary. Since ScreenMeet is browser-based and embedded in your current CRM and ITSM, your IT Help Desk and Contact Center teams connect in seconds, thanks to our low latency, global cloud infrastructure. Authentication within platforms like Salesforce and ServiceNow ensures credentials adhere to your strict internal password policies, and it’s configurable to let you store data in your cloud in designated geographies. Enterprise-grade security -Built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leading cloud solution -Data transmission: TLS and DTLS 1.2+ with AES-256-bit encryption -Authentication with Salesforce & ServiceNow for added security -Store data in your preferred cloud 34 Ratings Visit Website ClickUp Every day your team loses hours bouncing between disconnected apps. The problem isn't your people. It's that your software was never built to work together. Bundling tools doesn't fix it. You need convergence. ClickUp is one platform where projects, docs, chat, goals, and AI share the same foundation so nothing gets lost. AI Agents handle busywork around the clock. Context is always intact. Your whole operation finally runs like it should. Tasks, 15+ views, automations, real-time docs, built-in chat, time tracking, whiteboards, goals with automatic rollups, and 1,000+ integrations. All connected. All in one place. Enterprise-ready: SOC 2 Type II, SSO/SAML, advanced permissions. Trusted by teams from startups to the Fortune 500. Stop patching a broken system. Get back the hours your team was never supposed to lose. Free Forever plan available. No credit card required. 17,695 Ratings Visit Website Pipefy Pipefy is the AI-driven Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT) platform that delivers enterprise results in days, not months. Designed as a secure orchestration layer, Pipefy bridges the gap between rigid legacy systems (ERPs/CRMs) and agile business needs. It allows IT teams to centralize disparate processes under a single control plane, eliminating Shadow IT through an Adaptive Governance framework. Key Capabilities: • Process Orchestration: Manage complex, non-linear workflows across departments without replacing core systems. • Enterprise iPaaS: Native connectors for the main systems of records to unify data silos. • Agentic AI: Deploy autonomous AI agents for document analysis and task execution using a BYOLLM (Bring Your Own LLM) engine. • Security: SOC2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified with granular RBAC. Empower your team to modernize operations and reduce the development backlog with Pipefy. 592 Ratings Visit Website
About Digitize your workflows - they'll love you for it. Your company can be more productive and your people more engaged. ServiceNow makes work, work better for people. Transform old, manual ways of working into modern digital workflows, so employees and customers get what they need, when they need it—fast, simple, easy. ServiceNow delivers digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for employees and the enterprise. We simplify the complexity of work on a single, enterprise cloud platform. The Now Platform: The intelligent and intuitive cloud platform for work. Choose from our workflows or build your own apps. Built on the Now Platform, our product portfolio delivers the  IT,  Employee, and  Customer Workflows that matter with enterprise solutions to help drive every part of your digital transformation. Create the great experiences you want and unlock the productivity you need, now with native mobile capabilities for everyday work across the enterprise.	About SolarWinds Service Desk, formerly Samanage, offers an enterprise level service-desk and IT asset-management solution for IT, HR, or Facilities professionals that need a clear and intuitive system to help manage requests. Also, the fully customizable platform allows users to collaborate on challenging tasks and share ideas with the use of the in-app 'whiteboard'. Business can use SolarWinds Service Desk to Manage Hardware and Software, Organize and Manage Licenses and Contracts, Detect Risks, Keep up-to-date with License Compliance, and much more. Simply said, SolarWinds Service Desk is the solution that understands what it takes to manage the services in your organization successfully. Deliver world class service to your employees and minimize the impact incidents have on your business operations. Keep track of every asset to ensure employees are equipped with the tools they need to get their work done.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience ITSM companies seeking a solution to connect people, functions, and systems across their organization	Audience Built to be the ticking management system of choice for IT, HR, or Facilities teams or full business, of any size or industry
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online	Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API	API Offers API
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Pricing $100 per month Free Version Free Trial	Pricing $19.00 per user per month We have 3 flexible editions starting at $19 per agent per month and $.40 per asset per month. Free Version Free Trial
Reviews/Ratings Overall 3.0 / 5 ease 4.0 / 5 features 4.0 / 5 design 3.0 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 0.0 / 5 ease 0.0 / 5 features 0.0 / 5 design 0.0 / 5 support 0.0 / 5 This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review: Review this Software
Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros ServiceNow was used extensively by my uni's IT department, where I worked for a while. We'd have different teams in the system and our users would submit tickets and tag different teams, and ServiceNow was like an email wrapper that kept track of incidents and information that the users would give. It seemed to play well with our other alerting systems and users were mostly able to contact us without issue. Cons The UI man. This was a few years ago so maybe things are better now but geez dude can you try to select a worse color scheme than blocky grey boxes without a shred of elegance or rounded corners? Ugly as heck and intimidating with dropdown boxes under more dropdowns, and some of the pages weren't intuitive either.
Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person	Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person
Company Information ServiceNow Founded: 2003 United States www.servicenow.com	Company Information SolarWinds Founded: 2007 United States www.solarwinds.com/service-desk
Alternatives Freshservice Freshworks	Alternatives Freshservice Freshworks
Atera	EZO AssetSonar EZO
ManageEngine Endpoint Central ManageEngine	SysAid SysAid Technologies
Jira Service Management Atlassian	ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus ManageEngine
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Categories AI Service Management (AISM) Help Desk Issue Tracking IT Service ITSM Service Request Management	Categories AI Service Management (AISM) Help Desk Issue Tracking IT Asset Management IT Management IT Service ITSM Runbook Automation Service Desk Service Request Management Whiteboard
Help Desk Features Alerts / Escalation Automated Routing Community Forums Customizable Branding Document Storage Email Integration Incident Management Interaction Tracking IT Asset Management Knowledge Base Known Issue Management Live Chat Multi-Channel Communication Multiple Brands / Products Network Monitoring Real-time Chat Self Service Portal Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management Ticket Management IT Service Features Contract Management Incident Management IT Asset Management Knowledge Management Release Management Self Service Portal Service Catalog Service Reporting Ticket Management ITSM Features Asset Tracking Availability Management Change Management Configuration Management Contract/License Management Dashboard Incident Management Problem Management Project Management Release & Deployment Management Self Service Portal Issue Tracking Features Assignment Management Dashboard Escalation Management Issue Auditing Issue Scheduling Knowledge Base Project Management Recurring Issues Scheduling Task Management	Help Desk Features Alerts / Escalation Automated Routing Community Forums Customizable Branding Document Storage Email Integration Incident Management Interaction Tracking IT Asset Management Knowledge Base Known Issue Management Live Chat Multi-Channel Communication Multiple Brands / Products Network Monitoring Real-time Chat Self Service Portal Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management Ticket Management IT Service Features Contract Management Incident Management IT Asset Management Knowledge Management Release Management Self Service Portal Service Catalog Service Reporting Ticket Management ITSM Features Asset Tracking Availability Management Change Management Configuration Management Contract/License Management Dashboard Incident Management Problem Management Project Management Release & Deployment Management Self Service Portal Issue Tracking Features Assignment Management Dashboard Escalation Management Issue Auditing Issue Scheduling Knowledge Base Project Management Recurring Issues Scheduling Task Management Show More Features IT Asset Management Features Asset Tracking Audit Management Compliance Management Configuration Management Contract/License Management Cost Tracking Depreciation Management Inventory Management IT Service Management Maintenance Management Procurement Management Requisition Management Supplier Management IT Management Features Capacity Monitoring Compliance Management Event Logs Hardware Inventory IT Budgeting License Management Patch Management Remote Access Scheduling Software Inventory User Activity Monitoring
Integrations Blink Help Desk Migration Hornbill Indent LogMeIn Rescue OneLogin StarfishETL Teamstack TurboDocx Workativ Zapier Zero Incident Framework Faraday HeadSpin Knead Nango Sapling AI Writing Assistant Stormboard Swimlane Veza Show More Integrations View All 1007 Integrations	Integrations Blink Help Desk Migration Hornbill Indent LogMeIn Rescue OneLogin StarfishETL Teamstack TurboDocx Workativ Zapier Zero Incident Framework Faraday HeadSpin Knead Nango Sapling AI Writing Assistant Stormboard Swimlane Veza Show More Integrations View All 33 Integrations
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