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Cherwell Service Management pricing
Cherwell Service Management has a free version. Cherwell Service Management paid version starts at US$189.00/month.
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Cherwell Service Management Reviews
Feature rating
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Cherwell Ticketing Software
Cherwell has been great overall. Have used it for around 3 years and have had almost no functional issues with it during that time.
Pros
Cherwell does a great job of keeping track of tickets across multiple teams with seamless integration. Makes ticketing for a large IT Dept. with over 12 teams easy. The software is customizable and allows for automation in just about every facet of the program. Tasks that take up to 10 minutes can be done instantly through the One-Step feature.
Cons
The software is lacking in visual design. It's functional but getting information to be readable and look good is very hard and takes quite a bit of work in the dashboard manager.
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Best ITSSM Platform - Indespensible in Delivering Our Services
Cherwell implements 11 ITIL process out-of-the-box which helped an immature organization like ours start practicing ITIL. It's automation capabilities are vast and robust. The single best part of this product is its philosophy. It is completely customizable to fit your organization's needs and if Cherwell doesn't do something another tool does or you want to continue to use that tool, Cherwell integrates with many tools natively, through merge application functionality, and lastly through general customization. Simply put, if you can dream it, Cherwell does it...and if it doesn't, it will integrate with something that does.
Pros
Everything! It is customizable to fit my organization's needs. I happen to be a programmer, but I don't need to be to develop and configure Cherwell. It implements robust and customizable frameworks that allow you to use it as you need to. Cherwell doesn't dictate ITSSM, it's your partner in it.
Cons
The customizability allows unwary or naive implementors, developers, or Cherwell Admins to make changes that ultimately reduce the awesomeness of the product. The biggest area of this is in implementing business processes. Before making changes, consider whether you business process is as effective as it should be, rather than making the product implement a poor-performing process.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Requires alot of cutomization
Software needs a lot of backend work and creates more issues then it resolves.
Pros
User limitation and liscensing. Lots of flexibility in reporting and searching.
Cons
Required lots of cutomization. Slow to run searches. Lack of ability to customize alot of setting that are important but ability to customize some that are kind of pointless.
- Industry: Religious Institutions
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Enterprise-Level Ticketing System
I really like Cherwell, and find it does meet our needs well for ticketing. I'm able to enter my information quickly to submit and process tickets. Great tool.
Pros
Cherwell is a well established IT ticketing tool, that my company has used for over two years now. We use it for incident reporting and journaling, as well as for our operation changes. I really like the robustness of it. It's user friendly, and has options and controls for almost anything I'd want to enter for the tickets. The software is customizable, and our admin team has tweaked things to be more in line with our company and uses. It has a clean smooth interface and does handle everything we want to do with our tickets.
Cons
When we first switched to Cherwell from HPSM, we did find the learning curve to be large, as the two tools have many differences. In general, like with any software, it does take time to get used to, but once we did get used to it, it seems rather smooth.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Cherwell is a great ITSM that is easily expanded to the Enterprise
We implemented Cherwell in 2013. Currently we have incident, service request and change management implemented within IT. IT Projects underway are problem management, knowledge management and employee on-boarding/off-boarding. We also expanded the tool to Customer Service, Operations, Facilities Service and Supply Chain. Our next non-IT project will be implementing the tool within HR.
The tool does not require programming background to configure. We have two non-technical
resources who are responsible for the administration of the tool and development of new applications.
Dashboards are an easy way to report real time data from the system. They are powerful and we use them everyday to monitor our service.
As a company Cherwell is 100% customer focused. They listen to us and help us be successful with the tool. The culture of the company is amazing and not something you typically see at a software company.
Pros
Configurability, flexibility and ability to expand beyond IT.
Cons
The report writer is difficult to learn and understand.
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