What is ServiceNow Knowledge Management?
The ServiceNow Knowledge Management (KM) application enables the sharing of information in knowledge bases. These knowledge bases contain articles that provide users with information such as self-help, troubleshooting, and task resolution. It increases self-service rates for customers and employees—and boosts agent productivity with contextual knowledge, driven by machine learning.
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Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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91 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+88 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love ServiceNow Knowledge Management?
Pros
- Friendly Negotiation
- Caring
- Respectful
- Fair
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Role-Based Access
Reporting and Analytics
Workflow and Approval Management
Cataloging
Intelligent Search
Configurable Knowledge Repository
Version Control
AI Capabilities
Multiple File Type Support
Rich Text Editor
Bulk Actions
Vendor Capability Ratings
Usability and Intuitiveness
Business Value Created
Ease of IT Administration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Implementation
Quality of Features
Breadth of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of Customization
Vendor Support
ServiceNow Knowledge Management Reviews
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2024
Best organized project management tool
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
Jesse L.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Insurance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2024
With the correct implementation, overall good exp.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates ServiceNow Knowledge Management from other similar products?
Service Now's organization of Knowledge and possibilities enable unique outcomes based on customer needs. The ability to accurately structure different sets of knowledge and control user groups is top tier.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
As a Knowledge Master, the portal is easy to manage user groups, technical writers, and articles with the ease of a couple button clicks.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Using the RTF often leads to the boxes incorrectly formatting without properly adjusting things like bullets, paragraph, and headers. I have a couple issues when trying to make specific outlines and sometimes will lose entire pages when service now stops responding mis-articls.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For basic knowledge management, this is a very easy tool to implement. For owners of the Service Now platform, this is a great addition to the Service now suite and can be integrated well into the product.
Pros
- Respectful
- Friendly Negotiation
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
Cons
- Less Reliable
- Less Effective Service
- Inhibits Innovation
Saqib A.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2023
Higher Success with Self-Service
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates ServiceNow Knowledge Management from other similar products?
ServiceNow’s AI-powered search engine can help users find relevant information quickly and easily. This platform can automate routine tasks and workflows, freeing up time for IT teams. ServiceNow integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Teams so user can find the relevant information in the flow of their work instead of jumping and logging in between the systems.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Knowledge articles are offered as suggestions right in context. When a user intends to create a ticket, relevant help articles are offered as possible solutions as user types in the issue description. It has helped me a ton in resolving my own issues by following instructions in the knowledge article without raising a ticket or engaging a helpdesk agent. Visual timeline of the ticket history makes is very easy to understand the history and trail of actions.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Ticket creation form needs to be simplified.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Evaluated ServiceNow product suite holistically to empower the end users. If you are considering only helpdesk ticketing use case, think about the efficiency gains and speedy resolution to be realized by incorporating the Knowledge module. Consider the integration of ServiceNow with your collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, Slack etc to make it easier for your users to create ticket, review status right from the tool where they spend most of their day.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing