Freshservice vs Hornbill IT Asset Management

Freshservice is an IT management service for employee service and IT operations. Its service desk covers incident, change and problem management, service catalogs, knowledge management and SLA policies. IT asset management includes asset lifecycle management, discovery across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments, and a continuously updated CMDB. Operations features include alert and on-call management, major incident management, service health monitoring and a status page. Freddy AI includes an agent studio, a copilot for drafting responses and summarizing tickets, and insights for identifying trends. Freshworks Marketplace lists more than 1,000 integrations, including Microsoft Teams, Slack, TeamViewer, Jira and Azure AD. Freshservice offers web access, iOS and Android apps, and RESTful API access; API rate limits vary by plan from 100 to 500 calls per minute. Freshworks states that data is encrypted at rest with AES 256-bit encryption and in transit with HTTPS and TLS 1.2. GDPR and SOC 2 are listed across the four plans. Annual billing starts at $19 a month, and a 14-day trial is offered without a credit card.

Hornbill IT Asset Management tracks hardware, software, cloud, and on-premise assets through their lifecycle. Automated discovery can identify cloud and on-premise hardware and software. License views show licenses owned and in use, helping teams manage spend and respond to vendor audits; the product also tracks capital and operating costs, including support costs. Drag-and-drop or codeless workflows can automate IT asset processes such as application provisioning and patch deployment. Hornbill says a shared data model supports information sharing between IT asset management, operations, service management, and security teams. It describes hundreds of codeless integrations, including Microsoft Intune as an endpoint management example. Deployment is cloud-based, and personalized pricing is available on request. The included Essential Success Plan provides 24×7 online help for critical service availability issues, as well as community forums, knowledge resources, APIs, and up to three named contacts. Paid Premier and Custom Concierge support plans are also available. Hornbill states that its data centers hold SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 Type II certifications.