Freshservice vs Nova-Suite

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.

Nova-Suite is an open-source IT Service Management platform for incident management, configuration management, and service-level agreement enforcement. Its service catalogue lets end users submit requests, follow status, and browse knowledge articles. A contextual assistant can recommend articles, create incidents, and autofill forms for end users and fulfillers. Teams can classify, prioritize, and route incidents, set escalation policies, and receive real-time SLA breach predictions. The CMDB supports customizable CI classes, attributes, relationships, and impact visibility. Change management includes CAB approvals and planning windows. Reporting provides dashboards and team workload views, with CSV export and BI access through the API. REST API access includes Swagger documentation, and scheduled data-source imports are supported. Nova-Suite runs on user infrastructure with Docker or Kubernetes, or as managed cloud. Local authentication and OIDC single sign-on, including Google and Microsoft Entra ID, are available. PostgreSQL Row-Level Security, role controls, and audit logs are listed for tenant and action controls. The free Standard plan is self-hosted; Commercial licensing has custom pricing.