We performed a comparison between BMC Helix Discovery and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Asset Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Weekly reports to management really make our life simple."
"I like the artificial intelligence and machine learning that it uses in the solution. Because once the solution discovers all the assets, all the infrastructure, and all the dependencies between services, it learns how it works. So, it learns to predict when a problem is going to happen. It becomes predictive in an autonomous way."
"Start anywhere application modelling brings a fantastic opportunity for users to see what is where."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its application dependency mapping."
"A valuable feature concerns the ability to integrate with different solutions."
"The solution is very stable and powerful."
"BMC provides great support. As managed service support, they are gold."
"The speed at which it's able to collect a wide-range of information, then make it useful for you, like asset management, knowledge management, and incident management."
"The vulnerability management feature is what I used the most. It is a good SaaS product. It is easy to use. It has a nice UI where you can see all the assets and vulnerabilities."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability detection and the scanning capability to enable identification of vulnerabilities across our network."
"Detects new hosts along with vulnerabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the connection of threat intelligence information with identified vulnerabilities, which means you can prioritize vulnerabilities according to actual attacks."
"It's a good product. After the scan our internet works well. It scans our security posture."
"We also like the flexibility in their licensing."
"It is very easy to use and there are lots of options. We can usually easily go through it and all of the things we want to configure, and we can configure everything to our specifications very easily."
"The improvement which we require is to delete the Internet service. Till some of the features are coming, like, internally side. If you are taking one server to model, there are a lot of usages like three structures per diagram is coming, and we have to do the man lot of manual work. Instead of that, whatever our requirement, we should be able to provide the servers and get the structure. So this is what we want to implement with such data."
"There is still room for improvement in terms of stability."
"There isn't much that could be improved. The solution is pretty thorough, very easy to implement, and very easy to operate."
"The solution is definitely useful."
"It would be nice to see more updates to the solution."
"The monitoring tools could be more stable."
"The CMDB could be improved. Getting data from the CMDB is the greatest challenge."
"The product falls short compared to storage discovery mechanisms offered by Tenable or ServiceNow ITOM. In the market, there are various applications available that provide different sets of features. Its drawback is that it doesn't give the database configuration customers need out of the box. Additionally, the classification of storage virtualization is relatively lacking. Therefore, there is room for improvement, particularly in the database areas."
"Reports were lacking somewhat on the customization side."
"Improve the user interface."
"There's a need to upgrade or fix the potential vulnerability rate. Around 20,000 potential vulnerabilities were showing in Qualys VMDR, but none of the other tools showed them. When we checked, it wasn't the case. Support explained that even small issues were being counted as vulnerabilities, causing issues in our audit. So, the security features could be improved to identify vulnerabilities accurately."
"Integration could be better. When you think about scanning, it's not used just with this product alone but with other Qualys products. If you think about the bundle, the product itself is good. But integration with other products and packages has space for improvement. They should also offer a better price for bundles."
"Qualys could improve the inbuilt dashboards."
"Qualys does have an on-prem solution, but it is very expensive."
"They're still evolving their platform in terms of reporting capabilities."
"Could use additional security for the app."
BMC Helix Discovery is ranked 2nd in IT Asset Management with 20 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 7th in IT Asset Management with 77 reviews. BMC Helix Discovery is rated 8.6, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC Helix Discovery writes "Definitely useful but the old technology makes customizations very difficult". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". BMC Helix Discovery is most compared with ServiceNow, Device42, BMC Remedy , ServiceNow Discovery and Lansweeper, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management. See our BMC Helix Discovery vs. Qualys VMDR report.
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