We performed a comparison between BMC Helix Discovery and ServiceNow 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."The initial setup was quite easy."
"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."
"A valuable feature concerns the ability to integrate with different solutions."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easy to install and deploy."
"Start anywhere application modelling brings a fantastic opportunity for users to see what is where."
"Weekly reports to management really make our life simple."
"The most valuable feature is Windows proxy. We now need to install an additional link proxy server in Windows. The proxy is available as an outpost in the Elastic store. That is the advanced feature is added. There are many other features which can be used once we discover them. One time I was scanning the servers and all, going to data from additional based on the additional features, including advanced data like score upper display data successfully discover servers. There are many things good things that can be implemented using it while we haven’t installed those yet."
"It is a stable solution. The stability is okay."
"We always get good support."
"It facilitates the monitoring of major incidents and provides insights into the effort expended to resolve each incident."
"Primarily, we use it for incident management and change across the landscape. It is the virtual repository for our incident management processes. It gives us visibility about what's happening from the change management perspective across our CABs, including our enterprise CABs."
"Identifies better ways to license software or eliminate unused software to save money."
"There are many expansions available."
"Makes ticket information easy to access."
"I find the incident management part to be the most valuable. That's how the service desk tracks tickets."
"It's easy to integrate. For instance, yesterday we closed the integration with SAP for the IP business management module to manage the forecast of projects. We created an interface between ServiceNow and SAP to control projects for accounting and on the forecast of the project. It was really easy. We don't have any problems with ServiceNow at the moment. As a company, they are improving constantly."
"A review of end of life data would be nice."
"The license model could be more flexible and cheaper pricing."
"There isn't much that could be improved. The solution is pretty thorough, very easy to implement, and very easy to operate."
"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."
"BMC Helix Discovery needs more customization options."
"There is still room for improvement in terms of stability."
"The CMDB could be improved. Getting data from the CMDB is the greatest challenge."
"The support from BMC Helix Discovery can improve, it takes a long time before we receive any feedback. It can take days to months sometimes."
"if I consider from the IT operations management side, ServiceNow is pretty premature on some things, especially the discovery, while the other tools like Micro Focus and BMC Remedy, those that have been in the market for quite some time. ServiceNow is evolving itself in the discovery piece of the future."
"The challenge with ServiceNow lies in its expansive portfolio of services. It can be complex, and users may find it expensive and challenging to understand. There is a need for a configurator within ServiceNow that guides users on how to utilize the tool effectively. This configurator should provide insights into licensing, team requirements, and the best licensing model based on whether companies prefer ownership or consumption-based models."
"It's not very secure, it's web-based, and I prefer Remedy. Both the security and the web interface could be improved."
"Their cloud management is also not that great compared to other products."
"The discovery of assets could be improved; right now they only allow for one domain."
"Loads slower than expected, and its user interface needs improvement. Support for this product also needs to improve on their response time."
"In an upcoming release, there should be more administration tools."
"Where it could be improved is Discovery. This may sound odd since I just praised the value of ServiceNow Discovery, but improvements to its automatic detection, the breadth of devices, and the depth of devices covered, as well as keeping up with new technologies, are all essential."
BMC Helix Discovery is ranked 2nd in IT Asset Management with 20 reviews while ServiceNow is ranked 1st in IT Asset Management with 212 reviews. BMC Helix Discovery is rated 8.6, while ServiceNow is rated 8.4. 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 ServiceNow writes "A stable and scalable solution that has excellent features and is useful for collecting data and building KPIs". BMC Helix Discovery is most compared with BMC Remedy , Device42, ServiceNow Discovery, Qualys VMDR and ManageEngine IT Asset Management, whereas ServiceNow is most compared with BMC Helix ITSM, Microsoft Power Apps, Pega BPM, IBM Maximo and OutSystems. See our BMC Helix Discovery vs. ServiceNow report.
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