We performed a comparison between BMC Remedy and Freshservice 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 most valuable feature of the solution includes all of its components since they act as the authentication system of the product."
"The solution helps us manage, escalate, and solve incidents."
"It has a good peer sharing module."
"The most valuable feature of BMC Remedy is to take administrative access of a user."
"The product has excellent support for remote and hybrid environments."
"There are a lot of features a customer can use. It’s an existing concept of asset management. One feature is the ability to create tickets for various computer systems, VPN defenses, sites, regions, or customers."
"The solution is extremely user-friendly."
"This product is good because it allows us to receive proper responses to business emails anywhere and anytime. It helps in effective communication with employees. The solution is stable. The product is scalable. The initial setup is straightforward. I recommend BMC Remedy, especially for its automation capabilities."
"We found the initial setup to be very simple."
"We find its ability to track what's going on with each request very valuable. We are also able to merge ticket requests and assign them to different groups in the company. We have another department that uses the same system."
"Its ease of use is fantastic. It is just above and beyond, especially when you compare it to something like Cherwell, Salesforce, or anything like that. It is on its own level. It is so easy to administer. The way everything is organized and the way it builds its own documentation is very good."
"The portal is straightforward for the end-user, but that's not the best part of Freshservice. Integration is the part that's interesting because it's easy to set up a process. It's extremely simple to integrate. In one week, you can add change management. It's incredible."
"Depending on the size of your organization, is pretty standard and useful."
"I do like the workflow automation capabilities, where based upon certain actions, it will automatically go and route tickets to a particular person. It is fairly user-friendly."
"It allowed the development team to concentrate on the client’s requirements instead."
"Freshservice has automated a lot of our tasks, including ticket responses and call assignments, which has sped up our operations considerably."
"Continuous improvement is recommended."
"I would like to have more customized reporting because the management team loves customized reports with graphs."
"The product's scalability is one area with certain shortcomings that need to be considered for improvement."
"The tool is very old."
"BMC Remedy's change management module needs enhancement."
"There is room for improvement in integration with various platforms. The support services should be improved. The response time from the support team should be faster."
"However, from a stability perspective, we sometimes had issues, like running out of resources, maxing out, database issues, and the server freezing out and functioning at fifty percent."
"BMC works through intermediaries or vendors for support, so you don't always interact with BMC directly. The quality can vary depending on the specific vendor."
"I am not too happy with the page layout or screen layout since it always looks messy."
"The product should look at BCM or ServiceNow and see if there are features that would make nice additions. It would help them stay competitive."
"They can improve the search. While searching the inventory, when I cancel a selected category, the search box disappears, and I have to reload the page. It is a small glitch. Currently, we can have only one plan per subscription. All users have to be on the same plan. We can't have two users for plan A and five users for plan B. It might be good if there was an option to have different plans within one subscription so that you can assign each agent to the corresponding plan."
"The chat portal is not that great."
"Freshservice's technical support has issues with delays and translations."
"The round robin ticketing feature that they have is not ideal."
"On the reporting side, when we were doing reporting, one thing that was a bit of a limitation was when you had a data list containing a list of changes that have occurred for the whole time and you had to fit the list onto a page. If the list went over the page, it would just truncate it at the page. You wouldn't get all your data. So, it didn't work. That was one big stand-out for me. What we tended to do was convert things into a more readable format, and then we had more targeted exception reporting, but it would be nice to have a full list of things that could be automatically generated and that can flow over pages."
"You can't implement a complicated delivery workflow. We don't have the same problems with incident and change workflows. It's only for delivery workflow. They have a mechanism for modifying your incident or change workflow. There's a visual interface for that, so there's no reason not to have the same function for request management."
BMC Remedy is ranked 5th in IT Asset Management with 23 reviews while Freshservice is ranked 3rd in IT Asset Management with 29 reviews. BMC Remedy is rated 8.0, while Freshservice is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BMC Remedy writes "Offers automation, orchestration, service level management but lacks AI-based rules ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Freshservice writes "Provides excellent traceability along with improved efficiency and reliability". BMC Remedy is most compared with ServiceNow, BMC Helix Discovery, Snow License Manager, ManageEngine IT Asset Management and BMC Track-It!, whereas Freshservice is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, Microsoft Project, Zendesk and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. See our BMC Remedy vs. Freshservice report.
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