We performed a comparison between BMC Helix Discovery and BMC Track-It! 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."Start anywhere application modelling brings a fantastic opportunity for users to see what is where."
"The initial setup was quite easy."
"I've used other discovery tools, but I found BMC Helix Discovery to be more UI-friendly, and that's the most valuable feature of the solution."
"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."
"It is a stable solution. The stability is okay."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easy to install and deploy."
"BMC provides great support. As managed service support, they are gold."
"Using the Help Desk and Purchasing modules, they let us keep track of all the issues in our organization and analyze them for trends."
"We use it to create and manage our work orders."
"Our users have come to expect availability and quick responses, and we are able to provide this thanks to the Track-IT! solution."
"The customization of the product and reporting capabilities have allowed us to provide upper management the graphs (data) they request that helps validate specific needs that we (IT) have."
"Using their problem management process, we can use parent/child tickets and set up public views for our problem work orders."
"Track-It! has many features that help make us more efficient and cost effective as a department."
"We can manually capture the assets available within the location."
"As a department, we have been able to identify problems and resolve them faster because of the centralized database."
"The license model could be more flexible and cheaper pricing."
"There are certain limitations in the mapping feature of the solution."
"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."
"The monitoring tools could be more stable."
"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."
"It would be nice to see more updates to the solution."
"Management of its own application infrastructure and integrations with other BMC tools."
"The solution is definitely useful."
"The solution is cumbersome to use."
"Their self-service is not user friendly."
"The product’s current version could be easier and straightforward to work with small IT organizations, similar to the older version."
"Track-It! works great for a mid-size company, but anything over 700 employees, and trying to use Track-It! for any other areas of the business is difficult."
"The area where we would like to see improvement is in the asset management module."
"There are a few items that I would like changed or extra features that could be added to our current version of this software, but those are all going to be addressed in a future software update."
BMC Helix Discovery is ranked 2nd in IT Asset Management with 20 reviews while BMC Track-It! is ranked 18th in IT Asset Management with 5 reviews. BMC Helix Discovery is rated 8.6, while BMC Track-It! is rated 7.4. 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 BMC Track-It! writes "Provides good stability, but it could be intuitive and easier to use". BMC Helix Discovery is most compared with ServiceNow, Device42, BMC Remedy , ServiceNow Discovery and Qualys VMDR, whereas BMC Track-It! is most compared with ServiceNow and BMC Remedy . See our BMC Helix Discovery vs. BMC Track-It! report.
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