We performed a comparison between BMC Helix Discovery and IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about ServiceNow, BMC, Freshworks and others in IT Asset Management."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 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 is its application dependency mapping."
"Weekly reports to management really make our life simple."
"The data models are the most useful aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of BMC Helix Discovery is it operates well. It is well known and has gained recognition for its software."
"A valuable feature concerns the ability to integrate with different solutions."
"IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT is a user-friendly solution that has a good user interface."
"It would be nice to see more updates to the solution."
"There isn't much that could be improved. The solution is pretty thorough, very easy to implement, and very easy to operate."
"An area that can be improved is the IoT."
"There are certain limitations in the mapping feature of the solution."
"I would like to see the ability to scan some of the newer cloud platforms. I know that BMC has them on the roadmap, and they are coming soon, but they can't come fast enough. Being able to scan more of GCloud, Alibaba Cloud, or whatever the public clouds that our customers are buying, we need to make sure that Discovery can find them as well."
"The solution's scalability is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are needed."
"What would make BMC Helix Discovery better is if it had more client-side discovery features, for example, printers and desktops. Right now, it's focused more on data center discovery, so if it had additional features focused on the client-side discovery, that would be great. In the next release of BMC Helix Discovery, I'd like more client-side discovery features such as desktop discovery, printer discovery, and other IP-based client-side discovery features. The solution can discover desktops and printers, but there's still room for improvement on the client side."
"There is still room for improvement in terms of stability."
"The solution’s initial setup is complex and technical support is not good enough."
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BMC Helix Discovery is ranked 2nd in IT Asset Management with 20 reviews while IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT is ranked 17th in IT Asset Management with 1 review. BMC Helix Discovery is rated 8.6, while IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT is rated 7.0. 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 IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT writes "A user-friendly solution that has a good user interface, but its technical support is not good enough". BMC Helix Discovery is most compared with ServiceNow, BMC Remedy , Device42, ServiceNow Discovery and Qualys VMDR, whereas IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT is most compared with ServiceNow, BigFix and Microsoft Configuration Manager.
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