We performed a comparison between BMC Helix Discovery and Micro Focus Asset Manager [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about ServiceNow, BMC, Freshworks and others in IT Asset Management."The most valuable feature of BMC Helix Discovery is it operates well. It is well known and has gained recognition for its software."
"The data models are the most useful aspect of the solution."
"A valuable feature concerns the ability to integrate with different solutions."
"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 solution is definitely useful."
"It now comes with a very flexible deployment solution, whether you want to keep it inside your data center or want to have the cloud, depending on if you're cloud forward or not."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The initial setup was quite easy."
"We have now automatic and immediate control of assets usage, and we can now better manage our assets pool and get benefits through that."
"It is stable and scalable."
"This product can be customized according to the needs of any company."
"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."
"Management of its own application infrastructure and integrations with other BMC tools."
"There are certain limitations in the mapping feature of the solution."
"There is still room for improvement in terms of stability."
"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 solution's scalability is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are needed."
"We would like updates more often."
"It would be nice to see more updates to the solution."
"The usability of this product is still out-of-date and could be improved. The interface could be improved."
"There are a lot of things that need improvement. Software recognition, software licensing, software compliance, data inputs, reporting, and support are some of the areas."
"The technology used is outdated, the interface is outdated, the database is outdated, everything is outdated."
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BMC Helix Discovery is ranked 2nd in IT Asset Management with 20 reviews while Micro Focus Asset Manager [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in IT Asset Management. BMC Helix Discovery is rated 8.6, while Micro Focus Asset Manager [EOL] is rated 7.2. 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 Micro Focus Asset Manager [EOL] writes "A stable and clever solution, but it is very complex and it needs a lot of improvements". BMC Helix Discovery is most compared with ServiceNow, BMC Remedy , Device42, ServiceNow Discovery and Qualys VMDR, whereas Micro Focus Asset Manager [EOL] is most compared with .
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