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 most valuable feature is the automated service mapping."
"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."
"The tool's accuracy of the results we receive looks promising in general. Its values are more than 95 percent accurate compared to other clients or different tools. I would say that Discovery offers a valuable mechanism to discover information."
"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."
"BMC provides great support. As managed service support, they are gold."
"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."
"The solution is very stable and powerful."
"The data models are the most useful aspect of the solution."
"Simplicity of Change Manager."
"It has an excellent capability to integrate different access points."
"The most valuable feature is that this is a Cloud solution."
"The product's integration functionality in the change management module has significantly improved efficiency in our organization."
"I like the ease of use."
"It enables us to meet SLAs, track issues across the environment, and report those issues."
"It has more extensive features as compared to the other competitors."
"I don't have to look through a whole bunch of other incidents that aren't relevant to me. It's very useful in that sense."
"The monitoring tools could be more stable."
"The product falls short compared to storage discovery mechanisms offered by Tenable or ServiceNow ITOM. In the market, there are various applications available that provide different sets of features. Its drawback is that it doesn't give the database configuration customers need out of the box. Additionally, the classification of storage virtualization is relatively lacking. Therefore, there is room for improvement, particularly in the database areas."
"It would be nice to see more updates to 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 support from BMC Helix Discovery can improve, it takes a long time before we receive any feedback. It can take days to months sometimes."
"The solution is definitely useful."
"There isn't much that could be improved. The solution is pretty thorough, very easy to implement, and very easy to operate."
"The license model could be more flexible and cheaper pricing."
"The user interface for accessing assistance sometimes disconnects."
"The RPA needs improvement. That's a new area for them that they're just entering into now."
"The customer service of the product right now isn't very good. It's an aspect they really need to improve."
"The reporting, which also includes dashboards, needs to be improved, and there should also be the ability to turn on and off portions of Project Management. Currently, as soon as you install the new version, you've got to go back there and make all the tweaks. There should be just a configuration file that goes to the new version. The Project Management module does not leverage the knowledge base the way it should, and there is no built-in ability to get to the articles. Resource management should be easier. It would be amazing if they can make resource management a little bit more graphical. There are other solutions that I've seen where resource management was a more visual experience."
"The Software Asset Management feature can be improved. We would like to see more features for the Software Asset Management functionality. Its price can also be better. It is currently more expensive than other solutions."
"It's too complicated and there are too many options."
"The setup was time-consuming and required a lot of internal resources."
"The interface is not user-friendly."
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 , ServiceNow Discovery, Device42, 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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