We performed a comparison between BMC Helix Discovery and VMware Service Manager 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 solution is very stable and powerful."
"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 most valuable feature is the automated service mapping."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easy to install and deploy."
"It is agentless, which means you don't have to install anything on all the different pieces of hardware that you are looking to discover."
"The most valuable feature of BMC Helix Discovery is it operates well. It is well known and has gained recognition for its software."
"We have installed a physical server for failover. We need to configure cluster on everything. But with VMware, we do not need to cluster. We get automatically seven physical nodes failover. If one fails we have no issues."
"All of the features are very suitable for us. It is also a stable solution."
"It provides us with improved maintenance cycles."
"There isn't much that could be improved. The solution is pretty thorough, very easy to implement, and very easy to operate."
"BMC Helix Discovery needs more customization options."
"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 monitoring tools could be more stable."
"The solution is definitely useful."
"The license model could be more flexible and cheaper pricing."
"An area that can be improved is the IoT."
"Management of its own application infrastructure and integrations with other BMC tools."
"Not a ten because the price is high."
"It needs to improve user roles and access rights."
"Its automation feature needs improvement. They can include the vRealize Automation feature in this solution."
Earn 20 points
BMC Helix Discovery is ranked 2nd in IT Asset Management with 20 reviews while VMware Service Manager is ranked 23rd in IT Asset Management. BMC Helix Discovery is rated 8.6, while VMware Service Manager 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 VMware Service Manager writes "It needs to improve user roles and access rights. It provides us with improved maintenance cycles". BMC Helix Discovery is most compared with ServiceNow, BMC Remedy , ServiceNow Discovery, Device42 and Qualys VMDR, whereas VMware Service Manager is most compared with . See our BMC Helix Discovery vs. VMware Service Manager report.
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