We performed a comparison between BMC FootPrints Service Core and BMC Helix ITSM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This product solidly handles incident management, problem management, and change management."
"It has helped the help desk team. We get our tickets in and are able to support our customers, the end-users, with this solution."
"The discovery feature is very flexible."
"Having a one stop shop for linked assets and tickets has improved end user adoption and led to a reduction in phone/email tickets."
"We can track issues easier and run reports on issues to see if there are patterns."
"We have found the reports and the lockdown on a ticket valuable, so only one person can update issues."
"I think the most important feature is the ability to receive valuable ticket status support in a timely manner with little to no downtime interruptions."
"Implemented system-wide process for approving and tracking "employee move" requests for over 15,000 employees."
"It has the power to automatize several different tasks in the ITSM world."
"The most valuable features are the simplicity and the in-duty features."
"The mobile features are the best part of the new version. It is easy to be notified and update your work from a mobile, which is great."
"The solution has good capabilities for analytics."
"We have seen year over year customer satisfaction improvement for the last five years."
"Initial setup is straightforward, and if you follow best practices, then future enhancements will be smoother."
"The most valuable features of BMC Helix ITSM are the ease to use and integration."
"In BMC, you can do absolutely anything. You can customize, you can configure, and you can customize and develop pretty much anything."
"It would be nice if they added the ability to go directly to a form via a deep link URL."
"The mobile version of this product does not support asset management."
"We need more customizable reporting functionality. We could also use more collaboration of service desk tickets. This will allow for two departments to share the same information, track the progress of the total task scope no matter how complex the request is."
"It would be better if it were more user-friendly. The reporting part in the version we have is a little complicated. It takes too long to build and report. It would also be better if there were another way to manage notifications."
"Reporting could be improved along with the option to create more fine tuned reports and to create specific fields for each type of ticket."
"The pricing could be a little lower and the product should cover more iTel versions."
"It is pretty clunky and not very intuitive. Even though I have used it for many years, I don't think it is a very good ITSM platform in general. In the telecom space, a lot of telco providers use this solution, but from my perspective, it is not very user friendly. It is a bit more laborious. There are still too many human touchpoints. There can be a little bit more automation. It would also be good to integrate it with other tools. Integration is quite difficult, especially in the telco space."
"The workflow should be made to be more user-friendly. It should also have more granular scalability."
"It's expensive, particularly in the emerging market where you see a lot of customers that have a budget crunch over issues."
"The interface is one major complaint about this product."
"Helix needs to enhance some of its functionality with the latest technology. For example, Helix could improve its chatbot automation to automate more use cases."
"Support could be more skilled. We are wasting too much of our time debugging."
"Log in process is unnecessarily complicated."
"They should add some of the bolt-ons into the initial setup, such as chat."
"Maybe it could be more simplified and easier to change the reporting point of view, like from a different vendor to another."
"The documentation could improve in BMC Helix ITSM."
BMC FootPrints Service Core is ranked 26th in IT Service Management (ITSM) with 10 reviews while BMC Helix ITSM is ranked 3rd in IT Service Management (ITSM) with 75 reviews. BMC FootPrints Service Core is rated 8.2, while BMC Helix ITSM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BMC FootPrints Service Core writes "Scalability is customizable but it is somewhat limited in terms of how granular it can be". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BMC Helix ITSM writes "The leading service management platform for delivering intelligent, user-centric experiences". BMC FootPrints Service Core is most compared with ServiceNow, whereas BMC Helix ITSM is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, Freshdesk and IBM Maximo. See our BMC FootPrints Service Core vs. BMC Helix ITSM report.
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