We performed a comparison between BMC Helix Discovery and Qualys VMDR 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."Accuracy and clarity are vastly improved for the service lines."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the automated service mapping."
"Weekly reports to management really make our life simple."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its application dependency mapping."
"A valuable feature concerns the ability to integrate with different solutions."
"The solution is definitely useful."
"Qualys VM has allowed us to know the vulnerabilities we need to prioritize based on the threat levels and the possible impact if there's an intrusion."
"What I like about Qualys VM is the dashboard presentation. It's very good."
"It is a simple solution that makes scanning easy. You just give it a scheduled task, and it will do everything for you."
"We also like the flexibility in their licensing."
"The reporting is fine."
"The solution shows us classic categories, including high, medium, and low risks. It also shows critical items, and that gives us the advantage of prioritizing things."
"It gives a very good overview of the inventory assessment process, and it can be accessed across our company because it's a global tool."
"Technical support is great and we've never really had a problem."
"The solution should have different portals and logins for each customer so only that customer's assets show."
"The license model could be more flexible and cheaper pricing."
"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."
"There is still room for improvement in terms of stability."
"There isn't much that could be improved. The solution is pretty thorough, very easy to implement, and very easy to operate."
"The solution is definitely useful."
"The monitoring tools could be more stable."
"A review of end of life data would be nice."
"The price could be better. Asset view is still a legacy feature. I'm not able to extract the information about the asset with complete details. It would be better if they fixed that in the next release. I know Qualys is already working on it, so I'm hopeful it will be available in the next five or six months. That would be something that's changed where I seek improvement."
"Sometimes the scanning can get overwhelmed and start to drag when a lot of users are trying to scan at once."
"The solution is a bit expensive if you do not have access to discounts."
"I do not like that all of the data is stored on the cloud."
"Qualys VM's scanner doesn't pick up every vulnerability, so we have to use multiple scanners to cover that gap."
"I would like to have CSPM, a continuous scan-like cloud added to the solution."
"Make some minimal dashboard improvements."
"One of the biggest issues from the clients' perspective is that all Qualys computing is on the cloud."
BMC Helix Discovery is ranked 2nd in IT Asset Management with 20 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 7th in IT Asset Management with 77 reviews. BMC Helix Discovery is rated 8.6, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. 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 Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". BMC Helix Discovery is most compared with ServiceNow, Device42, BMC Remedy , ServiceNow Discovery and Lansweeper, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management. See our BMC Helix Discovery vs. Qualys VMDR report.
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