BMC Helix Discovery Scalability

Shirish Kamalapurkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Kinsfolk Technology Private Limited

The solution is very scalable so scalability is rated a ten out of ten. 

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Faisal-Syed - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at GBM

I rate the solution's scalability a five or six out of ten. When you install the virtual appliance, you don't know how much faster you need to run the scan. If you have to rerun the scan often, you cannot scale it as much unless you have a lot of storage. You need a lot of housekeeping activity. But if you run scans five to six days or weekly, that would be okay.

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ShashiGupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Soo at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

My company has around 150-250 users. 

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BMC Helix Discovery
March 2024
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NC
System Design Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We have around 200 solution users in our organization's assets and licenses team. It is scalable. I rate its scalability a ten.

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CG
Project Manager & Managing Director at Geo Consulting (Aust) Pty Ltd

It's very scalable.

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RajuM - PeerSpot reviewer
BMC Remedy Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

It is a scalable solution. I rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

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Arben Klaiqi - PeerSpot reviewer
IT OM at IKEA

The scalability is much better in BMC Discovery rather than Service Now as you can integrate with basically everything - including APIs and tools. While in ServiceNow, you have to build patterns to be able to do the same tasks. It's not as out-of-the-box.

We have approximately 185,000 users. Ours is a massive worldwide company.

We will not increase usage. Unfortunately, our plan is to de-install it in January.

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Sam Roberts - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Manager at Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation

Scalability is really costly. So, it's not really scalable for us. We're a company of 5500, but we have maybe 150 to 200 licenses. 

We plan to increase the number of users. 

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VarunPandey - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Consultant for Service Management at Coforge Growth Agency

The solution is scalable. I rate the scalability an eight to nine out of ten.

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CS
System and Infrastructure engineer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

My company provides support services for BMC Helix Discovery. My company has deployed BMC Helix Discovery in twenty different companies.

My company can be considered as an enterprise-sized business.

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JR
Configuration Manager at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

A couple of years ago, we started scanning the public cloud parts from the solution. It's a good setup. BMC Helix Discovery is scalable.

Everyone that has access to the CMDB can run reports for their systems, we have approximately 2500 users. We try to keep the users of the system as low as possible because it contains all our data on our infrastructure. We don't want everyone using it, but then we have reports that we can run with the authorization, and that way we can access data for the systems that we own or running. 

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DH
Manager, Solutions Engineering at Fusion

With BMC, you're allowed to deploy in an on-premise solution, or even a cloud-based solution, with as many as are necessary. Therefore, being able to scale up or scale down, depending on the size of your environment or migration of environments, is very flexible.

Let's say that you started with one data center, and you have outgrown it, or maybe you're going from data center to a fledgling cloud deployment. Being able to scale up across those is really the key factor of the way BMC designed the Discovery tool. Because it comes in a scanning tool and a consolidation tool, you can put as many scanning out as you need, and if there are maybe specific firewall rules and you need to scale up to yet another system, you needed to scale out over the WAN to another data center, or to cloud, you have that ability. It's not going to introduce a large hindrance into your environment or to your admins to be able to support it.

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Jan Prochazka - PeerSpot reviewer
Servicenow Principal & Consultant at GuideVision

It is a scalable solution. The number of users depends on the specific customers we are working with. BMC Helix Discovery seems to work well for small to mid-size organizations.

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Madhurima  Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Consultant | Service Assurance & Automation at Column Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd

BMC Helix Discovery is a scalable solution, though sometimes you need techniques for different integrations because some work out of the box while some require an integration flow but API's support makes it easy most of the integrations.

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AR
RPA-WLA BU DIRECTOR at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution can be scaled without a problem to match the growth of one's organization. This can be done easily, as the resources can be rolled to the infrastructure solution. 

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Buyer's Guide
BMC Helix Discovery
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about BMC Helix Discovery. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.