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."BMC provides great support. As managed service support, they are gold."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easy to install and deploy."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"BMC Helix Discovery is very intuitive."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its application dependency mapping."
"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."
"I find the solution's dashboard interesting...The response time is fine. You can pull up reports without dragging or consuming bandwidth."
"Qualys VM is very stable."
"The features that are most valuable are the identification, scan features, and the identification of vulnerabilities."
"I like Qualys because it is a very complete product, more so than Tenable."
"The most valuable feature is the connection of threat intelligence information with identified vulnerabilities, which means you can prioritize vulnerabilities according to actual attacks."
"It's a good product. After the scan our internet works well. It scans our security posture."
"It is a stable solution."
"The integrations for this solution are very good. I use a different product for virtual patching of vulnerabilities and Qualys integrates well with that product."
"The monitoring tools could be more stable."
"The license model could be more flexible and cheaper pricing."
"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."
"Management of its own application infrastructure and integrations with other BMC tools."
"The product is not fully automated."
"There isn't much that could be improved. The solution is pretty thorough, very easy to implement, and very easy to operate."
"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."
"The CMDB could be improved. Getting data from the CMDB is the greatest challenge."
"Finding things in management can be quite difficult."
"Improve the API speed."
"It is a struggle to be able to pull our report and to be able to do onboarding using automated tools."
"I do not like that all of the data is stored on the cloud."
"They have integrated with other third parties, but it is still not viable."
"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."
"The ability to manage user accounts and give rights to the operator to know about abnormalities of applications is something that needs improvement."
"The IoT scan is not great."
BMC Helix Discovery is ranked 2nd in IT Asset Management with 19 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 4th in IT Asset Management with 76 reviews. BMC Helix Discovery is rated 8.4, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC Helix Discovery writes "Very stable, fast, and powerful with valuable inventory management features". 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, BMC Remedy , Device42, ServiceNow Discovery and ManageEngine IT Asset Management, 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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