Compare BMC Helix ITSM vs. SolarWinds Web Help Desk
BMC Helix ITSM is ranked 3rd in Help Desk Software with 14 reviews while SolarWinds Web Help Desk is ranked 19th in Help Desk Software with 1 review. BMC Helix ITSM is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds Web Help Desk is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of BMC Helix ITSM writes "Full-featured, gave us incident/event management, based on monitors in our environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Web Help Desk writes "Good support for asset management, but the GUI is old-fashioned and needs updating". BMC Helix ITSM is most compared with ServiceNow, BMC Remedyforce and JIRA Service Desk, whereas SolarWinds Web Help Desk is most compared with ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, Zendesk and SolarWinds MSP Manager.
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XFlow (Temperature) and Service Point together provided an extremely user-friendly and collaborative experience to the point of making it easy for all users of the product, whether end-users or analysts. The most valuable features of this solution are reporting, configuration monitoring, and the Request and Incidents workflow. It has all our configurations. All our infrastructure configurations are on a single pane of glass to view, allowing for one single point of information. It helps when you have an incident or performing a problem change management process. We can search open and closed cases to find what we have done in other incidents. Being able to specify event rules and SLAs that can help to automate some of the processes that people are doing manually is valuable. The fact that it aligns very well with ITIL. I think that's probably one of my favorite things about it, because it's following up a general best practice for service management. the ticket system makes sure that everyone gets taken care of, and that makes for a better customer experience. Using the system verifies that no one gets left behind. | Smart IT and the phone app are easily the most valuable features in reporting and tracking ongoing issues. Having all the processes, fields, and settings already setup out-of-the-box, thus minimizing implementation time. The ease of use and integration made it a worthwhile investment, since we did some integrations with other tools making our lives easier. MyIT is simple to use and its mobility is a big plus for our on the go users. The MyIT product has given our end users a much better perception of Remedy and made the product look more fluid. This has made people more likely to log calls rather than do work offline. Improved our organization with better customer experience and reporting abilities. 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 way you can customize this product to adapt to the process the customer is already using is what sets this apart from other ITSM products out there. This helps customers to adapt to the tool pretty quickly. | The most valuable feature of this solution is the assets management module. |
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Diversifying notification methods with pop-ups or ready-made WhatsApp or Skype integration packages would be welcome. The monitoring tool is in need of improvement. The interface for the users is a bit old-fashioned and not user-friendly. We would like the CMDB to be populated automatically. At the moment, everything is manually created. We would like more information about all the configurations that we have on our infrastructure side. Needs custom dashboards, without them it takes too long to view some information (though xFlow is an improvement). I would also like to see a simpler reporting tool. They went from one fairly robust, very complex, reporting tool - it was great - and then they went to another one that was also fairly complex and robust. That's a great tool for people who are report writers, but for the average person who just wants to get a quick little report, it's like handing somebody a chainsaw because they have to break some toothpicks in half. The interface is pretty straightforward, but I think for some end-users a little more simplified user interface would help. | We have experienced outages, because some other customers did something on the same cluster that we share. It has created more layers of bureaucracy. Compared to ServiceNow, BMC Remedy is somewhat "closed." I can go to the ServiceNow website and learn everything there is to know about the product, and training is available. That really wasn't available with BMC Remedy. If I'm working with a client who wants to expand and move into other areas - they want to expand their workflow and other parts of the organization, they want to do some work with project management, they want to do some work with HR - I'm not sure that BMC Remedy is doing that. And it's because of their platform. Any software has a lifecycle. To me, BMC is a dated architecture. Support could be more skilled. We are wasting too much of our time debugging. The amount of software issues are still too big, even considering the complexity of the tool. Whenever you start exploring some new product features, you run into defects. It has been like this for the last six years. SmartIT could include PR. This would help us greatly in bridging the gap between Remedy's views and SmartIT. | This solution needs to have mobile application support added. |
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Information Not Available | It is costly, but it is well worth it. Just make sure you really sit down and look at what you will be using per user, therefore you will not be surprised with a big bill. You do not want every user having every license, it really is not needed. Please always get the latest quote from a BMC partner or from BMC. Check for the latest offerings. While purchasing, try to negotiate on per user licensing costs, associated maintenance, and purchase 20% more then what you think you should have. Bulk is always cheaper. If Customer and IT agents are happy, that is one of the greatest ROI. However, one of the major factors is Leadership, because at the end they have to justify the cost. | Information Not Available |
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| Unicenter Service Desk, CA SDM, CA Service Catalog, CA Business Service Insight | Remedy ITSM, Remedy, Helix Remedy | |
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Service desk capabilities, an integral part of the CA Service Management solution, can enable you to deliver efficiencies in IT service management to business consumers, power users and decision makers. Mobility and collaborative self-service capabilities provide a modern user experience for accessing services and performing tasks, which can help drive user adoption, satisfaction and productivity. Learn More: https://www.ca.com/us/products... | BMC Remedy is an innovative service management platform built natively for mobile with an intuitive, beautiful, people-centric user experience that makes your whole organization more productive. Simple to use and powerful enough to manage the most advanced digital enterprises, Remedy can be delivered from the BMC cloud or your own data center. | SolarWinds Web Help Desk simplifies service management with unified ticketing, asset, knowledge, and change management. Key features include:
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| Banco G&T Continental City of Perth, FEMSA, Fujitsu, Manpower, Muslim Commercial Bank - MCB, Punjab National Bank, Santa Clara County Social Services, Stefanini | Brookfield, HealthSouth Corporation, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Mercator, SAP, Stanford University | Instacart |
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Healthcare Company29% Financial Services Firm20% Government8% Transportation Company4% Software R&D Company29% Insurance Company10% Comms Service Provider9% Financial Services Firm9% | Financial Services Firm27% Manufacturing Company13% Government13% Comms Service Provider13% Software R&D Company37% Manufacturing Company10% Comms Service Provider8% Financial Services Firm8% | No Data Available |
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