We performed a comparison between BMC Remedy and VMware Service Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about ServiceNow, BMC, Freshworks and others in IT Asset Management."The most valuable BMC Remedy Asset Management are the dashboards and reports for the CIO."
"The asset discovery feature in BMC is notably better compared to ServiceNow."
"It includes features for automation, such as smart reporting capabilities."
"You can develop plugins in different languages, and the workflows can be easily developed depending on the user's needs."
"BMC Remedy Asset Management is pretty easy for quite a lot of functions."
"We can create our own profile in BMC Remedy, track how many tickets we've closed on a daily basis, monitor how many SLAs we've escalated, and see how many tickets we've received daily."
"The solution offers some very good features."
"It's a scalable product."
"It provides us with improved maintenance cycles."
"We have installed a physical server for failover. We need to configure cluster on everything. But with VMware, we do not need to cluster. We get automatically seven physical nodes failover. If one fails we have no issues."
"All of the features are very suitable for us. It is also a stable solution."
"There is room for improvement in terms of support."
"The initial setup of BMC Remedy Asset Management was complex."
"There is room for improvement regarding the customization as it tends to lag in terms of flexibility, particularly in comparison to competitors."
"The UI is quite outdated."
"Integration and deployment could be better. It could be easier and faster to integrate and deploy. It would also help if we could have a 360-degree view. It would be better if they changed it to a SaaS type of offering, which is becoming the standard."
"The product's scalability is one area with certain shortcomings that need to be considered for improvement."
"Could be more user friendly for admins to manage."
"I would like to have more customized reporting because the management team loves customized reports with graphs."
"It needs to improve user roles and access rights."
"Its automation feature needs improvement. They can include the vRealize Automation feature in this solution."
"Not a ten because the price is high."
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BMC Remedy is ranked 5th in IT Asset Management with 19 reviews while VMware Service Manager is ranked 23rd in IT Asset Management. BMC Remedy is rated 8.2, while VMware Service Manager is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of BMC Remedy writes "Great CMDB design, helpful technical support, and great features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Service Manager writes "It needs to improve user roles and access rights. It provides us with improved maintenance cycles". BMC Remedy is most compared with ServiceNow, BMC Helix Discovery, Snow License Manager, Qualys VMDR and Device42, whereas VMware Service Manager is most compared with ServiceNow.
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