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We performed a comparison between BMC Remedyforce [EOL] and Clarity SM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"The stability is good. There are no bugs.""Offers good reporting capabilities. Getting the right information is the key to understanding and improvements.""Remedyforce has greatly improved our company's ability to accurately track and create new records.""Our staff is able to quickly jump into Remedyforce and understand the tool with minimal training.""The record linking shows us all of the changes that were implemented during that release, what clients were affected, related incidents and problem records, and important documentation that occurred along the way.""ITIL best practices and smart practices are efficient in calculating the performance of services provided.""An inexpensive solution that is easy to set up and use without much support.""The reporting is very good and you can do incident matching."

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"It has a good GUI interface.""We especially like the look of xFlow. That looks very personal, so they can keep track of how things are going with their ticket, if it has been worked on, what the status of it is. It seems to be a little more user friendly. The user can see more from a distance right away.""When users have a problem, they report using Service Desk and it is very useful for this.""It allows IT to handle users on a personal basis. It allows IT to have a name and a face, and we interact with the end-users.""The UI is very user-friendly.""Clarity is flexible to implement and integrate. It gives the developer or consultant a broad space to work and customize based on what the customers want.""The most valuable fractures of Clarity SM are its ease of use and security. I have been highly satisfied. We've been able to integrate it with email and an SMS gateway for the purposes of notifications. That works very well.""The integration between the ticketing and knowledge is huge, because that is a best practice. The knowledge is great. It is simple but efficient, and it works.​"

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"The solution's technical support is in need of a lot of improvement.""They need to make it possible to more easily customize the user interface.""They need to include more high-end technology, different languages, the kinds of things not yet included in the product.""The look and feel is very dated.""It required a high amount of customisation for us to work with the tool and sometimes special capabilities needed to be purchased.""The product is created to service small to medium-sized businesses. Although it can be used in enterprise settings this choice comes down to properly assessing needs.""It's not user-friendly. Everything is overly complicated. Even for the simplest of tasks, a user will waste time. It requires a lot of clicks and a lot of steps. Often we will have to do the same thing two or three times. It's really bad.""The solution's business workforce should be much more capable of drag and drop functionality. The solution could be kind-of UI based rather than still being coding based. You still need an administrator profile, and you'll have to code things if you want to use the solution."

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"If I had to choose, it would be more around the user interface than the mobile experience.""Nowadays every person is used to an interface that is more user-friendly and this one is not so user-friendly maybe due to the fact that, if you need to let people customize everything, sometimes you lose out on a clean user experience.""The monitoring tool is in need of improvement.""We would like to see them integrate more of a service catalog, which is more of an Amazon-type fill in your bucket, then sign in, once you decide what you want.""The UI needs to be upgraded.""Ease of support and upgrades need much improvement.""The SDM administration and customisation needS deep information about architecture and vendor support continuously.""Clarity tech support has gotten worse since Broadcom acquired CA Technologies. We're not getting the support we've come to expect as a large enterprise. Clarity's support needs to improve, or it's going to lose market share."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "BMC Remedyforce is extremely reasonable when talking about licensing costs."
  • "The cost may be higher, but it is backed up by the great product and superb customer service."
  • "Licensing should be reviewed and understood before making the purchase."
  • "My current company has a deal. I think the subscription per year is 20K dollars. Per year for the client is really nothing compared to other products and solutions."
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  • "I don't see anyone other than large companies being able to afford this system."
  • "It is a bit expensive, but you definitely get what you pay for. It is worth it!"
  • "Pricing is simple, as it’s per concurrent analysts."
  • "I think pricing of this model is suitable for growing corporations."
  • "Clarity offers a perpetual license. Customers purchase the license once and then pay for maintenance. CA provides a subscription model as well. Both models are available for our customers."
  • "There is a subscripted needed to use Clarity SM. The price of the solution could be less expensive. ServiceNow is less expensive and BMC Helix is priced similar to Clarity SM."
  • "The pricing is based on a subscription model."
  • "The solution is quite reasonable compared to other solutions in the market."
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    Also Known As
    Remedyforce
    CA Service Desk Manager, Clarity Service Management, CA Service Management, Unicenter Service Desk, CA SDM, CA Service Catalog, CA Business Service Insight
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    Overview

    BMC Remedyforce, built on Salesforce App Cloud, enables you to deliver high-speed service management that empowers users and accelerates the business, with minimal capital investment.

    Built with speed and flexibility in mind

    • Comprehensive functionality:Incident, problem, change, service level management, self-service, discovery and asset management
    • Social, mobile, modern access: With the Salesforce 1 platform, solve incidents, submit approvals, and crowdsource information via Chatter or chat
    • Intuitive dashboards and reporting: Resolve 90% of IT issues on the first call; show key business metrics in real time
    • Configuration not customization: Deploy new technologies and services without coding or scripting, using existing Salesforce staff
    • No software or hardware to install or manage: Seamless upgrades twice a year with simple, value-based pricing


    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...

    Sample Customers
    Design Within Reach, Dex Media, DHHS, News UK, Pervasive Software, Mitchell International, Sysmex Corporation, Ameritas, Lumen 21
    Banco G&T Continental City of Perth, FEMSA, Fujitsu, Manpower, Muslim Commercial Bank - MCB, Punjab National Bank, Santa Clara County Social Services, Stefanini
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider15%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government9%
    REVIEWERS
    Healthcare Company25%
    Financial Services Firm22%
    Government7%
    Comms Service Provider5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Real Estate/Law Firm7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise31%
    Large Enterprise38%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise67%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    BMC Remedyforce [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Help Desk Software with 15 reviews while Clarity SM is ranked 23rd in Help Desk Software with 107 reviews. BMC Remedyforce [EOL] is rated 7.8, while Clarity SM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BMC Remedyforce [EOL] writes "A solid, reasonably-priced service management solution for small to mid-sized businesses". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Clarity SM writes "Quite good back-end architecture for end users but the API is very, very bad". BMC Remedyforce [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Clarity SM is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, BeyondTrust Remote Support, OpenText Service Management Automation X (SMAX) and IBM Maximo.

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