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BMC Helix Discovery

Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10
Category
BMC Helix Discovery
7.8 /10

What is BMC Helix Discovery?

BMC Helix Discovery is a cloud-native discovery and dependency mapping solution for visibility into hardware, software, and service dependencies across multi-cloud environments.

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Awards & Recognition

BMC Helix Discovery won the following awards in the IT Asset Management - Enterprise category

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BMC Helix Discovery Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

86 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

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85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+85 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love BMC Helix Discovery?

6% Negative
5% Neutral
89% Positive

Pros

  • Efficient Service
  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 80

Integrated Discovery

84

Data Center Analytics

84

Analytics and Reporting

83

Software Recognition Library

79

Software Usage Metering

79

Advanced License Management

78

End to End Lifecycle Management

78

Data Import Export and Aggregation

77

Decentralized Management

76

Cloud License Management

74

Financial Analysis

72

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Breadth of Features

84

Quality of Features

83

Ease of IT Administration

81

Ease of Implementation

81

Ease of Data Integration

81

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

81

Business Value Created

80

Ease of Customization

79

Vendor Support

78

Usability and Intuitiveness

77

Availability and Quality of Training

76

BMC Helix Discovery Reviews

Vignesh S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Banking
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2023

"ONE OF THE BEST TOOL IN THE MARKET"

Likeliness to Recommend

6 /10

What differentiates BMC Helix Discovery from other similar products?

Ticketing system is very useful using helix, Status of each and every Incidents/Requests are clearcut and all easily understandable. the alerts of VMs/Servers are acurately sent via incident and emails triggering are also very accurate.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Dashboard and Ticketing queue view is eye catchy.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Learning the navigation of software for new commers is bit tedious.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

one of the best tool in the market if you get that in a good/discounted price.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Efficient Service
  • Inspires Innovation

Cons

  • Wastes Time

Ankit G.

  • Role: Finance
  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2023

Steadfast Leader In ITSM Continues To Shine

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates BMC Helix Discovery from other similar products?

We loved the way it is designed and easily integrated with other applications. Initially, we experienced many difficulties when using other tools wherein even a simple thing like Approving a request used to take a lot of time and patience. We need to open the application, log in and then check the pending requests for approval. But when we started using BMC remedy, the integration with PeopleSoft and MS Office made it easy to create and approve requests without even a need for us to open the web/application portal.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The service and support are overall excellent. Only for some products, it takes too long to have a solution or sometimes even an answer. The products are at some points average (Smart-IT) and some points compelling (Innovation Suite). Digital Workplace is also a solid product but has some weak points, and hopefully, by getting it into the Innovation Suite, it will be that strong, I wish, and I need it. We realized significant cost savings with up to 75% improvement in service and management efficiencies from automating daily employee tasks.

What do you dislike most about this product?

As a developer, you have not-so-good tools to debug like in a classic IDE. There are no breakpoints and no option to start at a specific point in the process. So, on the one hand, this graphical development gets you the power to create very quickly and have good progress. But on the other hand, it will be very frustrating when you are trying new things and have problems that you want to debug or fix. However, we value our continued collaboration with BMC and know they will address these issues. With BMC Helix, we can deliver exciting innovations throughout our company. We know we have one of the best solutions in the industry, which supports

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Finest tool in the market for IT service management.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Caring
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Cons

  • Inhibits Innovation
  • Charges for Enhancements
  • Commodity Features

Mohit S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Engineering
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2023

One of the most powerful discovery & app mapping

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates BMC Helix Discovery from other similar products?

Its ability to plug and play integration with another industry-leading tool where the data can bring more value. Helps to discover all attributes as servers, IPs all related details of servers as ports networks details etc. this is one solution for all the issues where you can compare data from different customers too

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Quick discovery, ci relationship auto discovered. Quick setup. Used in projects during sales phases to discovered client environment for solution design.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Technical Support can be improved. Partner training and demo instances like Servicenow can be useful to evaluate features and demos.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The tku updates on monthly basis does not fix critical issues such as getting the end of license and end of support information

Pros

  • Efficient Service
  • Respectful
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Altruistic

Cons

  • Vendor's Interest First