BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management Reviews

My main use case for BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management is related to the environment; once I provide feedback, it's helpful if your environment needs this service to serve it. BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management portal is divided into multiple services, including Discovery, workflow, ITSM, BHOM, dashboard, and service monitoring, all powered by AI. I have worked on all of these features, which has helped me. We use ITSM in our company to solve the ticketing system for support tickets, and there are workflows opened from divisions like financial and sales that are very helpful. The Discovery tool helps discover all your assets in your company, making it necessary for collaboration between your servers and services.

Out of all those services, I mainly interact with the BHOM part day-to-day, where I work on the events that trigger the services and servers based on the threshold monitored by the monitor policy and the alarm policy. I also follow up with service monitoring. If there is any event opened or an incident occurred, it gets flagged based on these policies. The AI features help predict future issues with the server or service, such as potential thresholds being reached after a few hours. Therefore, I am mainly dedicated to BHOM.

One unique aspect of my workflow with BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management is that the dashboard reflects results from the BHOM, as well as from Discovery and service monitoring. Before using BHOM, it's important to have a good Discovery to know all your assets, as this assists in monitoring your services effectively.

The best features of BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management depend on what your environment needs, as different companies might only require the dashboard or just Discovery without BHOM, ITSM, or workflow.

Personally, the most valuable features for my environment include BHOM, service monitoring, and the dashboard. The Discovery tool is necessary but works best in tandem with BHOM and service monitoring to establish reliable monitoring and insights into my environment.

BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management has positively impacted my organization by sending event alerts. For instance, if I monitor a server with disk thresholds, an email alert notifies the end user when storage is reaching its maximum capacity, which is extremely helpful.

By receiving alerts and emails ahead of time, I have noticed reductions in downtime. For example, monitoring a Hyper-V environment allows me to keep an eye on the Cluster Shared Volume (CSV). When the CSV nears capacity, I can take action before an outage occurs, which has been crucial for system stability.

BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management could use improvements on the dashboard; having a ready-to-use dashboard that just needs asset information instead of building one from scratch would be helpful. The lack of templates for dashboards and limited email notification customization are also areas needing attention.

I have been using BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management for one year.

In my experience, BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management is stable.

The scalability of BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management is good, as it grows with our organization's needs.

I have had positive experiences with customer support, having worked with both third-party teams and the BMC support team, including escalating cases to the R&D team which have been resolved successfully.

I did not use any solution before BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management, but I worked with a company that used ManageEngine, which is also good. I am familiar with other tools such as SolarWinds and Zabbix, but my primary experience is with ManageEngine.

I have seen a return on investment, especially in terms of time saved. For instance, developing metrics to monitor disk capacity prevents potential disasters.

I do not have any advice for others looking into using BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management, as I have provided all the information I have. I do not have any additional thoughts about BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management before we wrap up. I rate this product an 8 out of 10.

On-premises

I use BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management primarily for IT service management. It supports modules like incident management, change management, problem management, release management, and configuration management.

While I cannot provide very particular details about the most helpful features, I also use other tools like ServiceNow and Jira that have similar features. Some of the changes required are at the framework level, which may not be feasible to change immediately. Incorporating features available in ServiceNow would greatly enhance BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management.

There are several areas where BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management could be improved. Currently, ServiceNow has an edge when it comes to the ease of discovering Configuration Items (CIs). In BMC Helix, there are issues with the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), such as duplicate entries and problems with reconciliation. The recently introduced dashboard tool in Helix, which replaced Smart Reporting, has several issues. Reporting has been a consistent problem in BMC, and it would greatly benefit from enhancements.

I have been using BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management for about fifteen years now.

I did encounter issues, but they were not overly complex. Overall, I would rate the complexity of the migration as medium.

The stability of the solution could be improved, specifically in the area of the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), where there are issues with duplicate entries and reconciliation.

The support of BMC is generally good and better compared to some competitors. However, there is room for improvement in new products like the dashboard tool.

I previously used the older Remedy solution before migrating to BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management.

I migrated from an older Remedy to Helix Remedy, which took around six to nine months. It wasn't extremely complex, but there were some issues during the migration.

While I am not very sure about the pricing, I have heard that the license cost of BMC is relatively lower than its competitors.

Other solutions I work with include ServiceNow and Jira, which also have similar features.

The decision to use BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management depends on the specific use case and requirements. Overall, I would recommend considering other tools if their features align better with organizational needs. I would rate the overall solution a 7 out of 10.

Public Cloud

Other

Over three jobs, I have used BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management for seven years. My main use case for BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management is incident management. I work on tickets created by users, create tickets for users, keep the users up to date, conduct investigations, log information, and perform similar tasks in my day-to-day work.

The best features BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management offers are making comments visible to users and multiple fields that can be customized. I find myself relying on the public comment feature for all users the most, as it is very effective.

BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management has positively impacted my organization by helping us maintain a good relationship with end users. Communication has become easier to conduct and maintain, which has improved our relationships.

I have not identified any features that would be required at the moment for BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management.

I have been working in my current field for twelve months.

BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management is stable. We did not experience problems with the application itself, but rather with our network.

BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management demonstrates good scalability.

I have not accessed customer support for BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management, as we have not encountered that need.

Negative

We previously used HPSM and switched because that solution was outdated and no longer satisfied our needs.

I have not observed a return on investment, but we manage incidents much better in BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management.

My advice to others looking into using BMC Helix Enterprise Service Management is to trust the application because it will serve you well. I would rate this product ten out of ten.

Private Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)