BMC Remedy Reviews

I have experience utilizing BMC Remedy for IT service management and incident resolution. Within the platform, I've leveraged its comprehensive suite of tools including case solutions, incident management, and change management processes.

It's an exceptionally robust and seamlessly integrated solution that has greatly facilitated our operations.

It has been employed for change management and process automation. We've integrated it into our incident management system, utilizing various services and ensuring adherence to SLAs with customers monthly. It's a comprehensive solution tailored for handling these tasks efficiently.

The customization and integration capabilities not only enhance our IT service management but also extend to other departments. We can utilize them to create requests and even incorporate visuals for various departments beyond IT.

The reporting and analytics abilities within Remedy have been instrumental in facilitating data-driven decision-making. With its excellent interface for data analytics, we're able to gain valuable insights. Additionally, there are numerous features geared towards enhancing analytics with visual intelligence, contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of our data. 

The graphical interface, key management, and SLEA functionality stand out as the most valuable features of the platform.

BMC Remedy is an excellent tool. With many years of experience in service management, it's highly adaptable to customer needs and offers easy customization. The IQ process and other functionalities are standout attributes of this solution that I find most impactful for enhancing our service delivery and efficiency.

Continuous improvement is recommended.

I have been working with it for five years.

It provides excellent stability capabilities. I would rate it ten out of ten.

Scalability is exceptional, whether deployed on-premises or in the cloud, thanks to the utilization of containers. Additionally, in the cloud environment, there is even more scalability. I would rate it nine out of ten.

The initials setup is straightforward.

BMC offers highly capable professional services for seamless deployment. It's easy to adapt and understand, particularly with Remedy's interface, which meets high usability standards. There are only a few individuals required for maintenance: system administrators and system developers.

Overall, I would rate it ten out of ten.

We used BMC Remedy Asset Management in our company for ticket login, ticket tracking, and resolution. So, it was for managing customer requests, complaints, incidents, events, and a few other things in our company.

BMC Remedy Asset Management is pretty easy for quite a lot of functions. But in the area where we used it, I think it was really valuable because we were able to keep track of incidents, or events, of customer requests. We had a scorecard that we could pull from Remedy's server every week to see which team was performing well in resolving customer requests and complaints. So it was pretty much very effective for managing requests and complaints of customers.

I can't see which area in the solution has room for improvement because we had a dedicated team managing it, and we just used it. We were the sub-administrators with a team handling and managing the front end.

However, from a stability perspective, we sometimes had issues, like running out of resources, maxing out, database issues, and the server freezing out and functioning at fifty percent.

I have used BMC Remedy Asset Management from 2016 until last year. So, I have used it in the past year. I was a customer.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Like MySQL, we only need to buy more licenses to have it serve more people. So far, we have had the resources, and it has been good. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten. We had around 10,000 users in our company using the solution.

We had no reason to contact technical support since it was easy for us to manage any issues related to the solution.

The initial setup was really easy because we were given a consultant by BMC Remedy Asset Management, who helped us manage the server and the platform easily. The solution was deployed on the cloud and on-premise.

I would tell those planning to use the solution that, like every other IT platform or system resource, one needs to have a dedicated staff and hardware resource that would be able to help the operation of the platform.

Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

The solution is very helpful and easy to use because it is stable and user-friendly for asset management.

The solution helped us a lot. I worked with a multinational company. This company had a lot of valuable assets and a large number of devices. The solution allowed me to easily generate reports for all of these devices in our environment. As I was the owner of the cluster in the Middle East, it was one of my duties to check the patches for these devices. Using the solution, I was able to do this with just a few clicks.

The solution is extremely user-friendly.

I would like to have the option to add the current user on the machine and have a historic record of previous users.

I would like to have more customized reporting because the management team loves customized reports with graphs. This provides them with an experience that allows them to understand what is happening in our cluster.

I have been using the solution for two years.

BMC Remedy Asset Management is very stable.

I give the stability an eight out of ten.

The solution is extremely scalable. 

I give the scalability a nine out of ten.

We have seen a return on investment with the solution.

I use the solution in my company as a ticketing tool also for asset management and discovery. My company has many customers with client management and patch management solutions.

I am not the right person to comment from a technical point of view. As a sales person, I can say that the price of the product is high. The product can only be sold to very big or enterprise-sized customers. The tool can be expensive for mid-market businesses, making it an area that can be considered for improvement by BMC Remedy.

I have been using BMC Remedy for ten years. I use the solution's latest version. I am not a technical person. I am more involved in sales.

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten. From a commercial point of view, it is very expensive to expand the use of the solution.

My company deals with enterprise-sized businesses using the product.

I rate the product's initial setup phase an eight to nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.

The time required to deploy the product is something that depends on the needs of our company's customers.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

I am unable to sell BMC Remedy as it is an expensive solution for customers in Greece. I don't know what to say because I don't have any actual customers for the product.

It is an expensive tool.

I just sell BMC Remedy. I believe that it consolidates incidents from all the systems, and you have a better insight of the root cause.

I recommend the product for enterprise-sized organizations since it is too expensive for the mid-market.

I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.

We use BMC Remedy Asset Management for various purposes. Firstly, we utilize it to create configuration items while generating tickets. These items can be different classes such as computers or CI, RxPA authentication in their backup application. Depending on the customer's requirements, we enable the migration of tickets in the service to ETA or sales. 

Additionally, we utilize the purchase control and fan console features in asset management. Moreover, I have developed and implemented several customizations, including return approvals for all these functionalities.

In terms of asset management, we also leverage concepts like CMDB (Configuration Management Database). These allow us to visualize all the relevant CA configurations within the asset management system. The reference for computers comes from the hardware category, while laptops come from the hardware disk and conference category. It depends on how these assets are classified.

Furthermore, we rely on lifecycle management capabilities for all these assets, and we share this information with our customers who utilize the assets.

There are a lot of features a customer can use. It’s an existing concept of asset management. One feature is the ability to create tickets for various computer systems, VPN defenses, sites, regions, or customers. For example, if a system like XYZ is unresponsive, the customer can raise a ticket indicating the issue. In such cases, we define a configuration item (CI) for the server name and associate it with the service in asset management. This CI is then stored within the asset management system. We have also configured three specific options for ticket creation: customer review, CRM selection, and assignment. These features enhance the ticketing process.

There are many features like these that customers can leverage. Additionally, we have the ability to disable unnecessary data rates and define a Golden Hat as a production dataset from Sandback. Customers can utilize all these investments in CH (Configuration Hardware) management.

We can also manage the lifecycle of certain CAs by setting a specific duration for their validation, such as six months or one year, depending on customer requirements. It can even be extended up to ten years. Customers can make use of these features and utilize the bulk linking functionality.

One area that requires improvement is the prevention of duplicates or data inconsistencies in the system. Sometimes, unknowingly, developers or customer service representatives may create duplicate CIs or assets, leading to inconsistent data. We need to implement measures to ensure that customers do not encounter such inconsistencies and duplicate records. This involves backend policies, procedures, and functional enhancements. It's crucial to provide customers with accurate data and eliminate duplicate CIs or assets.

Along with that, while using the tool for network management and other functionalities, there are several features and options to choose from. To enhance user experience, we can provide customization options so that customers can easily access and utilize the desired features directly from the homepage.

I have been working at BMC Asset Management for almost 14 years since I started my career.

In terms of stability, it's actually quite good. Most cloud-based systems nowadays offer good stability, and the same applies to BMC Remedy Asset Management. 

If we ensure proper maintenance of the servers and install it in a Linux environment, the stability is even better compared to running it on a Windows operating system. 

Once the system is installed and properly implemented, it remains stable. There may be occasional minor issues, but overall, the stability is commendable.

I would rate the stability an eight out of ten. 

The number of users can vary, depending on the organization. In one organization I worked with, there were over 200 users who utilized BMC Remedy Asset Management, along with a dedicated service team and CMDB. 

Another organization had more than a thousand users. These users were using different versions of the same model. 

Through my experience working with different organizations and customers, I have gained valuable insights and knowledge. The number of users depends on the organization and the system's stability. So, stability and usability are important factors to consider when optimizing the system for the users' needs.

We need to fine-tune the system and ensure its performance aligns with the number of users and their usability requirements, such as the average number of users working on the system daily, especially in a production environment. 

The initial setup is not very difficult. We can provide the solution or implement BMC Remedy Asset Management. We can also offer guidance through our documentation, making it easy for customers to use. We can provide demo sessions using Webex, and they will understand the interface and features. Thne, it becomes very easy to implement.

Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I would highly recommend BMC Remedy Asset Management to customers who are using it for the first time. There are many benefits to utilizing this software, especially in relation to ITFM (IT Financial Management). 

It facilitates the creation of tickets and manages configuration data from various sources, such as ADDM (Application Dependency Mapping) and Discovery Data. 

The data is then stored in the CMDB and made visible in the asset management system. I encourage customers to explore and make full use of these features, as they provide valuable insights and a user-friendly interface.

The main use is for asset management. It's all the network elements and all the IP devices and all the relationships between them integrated with discovery and some other integrations with other tools to feed the CMDB in Remedy.

I work with different clients, however, for the past three, or four years, I'm with a telco company. Before, I worked with a bank as well for their assets. They were actually migrating from what they called HP Asset Manager. And I had a good experience in both at that time. I was helping to migrate into BMC Remedy.

The CMDB design of building is great. The way it's got built-in classes and inheritance. You have a base element class with the main, fields, or features, and then you can enter it from one with different types and then add more features. The way it's structured makes it easy to use, maybe not for end-users, yet easy to use for us as developers when we build our CMDB.

It has two different interfaces. There is the CMDB, which is the build of the classes and the characteristics of the classes. Then, the users will deal with the front end, which is called assets. For end-users, it's still okay to use, as they will say "Okay, I need computer systems." You can look at a computer system as an asset, and you can see the relationship between the computer system and other hardware and software. It's still easy to use for end-users, however, building the CMDB classes is more advanced.

It's a scalable product.

The stability is good.

Technical support is excellent.

They have a feature called Smart IT, which is like an easy-interfaced use BMC for end users. Maybe if they could add more of the asset features into Smart IT, it would be more helpful to users, in terms of managing assets.

If a user isn't using an out-of-the-box configuration, it can get a bit complex.

I've used the solution for ten years.

I haven't had any issues with stability. It's good. There are no bugs or glitches. It's reliable. 

The solution can scale.

I have had very good experiences with technical support. They're great. I'm satisfied with the level of service I receive. 

I can't speak to the exact pricing. It's not an area I'm involved in.

We are just customers and end-users.

I'd advise new users, while implementing, to be careful when they design the assets. You need to understand the existing classes. You shouldn't get excited to create a new one; it's advisable to try to use the out-of-the-box as much as you can.

Overall, I would rate the solution eight out of ten.

In my company, we use BMC Remedy Asset Management since it is the core component of the toolset, but the first component that needs to be installed is the single sign-on, which acts as an authentication system.

The most valuable feature of the solution includes all of its components since they act as the authentication system of the product.

There isn't much scope for improvement since it is a powerful component or solution from BMC.

The product's scalability is one area with certain shortcomings that need to be considered for improvement.

I have been using BMC Remedy Asset Management for a year and two months. BMC Remedy Asset Management comes under as one of the components of BMC TrueSight's package. My company has a partnership with BMC.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

In our company, the solution is used by many owing to its single sign-on feature.

In our company, we haven't faced any issues because of which we had to contact the solution's technical support.

The initial setup of BMC Remedy Asset Management was very easy.

The solution is deployed on-premises.

In BMC Remedy Asset Management, the core components consist of a single sign-on feature, efficient servers, infrastructure management, and a visibility manager, making it a good solution.

I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.

BMC Remedy's change management module needs enhancement. It could be more user-friendly for business users and administrators, clarifying the rules and features for all users. Simplifying the process would make it easier for them to utilize the system.

We have been using BMC Remedy for more than six years.

I provide technical support services to all the customers, addressing their queries. Overall, BMC support is good, but it needs to be enhanced further. They do not solve some issues; they need to collect all the issues provided by the clients and customers, then work on these solutions and provide them. They should gather all the customer issues and collect the solutions, sharing them on the portal or with the customer to provide support easier and faster.

Neutral

I have worked with other solutions. In comparison, BMC has powerful features.

The initial setup process is complex. As you update the system further, the desktop becomes more complex. Additionally, there are vulnerabilities in the version, so you must make the compatibility with the tools lower vulnerabilities.

BMC should decrease the pricing further. It would help them increase the number of potential customers. Many clients prioritize finding powerful solutions at affordable prices. Considering this point of view, BMC can expand its customer base and regain its position as a leader in the market.

The product's incident management process involves utilizing the answer management module to meet the business needs and requirements of both my company and its clients.

BMC Remedy has contributed to improving change management processes, but there are a few limitations. The change management module is complicated for all users to use. This complexity has resulted in numerous complaints and feedback from users and business stakeholders. They could provide clearer guidance for easier usage.

We utilize the customization options available in the platform. These options enable us to group assignments based on specific criteria, such as configurations or company requirements. For instance, we can assign tasks to particular groups, ensuring that users only have access to relevant tasks and permissions.

The product has excellent support for remote and hybrid environments. It enables me to provide assistance and resolve issues effectively, ensuring smooth operations for users across various locations. The automation capabilities fulfill our business requirements in streamlining IT workflows.

The installation process is complex. Providing more resources for user training purposes can make the implementation easier.

I rate it a nine out of ten.