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We performed a comparison between Alemba vFire and BMC FootPrints Service Core based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Incident Management is the most valuable feature of the solution.""When we met with the Alemba vFire from Australia, it was a good discussion and they have a good feature roadmap.""The workflow is very good, as well as customizable."

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"I have used Tier II BMC support a few times. They were very responsive and recreated my environment in their lab to support me.""I like the fact that FootPrints is a relational database, so every item in the database can be linked to another. This helps create history and audit trails for each CI.""Technical support is good.""We have found the reports and the lockdown on a ticket valuable, so only one person can update issues.""This product solidly handles incident management, problem management, and change management.""We can track issues easier and run reports on issues to see if there are patterns.""It is stable and its technical support is good and quick.""I think the most important feature is the ability to receive valuable ticket status support in a timely manner with little to no downtime interruptions."

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Cons
"The reporting needs to be improved.""The product should improve its ability to integrate with third-party tools.""We had issues with the user interface, the way it was structured wasn't that user-friendly. The chat features could improve. For example, in change management, all the chat discussions can be done via ServiceNow. We are using two separate solutions, such as Teams, to chat, and the Alemba vFire tool to process."

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"Reporting could be improved along with the option to create more fine tuned reports and to create specific fields for each type of ticket.""It would be better if it were more user-friendly. The reporting part in the version we have is a little complicated. It takes too long to build and report. It would also be better if there were another way to manage notifications.""It is pretty clunky and not very intuitive. Even though I have used it for many years, I don't think it is a very good ITSM platform in general. In the telecom space, a lot of telco providers use this solution, but from my perspective, it is not very user friendly. It is a bit more laborious. There are still too many human touchpoints. There can be a little bit more automation. It would also be good to integrate it with other tools. Integration is quite difficult, especially in the telco space.""The workflow should be made to be more user-friendly. It should also have more granular scalability.""We need more customizable reporting functionality. We could also use more collaboration of service desk tickets. This will allow for two departments to share the same information, track the progress of the total task scope no matter how complex the request is.""Hyphens are not allowed in the quick search bar. This has created a problem in our environment where we use hyphens in our asset names.""The pricing could be a little lower and the product should cover more iTel versions.""The mobile version of this product does not support asset management."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Alemba vFire is more affordable than the other solutions on the market. The solution changes for the number of customers not per user or module. The price was reasonable overall. We paid for support and it was a fair price."
  • "The product is much cheaper than ServiceNow."
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  • "Cost was on par with other service desk products, and well below Remedy, while still being a BMC product."
  • "Our costs are well over $250,000."
  • "This solution has good pricing."
  • "The licensing for FootPrints is a perpetual license with an annual support fee."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Incident Management is the most valuable feature of the solution.
    Top Answer:The product should improve its ability to integrate with third-party tools. The service portal should be customizable.
    Top Answer:The product is used for incident management, change management, and request management. We can store assets like people, machines, and processes in CMDB. We can also use the solution to see the chain… more »
    Top Answer:It would be better if it were more user-friendly. The reporting part in the version we have is a little complicated. It takes too long to build and report. It would also be better if there were… more »
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    FootPrints Service Core
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    Overview

    Backed by a quarter of a century of heritage, Alemba’s vFire Enterprise Service Management solution combines a user-focused design philosophy with robust functionality.

    vFire is trusted by a large number of Enterprise-scale organizations for its out-of-the-box deeply rich workflows, award-winning Pro-active Problem Management and future-proofed flexibility.

    FootPrints Service Core integrates IT service and asset management for end-to-end business services, and it's easy to install, use, and support. With configurable capabilities that streamline service delivery, FootPrints improves customer satisfaction and IT's reputation with your business users.
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    Government23%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Non Profit7%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Healthcare Company43%
    Logistics Company14%
    Government14%
    Financial Services Firm14%
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    Government20%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Educational Organization14%
    Healthcare Company12%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise56%
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    Small Business40%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    Alemba vFire is ranked 27th in IT Service Management (ITSM) with 3 reviews while BMC FootPrints Service Core is ranked 26th in IT Service Management (ITSM) with 10 reviews. Alemba vFire is rated 7.4, while BMC FootPrints Service Core is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alemba vFire writes "Fulfills all IT management needs, simple setup, but could be more user-friendly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BMC FootPrints Service Core writes "Scalability is customizable but it is somewhat limited in terms of how granular it can be". Alemba vFire is most compared with ServiceNow and JIRA Service Management, whereas BMC FootPrints Service Core is most compared with .

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