BMC AMI DevX vs Glean Platform comparison

BMC and Glean are both solutions in the AI Software Development category. BMC is ranked #30 with an average rating of 7.8, while Glean is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.5. BMC holds a 0.3% mindshare in ASD, compared to Glean’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Glean users who would recommend it.

BMC AMI DevX

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92% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between BMC AMI DevX and Glean Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two AI Software Development solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

BMC AMI DevX

Ranking in AI Software Development

30th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Configuration Management (1st), Debugging (2nd), Database Development and Management (11th), Mainframe Application Development (1st), Test Data Management (4th), Mainframe Testing Tools (1st), Data Masking (3rd)

Glean Platform

Ranking in AI Software Development

10th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Indexing and Search (2nd), Search as a Service (4th), AI Agent Builders (4th), AI Customer Support (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AI Software Development category, the mindshare of BMC AMI DevX is 0.3%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Glean Platform is 0.4%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

AI Software Development Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Glean Platform	0.4%
BMC AMI DevX	0.3%
Other	99.3%

AI Software Development

Featured Reviews

Wisdom Mbiza

Product Engineer at Absa Group

Modern tools have boosted mainframe file extraction speed and simplified everyday workflows

I definitely think BMC AMI DevX could be improved or enhanced in terms of the logging in features. BMC AMI DevX's logging in feature is not so great. Whenever you try to log in, it always prompts you for passwords. Then when you have to switch sessions, because we usually have to switch between production and UAT, there's no quick way of switching between the two. Every time you try to switch, it prompts you to log in. Additionally, there's a pop-up that I always receive. When you click X on it, it doesn't disappear. Eventually, I just end up minimizing it. Furthermore, the startup of BMC AMI DevX takes a long time to start up before it loads. It doesn't just immediately start up and it's ready. It takes a good solid two to three minutes before it's ready so that you can work on it. BMC AMI DevX's logins and the other ones I can understand because security has to be there, but I do feel that once I've logged in, I shouldn't need to log in again. The startup problem is the annoying one because if I want to do something, I need to open it two or three minutes earlier to give it time to load up. The startup problem is the one that definitely needs to be addressed.

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Ananya Bl

Data Analyst at Capgemini

Daily orchestration of complex ai workflows has boosted my research and automation capabilities

Orchestration primarily decides which agent handles which part of a task and manages errors, retries, and complete state while maintaining the workflow effectively. On the orchestration side, branching, looping, and human approvals support non-linear workflows in production environments with real-time access. Through refined and improved prompts, this helps in closing the loop with actual users. One unique feature that stood out is that every step in the workflow can pause or recover from failures. Instead of finishing the entire agent in one go, this approach is interesting because if there is a minor change in a previously completed step regarding the state, I can re-edit and restart from the beginning. This is truly impressive.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"ISPW is an excellent product; it does everything the developers need it to do, we were able to build it and customize it very simply as we became more familiar with how the system works during installation, and it doesn't need a lot of care and feeding once it's up and running."

"I think BMC AMI DevX has provided overall benefits and a positive impact because I've seen a lot of developers, not just the new developers, but even the old developers who have used the green screen their entire life, also developing with BMC AMI DevX and migrating into the newer screen."

"As far as the software vendors that I work with go, Compuware has some of the best support, in terms of listening to customer requests and accepting enhancements to the product and the like."

"I have worked with DB2's great features in the last five years. The IDAA feature transformed the vision of warehousing, business analytics, and big data at my bank. Besides the mainframe, I saw that this solution was evolutionary. It gives real-time information."

"BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline is a solid product that any company can benefit from if they want to have tight control and a standard way of deploying applications into production in a secure manner."

"Once we got the configurations and deployment rolled out, it was very stable. I haven't had any major issues with Eclipse or the Topaz Workbench plugins."

"Compuware Xpediter is one of the best debugging tools for mainframe software development."

"The most valuable feature of Topaz is Xpediter. It's more flexible than Xpediter through MVS."

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"Glean Platform has increased productivity by at least one hundred hours per week for my organization."

"Glean Platform has positively impacted our organization, especially in terms of productivity for both us and our customers."

"Since I have joined, I have built around ninety agents with Glean Platform, and it has saved our organization around twenty-seven hours a week for each user, and it has also positively impacted our ARR."

"The best features Glean Platform offers include the ability to create my own agents, for example, I created a self-service agent for my stakeholders, so rather than email me, I sent them a link to an agent where the agent asks them questions and drills down to exactly what they need, and then I get a qualified response from them."

"Life became so easy when we started using Glean Platform."

"The major impact that I have noticed is how business users are now being impacted and they are using the platform because they understand it easily."

"I have used many solutions, but Glean Platform is the best, and I would truly appreciate it if everyone considers this platform."

"When I searched for internal information spread across different systems, Glean Platform did centralize and retrieve that data for me effectively, giving me eighty percent accuracy."

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Cons

"The area for improvement is related to the testing tools that are available for unit testing or acceptance testing. I know they have some out there that we are not licensed for at this time, but it seems like some of the Eclipse tools that are used for other programming languages, they're all just built-in and they're a little more intuitive to the developers. Making those testing tools as intuitive as possible, and as integrated as possible into the workbench, would be really beneficial."

"The ISPW plugin could be improved to add some functionality which is already in ISPF panels and not in the plugin."

"I find it more cumbersome to use Topaz."

"It's a very complicated tool."

"BMC AMI DevX is a strong platform, but there are a few areas where it could improve, such as simplifying the initial installation and configuration, especially for first-time users."

"It would be good if the vendors would work together or at least have some collaboration between them, so they would know what would work and what wouldn't work. Right now, the way things are working, they're relying on the customer to make everything work."

"One area for improvement with this product could be in providing clearer guidance and tools for disaster recovery planning and execution."

"We have noticed that Topaz supported Eclipse environments are rather old. It would be nice if Topaz were compatible with the more current Eclipse releases."

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"I chose seven out of ten because if I could upload PDFs and have them analyzed, or have it integrate with my Gmail and help me go through my emails, that would be very useful, but I do not think it does that."

"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the licenses were expensive, and it was hard to convince the company to adopt based on that."

"I tried pulling in an architecture diagram of a workflow, and it pulled in some other image instead."

"Also, the latency that the platform offers is a little high right now; what I have noticed is that on a particular query, the user has to wait a long time in order to get responses."

"Glean Platform can implement more models. The NLP creation could be a little faster, and while debugging is amazing, the routing also needs to provide higher quality outputs sometimes rather than extensive searching."

"There are multiple ways in which Glean Platform can be improved."

"Sometimes Glean Platform gets slowed down."

"Currently, Glean Platform does not integrate with Teams, Microsoft-owned platforms."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The only thing I would mention related to the licensing and/or the pricing, is that they have some visualization features in there that are licensed by concurrent users. We're starting to trip up on that. We're looking to probably increase the number of concurrent licenses that we have. But those types of licensing strategies, where they license by concurrent users or the number of seats is confusing for some people. They don't understand why it works sometimes and doesn't work other times."

"It has saved our developers time and effort when working on documentation, which is now more readable and fluent."

"In general, Compuware tools are very competitive."

"In terms of pricing, there isn't an extra charge for the parts of it we use. It comes with the licenses we purchased for other products, so no complaints there. The licensing is built in with the other products that you purchase from Compuware."

"I like the seat-based licensing much more than MSU-based licensing, and that the cost has been competitive."

"The price point is great."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

31%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	19

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	9

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC Compuware Topaz Enterprise Data?

My understanding is that BMC AMI DevX is an enterprise product with custom licensing, so pricing is typically negotiated based on factors such as the modules purchased, organization size, and usage...

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What needs improvement with BMC AMI DevX?

BMC AMI DevX is a strong platform, but there are a few areas where it could improve, such as simplifying the initial installation and configuration, especially for first-time users. It could also i...

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What is your primary use case for BMC AMI DevX?

My main use case for BMC AMI DevX is to work with COBOL and JCL development on IBM. I mainly use it for editing, browsing data sets, submitting jobs, and debugging applications. I appreciate the Ec...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Glean Platform?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Glean Platform reveals limited options, and I wish there was more customization available.

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What needs improvement with Glean Platform?

In workflow agents, I would prefer that we do not use AI in every step and instead we have a toggle button or something which can configure whether AI should be used in this specific search field o...

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What is your primary use case for Glean Platform?

I use Glean Platform as an enterprise search tool and I am a power user of agents, so I mostly use this on a day-to-day basis for random searches that I need to do about a company, a website, or if...

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Also Known As

File-AID, Data for Db2, Code Debug, Data Studio, Workbench for Eclipse, Code Pipeline

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Overview

BMC AMI DevX is a mainframe DevOps platform for IBM Z environments that helps development and platform engineering teams increase release velocity, reduce change risk, and build a sustainable mainframe developer workforce.

Whether the priority is attracting the next generation of mainframe talent, safely evolving decades of business-critical code, accelerating release velocity, or demonstrating development ROI to leadership — BMC AMI DevX is designed to address all on a single platform. Teams can connect existing tools and adopt capabilities incrementally using an open-borders integration approach.

A 2025 Forrester Total Economic Impact study found that customers using BMC AMI DevX onboarded developers 50% faster, completed code changes 33% faster, increased release frequency by 50%, and reduced change failure rate by 33%.

Key capabilities:

Modern IDE integration (VS Code, Eclipse) with a unified development environment that reduces context switching
AI-powered code analysis including dependency mapping, impact analysis, and runtime execution path visualization
Automated unit, functional, integration, and performance testing with code coverage analysis
Git-compatible CI/CD integration with event-driven webhooks and an open plug-in library
DORA metrics and DevOps KPI tracking with AI/ML anomaly detection across the mainframe SDLC

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Glean Platform harnesses cutting-edge technology to empower organizations, bridging data access gaps and enhancing productivity through its advanced search and knowledge capabilities.

Glean Platform transforms how organizations operate by integrating powerful search functions with intelligent knowledge management tools. It empowers users to locate and utilize information efficiently, fostering a more connected work environment. Its dynamic capabilities provide seamless integration, enabling users to access critical data swiftly, thus driving informed decision-making processes within teams. Designed for scalability, Glean Platform adapts to varying enterprise needs, ensuring customized solutions that align with business objectives.

What features does Glean Platform offer?

Intelligent Search: Delivers precise search results tailored to user queries.
Knowledge Graph: Visualizes connections between data for better insights.
Seamless Integration: Works with a wide range of existing tools and applications.
Security Controls: Protects data with robust security features.

What are user benefits and ROI?

Increased Productivity: Reduces time spent searching for information.
Enhanced Collaboration: Facilitates knowledge sharing across teams.
Scalability: Grows with the organization’s evolving needs.
Improved Decision-Making: Provides access to real-time information.

In industries like finance and healthcare, Glean Platform aids in streamlining operations by offering tailored data solutions that adhere to specific compliance standards. By facilitating efficient information retrieval, it supports critical tasks such as data analysis and regulatory reporting.

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Sample Customers

NRB, Iberdrola, Consorzio Servizi Bancari

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