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We performed a comparison between BMC Helix Discovery and Device42 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two IT Asset Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"Start anywhere application modelling brings a fantastic opportunity for users to see what is where.""The most valuable feature of BMC Helix Discovery is it operates well. It is well known and has gained recognition for its software.""The solution is definitely useful.""The most valuable feature is the automated service mapping.""Weekly reports to management really make our life simple.""The most valuable feature of the solution is its application dependency mapping.""It is a scalable solution.""A valuable feature concerns the ability to integrate with different solutions."

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"One of the most valuable features in my experience is the precise tracking of hardware devices and their locations registered in the solution. The solution allows to determine the exact placement of assets based on the building maps and the room details. This feature has allowed us to gain upper hand on the customers and provide them with a great satisfaction because they can visually see the arrangement of their assets within the organisation or building.""The solution has some very good relational capabilities that show us how certain devices relate to each other and how some of our environment actually works together.""It has agentless discovery; you don't need to put agents on your servers. You can open one or two ports to discover all your infrastructure.""The pricing is reasonable.""Previously, our company had a lot of issues keeping track of all the data centers and the inventory, as well as the purchase orders. All of these were managed by other tools. The good thing about Device42 is that it can be used for all this together. We don't need to spend time checking many other tools and files.""The asset inventory is great because previously we had devices all over the place. We have been able to do multiscans to find devices that we didn't know about, which was great.""The REST API abilities enables us to run scripts that pull information from our servers about software, storage, etc. Anything we need is pushed through REST API to the Device42 server and reflected in the report it generates.""The most valuable part is the ease of use. There's no training involved. It's pretty simple and straightforward."

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Cons
"BMC Helix Discovery needs more customization options.""There is still room for improvement in terms of stability.""The product falls short compared to storage discovery mechanisms offered by Tenable or ServiceNow ITOM. In the market, there are various applications available that provide different sets of features. Its drawback is that it doesn't give the database configuration customers need out of the box. Additionally, the classification of storage virtualization is relatively lacking. Therefore, there is room for improvement, particularly in the database areas.""There are certain limitations in the mapping feature of the solution.""The product is not fully automated.""What would make BMC Helix Discovery better is if it had more client-side discovery features, for example, printers and desktops. Right now, it's focused more on data center discovery, so if it had additional features focused on the client-side discovery, that would be great. In the next release of BMC Helix Discovery, I'd like more client-side discovery features such as desktop discovery, printer discovery, and other IP-based client-side discovery features. The solution can discover desktops and printers, but there's still room for improvement on the client side.""The solution should have different portals and logins for each customer so only that customer's assets show.""There isn't much that could be improved. The solution is pretty thorough, very easy to implement, and very easy to operate."

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"Currently, if you want to ping devices, you need to log into Appliance Manager. This feature should be available on the Device42 side. You should be able to use the ping utility without logging into Appliance Manager. The features that are there in Appliance Manager should also be available on the main Device42 server so that you have more control on one screen. You don't need to switch to another portal, but it is not something critical.""When servers have two network adapters, automatically discovered will be only one network card because the other one is a backup. Device42 has some problems to find the other connection.""Device42 is a main part of our processes. We need reliability, not only in terms of the data but with the solution itself. It's really difficult when we have 10 minutes of Device42 downtime because none of our teams can work for those 10 minutes, and it's more time lost if there is longer downtime. An improvement would be to have a cluster implementation of Device42 to have high-availability and ensure that we don't have downtime in case of failure.""If they could make it so their remote connector could do as much as 10,000 devices, that would be better.""While the automatic IT asset discovery is great, the first time using it can be confusing when you are configuring the SNMP. I don't remember for sure but I don't think it said "SNMP community," it said "password". The first time I used it I was thinking about communities but the tool said "password," and when you say "password" in SNMP you are thinking about SNMP version 3. This is the only thing that is confusing, although there were some devices that were not included in the discovery.""The architecture is a bit old-fashioned. Device42 is on one server, appliance, virtual machine, or guest. We are loading more into Device42 than it can hold. Overloading Device42 with REST API calls or tasks will directly impact every aspect because the server will be too busy to answer requests.""Mapping items wasn't as intuitive as importing in Device42, so this is an area for improvement.""A con for Device42 is that Kubernetes integration is lacking. You pay for 10,000 spot licenses and if you're spinning up a Kubernetes cluster, or four or five or six Kubernetes clusters like we do, you're going to have 5,000 or 6,000 nodes in each of those, doing different types of business things."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "BMC is available for a reasonable price compared to ServiceNow — it's half the price."
  • "The price was fair compared to competitors. BMC is very affordable. There are optional consulting services to assist with implementation."
  • "We are on a three-year agreement with BMC Helix Discovery to use the solution. There are not any additional fees other than the standard license."
  • "You need a license to use BMC Helix Discovery. The license is paid yearly, though I have no idea how much it costs."
  • "The licenses are very complex and quite costly."
  • "The solution offers yearly licenses."
  • "The licensing fee is very low."
  • "We have a perpetual license for the solution."
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  • "Our licensing costs are on a yearly basis."
  • "The product cost is low. It is quite cheap."
  • "On a yearly basis, our licensing is $10,000. However, our license is now nearly full with devices. We need the next bigger license with 5,000 devices, which will cost us $19,000. We pay for a set of licenses, a maximum number of devices, and a maximum number of IP addresses. We have the smallest amount of features, which is enough for us at this time."
  • "The problem with using other vendor, like BMC, is the pricing. The price is so horrible and nobody wants to pay this money."
  • "We pay $100,000 per year."
  • "It's in the top-three most expensive solutions in terms of cost, but it has all the features that are needed."
  • "I am not involved in its pricing, but I have seen their plans during a discussion with the customer. For 500 servers, they were asking 50,000 USD. The cost of BMC Discovery was less than half. For the same thing, they were charging only 10,000 USD. Its pricing needs to be improved. As compared to other discovery tools, such as BMC Discovery and ServiceNow Discovery, its price is a little bit higher."
  • "Functionality-wise, Device42 is on par with industry standards, but price-wise, the solution is expensive. I'm rating the pricing for the solution as eight out of ten."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It is a stable solution. The stability is okay.
    Top Answer:The solution is really expensive. We have a yearly license model. If we want to do anything extra, we have to pay extra costs.
    Top Answer:The license model could be more flexible and cheaper pricing.
    Top Answer:One of the most valuable features in my experience is the precise tracking of hardware devices and their locations registered in the solution. The solution allows to determine the exact placement of… more »
    Top Answer:Based on the use case for Device42, I found the solution a bit expensive. However, when you look at the support and the industry standards, Device42 was on par with the industry. Device42 is a little… more »
    Top Answer:In my experience, I believe that the key concern is the pricing strategy of the solution. Instead, other solutions are much more cost-effective. Previously, Device42 has altered the pricing model to… more »
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    Also Known As
    Discovery, ADDM, Atrium Discovery & Dependency Mapping
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    Overview

    BMC Discovery, formerly ADDM, is a digital enterprise management solution that automates asset discovery and application dependency mapping to build a holistic view of all your data center assets and the relationships between them. 

    Device42 is a powerful asset management tool for inventory, asset discovery, and CMDB purposes. It can be deployed on-premises or on the cloud and is praised for its ease of use, coordination, and reasonable pricing. 

    The tool's most valuable features include agentless discovery, service discovery, business application mapping, import/export for bulk operations, reporting, insights+, REST API abilities, auto-discovery, topology layout, and data center infrastructure management. Device42 has helped organizations provide visibility into on-premises infrastructure, aiding in asset management, automating IT problem-solving, and aiding in decision-making about resources.

    Say Hello! to Automated Data Center Management

    Say goodbye to spreadsheets and manual drawings which are, at best, inefficient and quickly outdated. Device42 auto-generates accurate infrastructure and inter-dependency diagrams making data center management faster, easier, and more accurate.

    • Gain – Gain accurate infrastructure visibility — know what you have, where it’s located, how it’s connected, and who owns it.
    • Beyond – Go beyond just the physical — gain visibility into blades, virtual machines, cloud instances, and the applications running on them.
    • Support – Support and document the entire lifecycle from purchase order to retirement.
    • Infrastructure – Device42’s comprehensive infrastructure management enables more informed decision making.

    Know Exactly What is Running, and Where, with Deep Application Mapping

    • Mapping – Powerful application mapping tools relate data from various sources.
    • Related – Auto-discovered data is related with imported and input data.
    • Components – Dependency flow diagrams relating application components are automatically generated.
    • Visualize – IT managers can visualize the application’s different parts and interdependencies.
    • Charts – Automatically-generated impact charts show the relationships between applications, hardware components, and facilities.

    Transform IT Anarchy into IT Organization

    Access real-time configuration data to understand where resources are and how those resources are being consumed. Support future capacity and growth planning.

    • IP Address – Get the next available IP address (eliminate ping and pray).
    • Capacity – Locate racks with enough space and power capacity to house new servers.
    • Affected – Determine which users are affected by scheduled and unscheduled outages.
    • Supported – Know if a server/OS is still supported, and where to find it.
    • Accurate – Maintain accurate server-switch port connections.
    • Manage – Accurately manage rack power and cooling capacities.
    • Device – Know device interdependencies and their service relationships.

    Efficiently Manage Growth and Consolidation with Powerful Capacity Planning Tools

    • Rack – Find available rack capacity with heat maps colored by available units.
    • Power – Ensure power availability at a glance with overlaid color bars.
    • Find – Quickly find space, outlets, and power capacity for new equipment with “What-If” scenarios.
    • Connections – Visually ensure all your machines are redundantly connected.
    • Hardware – Easily identify any hardware without redundancy.
    • View – View power consumption, temperature, and humidity over time.
    • Data Center – Locate data center hot spots and eliminate problem areas.
    • Reports – Comprehensive reporting includes abundant pre-configured reports or easily create your own.
    • Change – Instantly report change history, contracts, rack space availability, and much more.
    • Consolidate – Remove the guesswork — know if you have room to grow, or power and cooling capacity to consolidate.

    Dramatically Reduce Data Entry

    Increase data center staff productivity. By minimizing or eliminating redundant and low-value data entry, IT staff can spend more time on high-value business initiatives.

    • Automatic – Device42's autodiscovery, import tools, and 3rd-party integrations do a vast majority of the hard work for you.
    • API – All the documentation you could ever want on our open API is available at http://api.device42.com.
    • Powerful – Device42’s open and powerful REST API is thoroughly documented, easy to use, and extremely powerful —enabling input and output of data to and from external sources with features like .XLS API imports.
    • Better Place – Freedom from excessive data entry means you can focus on building the next cool thing and making the world a better place!

    Enhance IT Service Management

    Device42 integrates with many popular 3rd-party tools and imports from almost anywhere!

    • Input – No need to input the same data into multiple systems!
    • Information – Enhance the information in your ticketing system with data from Device42.
    • ITSM App – Out-of-the-box integrations with popular ITSM applications such as JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, and Zendesk.
    • Automation – Out-of-the-box integrations with automation platforms like Rundeck, Puppet, and Chef.
    • CMDB Providers – Import data from other CMDB providers like Aperature, Microsoft SCCM, Solarwinds, OpenDCIM, Racktables, Rackmonkey
    • Anywhere – Import from spreadsheets, Visio docs, and anywhere else you can get a .csv file.

    Effectively Manage Asset Life Cycles

    Make the most out of your budget. Track software and support entitlements, and full hardware asset lifecycles.

    • Purchases – Record purchases.
    • Lifecycle – Asset lifecycle tracking from the day of purchase to the day it’s retired.
    • Contract – Associate a service contract with the actual asset it applies to.
    • QR Code – Automatically generate a smartphone-readable QR code for physical inventory.
    • Planning – Improve planning with accurate financial data for budgeting and auditing.
    • Proactive – Proactively manage contracts and maintenance renewals with powerful reporting and renewal notices.
    • Track Well – Track software licensing and ensure compliance.
    • Eliminate – Eliminate waste and save money.

    Resolve Technical Issues Faster

    • Services – Improve your IT service delivery with accurate and actionable data.
    • Flexible – Device42 will discover and correlate relationships between physical, logical, and virtual environments – providing a powerful tool for problem solving.
    • Ticket Makes – Attaching the actual device to a ticket makes confusion about which device is being referenced a thing of the past.
    • Locate Device – Locating the device has never been easier when it’s attached to a ticket; click the device and get all the relevant details from Device42.
    • Emergency – The next time a data center emergency arises, save the day in style!

    Centrally Manage Shared Accounts and Passwords

    • Find – Take control of who has access to what systems
    • Ensure – Ensure that data center teams have the information they need, when they need it
    • Very Fast – Quickly map service accounts and secrets to devices and applications
    • Powerful Control – Protect account and password information with granular access controls
    • Locate – Track password views, expiration dates, and password changes
    • Happiness – And yes…keep the auditors happy, happy, happy!
    Sample Customers
    Windstream Communications, News UK, Mercator Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR)
    Computershare, Concur, Doosan, Fitch Ratings Inc., Fujitsu, HomeAway, Jasper Wireless, Mercedes-Benz, Square, Twitch, UCSB, Zayo Group Inc.
    Top Industries
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    Retailer20%
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Manufacturing Company20%
    Non Profit10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Government7%
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    Financial Services Firm36%
    Computer Software Company21%
    University14%
    Logistics Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business35%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise72%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise52%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise67%
    Buyer's Guide
    BMC Helix Discovery vs. Device42
    March 2024
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    BMC Helix Discovery is ranked 2nd in IT Asset Management with 19 reviews while Device42 is ranked 6th in IT Asset Management with 24 reviews. BMC Helix Discovery is rated 8.6, while Device42 is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of BMC Helix Discovery writes "Very stable, fast, and powerful with valuable inventory management features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Device42 writes "Good reporting and discovery capabilities, and helpful for understanding device dependencies and asset management". BMC Helix Discovery is most compared with ServiceNow, BMC Remedy , ServiceNow Discovery, Qualys VMDR and Lansweeper, whereas Device42 is most compared with ServiceNow, ServiceNow CMDB, Infoblox IPAM, JIRA Service Management and Lansweeper. See our BMC Helix Discovery vs. Device42 report.

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