BMC Helix Discovery vs Micro Focus Asset Manager [EOL] comparison

"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easy to install and deploy."

"The initial setup was quite easy."

"The solution's most valuable feature is service modeling."

"I've used other discovery tools, but I found BMC Helix Discovery to be more UI-friendly, and that's the most valuable feature of the solution."

"BMC Helix Discovery is very intuitive."

"It is a scalable solution."

"BMC provides great support. As managed service support, they are gold."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its application dependency mapping."

"It is stable and scalable."

"We have now automatic and immediate control of assets usage, and we can now better manage our assets pool and get benefits through that."

"This product can be customized according to the needs of any company."

"The monitoring tools could be more stable."

"It would be nice to see more updates to the solution."

"An area that can be improved is the IoT."

"The solution's scalability is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are needed."

"BMC is agentless discovery, followed by hybrid discovery, which performs discovery across clouds, on-premises, and then dynamic service modeling."

"The license model could be more flexible and cheaper pricing."

"I would like to see the ability to scan some of the newer cloud platforms. I know that BMC has them on the roadmap, and they are coming soon, but they can't come fast enough. Being able to scan more of GCloud, Alibaba Cloud, or whatever the public clouds that our customers are buying, we need to make sure that Discovery can find them as well."

"Management of its own application infrastructure and integrations with other BMC tools."

"The technology used is outdated, the interface is outdated, the database is outdated, everything is outdated."

"The usability of this product is still out-of-date and could be improved. The interface could be improved."

"There are a lot of things that need improvement. Software recognition, software licensing, software compliance, data inputs, reporting, and support are some of the areas."

"The licensing fee is very low."

"We have a perpetual license for the solution."

"Operating cost is actually high compared to other products, actually. It's a little expensive only, but it's very good than other products."

"The price was fair compared to competitors. BMC is very affordable. There are optional consulting services to assist with implementation."

"It's not a cheap product. But the benefits it delivers is that it's a fair price."

"The licenses are very complex and quite costly."

"The solution offers yearly licenses."

"I rate the pricing an eight out of ten. All BMC products are expensive."

"From my experience, Asset Manager is expensive."