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

"It immediately understands which component it is, and it provides the exact API details with all the components."

"It now comes with a very flexible deployment solution, whether you want to keep it inside your data center or want to have the cloud, depending on if you're cloud forward or not."

"The most valuable feature of BMC Helix Discovery is it operates well. It is well known and has gained recognition for its software."

"Accuracy and clarity are vastly improved for the service lines."

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

"Weekly reports to management really make our life simple."

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

"It is a stable solution. The stability is okay."

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

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

"It is stable and scalable."

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

"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."

"The solution is definitely useful."

"The improvement which we require is to delete the Internet service. Till some of the features are coming, like, internally side. If you are taking one server to model, there are a lot of usages like three structures per diagram is coming, and we have to do the man lot of manual work. Instead of that, whatever our requirement, we should be able to provide the servers and get the structure. So this is what we want to implement with such data."

"BMC Helix Discovery is a bit tough to use and administer."

"It is very complicated to use."

"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."

"The solution should have different portals and logins for each customer so only that customer's assets show."

"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 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."

"The licenses are very complex and quite costly."

"You need a license to use BMC Helix Discovery. The license is paid yearly, though I have no idea how much it costs."

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

"BMC is available for a reasonable price compared to ServiceNow — it's half the price."

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

"The licensing fee is very low."

"The solution offers yearly licenses."

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

"From my experience, Asset Manager is expensive."